At the age of just 14, Alex Roots teamed up with producer Ryan Laubscher (who is best known for writing and staging three operas by the age of 19) and began working on songs which would later make up her debut album, 'Adrealine Rush', which is now due for release this year. The songs have a similar fired up sassy pop-rock sound to Kim Wilde's 'Kids In America', though 16 year old Alex probably isn't too familiar with that particular pop classic. Her debut download-only single 'Fake' is out on Monday (11 May), with a full scale release, 'Don't Stop Looking', out later this summer ahead of the album release.

Ahead of that, Alex told CMU about the process her and Ryan go through when creating a song. She told us: "Ryan usually comes up with some musical bits and then we work on the melody and the lyrics together. Ryan produces it and then we work on the mix for as long as it takes for us to both be happy. But as I write this it all sounds so serious! It's actually great fun and far less technical than it sounds. Sometimes, we have such a laugh when we are together, it takes Ryan forever to get me to concentrate on our work".

You can read the full SSQ interview with Alex here