It’s been bugging me all week where exactly I’ve heard Imogen Heap’s voice before. Hide and Seek, the first single released from her second album, Speak For Yourself, was apparently played-out on the closing sequence to the season 2 finale of T.V. series ‘The O.C.’. Since then it’s created quite a stir and jumped into the iTunes top 20.

That’s not where I heard it.

The Garden State soundtrack. That’s where I’ve heard it. After a little digging I realised that Imogen’s also in Frou Frou, whose track ‘Let Go’ was featured on the said soundtrack. So there you go. Mystery solved.

Heap’s electronically-treated vocals (I love a good vocoder as a few of you know) are the only instrumentation on the sparse Hide and Seek. Artists whose songs are consistently soundtracked are often viewed with some misgiving, but it’s just a simple fact that her mesmorising vocal style simply cries out for the emotion-fest that is the drama series season finale.

Lovely stuff. Both Hide and Seek and the album Speak for Yourself are out now.