The folk singer reimagines traditional ballads with an electronic twist, layering atmosphere into her arrangements with synths and distortion

Brazilian guitarist Flávia Couri and Danish drummer Martin Thorsen’s 60s-influenced garage rock is a labour of love

The London-based four-piece led by Austrian singer-songwriter Anna F serve up the coolest dance punk this side of LCD Soundsystem

The leftfield US singer-songwriter has turned grief into a life-affirming debut album that’s at once widescreen and intimate

The Kerala-born, Texas-raised rapper is taking Indian hip-hop to a global audience. Now even Arsenal FC want in on the action…

Heartstopper actor Will Gao and his sister Olivia Hardy mix modern jazz and indie with a wisdom beyond their years

The Indianapolis band’s hook-heavy take on indie-disco nostalgia is somehow very 2024

The Sudanese American singer and Sex Education actor’s forthcoming debut album is a fearless, sensual delight

Her 2023 feminist anthem Labour went viral; now, the English folk-pop artist with gothic sensibilities turns her attention to Greek myth

Their song about Manchester buses got them a Foo Fighters support slot. Now the four-piece punk band are hoping to pack in their day jobs

After a car crash and a two-year break, the south London bassist and producer releases his trippy, redemptive debut album

The 90s-channelling LA art-rock trio’s fuzzy guitars, distorted vocals and doomy lyrics are a lo-fi blast

Inspired by visual art, producer Jasper Attlee’s jazz-house project has a huge streaming audience that's about to get bigger

The Florida R&B groovers are poised to break through with an album of eclectic, ambitious music on Def Jam

The singer-songwriter specialises in soulful ballads filtering classic soul, blues and rock through a maverick 2020s spirit

Blondie meets J Dilla in the music of this idiosyncratic Londoner who made her name covering the likes of Grimes and PJ Harvey

The American folk-pop trio have gained famous fans with their soaring harmonies and confessional lyrics

The Canadian singer-songwriter cuts loose from Toronto’s thriving R&B scene with a subtle yet fun-loving second album

The Belfast-born singer-songwriter mixes the sweet and the surreal on lo-fi pop that draws on her Chinese roots – and the cosmos

A passionate purveyor of anthemic folk-pop with an alt-country vibe, everything this Luton singer-songwriter has released so far sounds like a hit