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"  Photo: Mari Sarai &amp;quot;Today&amp;#039;s the big day,&amp;quot; said Victoria Hesketh. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s kind of exciting and scary.&amp;quot; The U.K. singer, better known as 29-year-old electro-pop artist Little Boots&amp;#039;s new album,Nocturnes, has just premiered, and she&amp;#039;s currently en route from Boston to New York City. Later, she&amp;#039;ll play a pair of shows\u2014including an intimate album-release gig at the Diesel store in Soho, NYC; tomorrow, she&amp;#039;ll hold court over a sold-out crowd at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Somewhere in between, perhaps in the early-morning hours, she noted, when the madness dies down, &amp;quot;maybe we&amp;#039;ll celebrate.&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s been some time since Hesketh felt this sort of nervous anticipation. In the digital age of music, in which artists churn out new albums at a fever pitch, the four years between Little Boots&amp;#039;s 2009 debut album, Hands, and her latest, is a practical eternity. &amp;quot;It was nice to not have to rush the album,&amp;quot; she contended. Then she paused. &amp;quot;But at the same time, I didn&amp;#039;t need four years.&amp;quot; Still, she added, &amp;quot;It wouldn&amp;#039;t have been the same album if it hadn&amp;#039;t taken me the time, and I hadn&amp;#039;t gone through the whole process to find the right people and getting the right songs for it.&amp;quot; The delay was due in large part to Hesketh nailing down the precise vision for her new album. Whereas Nocturnes still retains the singer&amp;#039;s trademark blend of dance music, synth pop and house, it feels far more ethereal than Hands, and is a definitively more cohesive effort. &amp;quot;That was really deliberate,&amp;quot; she says, adding that she feels this album better expresses who she is as an artist. Coming to the States, she added, is a welcome relief. At home in the U.K., where Little Boots is more of a household name, fans attending her gigs come largely psyched for her pop numbers. Comparatively, &amp;quot;in the States, it&amp;#039;s a little bit different,&amp;quot; she explained. &amp;quot;Because we didn&amp;#039;t have the same chart success, the people who come to the shows know more about me as an artist, and they get it a little bit more.&amp;quot; We also had to ask, what types of styles are dominating her wardrobe these days. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been wearing vintage 1970s, Studio 54-type dresses, and lots of jumpsuits,&amp;quot; she revealed. &amp;quot;Ever since I&amp;#039;ve been a little girl [my clothes] have been really bound up in the music I&amp;#039;m listening to or creating.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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