Clean & Neat

As the object of the most hotly contested A&R battle for quite a while, it’s now time for Dubliner Cathy Davey to put her sizeable label advance where her mouth is. Happily, ‘Clean & Neat’ is sassy without being too precocious, and feminine without being lightweight. With a voice like this, it’s little wonder she got the cream of the major labels hot under the collar. If this single is anything to go by, Davey is certainly a musical force to be reckoned with.