What the bleep are the synth-pop class of 2009 going to do next?

Ladyhawke, La Roux and Little Boots made 80s electropop zeitgeisty, but how do you keep nostalgia feeling fresh?Remember the spring of 2009? A new breed of female pop star stalked the land, looking like the next big thing but sounding strangely familiar. Under the banners of Ladyhawke, La Roux and Little Boots, Pip Brown, Elly Jackson and Victoria Hesketh made frothy-but-savvy electropop that briefly felt like the zeitgeist. Now, three years on, Ladyhawke's second album Anxiety is imminent, Litt...

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