
While Lady Gaga and Regina Spektor have recently snagged the Stateside mantle of edgy, left-of-center female vocalists making notable waves on the mainstream charts, in the UK that honor is split in fifteen different directions among an impressive cadre of gifted young women: Little Boots, Elly Jackson (La Roux), Lily Allen, M.I.A., Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine and more. Another distinctive voice in the UK's long line of idiosyncratic singers is Polly Scattergood who, along with willowy powerhouse Natasha Kahn of Bat for Lashes , follows in the more unpredictable footsteps of dramatic forebears like [...]