Bolton’s answer to Grace Jones

Could 2011 be the year the music world embraces the chunky sax solos and terrifying troll noises of Planningtorock? It’s 2007 and Janine Rostron is performing in the unlikely venue of the lobby of the British Library in London. A one-woman project known as Planningtorock , she zig-zags across stage in a pair of giant trainers and a retina-frying shirt, half-rapping, half-wailing a song called Bolton Wanderer in which she describes her journey from her childhood home in the north of England to Berlin. The crowd, hovering on spiral staircases and propped between wall art, seem as confused as they are exhilarated. Four years on, she remains confusing and exhilarating. After a bold and buoyant debut album, 2006′s Have It All , last year she collaborated with Swedish art-pop duo the Knife on Tomorrow, In a Year , an opera about the life of Charles Darwin. A populist she is not. But with her new album W (on which she plays almost every instrument), Rostron could be about to break through to a wider audience. If Fever Ray’s icy brilliance tops critics’ polls , and the music world can take the warped goth of Zola Jesus to its

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