Solo albums often come about because of a band member's deluded conviction that they have creative impulses that are being stifled. Ash guitarist Charlotte Hatherley, though, can confidently make a case for her offering, which delves further into fluttery pop than the power-rocking Ash would deem acceptable. The opener, Kim Wilde, is pretty near perfect - a breathless homage to her pouty childhood idol (who is "everything I want, everything I need").

In fact, Hatherley has a general affinity with early 1980s new wave. These 10 tracks are linked by bursts of frothy, busy guitar, simple tunefulness and frail-but-valiant vocals, which recall long-forgotten heroines such as the Mo-Dettes and the Belle Stars. There's also a nice line in acid lyrics: check out Bastardo's ladylike diatribe against an improbably named local stud, Antonio.