14th February 2015

 

1 FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE- WHAT KIND OF MAN

(UK/Florence Welch and her machine: Robert Ackroyd on guitar, Isabella Summers on Isa machine and keyboards, Tom Monger on harp, Mark Saunders on bass and percussion, Christopher Lloyd Hayden on drums and backing vocals, Rusty Bradshaw on keyboard and backing vocals and Sam White on backing vocals. Distinctive inclusion of trumpets/Explosive pop/Art pop)

 

2 BEEF TERMINAL- CASSETTES

(Toronto/MD Matheson/making music under the moniker since 1995/Ambient/Post rock/downtempo)

 

3 THE STAVES- GONE TOMORROW

(UK/3-piece female folk band/sister trio/new album will be produced by Justin Vernon of Bon Iver)

 

4 ZOLA JESUS- HUNGER

(Experimental electronica/US/Russia/Nika Roza Danilova/A return to form)

 

5 PLASTIC MERMAIDS- PLAYING IN YOUR MIND

(Psychedelic rock/Folk)

 

6 PANDA PEOPLE- THE USUAL PLACE

(Chillwave/4 guys)

 

7 JAMAICAN QUEENS- BORED + LAZY

(Dreamgaze/Witch house/Indie/Trap)

 

8 JESSIE WARE- MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE (from "Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack")

(Soul/Chillout/Pop)

 

9 BRUCE LOKO- SHADOW PEOPLE

(Instrumental/Ambient)

 

10 ALABAMA SHAKES- FUTURE PEOPLE

(Blues/Southern rock/Alabama/fronted by Brittany Howard)

 

11 KODAK TO GRAPH- LOS ANGELES

(Samples/Chillwave/Glitch-hop/Michael Maleki/Florida)

 

12 CRUISER- KIDNAP ME

(Philadelphia/Indie/Alternative rock/Summery/Four-piece that originally started off as the solo project of Andy States)

 

13 TWO GALLANTS- MY MAN GO

(Alternative rock/Folk/Name comes from a James Joyce story)

 

14 SLAPTOP- SUNRISE

(Contemporary Dance/Glockenspiel/Trumpet)

 

15 ANA TIJOUX- DESCLASIFICADO

(Chile/Latin hiphop/Spanish-language/Wipe record technique)

 

16 PORTER ROBINSON- FLICKER

(Electro house/Dubstep/Japanese voice?)

 

17 MANUAL- AWASH

(Denmark/IDM/Ambient Dreampop/Indietronica/Shoegaze/Jonas Munk from Odense/Mixing elements of pop, glitch and indie music/Instruments and this sounds similar to Afterlife)

 

18 MARIGOLD- ALT KOMMER BLI BRA

(Indie rock/alternative/Is unexpectedly in English)

 

19 NERVO- IT FEELS

(Twin sisters/House/Dance/Electronic/Trance/Progressive House/Originally songwriters for Davvid Guetta, Kelly Rowland, Pussycat Dolls, Ke$ha and Kylie Minogue/Very forgettable)

 

20 MOKE HILL- DETROIT

(Chamber Pop/Indie Rock formed by Detroit natives Drew Phillips and  Ben Berry)

 

21 BEBE REXHA- GONE

(Formally the lead singer of Black Cards/Co-wrote Eminem's "Monster"/Pop/Electronic/Singer-songwriter/Piano/Sounds like Lorde and Ellie Goulding/Contemporary Pop)

 

22 FRANCISCA VALENZUELA- ARMADULA

(Chile/Electropop <on this song> Piano/Singer-songwriter/Electronic/Alternative)

 

23 ELLA HENDERSON- HARD WORK

(Lincolnshire/Pop/Soul/UK/Mandolin)

 

24 JIMMY LONDON- A LITTLE LOVE

(Roots reggae/Jamaica)

 

25 WILL BUTLER- ANNA

(Multi-instrumentalist and founding member of Arcade Fire/Canada/Won his first Academy Award for his original score to Spike Jonze film "Her")

 

26 JUANES- MIL PEDAZOS

(Spanish/Pop rock/Latin)

 

27 YOU WON'T- TELEVISION

(Folk Pop/Massachusetts/Josh Arnoudse and Raky Sastri)

 

28 MALA RODRÍGUEZ- 33

(Hiphop/Spain/Female rapper)

 

29 SUPERSUBMARINA- VIENTO DE CARA

(Spain/Indie pop rock)

 

30 KIMBRA- 90S MUSIC

(New Zeleand/Indie pop/Alternative pop/Soul)