Cocknbullkid - Yellow

If you downloaded Cocknbullkid's self titled taster track a while back you may have been given the overall sense that she was very much a variation on the Marina & The Diamonds mold - a quirky young singer-songwriter serving up highly-catchy, delicate, airy pop and witty takes on modern life.

Indeed, with a name like Cocknbullkid, you're presented with the question: how much of what she's singing about is genuinely heartfelt, relevant stuff? Enter, Yellow - a song which takes Anita Blay's (her real name) music to a far grander, bolder, bigger scale.

This is the song that seems most befitting of its parent album's title - Adulthood. This is Blay progressing from youngster to adult - thriving on a more refined sound. Whereas other moments of the album are playful, energetic, constantly bouncy; Yellow is the result of a more considered wisdom - 'I don't want to regret a life that hasn't happened yet'.

Born of her Hackney upbringing, lines like 'I would beg, steal and borrow' hold equal charm - a Dickensian re-envisioning for the modern age that buoys the track's chorus to a surprisingly epic level. Blay's voice is in many ways relatively small - but it has a gutsy-ness to it that propels it onwards, fighting tooth and claw to mark her lyrics into your consciousness.

Hers is a story she wants you to remember, not dismiss, and going by her support slots for the likes of Janelle Monae and on Later With Jools Holland, she's already earned herself some formidable allies.

Yellow is released on the 7th August.