KIWI LOVIN'

26 year old Pip Brown, AKA: Ladyhawke is BIG, and radical. If you haven’t heard of her by now, you soon will; exploding onto the scene just like her music. Just thinking of her whole concept, the sound, the dress, and the feel just makes me giddy. Brilliance is here!

Dubbed as a take on “Peaches”, and ironically also friends with her, take this on board along with a bit of Goldfrapp glamour, and the fresh sound of the YYY’s and you’re there. Her newly released self-titled album is 62 minutes of funk, and is so rock ‘n’ roll that even Noel Fielding may be quaking in his platinum platforms.
Undoubtedly being played in NME hot houses everywhere, she IS one of the cool kids, apparent both in sound and look. Full of spunk and freshness, Miss Ladyhawke even plays all instruments, especially noted on the rather synthed up, and exquisite “Back of the Van”. Here, her influences of Stevie Nicks also come to life, as the echoes of such former female rockstars are reminisced during the verses. And with musical family roots, it seems she was always destined to be superb, and that she sure is.

This album IS a must-buy, and not just for the fashionable look on your shelf, but for the dancing, the innovative sounds as heard on the likes of “Love don’t Live Here” and “Paris is Burning”, and the addictive factor. Even I’ve reached 219 plays according to the good old last.fm scrobbler.
Now residing in London, it’s awesome that we’ve got a claim on her, it’s almost as if an ET set down and unleashed this array of infectious and mighty rock’n’roll upon us, totally indoctrinating us all, just as her recent single “My Delirium” portrays. This song in particular, is an example of her stimulating and catchy cascades of music, which will wash all over you, and I’m not the only one to say so. Critics have suggested listening to her re-mixes just to keep it all alive, as they too keep putting her on replay.

So, she’s electro-pop, yes, electro-punk, yes, new-rave, yes and indie; all rolled into one glorious package. Reaching many genres and across many mediums, it appears that she may just be the new Queen of Rock we’ve been looking for, and as we reach the end of the year, it also looks as though it’ll be an intense and vastly promising 2009 for Pip Brown.