Nina Nesbitt - Peroxide (Deluxe Edition) (2014)

You've got to love a songwriter whose "fandom" call themselves Nesbians, but that's just the start of Nina Nesbitt's appeal. An Edinburgh-born 19-year-old, she has an acute eye for the minutiae of teenage life, and the wit to send up its self-absorption. Though it was only a matter of time before someone wrote a song called Selfies, Nesbitt's track of that name takes a refreshingly jaundiced view of girls who lash out at ex-boyfriends by posting pictures "in black and white, with that depressing quote on my life". Similarly, Stay Out undermines hipsters' search for an identity ("He's got a Rolling Stones tee, but he only knows one song"), with a fair amount of drollery. There are no profound statements here, and no musical innovation – she veers between strummy folk-pop and Amy Macdonaldish soft rock, but her blog-like observations are consistently, confidently on point. Hold On, a wet duet with Kodaline's singer, is terrible; other than that, if there's a vacancy for a British Taylor Swift, Nesbitt could be the one for the job.

TRACKLIST
1. Peroxide
2. Stay Out
3. Selfies
4. Two Worlds Away
5. Align
6. Mr. C
7. He's The One I'm Bringing Back
8. 18 Candles
9. Tough Luck
10. The Outcome
11. Hold You - feat. Kodaline
12. We'll Be Back For More
13. The Hardest Part
14. Some You Win
15. Bright Blue Eyes
16. Brit Summer
17. Don't Stop
18. Not What Your Dad Wants To Know
19. The Apple Tree
20. The People