5 Female Artists To Watch Out For

5. Beth Jeans Houghton

Sometimes the best characters in pop are the more zany, manic ones and you can definitely include Beth Jeans Houghton on that list. Together with either her band (or maybe it's just a longer moniker), The Hooves of Destiny, Beth creates folk music spliced with graceful pop vocals, bonkers instrumentation and a little indie/alternative visual flair.

Her voice is vaguely similar to Laura Marling but her image involves boobs, animals, punk outfits and a strictly glam rock mentality. The first full length album, Yours Truly Cellophane Nose, was produced by Ben Hillier (he's worked with Elbow and Blur amongst others) features such frantic cuts as the American Indian folk stampede of Atlas, the heavenly twirling fantasy of Dodecahedron, Lilliput (which could be a galloping musical cousin to Goldfrapp's Seventh Tree) and the horn splattered Sweet Tooth Bird. Her videos, though low-budget, are deranged affairs with post-apocalypse greenhouses, driving cars with bunnies and Benny Hill-esque chase sequences and it's something you come to expect from her.

With tons of support slots with basically everyone from Bon Iver and Mystery Jets to Imogen Heap and St Vincent, not to mention lots of critical acclaim, some form of success looks likely for this barmy songstress.