Ellie Goulding + The Knocks

Young English singer Ellie Goulding has already scored a No. 1 album at home in the U.K., where she’s part of a post–Lily Allen pack of electro-savvy lasses that also includes Pixie Lott and Eliza Doolittle. A mainstream-American breakthrough certainly isn’t out of the question for Goulding: On Lights, her appropriately sparkling debut, she often suggests a female version of Owl City.