On second album All I Need, Southampton’s Foxes, aka Louisa Allen, manages to pull off pop’s greatest trick; making sadness danceable. An opening trio of fizzing bangers – Cruel’s tropical-tinged lilt, the Bastille-assisted Better Love and Body Talk’s disco swirl – are obvious happy-sad highlights. While the hopeful Amazing offers solace, billowy ballads Scar and Devil Side cement the album’s heartbreak status, anchored by Allen’s surprisingly frayed vocal. It’s only when she strays from the personal that things fall apart slightly, on the clunky Money (“Money can’t love you”, runs its advice). But overall there’s an abundance of grade-A pop on offer – just keep a tissue handy.
