'I've got a band now' - Club anthem star Shygirl on why she's switching up her sound

But the singer and DJ - real name Blane Muise - has introduced a different sound for her second album, Swallow!, which dropped on Friday. You can still hear the sweat-soaked energy of Charli XCX's 365 remix and relentless pulse of 2024 hit mr useless on her latest record.

"I've learned over the 10 years I've been making music to have this confidence and to not be afraid of failure," she tells BBC Newsbeat. "The big part of starting this record was wanting to have natural instrumentation and not feel like that was barred from me." Shygirl puts the change down to a desire for a more "authentic" sound - a growing trend among British electronic artists who've been bringing a rockier influence to their music.

"I felt the familiarity of that feeling, embracing the teenager within and the angst that I had and all the sounds that coloured that environment," she says. Long-time producers Karma Kid and Casey MQ were "surprised" when Shygirl told them about her desire to work in more indie sounds, but she says the pair trusted her with the new direction.