Listen Before You Buy

Silver Tongues have a wide array of influences and confidently hop between genres. My only confident prediction for the direction they head in is that it’s likely to be unpredictable, although I’d also hazard a guess that it’s likely to be an enjoyable ride.

Based in Austin, Texas, and specializing in their own unique blend of cosmic surf rock, get to know Tiger Waves.

With just over 8 minutes of material to her name, Foxes has made a brave introduction into a rather saturated field. But by being so damn good at what she does, she bound to have more staying power.

Managing to blend her obvious jazz roots with over the top industrial production, it’s pretty easy to get a feel for why Lianne La Havas is going to be the next big thing.

We Have Band is the type of band name that is going to be entirely hit-or-miss for most people. While some may mock it for being completely ridiculous, others may praise it for its simplistic message.

Alabama Shakes from Athens, Alabama are poised to knock you for a loop like a Mint Julep going straight to your head on a sweltering summer’s day.

Willis Earl Beal has more passion and soul in his fingers than most of us could ever wish to have in our entire bodies.

While it’s easy to compare Kishi Bashi’s violin and loop-pedal stylings to those of the much more known Andrew Bird or Owen Pallet, to do so would be a disservice, as it simply detracts from what makes Kishi Bashi truly unique.

We have London-based Bobby Tank to add to the roster of artisan producers out there taking dubstep in a more innovative direction. There are moments in amongst the vocal slices and slap bass samples when you could almost be listening to Justice or Daft Punk.

POLIÇA’s style is unmistakably original, fusing sounds first presented by Active Child, Gayngs or even Bon Iver to create sultry R’n'B rhythms over some stellar vocoded vocals.

Teletextile have created an exciting, fresh, and inventive musical patchwork quilt with a decidedly tactile quality of sound.

Here are our artists who are Ones To Watch for 2012. Each of these deserve to become extremely successful this year.

Chosen by Austra as the official support act for their European tours as well as their upcoming Australia tour, Kool Thing are for lovers of: mood rings, lunar eclipses, ghost stories, cave paintings, good music. Count me in.

Jagwar Ma’s “Come Save Me” has a feel of Kasabian or Death In Vegas, which I guess equates to old-school psychedelia filtered through a big beat/rave-inspired ’90s-Manchester rock lens. Elsewhere, he sounds like The Orb. It’s all very good.

After the breakup of Port O’Brien, front man Van Pierszalowski found inspiration for this solo project WATERS. With their debut “Out In The Light”, the band maintains a wavering fragility within a rough-and-tumble pileup of instrumentation and turns it up to 11.

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