Totally Gross National Product

The flurry of media this month for Detroit MC Lizzo, on tour in the UK with Har Mar Superstar, has...

Positiva/Virgin EMI

We probably aren't the first and almost certainly won't be the last to point out that the last time daytime...

Transgressive

Songhoy Blues are a four-piece indie band from Timbuktu in the desert north of Mali, which until recently was occupied...

Believe Recordings

James Vincent McMorrow's debut album, 2011's folk-anthemic Early In The Morning, managed to pull off the neat trick of combining platinum-selling...

3 Beat Productions / Off Da Ground

Afrobeats impresario Fuse ODG's summer smash Antenna, the follow-up to internet hit Azonto, surpassed even our own expectations. After a lengthy sojourn on...

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Not unlike Robert DeLong, Herefordshire singer-songwriter and poly-instrumentalist George Barnett does everything himself. Unlike DeLong, Barnett isn't yet twenty years old...

Static Signals / Atlantic Records

We've been folllowing Sivu's progress this year in the Compass pages of the RotD magazine, and it has been a...

Deram

There's a neat irony to the fact that Bo Saris is from Haarlem, the Dutch town that gave its name to...

Warner Bros Records/One More Tune

There's a giddying sense of déjà vu about NONONO's Pumpin Blood, and not just because of its passing resemblance to...

Hidden Records

Like an apology extracted from a recalcitrant four year-old, the titular Sorry of this track by LA three piece The Moth...

Decca Records

In August of this year a bizarre, almost unrecognisable but oddly intriguing choral version of Death Grips' cranium-mangling hip-hop anti-hit Guillotine surfaced...

unsigned

We don't know a great deal about Ulla Nova, other than that she's from London and we can't stop playing...

Columbia Records

Inclusion in a bands-to-watch list is one thing, but making a 100 Cultural Things You Should Know list - and...

Duly Noted Records

We first featured Brighton's then-unsigned IYES, comprising Josh Christopher and Melis Soyaslanova, in the Compass pages of the magazine in...

Crosstown Rebels

There's already a kind of soothing familiarity to the tones of Ali Love, one half of dance duo Infinity Ink...

Church Cottage / Solebay Music

Among the more gratifying of this year's trends has been the blurring of lines between guitar-wielding singer-songwriter and knob-twiddling producer,...

unsigned

That Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, the driving forces behind Brooklyn quintet Lucius, are both Berklee graduates will surprise no...

Columbia Records

Some Ibiza anthems seem almost destined for greatness, while others sneak in from the left field. With its carnivalesque beats and...

DERAM

Featuring hands-down the most heart-warming scenes of a rising singer-songwriter jamming with his granny that you'll see all day, the...

Metal & Dust Recordings / Ministry of Sound Recordings

No apologies for our third London Grammar feature in as many releases; If You Wait is one of our albums of...

Dew Process/Unsigned

If there's anything bubblegum about alt-pop Aussie songstress Gossling, it's more Bazooka Joe than Bubblicious. The Guardian's Paul Lester describes her distinctive...