10 Coolest Women In Music Right Now

4. Hannah Reid €“ London Grammar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1UjNYYX88A On the face of it London Grammar are all about their songs, but in Hannah Reid they have a singer and frontwoman who is effortlessly cool in the most literal meaning of the word; it all comes naturally without her having to try. Reid writes all the lyrics, which are humble, heartbreaking and are incredible articulations of the vagaries of the heart, and delivers them in a voice that is simply out of this world. She's a leading light in this revolutionary movement of totally cool women in pop, for whom being hip is irrelevant, glamour seems to be the last thing she's interested in. One thing that really impresses about London Grammar is that they could so easily have concentrated on their singers' looks, but they haven't played that card at all and with songs like these and a voice like hers why would they need to? Their songs are so mature and vulnerable, beautifully articulated in lines such as "Would you really want me in the light of day?" It's hard to believe such world-weary words are being written by someone in their early twenties. This is very serious and sensuous music, the song featured here, 'Interlude', isn't remotely what you would call fluffy pop; it's a stunning story of the uncertainty of love, delivered with glacial grace. If Edith Piaf and Eric Satie wrote a song together it would sound something like this. What a song of love and longing, and what a star Hannah Reid is. If they don't win the best newcomer award at the forthcoming Brit Awards it will be a travesty.