Uffie

Uffie's new album Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans came out in October this year. The kooky 22 year old is claimed to be the originator of the 'sing-talk' style of rhyming (that Ke$ha poorly attempts to champion).

This season Uffie has launched a capsule collection with Diesel that features 12 pieces of leather & denim items. She is also doing a tour sponsored by Diesel and dropped in at Nation of Shopkeepers in Leeds for a free gig (wristband required from the Diesel shop on Vicar Lane).

I'd only really heard of Uffie from seeing her on line-ups and through people I follow on Twitter. Thanks to Spotify I had a listen through of the album before going to see her.

We arrived at the venue and basically I've never seen such an OTT bunch of Scenester's in my life. I've hung out in Hoxton and Shoreditch plenty of times but this night really topped the lot. It made me worry that maybe I'm getting old?

Anyway, the highlight of the night was when Uffie came and walked right in front of me in the crowd and then proceeded to stand next to me chatting to some guy. It was one of those childish moments where, acting like a total starstruck loser, I poked my mate and squealed, 'I swear that's her!!'

It's fair to say she is pretty hard to recognize. If you Google her name you will struggle to get two pictures where she looks the same. And on this particular night she really wasn't quite the conventional little stunner I had expected and I liked that.

After the brief encounter I had of her standing next to me I didn't see much more of her because of the overly keeno crowd that towered in front of me with their wafty hats and big hair. But she sounded good, in fact really good, which surprised me because I secretly expected her tracks to loose out to the albums good production when performed live.

So all in all I've decided she's pretty cool and I actually liked her most because she wasn't a try-hard-wannabe (Unlike the crowd that had turned up to see her) but a genuine little gem.

When I'd first heard her album I instantly liked 'Pop the Glock' and it took quite a few more listens until I got into other tracks. Since then she is now my most listened to artist on my Last FM chart this month.

Therefore bearing that in mind you should try get into her new album. It breaks all the rules of what makes a more clichéd 'good album' and ends up being really addictive.

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