Hometown: Highclere, Berkshire.
The lineup: Sarah McIntosh (vocals, keyboards).
The background: We thought we'd bring you someone a bit less disturbingly, well, young after the scarily precocious 16-year-old LA cyberdolly we told you about yesterday. A bit, anyway: the star of today's award-winning column is only 18, and even though formally she's similar to Sky Ferreira – a teenage girl singing over electronic rhythms – she couldn't sound more different if she tried. Whereas Ferreira sounds preternaturally confident and the milieu she operates in is sexed-up R&B, Sarah McIntosh, who is the Good Natured, does demure, forlorn, wry, quietly despairing and sad, even when the beats are house-y and fast or skittering and drum'n'bass-y.
Good Natured is about right: she sounds like what she is, a nice Home Counties girl, and although her voice keeps drifting towards mockney, you can hear the posh, plummy tones beneath. She's a techno Dido, a Lily Allen who's given in to depression, or a Kate Nash who wants to prove herself with serious clubbers. Rose has the pounding piano of a rave tune, but this is for playing after the lights have come on and the party is over. "He's finding it hard to reach you/But one day I promise you he will," she sings, hardly believing her lines herself, and putting the dolour into disco. Meanwhile on Heart of Stone she gets as angry as a polite suburban girl can: "You destroyed everything we ever had … You broke my heart, you made me sick inside." On How Can I Believe In You? she pushes her grandma's poor old Yamaha keyboard to the limit, sounding like a church organ playing the Prodigy at warp speed, the hearts and spots she lovingly painted on the side threatening to peel off at any moment. "I write songs about wishes, desires, hopes, secrets and love," she says, her aim to "document the make-outs, break-ups and make-ups" of her life on the fringes of London, where she's "out of sight of the millions". Mission accomplished.
The buzz: "She sounds like a warmer, more personal Ladytron."
The truth: The songs can sound cheesy and cheap, but that's part of their charm, and what gives them character.
Most likely to: Scare Kate Nash back to her bedroom in Harrow.
Least likely to: Do a duet with Dizzee. Then again ...
What to buy: The Warriors EP will be available on iTunes from 3 March.
File next to: Kate Nash, Tracy Thorn, Lily Allen, the Field Mice.
Links: www.myspace.com/thegoodnatured
Tomorrow's new band: The Gay Blades.