Memoirs

Photographer: Kevin Westenberg.With the likelihood of a new Amy Winehouse record surfacing any time soon decreasing by the minute, the long list of divas hoping to fill the beehive-haired gap appears to be increasing with the same speed. Joining Paloma Faith, V.V. Brown, and Eliza Doolittle on the retro soul-pop roll call is 21-old South Londoner Roxanne Tataei, aka Rox, who, having recently covered for the troubled star during her scheduled festival performances with Mark Ronson, has perhaps more right to take that mantle than any. Her debut album, Memoirs, does undeniably contain the kind of toe-tapping Northern soul stompers that made Back to Black such a colossal success, including the shuffling Hammond organ-driven opener "No Going Back," the '60s doo wop pastiche "I Don't Believe," and the Motown-tinged ballad "Do As I Say." But thanks to its genre-hopping production from Commissioner Gordon (Mary J.Blige) and Al Shux (Lupe Fiasco, Jay-Z), Memoirs is far from the Winehouse tribut