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1. Marika Hackman Deep Green

Julien Chang“I wanted to shock people,” says Julien Chang. 'I wanted to make something in secret, with no expectations, something that would challenge an image of me that people had become familiar with.' With his stunning debut album, ‘Jules,’ Chang has accomplished all that and more. Entirely self-recorded and self-produced, the collection showcases the nineteen-year-old Baltimore native’s remarkable vision and breathtaking instrumental chops, fusing infectious pop melodies and experimental psych-rock with progressive jazz improvisation and sophisticated classical construction. The arrangements twist and turn, toying with expectation and reveling in the freedom and discovery of youth. At the same time, Chang’s subtle, restrained vocal delivery suggests a deep thoughtfulness, one that belies his youth as he grapples with love and friendship, growth and change, memory and regret.

Marika Hackman Deep Green

The result is an album that boldly defies categorization, a trippy sonic collage that dares you to keep up as it tips its cap to everything from Stevie Wonder and The Beatles to Tame Impala and Robert Glasper.Chang, who currently attends university, grew up studying classical and jazz performance at the Baltimore School for the Arts. While he enjoyed creating beats for local hip hop artists on the side, most of his classmates and teachers knew him only as a trombone player, and a reserved one at that. Few in his life had any idea that he’d actually been teaching himself to play a whole arsenal of instruments at home, and even fewer were aware that he’d assembled an entire studio in his basement with money he’d saved up working at a local grocery store.“I didn’t want to lessen the impact of what I was making by talking about it or sharing anything while it was in progress,” says Chang (pronounced Chong). Gaspard proust spectacle. “I wanted to tap into the power that comes from releasing something nobody sees coming.” In fact, Chang didn’t even make much of a fuss when he initially self-released the collection last year, posting it online and producing a small run of CDs. However, the record gently spread across the Baltimore music community-and eventually found its way to London, catching the attention of Transgressive Records (SOPHIE, Let’s Eat Grandma, Neon Indian) who flew out to meet Chang in New York City and offered him a record deal shortly after.Chang was 17 at the time he began work on ‘Jules,’ and the collection reflects all the evolution and exploration that comes with life on the cusp of adulthood.“The summer before my senior year was a really formative time for me,” he explains. “I got exposed to a ton of revelatory music, all sorts of stuff like Pink Floyd and Tchaikovsky and 70’s Afro-funk and Gregorian chants. At the same time, I finally started doing the kinds of things you’d expect a 17-year-old kid to do.”That combination of carefree personal growth and eye-opening artistic exposure fueled a prolific period for Chang, who would often begin writing tunes by improvising on what ever instrument happened to be most handy.

With no one looking over his shoulder, he gave himself permission to take big artistic risks without fear of failure. On one track, for instance, Chang decided to simulate the sound of a 30-person choir by recording six distinct vocal harmony lines five times over, each from a different part of the room; on another song, he challenged himself to utilize every single one of the 15 pieces of handheld percussion he’d found in a box at a local yard sale.“It was very much a one-man-band, control freak kind of effort,” he laughs. “I’d start writing a song at four o’clock in the afternoon, and then whenever I got too tired to keep working on it, the song would be done.”That reliance on spontaneity and gut instinct would guide Chang throughout the project, and it infuses the record with a freewheeling energy from the outset. Album opener “Deep Green” sets the stage perfectly, beginning with a classical swirl that slowly morphs into a blend of prog-rock and psychedelic pop. Odetta HartmanSelf-described as 'cowboy soul, future folk', NYC/DC artist Odetta Hartman’s sound is both traditional and modern; that modernity often featuring through the spacey and fragmented production of her partner Jack Inslee. Hartman’s 2015 debut album 222 landed her firmly on the folk scene, defying expectations and playing with the confines of the genre: Uncut Magazine wrote that “few artists combine the concepts of arcane and contemporary as atmospherically as New York’s Odetta Hartman.”Hartman explains that 222 was a “totally independent project I didn’t need everything and the kitchen sink to make a recording powerful. It was definitely an introverted process.” The 2018 follow-up album, Old Rockhounds Never Die, demonstrates this power: whether in the instruments she plays, or the sampling of her own voice to create synths, Hartman soars and astounds.

Through experimenting with found sounds and Foley, Hartman and Inslee have developed a sonic vernacular built around playing with a-typical instruments. Hartman explains that 'many of the beats on the album were recorded in the kitchen: the snare sound is actually a running faucet, or if you hear these glockenspiel bells that’s actually a set of kitchen bowls. Other percussive elements include scissors, a pepper grinder and keys on the radiator.' Odetta Hartman plays The Islington in London on 24 September. Old Rockhounds Never Die is out now on Northern Spy Records.

Phantastic FernitureThe birth of Phantastic Ferniture was the result of a drunken promise between friends: it soon became apparent that there was something important happening. Fronted by Australian singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin, she explains her desire to create the band: “I’d gone straight into folk music, so every experience I’d had on stage was playing sad music with a guitar in my hand.

I thought, I would love to know what it’s like to make people feel good and dance.” For Jacklin, it turns out that “it feels really good. It’s like having an alter ego.”Jacklin is joined by Elizabeth Hughes on lead guitar, Ryan K Brennan on drums, and Tom Stephens on bass. The band’s first single, Fuckin ‘n’ Rollin, was described by as “impossibly cool”, and their self-titled debut album “comes close to garage-rock perfection”.

As likely to make you dance as shed a tear, this debut is full of Jacklin’s pain-pricked cut-to-the-quick flair, intoxicated by the upbeat instrumentalism of bandmates Hughes and Brennan.In staying true to the band's ethics, and the spontaneity and passion that birthed it, there’s zero expectations or strict deadlines, save the ones they set for themselves. With a headline tour booked for August and Jacklin’s second solo album, the group are comfortable to 'let things happen naturally'. CalpurniaCalpurnia's story is how teenage rock dreams are meant to unfold: four friends, all raised on a healthy diet of the Beatles, Nirvana and David Bowie, and a deep love for their respective instruments, retreat one day to a basement and begin jamming together. They cut their teeth on some cover songs and then, with just enough confidence and a dose of adolescent enthusiasm, they write and record their own tunes.

And the results are nothing short of stunning. 'It was kind of destined to be,' Finn Wolfhard says of the almost serendipitous genesis of the rough-and-tumble Vancouver-based indie-rock foursome he formed with three of his now-closest friends. 'We all just really clicked.

And when I'm passionate about something,' the singer-guitarist addsof Calpurnia, who this summer release their self-titled debut EP via our imprint paradYse in UK/Europe and Royal Mountain (US/Canada), 'I like to get it done as quickly as I can. There's not a lot of wasting time. I love just going for it. Go big or go home.' The band - which in addition to Wolfhard includes lead guitarist Ayla Tesler-Mabe, a six-string prodigy whose bedroom-shredding viral videos have earned her legions of fans on social media, bassist Jack Anderson and drummer Malcolm Craig - all grew up within walking distance of one another. But it took Wolfhard - best known as one of Hollywood's hottest young actors thanks to his role as Mike Wheeler on Netflix hit series 'Stranger Things' - meeting Craig on the set of Canadian punk rockers PUP's 'Guilt Trip' music video for things to finally spring into motion. In short order, the pair met Tesler-Mabe at a music summer camp, and she quickly introduced them to Anderson, her close childhood friend and bassist.

'And as soon as we startedrehearsing it was just insane,' Anderson says of the quartet's instant personal and musical chemistry. 'It was kind of unbelievable. Like a gift.' Once they played their first official gig together, it was a done deal. 'We had all the adrenaline we needed,' Craig says. Where they'd previously played cover songs, 'after the response we got,' Craig notes, 'we were like, let's record some of our own music!' SOPHIEGlasgow-born, LA-based musician and producer, and PC Music affiliate, SOPHIE has been releasing music since 2013.

Her debut compilation Product, released in November 2015, featured her break-out singles BIPP and LEMONADE. Since then, she has brought her unique take on production to collaborations with Charli XCX, Madonna, and Vince Staples, with upcoming collaborations with Lady Gaga, Kim Petras, and Bibi Bourelly.October 2017 saw the release of single It’s Okay To Cry, which marked the first time SOPHIE had used her own image and vocal in her music. It paved the way for what would follow: her stunning debut album, (June 2018), was praised by as “sprawling and beautiful, while still keeping the disorienting, latex-pop feel of her fascinating production technique”, with the album making “a bid for transcendent beauty.” gave the album a rating of 9/10, saying that “it sounds like no one else could have made Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides. This is the kind of music that, in 20 years, we may look back on as a pivotal point in changing the trajectory of the pop music sound.”SOPHIE’s brand of disorienting, tactile pop is uncanny, both authentic and artificial, a physical experience from an alternate reality - be sure to catch her live performance to see it come to life. BonifaceNamed after the Canadian neighbourhood he grew up in, Boniface is the project of 21-year-old Micah Visser. Visser spent his childhood learning violin, saxophone, guitar, piano, and computer programming. At some point he stopped learning other people’s songs and began writing his own.

It was here, writing alone in his bedroom, that Visser forged a sound that would take an indie sensibility and make it glisten, finding his way to a new kind of 21st century pop.Described as a 'unique and beautiful underdog', Boniface play dream-like, heartfelt pop music, with most recent single (released 7 March 2018) demonstrating their shining exuberance as an outfit. The single builds on their past work, resulting in a track that is intense and wistful, nostalgic and infectious. Discussing playing live, Visser explains “I just fell in love with that energy. Facilitating positivity is all you can ask for really, and when I can tangibly feel that in a room it reminds me why I love doing this.”The band have been playing around the world in the last few months, including an appearance at SXSW, and are no strangers to England, having supported Lo-Moon on their UK tour earlier this year. They will be back later in the year for a one-off London show, hitting Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen on 6 November. FlumeOver the past two years, 22-year old Australian Flume has cemented himself as one of the biggest names in dance music.

His self-titled debut album topped the chart in his homeland, beating One Direction, and since then he’s toured the world, playing to increasingly huge audiences and collaborating with some of the biggest names on the planet.Flume had his first taste of producing at age 13 from the most unlikely of places - a music production program he found in a cereal box. Fast forward six years and Flume’s distinctive postmodern R&B sounds are uniting the affections of The XX, Four Tet and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs.‘Sleepless’ featuring Jezzabell Doran sees Flume expertly blend 90’s hip-hop with leftfield dream pop. To date ‘Sleepless’ has received over 1 million views on Youtube, spent several weeks at #1 in the iTunes Australia Electronic Charts and championed by the like of BBC Radio 1, 1Xtra and 6Music.‘Left Alone’ is a yearning, late night slow grind, showcasing guest vocalist Chet Faker’s vivid lyricism and amazing control of cadence. BlaenavonStill in their teenage years, and recently free of school, Blaenavon are three boys who have taken the music world by storm. Having played with the likes of Foals, Bloc Party and Warpaint to name a few, the band have released two EPs on Transgressive Records and have recently completed their debut album, with singer Ben Gregory starring in Burberry’s New Faces campaign.Having released previous singles 'Into The Night' and 'Denim Patches' on Transgressive imprint paradYse, Blaenavon followed up with debut EP Koso in September 2013, through Transgressive Records. The four-track offering encompasses everything good about a young band with a very bright future, flowing seamlessly from delicately picked verses to euphoric sections of soaring vocals and powerful guitars.In October 2015, the band released the follow up to Koso with their 'Miss World EP'.

The release was accompanied by shows with the likes of Songhoy Blues and Foals, as well as a performance of 'Dragon' for. 2016 has seen the boys continue to perfect their live show, with tours supporting The Sherlocks and Sundara Karma as well as their own headline tour in May, along with appearances at Glastonbury, Truck, Latitude and Reading & Leeds to name but a few across the summer. They've also released two singlea from their debut album, 'I Will Be The World' and 'Let's Pray'- watch below.For all enquiries, please contact.