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One To Watch: I'm Yours might put paid to Pixie Geldof's tabloid image

Andy Welch recommends his 'one to watch'. This week, find out why you should be listening to paparazzi favourite Pixie Geldof

Pixie Geldof has released a new album
Pixie Geldof has released a new album Pixie Geldof has released a new album

WHO: Pixie Geldof

WHAT: Yes, that Pixie Geldof

WHY: You might just be surprised

HOW: Pixie Geldof is better known for appearing in tabloid paparazzi shots alongside her more famous friends than for her music. But that might just change when she releases her debut album, I'm Yours, next month.

She's got form in the area, of course. She used to be sing in a band called Violet, named after the Hole song, who released a single in 2012, but never really amounted to much.

And it's easy to forget that before dad Bob Geldof set about saving Africa, he was the Boomtown Rats' frontman, so musicality obviously runs deep in the family.

Now, inspired in part by the death of her sister Peaches in 2014, Pixie has written an album's worth of dramatic ballads exploring love, death and suffering.

"Wish I'd known you like my own skin, so I could feel the hurt you were in," she sings on one track, the subject not hard to guess. Sweet Thing, the lead single, is a Lana Del Rey-esque mini-epic, and the same could be said for So Strong and Escape Route also.

It suits her too, Geldof's voice easily switching from low and sultry to high and powerful and breathless inside a syllable or two. There are several big guns involved in its recording, namely Tony Hoffer, a multi Grammy winner and former collaborator of Beck, Air and Phoenix, and David Campbell, Beck's dad himself, whose past credits include little-known gems, What's Going On by Marvin Gaye and Carole King's Tapestry.

Whether or not I'm Yours provides Pixie a career change will remain to be seen – we have strange ideas in this part of the world about people attempting more than one thing and love putting people in boxes – but judged as it is, she'd soon be a lot more famous than her family and friends.

WHERE: You can find So Strong and Escape Route on YouTube, while the album is available for pre-order from Amazon, iTunes and all the usual places. It'll be available to stream, and at the moment there are no plans for live shows, but that could change in the new year.