Gem Samways

From the Spanish guitar-flecked groove of 2019 single, ‘Narcotics’ to breakout track, ‘999’ - from 2018’s promising Pay As You Go EP - there’s already plenty to dig into, and hopefully much more to come.

Pushing the boundaries of a traditional band set-up, the Bristol-based quartet make pulverising, techno-tinged EBM that sounds like some thrilling, mutant hybrid of Factory Floor, Death In Vegas and Fuck Buttons.

Playing their first London show in six years, Chromatics further perpetuated their enigmatic reputation with a striking display of their expertly crafted sonic and...

Less uniformly ambient than their debut, this follow-up offers a range of mood pieces reportedly inspired by seismic life events, and the sacred significance of the number five. There’s not a dud amongst them.

Designed to evoke a radio-like listening experience, the album offers a constantly shifting carousel of styles, often interspersed with interludes. In less experienced hands, such a format could feel disjointed, but in Mount’s it’s immersive.

“The mission statement for The Sundrop Garden is to change the way that we create everything.”

"Somebody has to take a risk and come up with something new in order for music to progress, otherwise we’re stuck in the now forever."

We’ve absolutely no idea what will follow next but we’re very happy to be kept guessing.

Be it ‘Show Love’’s digital dopamine rush, the cosmic tropicalia of ‘Girl’ or the raygun funk of ‘Back In Time’, Big Wows is full to the brim with bold, experimental pop music.

Credit it to technical ability or to emotional maturity, but there aren’t many emerging artists who can inhabit a song quite like Waite.

...it's an immersive, sensitively-arranged set that will prove once for all that Sasami is more than capable of entrancing listeners as the headline act.

We chat to slowthai about his plans for what is going to be an incredible 2019

We've seen her sound described as "electronic fairy rock music", and it's actually a pretty decent descriptor.

"I've been learning how to say what I really mean - weed out the bullshit..."

Despite being reticent to conduct interviews, post on social media or even share their music online, Black Midi are one of the most talked-about new bands of 2018.

Musically, imagine a thrilling composite of The Dead Kennedys, Fucked Up and The Birthday Party, all buzzsaw guitars, gravelly vocals and arid, low-slung grooves, with a healthy side-helping of wild-eyed menace.

"Just a bunch of love songs; a whole heap of thoughts and feelings."

And as May's mixtape, BADKID, continues to win over everyone exposed to it, significant success seems within very easy reach.

Much like the work of Rex Orange County - with whom he shares management - Nyquist's songs are the ideal soundtrack to balmy summer days, making the recent release of his debut EP ideally-time

By contrast, No Shame finds the singer-songwriter abandoning that distracting slickness, and exploring personal traumas to create her strongest set since Alright, Still.

Though his stage name was inspired by a former proclivity to mumble, the Northampton MC spits with a quietly-seething aggression redolent of his early-hero Eminem.