Nettwerk

This year's Record of the Year accolade goes to Mike Rosenberg, aka Passenger, whose six-year journey to overnight success is...

Downtown (US) / PIAS (Europe)

We're excited, before the year is out, to squeeze in a feature for San Fermin, the Brooklyn-based collective helmed by...

Nettwerk Records

It has indeed been a vintage year for Australian music and Boy & Bear, whose harmony-heavy, folk-inflected classic rock first pricked...

self-released

The name so palpably conveys the glacial, somnolent soundscapes in his songs that it's hard to believe Vancouver Sleep Clinic...

Polydor

Radio: make room on your A lists now for the first crossover dance anthem of 2014. Stay The Night, from German...

Cult Records

Being anointed 'the coolest band in the world' by Julian Casablancas might be about as self-fulfilling as being named 'the...

Stolen Recordings

East India Youth's stunning debut album Total Strife Forever is so emphatically the sum of its parts that to lift...

Marathon Artists/House Anxiety

Hearing Courtney Barnett's conversational and tangential Aussie delivery for the first time felt a little like that profound conviction, slightly the...

Tape

We're late on FEMME, who launched her AA-side single Fever Boy/Heartbeat at White Heat last week, but we're also pleased to...

Relentless/Revealed

Like Kenya's long-distance runners, we're starting to wonder if the Netherlands' unbeatable track record for turning out world-class DJs originates...

National Anthem/Asylum

More than one watcher in Ones-to-Watch season has noted the dizzying plenitude of male singer-songwriters jostling for a share of...

Mi Familia Music

Anyone tempted to suggest the world has had its fill of rousing indie folk probably hasn't heard Eliza & The...

Canvas Back/Atlantic Records

There's a 'school's out' vibe scrawled all over the fuzzy garage rock of The Orwells' first album Remember When, hardly surprising...

Cut Tooth/Believe Recordings

Possibly the only band more likely to win Nobel prizes than Brit awards, Breton take a lab-based, multi-disciplinary approach to...

Capitol

No surprise seeing Sam Smith on the BBC Sound of 2014 longlist yesterday, and many agree he's a strong contender for...

Hometown Records/unsigned

Incredibly, 24 year-old singer-songwriter Rhodes only started writing and playing his own material this year which, quite apart from the...