Just a chance to share your favourite recent bands/artists from these isles…bands that you are excited to hear new music from. Kind of a response to how poorly the “best english/scottish bands from the last 10 years” threads from the old forums turned out. Not confined to any genre/style etc.
For me, it’s
FKA Twigs
Wolf Alice
C Duncan
Nao
Adult Jazz
Nick Mulvey
definitely adult jazz. excited to see if anything comes out from these new puritans any time soon too, cause field of reeds was lit. Anna meredith as well, but not much apart from that.
Everything Everything.
They seem to split opinion on these boards, but would be a strong candidate for strongest output so far this decade for me. Going from strength to strength on each album and so much fun live.
Meilyr Jones. Plenty others I love, but none that I’m really excited album (although I probably was excited about Haiku Salut, Twilight Sad and Martha before I’d seen them 10-20 times)
Probably two of the best cult bands since the mid 90s era of Mansun, Strangelove, Super Furries etc. Wild Beasts have occasionally wobbled but otherwise their output has been stunning. EE should, by all rights, be one of the biggest bands going right now. No one else is putting out anything as savvy, heartbreaking, catchy and downright danceable as Get To Heaven; it’s so brilliant I almost feel crushed by the weight of what they’ve achieved with it.