Like a thinking punter's Lady Gaga (and that's not supposed to be a backhanded complement), Little Boots packs her debut album with technically-titled dance pop gems such as Mathematics, Tune Into My Heart and Symmetry (on which The Human League's Phil Oakey appears, passing his synth pop torch to the next generation).

Some of the more transparent chart-busting Madonna-isms (Remedy) can get a little cloying , but the album is redeemed by the few tracks on which she pushes the boundaries a little (Ghosts) and by the faultless pop sheen of tracks like New In Town and the once-ubiquitous Stuck On Repeat.

Steven Kerr