Jain

rhythmic pop. Since its release in France in 2015 it’s become a gold seller and led to her making striking live appearances two years running at France’s Grammy equivalent, the Victoires de la Musique.

She ought to be basking in her success and getting on with making a second album at this stage, but instead she’s finding that other countries are belatedly pricking up their ears. She’s been on Later… With Jools Holland this week and has announced a show at Village Underground in June. She gets my vote to match the slow-burning success of another inventive Frenchwoman, Christine and the Queens.