1 | TeraBrite | "Sorry" | single | Justin Bieber can keep writing all the songs he wants as long as TeraBrite covers them. |
2 | Toss Power Traps | "Even Vatnajökull Can Melt" | Earth Rot II: Music for Iceland | My co-worker Brendan made a great ambient electronica album about Iceland as Toss Power Traps. |
3 | Little Mix | "Black Magic" | Get Weird (Deluxe) | Little Mix are (even) better than One Direction. |
4 | Grimes | "California" | Art Angels | Grimes finds her indietronic-pop calling. |
5 | Dark Moor | "Abduction" | Project X (Deluxe Version) | Spanish hard-rock power-metal by Dark Moor. |
6 | Eldritch | "Changing Blood" | Underlying Issues | Eldritch remind us that we used to call it Heavy Metal. |
7 | Reverence | "Gods of War" | Gods of War | Reverence didn't need to be reminded. |
8 | The Japanese House | "Clean" | Clean +3 | Brittle meditations from The Japanese House. |
9 | Blanck Mass | "The Great Confuso Pt. I / The Great Confuso Pt. II / The Great Confuso Pt. III" | The Great Confuso EP | Splintery electro-chatter EP from Blanck Mass. |
10 | Kate Boy | "Lion For Real" | One | Finally finally, a whole album of metropercussive Kate Boy songs. |
11 | Vastum | "Sodomitic Malevolence" | Hole Below | Cacophonic black thrash-rasp by Vastum. |
12 | Carla Morrison | "Un Beso" | Amor Supremo | Experimental (Latin-alternative) pop in the wandering tradition of Kate Bush and St. Vincent by Carla Morrison. |
13 | Josh Abbott Band | "While I'm Young [Act 1]" | Front Row Seat | Gloriously unglorified red-dirt Texas country from the Josh Abbott Band. |
14 | Chelsea Lankes | "Home" | single | Shimmery big-synth-pop flutters from Chelsea Lankes. |
15 | Ellie Goulding | "Aftertaste" | Delirium | The new Ellie Goulding album. |
16 | Sia | "Bird Set Free" | single | Sia is halfway between Ellie Goulding and Adele, more or less. |
17 | Malrun | "The Wilderness of Pain" | single | Malrun is the Danish Queensrÿche (and I think the legal situation with Queensrÿche is that every country gets their own...). |
18 | Murlo | "Lanced" | Odyssey | Ebullient, mechano-organic sonic texturalism from Murlo. |
19 | Sundara Karma | "Vivienne" | EP II 4 | Warm, crunchy indie guitar-rock by Sundara Karma. |
20 | Sizzy Rocket | "Bad Kids" | single | Sizzy Rocket imagines what PC Music might sound like if it weren't coy or conceptual. |
21 | We Are The Grand | "Pienso en Ti" | single | Chiming Chilean indie rock from We Are The Grand. |
22 | Abraham Mateo | "Are You Ready?" | single | They have their own Bieber in Spain, and he is called Abraham Mateo, and he's pretty good. |
23 | Giant Claw | "Deep Thoughts 001" | Deep Thoughts | Robo-symphonics, as sharp as Murlo is sinuous but similarly inventive, by Giant Claw. |
24 | Radics Gigi | "Nagy vörös szőnyeg" | single | Big Hungarian dance-pop by Radics Gigi. |
25 | SOPHIE | "L.O.V.E." | single | SOPHIE takes the PC Music thing into weirdly Zoolook-ish machine-whine. |
26 | CLAIRE | "What We Are Made Of" | Raseiniai | New EP by German synth-pop purists CLAIRE. |
27 | Maria Mena | "I Don't Wanna See You with Her" | single | Thoughtfully bitter folk-pop by Maria Mena. |
28 | City Calm Down | "Border On Control" | In A Restless House | Epic post-goth neo-post-punk from City Calm Down. |