To my shame, I must have missed a couple of emails about Laura Welsh, because this sounds brilliant. Gorgeous, soft-electro-pop the sort to delight daytime radio and trendies alike, if there’s any justice.

Staffordshire-born but London based, Laura Welsh worked with a number of big names on her for

thcoming debut album, Soft Control including (deep breath!): ODev Hynes, Robin Hannibal (from R&B minimalists Rhye, Jonathan Lipsey (Alicia Keys, Amy Winehouse) on ‘Ghosts’, Greg Kurstin (The S

hins, Beck, Lily Allen), Emile Haynie (Lana Del Ray, Kanye West), Scissor Sisters

’ Babydaddy and Amanda Ghost. The album also

includes awith John Legend, ‘Hardest Part’.

For fans of Florence and the Machine, Sia and Paloma Faith – but on the evidence of this, people might be saying for fans of Laura Welsh.

The album tracklisting for Soft Control, which is released on January 19, is as follows:

1. Soft Control
2. Ghosts (stream at the top of the page!)
3. Break The Fall
4. Unravel
5. God Keeps
6. Cold Front
7. Hardest Part
8. Still Life
9. Breathe Me In
10. Call To Arms
11. Hollow Drum

Three of these tracks can br streamed below: