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This is the musical equivalent of elegant dining, and Cassandra Jenkins serves up a proper taster menu of complimentary flavours. Jazzy aromas arise from a plate of pop-sensibilities, whilst new-age guitar rock pours across the dish like an unctuous sauce with a gloss of poetic insight.   PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY

Eaves Wilder has a target audience – her 14-year-old self. She writes catchy but gentle takes on riot-G motifs and tries to be at her own shoulder as an often sad young teenager to promise her that life will soon open out into a world of opportunity. You don’t have to be a 14-year-old girl…
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Life’s a riot for these five Leeds girrrls, and their music is firmly rooted in that impassioned proto-punk phenomenon, but it also screams with pop-protocols that bring it bang up-to-date for discerning Gen-Z be-boppers to get all sweaty and heady to. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY

You can’t avoid listening the Barking Poets and imagining how they must have spent many a long sweaty night pogoing to The Clash down at the local school disco. The alt-punk London band wears this retro badge firmly and proudly on its sleeve like a boy scout with a merit for woodcraft. It’s unreconstructed classic…
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Ireland isn’t all about new snarly, rappy, or massively electro bands these days… the country continues to produce delightful voices too… it’s in the population’s green genes. But Chubby Cat does fuse her vocal talent with some interesting nu-rock hooks, and synth-heavy backing tracks – and her lyrics don’t mince words either. Joined on stage…
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Eighty Eight Miles are a relatively new Midlands outfit who’s influences hark back to the classic rock/pop scene of the heady 70s that came out of the west coast of the USA. You can pick out the elements for yourself to work out what’s in their collective old vinyl collection … but with interest from…
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Hailing from East Berlin but via Southern Spain, Morocco, and Ireland’s BIMM Institute in Dublin, Emileo delivers celtic-inspired songs that blend with electronic beats and Eastern influences. She was applauded by Sinéad O’Connor for a very ‘special’ something, and she wants to change the world. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY

A modern take on psych-kraut-rock from this Toronto-based four-piece, in whose raw garage production ethic you can almost hear the spanners rattling on their hooks on the wall. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY

Soulful jazz-funk pours effortlessly out of the talented Immy, a young woman with a big voice. With deep Bristol roots and a deeply insightful knack for a vocal hook, she will be haunting the Jazz Cafe and many other cool nightspots before you know it.   PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY

Two voices wrapped so tightly around each other that you can hardly spot the join. This is a proper she/they duo out of Berlin who can make even the biggest stage an intimate experience for their audoence. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY  

Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap, and DJ Próvaí create uncompromising Irish hip-hop that rises from the gutters of Belfast and wraps itself around your throat in a stanglehold grip. Be afraid. Be happy. Be yourself. Listen to Kneecap. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY  

Armed with just a drumkit, a powerful vocal, and a host of dexterously produced backing tracks featuring all your favourite guitar and key parts, Lost Romantic are two charismatic musicians on a mission to blow cobwebs out of the rafters of venues around the world. Proper diva-geezers. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY

We’ve come all over with fond memories of DEVO at their quintessential best listening the The Meat Sweaters. Those sharp spiky synth lines and impassioned machine gun lyrics are a proper blast back to less complicated days. But this is modern music too. It stands tall alongside the Squids of the world, and, quite correctly,…
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Unreconstructed heavy rockers, Mister Strange, hark from Manchester and offer up simple, no-holds-barred old-time heavy guitars and a sip of simple seventies pleasure for aging headbangers or nu-rock moshers alike. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY

Monakis have been ripping the throat out of the South East music scene alongside acts such as Kid Kapichi and SNAYX for the last few years, and their live shows always growl with visceral hunger.   PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY

Pop almost goes nu-country as Neckbreakers showcase something that also has echoes of Fleetwood Mac… and those echoes are really quite strong. Things feel fun when the beat picks up and its lazy in the breaks. A real roller-coaster of lightweight indie rock that punches above its grade. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY

‘On a mission to make strangers misty in the disco‘ is the proclamation in System Exclusive’s press pack. They have squeezed their minimalistic music into a simple van-life-style and having set out from their native California are now looking to find new friends and fans who are open to old-school, synth-ridden harmonics laced with up-tempo,…
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‘Music for the clinically spooky and horny‘ reads Tom Saint’s super-brief Spotify bio. His songs definitely do have a scary-movie vibe to them…you can sense them prowling down dark corridors and around the bins in back-alleys as the lights flicker and splutter and the air vibrates with sinister, ghostly echoes of atrocities past or yet…
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With a busy festival season ahead of them, Londoners Unpeople will be rocking and rolling their way to a field near you very soon. Solid anthemic riffs with soaring vocals and the sort of full-metal-jacket basslines that fill stadiums with throbbing waves of sonic loveliness. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY