The OC seems to be turning into a real starmaker for the world of alt-pop and the latest beneficiary is Imogen Heap, whose song Hide and Seek was used in the season finale and has become a huge hit on iTunes on both sides of the Atlantic.

Not that she's new to this game, having ridden the crest of a wave called Frou Frou in the last four years after that project with Guy Sigsworth was a big critical and commercial success.

What was surprising was that the sparse Hide and Seek was the song that preceeded this album, as it features Heap's vocals fed through a vocoder and nothing else in the way of music. Most of the rest of Speak For Yourself is much more like hit single material, which of course makes for a pretty darned good record.

Having been somewhat under the shadow of Sigsworth in Frou Frou, this is all her own work in terms of writing and producing, so clearly there's a great talent in there, and she already has her celeb fans like Jeff Beck, who plays guitar on Goodnight and Go.

Like Frou Frou, electropop is at the heart of Speak For Yourself, though it is surprisingly warm and organic sounding, with her vocals mingling in with the various effects. The best example of this, and indeed the best song on the album is funky opener Headlock.

It's certainly a world away from Hide And Seek, which is about as epic as a song featuring no music can really be. I didn't see its use in The OC, but I can only imagine how cool it would sound over the top of some teen angsty drama probably with lots of emotions and hormones flying round.

A lot of electronic music can sound exactly that - soulless and full of bleeps like an episode of Star Trek. However, Heap has written some gorgeous pop songs and produced an album that is full of human drama and lush soundscapes that perfectly match each other. Anyone who comes to it from The OC won't be disappointed, that's for sure.