1 |
Eliza Shaddad |
"Run" |
single |
Tense, moody, guitar-roar+ethereality anthemic anti-anthem. |
2 |
Ehnahre |
"I Saw You" |
Douve |
Black metal as avant-garde chamber music (and occasionally black metal). |
3 |
Esmerine |
"The Neighbourhoods Rise" |
Lost Voices |
Avant-garde chamber music as indie-pop. |
4 |
Allie X |
"Sanctuary" |
COLLXTION I |
Regina Spektor via CHVRCHES. |
5 |
Big Thief |
"Masterpiece" |
single |
Ragged, twee, thumpy, vaguely alt-country Brooklyn noise-dirge. |
6 |
Delain |
"Turn The Lights Out" |
Lunar Prelude |
More teasers from the upcoming pop-gothic-symphonic-metal album. |
7 |
Vök |
"Waiting" |
single |
Drifty Icelandic etherpop with faint wisps of Tears for Fears or something. |
8 |
Sivik |
"Last Night" |
Winter Collection 4 |
Sinuous, constructedly-intimate indie-poptimist twitch-r&b. |
9 |
Ra Ra Riot |
"Water" |
Need Your Light |
Coy, florid synth-pop dance-punk. |
10 |
Tacocat |
"Talk" |
single |
Murky, defiant neo-riot-grrrl surge. |
11 |
Wintersleep |
"Territory" |
single |
Canadian indie-rock plus suprise Geddy Lee bass line. |
12 |
Frightened Rabbit |
"Death Dream" |
single |
Rock music as daylight's daily apology for whatever happened while it was away. |
13 |
Todtgelichter |
"Ghost" |
single |
Abrasive, roiling German indie-post-rock. |
14 |
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis |
"Kevin (feat. Leon Bridges)" |
single |
It's not always clear whether it makes sense to call this hip-hop or not, but as a socio-political, musically-illuminated podcast, M&RL is pretty interesting. |
15 |
Kerli |
"Feral Hearts" |
single |
Gorgeous Estonian ice-arena dubstep-balladry. |
16 |
MUNA |
"Winterbreak" |
single |
Ticking, big-hearted, vocoder-lined indietronic pop. |
17 |
New Arcades |
"Find a Way" |
single |
Whooshy neo-synth-pop instrumental. With enough synth-drums who needs singing? |
18 |
KOLAJ |
"100 Degrees (feat. Quinn XCII)" |
single |
LA chart-style non-chart pop is the new Brooklyn indie-folk. |
19 |
Aluk Todolo |
"I" |
Voix |
Deuterium drone-metal. |
20 |
Illum Sphere |
"Second Sight" |
Second Sight +1 |
Robot goth. |
21 |
FKA twigs |
"Good to Love" |
single |
Spectral smoke-labyrinth architectural seduction. |
22 |
Clark |
"Back To Belgrade" |
single |
Ambient future-bass texturalism. |
23 |
Miss Caffeina |
"Oh! Sana" |
single |
Echoey Spanish post-punk. |
24 |
Postiljonen |
"The Open Road" |
Reverie |
Pingy astral Swedish synth-pop. |
25 |
Stephen Wesley |
"Don't Take My Girl Away" |
single |
Arena-sunset U2 reverie as lift-kit country-rock. |
26 |
Tyler Dial |
"Like I Wish I Could" |
single |
Slow-core melancholy as trucker-cap-removed country-rock earnestness. |
27 |
Stam1na |
"Kuudet raamit" |
single |
Crushing Finnish progressive-metal/metalcore indecision. |
28 |
Rick Springfield |
"Down" |
Rocket Science |
Rick Springfield and Rod Stewart seem to be converging. |
29 |
Inon Zur |
"Meneleya (feat. Mimi Page)" |
single |
Game-soundtrack Enya-isms. |
30 |
Julien-K |
"Mannequin Eyes" |
Mannequin Eyes +1 |
Orgy-side-project neo-retro New Wave. |
31 |
Prince Rama |
"Your Life In The End" |
single |
Secular St. Vincent. |
32 |
The Starting Line |
"Anyways" |
Anyways EP 3 |
Uncomplicated emo-pop guitar warmth. |
33 |
All Tvvins |
"Unbelievable" |
single |
Indie r&b/pop with extra-boomy rhythm and basically no blues, which I'm starting to think is what "indie" means in the indie-r&b context. |
34 |
Train To Spain |
"Believe In Love" |
Believe In Love +1 |
Reverent Gothenburg sequencer-and-drum-machine neo New Wave. |
35 |
Västerbron |
"Jag nominerar mig själv" |
single |
Fast melodic Swedish-bridge punk. |
36 |
Felin |
"In Your Arms" |
single |
Punk as pop + art-school. |
37 |
Red Mecca |
"Blood on the Streets" |
Electricity |
Swedish atmospheric indietronica. |
38 |
BTOB |
"Come with Eerie (Music from Telemonster)" |
single |
K-pop boy-band goes epicore. |
39 |
Bossk |
"Kobe" |
single |
Screamy, doomy, dreamy Kent post-metal. |
40 |
Annika Aakjær |
"I går" |
Lykkens Gang |
Arty Danish siren-aerie dreampop. |
41 |
Tiemo Hauer |
"BENZIN" |
VERNUNFT, VERNUNFT. |
Patient, controlled German pop-rock. |
42 |
Max Giesinger |
"80 Millionen" |
single |
German The-Voice-cultivated arena-pop. |
43 |
Jarbird |
"Iona" |
single |
Abstracted London astral soul. |
44 |
NateWantsToBattle |
"The Ballad of Mona Lisa" |
single |
Minecraft pop-punk. |
45 |
amenoto |
"Replay" |
Replay +2 |
Lush j-post-rock-pop. |
46 |
The Gospel Youth |
"DST" |
single |
Grand sing-along pop-punk. |
47 |
The Magnettes |
"Killers In a Ghost Town" |
single |
Coiled, elegiac Swedish synth-pop-punk. |
48 |
Szabyest |
"Szakadékok közt" |
single |
Charming Hungarian emo-Bieber. |
49 |
IKI |
"Dew (feat. Sander De Winne)" |
single |
Avant-garde Nordic improvisational voice-ensemble. |
50 |
Leila Capri |
"Think Like a Man" |
No Mud No Lotus 6 |
Bouyant, glittery independent-not-indie pop. |
51 |
Bantug |
"Circles" |
single |
Airy, reverberent Nashville dreampop. |
52 |
Kostrok |
"Low Lights" |
The Golden Fruit Train |
Spanish DJ-rock duo. |
53 |
Ті, що падають вгору |
"Та, що танцює з вітром" |
Та, що танцює з вітром |
Entrancing Ukrainian acoustic-folk-metal. |
54 |
Jim-E Stack |
"Hyperballad (feat. Jana Hunter)" |
single |
Björk via Blade Runner via dubstep. |