For Fans Of: The Go! Team, Saint Etienne, sassy hip-hop sampling girl group pop

By day she’s mild-mannered Brooklyn-based elementary-school music teacher Sharon Hagopian… but by night she’s smart and sassy electro-pop indie star Cannonball Jane. Her debut album “Street Vernacular” scored rave reviews in Time Out, Uncut, NME, The Times, The Independent and many more besides, not to mention radio plays from Rob Da Bank and Huw Stephens of BBC Radio One. She followed the success of the album with the ultra-pop hit of the double A-side single “Take It To Fantastic”/”Slumber Party” which led to a session on BBC 6Music and picked up a host of great write-ups just about everywhere. Meanwhile, back in America, Sharon has taken the Cannonball Jane sound out on the road with support slots for The Go! Team, Gravy Train!!!!, E.S.G. and über-fans Le Tigre.

Sometimes it's hard to believe that there’s not more than one of her! Everything is recorded entirely at home and Sharon’s studio set up of beatboxes, samplers, tambourines, guitars, turntables, piano, kid’s keyboards and effects creates a mind-bendingly brilliant mix, elegant and sweetly beguiling but still rough enough to handle something bigger than a moped, combining such diverse influences as Run DMC, The Go! Team, The Aislers Set, Ladytron, My Bloody Valentine, The Shangri-Las, Solex, The Go-Gos, Luscious Jackson and Devo, while remaining fresh, exciting and innovative at all times. There’s even a nod to Mozart and a Pac-man sample in “Brave New World”! Drum ‘n’ Bass style drum loops pop up to boost the tension and some of the keyboard sounds come straight from the wildest electronics of Aphex Twin’s Rephlex label. On top of this is Sharon’s singing, cunningly adapted and presented in different guises for each mini pop masterpiece, from punky go-go girl to wistful 4AD balladeer.

"It's just amazing. Stuff like that I really like." - Kathleen Hanna

"When it comes to joyous DIY beats, Cannonball Jane could teach her peers a thing or two." - The Independent on Sunday

"Cannonball Jane has grabbed greedy fistfuls of pop history; girl group pop, buzzing garage, Motown, doo-wop, freak-beat, hip-hop, drum and bass and smooshed them together with generous helpings of wit and charm." - Kittenpainting