Bursting out of Texas and sounding like the ghost of Sam Cooke himself, Leon Bridges is our big tip for 2015.
The two tracks currently show cased on Soundcloud offer a delicious teaser of what a full album could bring.
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Leon Bridges
The Fontaines are a brother-sister duo currently living in Los Angeles. After growing up all over the world together they decided to start writing together in 2013 after discovering the open mics, house shows, and cabaret nights of Southern California.
With tracks named after Hollywood movie stars and dripping in sultry glamour, this is pure LA swagger.
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The Fontaines
Already premiered on Radio One and enthusiastically received on 6music and Xfm, the new single Off Peak Dreams sees Ghostpoet, London-based Obaro Ejimiwe, moving on from the cathartic musings of 2013’s ‘Some Say I So I Say Light’ album.
Given a budget matching the average monthly salary in the UK, he was asked to create a film about the constraints of city living. This music video is the result.
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Ghostpoet
The frantic energy that is Moats will be touring the UK in February in preparation for the release of their 5 Track EP ‘Rough’. Earlier this year the four piece won a competition with NME to perform at the Austin City Limits Festival alongside Eminem, Mac De Marco and Outkast and the band are returning to tour the UK after their widely praised performance stateside.
Already building a fiece live reputation, with passionate intense vocals, and pulsating guitars, Moats are one to watch closely in 2015.
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Moats
Bear's Den have unveiled the video for their brand new single, ‘Think of England’, which is released on 2nd February 2015.
Theres a touch of Gary Lightbody (Snow Patrol) in the vocal and the layers of minimalist beats, claps and ambient strings build slowly throughout the track. This could be the one that brings Bear's Den to a wider audience.
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Bear's Den
