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J£ZUS MILLION
19 year old DJ/producer J£ZUS MILLION, since steering the production for Charli XCX‘s lauded debut True Romance, has been boinging around the blogs, gathering steam and inciting lofty praise with...
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Introducing: SZA
SZA, real name Solana Rowe, makes one kind of music: her own. As evidenced in her name she’s influenced by hip-hop greats like the Wu Tang Clan, as well as more soulful elements of urban music,...
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Royal Canoe
It all started with Grimes. Let’s call it the ‘Grimes Effect’. The Toronto-based singer’s individual take on electro-vocal music caused a storm and led to renaissance of the Canadian music scene which...
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Ballet School
Since signing to Bella Union, these three adopted Berliners have been turning heads everywhere with their shoegaze indebted turn on a classic, glassy 80′s sound. Ahead of their upcoming EP, Boys...
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GEMS
Washington DC’s GEMS have only have been together in their current incarnation for a year or so but the duo’s highly evocative pristine pop bristles with invention and self-aware melody, tapping into...
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Raleigh Ritchie
In the midst of comprehensively calling out his heavyweight contemporaries this summer, Kendrick Lamar didn’t totally restrict himself to making enemies. And in the soulful R&B of Raleigh Ritchie,...
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Fauve
Born in 2010, perilously little is known about Fauve. Literally translating as “wild animal”, they are an open, collaborative group of musicians, photographers, videographers, and judging by the pelt...
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Pure Bathing Culture
Pure Bathing Culture, aka Sarah Versprille and Daniel Hindman, are exporting their own unique brand of opalescent, shimmering pop across the globe. Though their rise to prominence has been...
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Beliefs
Beliefs do shoegaze right. Since forming in 2010, Toronto’s Jess Crowe and Josh Krody have been making dreamy pop music, rich with thick, crunchy guitars and feedback overtones that confidently do...
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Azekel
Nigerian-born, East-End raised Azekel has simmered to the surface since early cuts like “That Feeling” dropped earlier this year. His impeccable vocal stylings are tantamount to emotional torture –...
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Laura Welsh
Known for her work with Laura and the Tears and Hey Laura, singer-songwriter Laura Welsh is now ready to go alone, and under her own name. With vocals that are comparable to Adele and a Rachael...
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LOLO
Repacked as Lolo, soulful singer-songwriter Lauren Pritchard has shelved the saccharine pop for swaggering chunks of bravado and lust. Mangled by inner turmoils and personal troubles, as it would...
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Ja Ja Ja Festival Acts: Broke, I Was A Teenage Satan Worshipper, Kid Astray,...
Having made themselves rather comfortable in the Lexington, the thoroughly Nordic affair, and friend of Best Fit, Ja Ja Ja are expanding their horizons to set their sights on the Roundhouse, for their...
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Post Louis
Being called the “next big thing” is a dangerous and heavy burden to carry; just ask the various members of the now defunct Cajun Dance Party. Feted by all and sundry as the future of British music...
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Introducing: Swearin’
Part of a rich lineage of Brooklyn bands that includes P.S. Eliot and Big Soda, and sharing both family and band members with Waxahatchee in the form of the Crutchfield sisters, the now...
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Lulu James
Talking to Lulu James is like trying to hold on to a jet ski with one hand, blindfolded. The first and finest purveyor of her very own brand of “21st Century Soul”, James has been slowly but decidedly...
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Botany
Named after a study of plants, Botany is the endearing electronica project of Texan producer Spencer Stephenson. He first came onto our radar when he released his quietly applauded debut EP Feeling...
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Gent Mason
Having only been signed to London based label Aesop a matter of months ago, fellow resident of the capital Gent Mason is quickly establishing himself as a promising new talent hot on the heels of his...
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Ásgeir
We’re calling this an ‘Introducing’ piece but, of course, we have already waxed lyrical and babbled at some length about Ásgeir, Iceland’s most notable export since Björk and Keiko, the killer whale....
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Beaty Heart
After a couple of years on the London squat party “scene|, a couple of deliciously psychedelic singles and EPs including Slush Puppy/Cola and some much-vaunted live performances, Peckham’s Beaty Heart...
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Rosie Lowe
Rosie Lowe can talk. On record she casts a stark and spacious musical landscape that lets every sentence echo with sentiment over deep and polished beats, but in person, she’s not as reserved. Which...
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Ejecta
Joined by mystic forces like some musical Megazord, Leanne Macomber (Neon Indian) and Joel Ford (Ford & Lopatin, Tigercity), Ejecta is a ‘not-a-side-project’ unlike any other. Producing...
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Diane Coffee
A month or so ago I reviewed the debut album from Foxygen drummer Shaun Fleming’s new project, Diane Coffee. It was a pretty favourable review – 7/10 for what’s a really promising, interesting, but...
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Clarence Clarity
There’s an enigmatic, cynical, psycho-llectual, omniscient, shrouded orb of weird conjuring noises from the bowels of Beelzebub, and his (or her?) name is Clarence Clarity. Scant details about the man...
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Roosevelt
Place has long been an influence on the music an artist makes; whether it’s the psychogeography that inspires a folk musician like Scotsman Alasdair Roberts as much as it inspires Liverpool’s...
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Courtney Barnett
I first saw Courtney Barnett a little over a year ago when I was in Brisbane for the annual BIGSOUND music conference. Her songs were chaotic but idiosyncratic. On the same trip I’ll admit, I visited...
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Boardwalk
Apathy’s having a tough time in the press at the moment, but L.A. duo Boardwalk are giving not caring too much a sturdy defence with their languid strain of dream-pop. After appearing in May last year...
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Nai Harvest
In signing a US record deal, heading out on a month-long UK tour with Gnarwolves and releasing a new single to unprecedented praise, Nai Harvest’s 2013 ended pretty well. Sheffield-bred Ben Thompson...
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Kwabs.
Atlantic’s soul prodigy, Kwabena Adjepong, AKA Kwabs., will make an indelible mark upon 2014 – with offerings as potent and flawless as his, at such an early stage in his career, he sets a mighty...
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Francis Lung
It’s probably fair to say I struggled with my feelings for WU LYF, back when they were still in existence. It was certainly exciting to witness the rise of what seemed like the most forward-thinking...
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Febueder
If there’s any band that could better defy expectations, it’s Ascot trio Febueder. All aged 18, the boys may fill their time with skateboarding and music, but there’s none of the slacker rock so...
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Naomi Pilgrim
It’s a rare occurrence that every single scrap of noise from an artist utterly blows us away, as if crammed with TNT, but Swedish pop/R&B chanteuse has achieved just that. With apparent ease, too....
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Vök
Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before; Vök are a dreamy electronica outfit from Iceland. There’s plenty of past form there, of course, but this particular pair – comprising singer Margrét...
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Farao
Girl + guitar? Yeah, we’ve heard it all before. But you haven’t, not quite the way Norwegian singer-songwriter Kari Jahnsen, aka Farao, writes music. As if thumbing through ancient tomes, this...
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Arthur Beatrice
Arthur Beatrice, who, if made human, is presumably the bewanged doppelgänger of namesake and Golden Girl Beatrice Arthur, are an exciting prospect. They exist almost in the same corner of the musical...
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Years & Years
There is an argument that the UK’s electronic-based scene is becoming saturated, particularly following Disclosure‘s chart-topping breakthrough year. It is more accurate to see their domination as a...
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Paul Thomas Saunders
Hailing from Leeds but with his head in much more extraordinary, far away places, Paul Thomas Saunders is preparing to release his debut album this spring. Away from the ‘traditional’ influences of...
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Mt. Royal
Baltimore might not necessarily be viewed as a musical epicenter when compared to New York City, Nashville and Los Angeles. However, the city, known as Charm City, does have its own burgeoning scene,...
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The Last Skeptik
You spend four years meticulously pulling together fifteen tracks for your debut visual album, collaborating with some of the UK’s hottest emerging film-makers in the process, only to have Beyoncé...
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Dominique Young Unique
Dominique Young Unique is not your average 22 year old. Growing up in the projects in Tampa, Florida she faced poverty and at one point homelessness. She began rapping at 11, but being the only girl...
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Introducing: The Acid
Accompanied by a photograph of 3 anonymous figures, The Acid emerged (as so many did in 2013) shrouded in mystery. Their smooth, synaesthetic electronics and haunting vocals were more than enough to...
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Sylvan Esso
A fortuitous happenstance, a chance meeting that brings about something beautiful – exactly the kind of moment that spawned Sylvan Esso which brings together Megafaun’s Nick Sanborn and Mountain Man’s...
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Last Lynx
Yoinking titbits from ’60s/’70s pop legends (think Fleetwood Mac) and cutting-edge synth-pop, Stockholm’s Last Lynx nurture a retro sound on the same spectrum as Haim – though they sit pretty on the...
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Ang Low
Originating in Washington, the now Brooklyn-based electro-soul crooner Ang Low is angling for fresh methods of toying with your emotions. With the current influx of neo-soul/noir&B singers over...
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Jamie Isaac
South London teen sensation Jamie Isaac is a massively exciting prospect, especially in the circles where James Blake is king. Isaac hawks a similar kind of neo-soul pop, tinged with post-dubstep...
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Superfood
From the people who brought us breakthrough acts Alt-J and Drenge, Superfood are the latest guitar offering from London’s Infectious Music. A young Birmingham four piece, consisting of singer and...
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Circa Waves
In May 2012 I got this message sent to the ‘Like’ page of my label’s Facebook: HEY JEN! Hope you are well!!! Brand new band only a week old, with big tunes! Something i think you would really like!...
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Kidnap Kid
Dance music’s exposure and popularity have simultaneously exploded throughout the UK in the last few years. The ascendancy of young experimental producers out of the bedroom, transcending the internet...
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Bernard + Edith
“We didn’t want to call ourselves anything with ‘the’ or ‘a’ in it. It seemed a bit too serious.” Greta Carroll is explaining the rationale behind the name Bernard + Edith. She and her bandmate,...
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Rainer
All the best acts form over nights together listening to music, don’t they? Sharing a love of a bunch of records, getting to know each other… and then forming a band. It feels like a better way to do...
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