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22-year-old multi-instrumentalist William Doyle is no stranger to making music. Having previously starred as the frontrunner of Doyle And The Fourfathers, he played brash, in-your-face pub rock. But now he’s playing under the guise of East India Youth; trading in his musical parka for a signature – yet subtle – Dalston look that has far more substance and style than your average hipster. As for his tracks, there’s the bubbly, synth-pop floater ‘Dripping Down’; ‘Song For A Granular Piano’ is a brooding, classically-indebted singer-songwriter track caped in mystery; whilst ‘Heaven, How Long’ is a beautiful piece of progressive electronica. Get excited, folks. (Tom Walters)
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For every compliment being dished towards Purity Ring and their illuminating future-pop, across an entire album came the nagging sense that for all the groundbreaking work they were doing, they couldn’t sport anything but their celebrated, trap-filled R&B. Now: IYES sound a fair bit like Purity Ring - there’s no escaping that. Melis Soyaslanova’s candy cane vocals are a nice contrast to the bold, ever-changing synthetics that so define these ‘demo’ tracks they’ve emerged with. But it’s the striving for something previously unencountered that sets IYES apart from the rest of the sorry competition. Give these guys an album to work with and they’ll deliver something remarkable: we promise. ( Jamie Milton)
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If I could be any musician in the present day, it’d probably be someone like Mac DeMarco. Strapped for cash, sure. But there’s always a beer can in your hand, always a great new song flickering about in your head. It seems as if young’un Jackson Scott’s taken it upon himself to be that very same individual. In debut LP ‘Melbourne’ he shifts sporadically between different styles - different characters, even. He always ends up landing as someone slinging his guitar on his back with a four-pack of cheap beer in hand. That might be a gruesome stereotype to fling at someone we don’t actually know that much about. Jackson keeps himself to himself. But you can imagine this guy, down the line, being the musician sorry sods like myself look up to. ( Jamie Milton) 30 thisisfakediy.co.uk
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There are few cities that can rival B-town of late for producing noteworthy new bands. One such place however is Glasgow. Scotland’s largest city has seen its music scene rejuvenated this year, with much of its fresh talent - CHVRCHES, PAWS, Honeyblood and Father Sculptor - hitting the pages of Neu in recent months. Glasgow shows no signs of letting-up either, as we continue with Holy Esque, another of its finest new bands. There’s a striking boldness about Holy Esque’s sound, rendering them unmistakable upon the backdrop of current music. Recent singles ‘St.’ and ‘Tear’ both come injected with pounding rhythms and driving synthetics, creating an all encompassing sound. Then there’s Pat Hynes’ discernible vocals - out-quivering even the likes of The Undertones’ Feargal Sharkey - adding a unique and potentially iconic finishing touch. (Ian Paterson)
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The trend for melancholic, introspective R&B has been one of the defining themes of the decade so far. It’s incredibly easy for music that falls within any current vogue to sound contrived, but this is not something that could ever be said about 19-year-old Londoner Joel Compass. On his stirring debut track ‘Back To Me’ there’s a palpable sense of emotion and yearning, the realisation that he’s compelled to make this music. It’s incredibly sparse, built around intermittent beats and a ghostly-echoed synth swirl, providing an understated backing for Compass’ stunning tremulous vocal. By the end, he’s lost in ecstatic rapture, his vocals layered on top of each other before climaxing in an exultant falsetto. (Martyn Young)
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What the heck were Visuals thinking releasing ‘Goodbye’ at the tail end of Autumn 2012? The song sounds like Beck sipping on a Capri Sun and going gospel: this might even nudge Jagwar Ma off our recently composed ‘bands most likely to soundtrack this coming summer’ list. The Brooklyn band up the ante with flipside ‘Levitation’, another ferocious, tapping number that couples together with ‘Goodbye’ to form what’s most likely the most unsung single release of the year previous. No matter: the group are finding themselves in full moon as double-figure temperatures finally arrive and dodgy khaki shorts sell by the thousands. ( Jamie Milton)