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Jun 23, 2020 · There are way more new artists with stunning debuts this year than we could ever fit on a single show. But on this week's All Songs Considered, we share some of the standouts of 2020 (so far ...
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The Best New Artists Of 2020 (So Far) June 23, 2020 • There...
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Oct 16, 2024 · The Mercury Prize-winning trio of Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole and ‘G’ Hastings—known to most as Young Fathers—found a new peak on their 2023 album Heavy Heavy, and its kinetic ...
Sep 30, 2024 · DJ Python: “Angel” (2022) According to New York DJ and producer Brian Piñyero, the best songs and DJ sets feel like being let in on a secret; he told Pitchfork in 2020 that “it’s like a ...
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Dec 29, 2020 · Listen to Paste ’s Best New Artists of 2020 playlist on Spotify here. 070 Shake. Born Danielle Balbuena, 070 Shake (named in part for her New Jersey area code) got her big break courtesy of one ...
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- Ascendant Vierge
- Backxwash
- Bella Boo
- Cassowary
- Celeste
- Joshua Chuquimia Crampton
- Beatrice Dillon
- Lucy Gooch
- S.G. Goodman
Precocious, LA-based singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams came to the fore in 2020 with the shimmering, delicate heartbreak of her debut EP, Minor. It’s a cathartic slice of teen angst that demonstrated a keen ear for melody, a wellspring of steely self-reliance and a finely tuned wisdom beyond her years. “Friend” is a brittle, scraggly, and lo-fi balla...
A certain artist and soap-maker tweeted about Ascendant Vierge‘s extremely busy “Influencer” video, a warehouse rave curated for the era of Twitch and Instagram. It’s all excess, from the lead singer Mathilde Fernandez’s quirky opera to the acid-trip face filters. It matches the rest of their music, which incorporates that soaring voice with toweri...
Montreal-based, Zambia-born rapper Backxwash made history when her album God Has Nothing to Do With This Leave Him Out of It won the 2020 Polaris Music Prize, beating out such stacked competition as Lido Pimienta, US Girls, and Jessie Reyez. After all, a raw, lo-fi horrorcore album normally wouldn’t have much of a chance compared to music that’s ea...
This year, LA-based Scandinavian producer and DJ Bella Boo consolidated the promise of her debut long-form platter, Once Upon a Passion, with a slew of on-point remixes collected on the titular single. She also issued the dreamy and pensive “Stars”, which was accompanied by a serene video featuring choreographer and dancer Lisa Janbell flexing in h...
Miles Shannon was barely out of his teens when he scored an early career break, playing piano on his childhood friend Earl Sweatshirt’s 2015 album I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside. Five years later, Shannon has reappeared under the name Cassowary, with a self-titled debut album that manages to link the past, present, and possible future of sou...
The American-born British singer Celeste (Celeste Epiphany Waite) has achieved notable attention for both her rich and soulful voice and unique fashion sense. In December 2019 she won the BBC Music Award for Introducing Artist of the Year and the British Phonographic Industry Rising Star Award. In 2020, she’s been celebrated by everyone from Vogue ...
Clearly, it runs in the family. Elysia Crampton is already responsible for one of the last decade’s most beguiling bodies of electronic music, and now here’s her brother and collaborator with some of the most interesting guitar instrumentals since Bill Orcutt first tested the tension of his four strings. The Heart’s Wash and the forthcoming 4 aren’...
File Londoner Beatrice Dillon under “capable of anything”. Her wonderful debut Workaround from this year suggests the Y2K clicks-and-cuts music of SND and Jan Jelinek splintered into a thousand vibrating molecules. But she’s also played folk music, classical music, and improvised noise. Like fellow PAN alumnus Yves Tumor, Dillon’s mere existence is...
British musician Lucy Gooch purveys a reverb-happy sonic rapture which melds the somnolent drift of ambient electronica with the structure of choral composition and the porous intimacy of leftfield, abstract pop a la Grouper and Julianna Barwick. Her Rushing EP promises airy surface thrills but delivers boundless pleasure and apparitional enigmas b...
This past fall, S.G. Goodman released a cover of the labor anthem, “Which Side Are You On?” to promote a voter-registration festival of the same name. Throughout the song’s two minutes, Goodman’s acapella performance recalls the urgency of Florence Reed’s original. In the fall of 2020, the question took on another meaning — which side of history ar...
Dec 8, 2020 · 1. Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande, “Rain on Me”. It’s common practice for music fans to dub different songs “the anthem” of a specific year. But in 2020 — a year defined (and constantly ...
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Dec 7, 2020 · 2020 saw rising artists fully come into their own, most notably Megan Thee Stallion, who tops our Best Songs list alongside Cardi B for the and then appears again . BTS and Bad Bunny got bigger ...
