Screengrab of the week: Kyla La Grange

I'll be honest, I'd written Kyla La Grange off after her first album - a non-terrible, but largely inessential collection of songs stitched together from Florence and the Machine's cast-offs.

So it took me a week or so to listen to her new single, and now I'm kicking myself for it. Cut Your Teeth is a diaphanous whisper in your ear. A sleek, swooning siren song. A mystical glimpse of pop majesty. The sort of single that has journalists grasping clumsily for adequate vocabulary.

I have clearly failed in that respect. So here's the video instead.

Kyla La Grange - Cut Your Teeth

PS: You can read the treatment for the video here. It says the directors reference "classic 80s and 90s children's movies Gremlins, Never Ending Story and Dark Crystal adding their own dark twist." Am I alone in failing to see get of those references? Where is Mogwai? Where is Falkor? Where is Phoebe Cates?

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Kyla La Grange: Complicated name, complicated lady

Today's new music discovery comes from spooky British femme fatale Kyla La Grange. Her single, Been Better, is going to be compared to Stevie Nicks - because she has a deep, wavery voice. And it is going to be compared to Florence and The Machine - because she is a bit mad and gothic.

Here is what else we know about Kyla La Grange...

:: SHE IS MUCH CLEVERER THAN YOU OR I
Kyla La Grange studied philosophy at Cambridge University. She knows the colour of your soul and the shape of existence.

:: SHE IS A BIT DOWN IN THE DUMPS
Kyla's interviews are full of phrases like "epic sadness" and she writes lyrics like "Why is my heart never mine?" Maybe she just needs a cuddle.

:: SHE LOOKS A BIT LIKE DEBBIE HARRY BEFORE SHE GOT OLD

:: SHE HAS "GOOD REPRESENTATION"
Kyla La Grange is managed by ATC, who look after Radiohead (incredible), Faithless (legendary), Eliza Doolittle (hmmm...) and Kate Nash (shit the bed).

:: SHE HAS A BACK-UP BAND WITH A BACK-UP PLAN
Kyla may have quite her part-time job as a secretary, but her bassist still does shifts at Tesco, her drummer works in a gym and all her bandmates teach music for spare cash. Their chickens remain remain unquantified.

:: SHE'S REALLY NOT JOKING ABOUT BEING MELANCHOLY
"Some people just have a default mode," she told Amelia's Magazine. "They wake up and feel a bit black inside."

:: BUT IT'S NOT ALL MOAN, MOAN, MOAN
"Being an explorer would be pretty fantastic," Kyla reckons. "I would still like to think that I will end up living in the jungle one day."

Amazing.

Kyla La Grange - Been Better

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