Julie Campbell, aka Lonelady, is from Manchester and has been releasing music for a few years now. Her third album ‘Former Things’ is a definite change of direction into electronica and it suits her very well. The title track ‘Former Things’ (a recent single) is full of burbling beats, along with some nifty guitar playing. It has shades of Dubstar, La Roux, and some of Roisin Murphy’s more recent stuff but mainly it is just a glorious take on 80s pop, think early Depeche Mode and then some…
She is clearly very talented and this new direction may give her the break she surely definitely deserves. There’s a lot of intelligent pop going on her, and the chorus lifts a wee bit from ‘Love Action’ by The Human League, so she is in the best of company…