RECORD ARCHIVE - records in December 2013
This year's Record of the Year accolade goes to Mike Rosenberg, aka Passenger, whose six-year journey to overnight success is...

Passenger
Let Her Go - Record of the Year
This year's Record of the Year accolade goes to Mike Rosenberg, aka Passenger, whose six-year journey to overnight success is...
We're excited, before the year is out, to squeeze in a feature for San Fermin, the Brooklyn-based collective helmed by...

San Fermin
Sonsick
We're excited, before the year is out, to squeeze in a feature for San Fermin, the Brooklyn-based collective helmed by...
It has indeed been a vintage year for Australian music and Boy & Bear, whose harmony-heavy, folk-inflected classic rock first pricked...

Boy & Bear
Southern Sun
It has indeed been a vintage year for Australian music and Boy & Bear, whose harmony-heavy, folk-inflected classic rock first pricked...
The name so palpably conveys the glacial, somnolent soundscapes in his songs that it's hard to believe Vancouver Sleep Clinic...

Vancouver Sleep Clinic
Collapse
The name so palpably conveys the glacial, somnolent soundscapes in his songs that it's hard to believe Vancouver Sleep Clinic...
Radio: make room on your A lists now for the first crossover dance anthem of 2014. Stay The Night, from German...

ZEDD feat. Hayley Williams
Stay The Night
Radio: make room on your A lists now for the first crossover dance anthem of 2014. Stay The Night, from German...
Being anointed 'the coolest band in the world' by Julian Casablancas might be about as self-fulfilling as being named 'the...

Cerebral Ballzy
Better In Leather
Being anointed 'the coolest band in the world' by Julian Casablancas might be about as self-fulfilling as being named 'the...
East India Youth's stunning debut album Total Strife Forever is so emphatically the sum of its parts that to lift...

EAST INDIA YOUTH
DRIPPING DOWN
East India Youth's stunning debut album Total Strife Forever is so emphatically the sum of its parts that to lift...
Hearing Courtney Barnett's conversational and tangential Aussie delivery for the first time felt a little like that profound conviction, slightly the...

Courtney Barnett
History Eraser
Marathon Artists/House Anxiety
Hearing Courtney Barnett's conversational and tangential Aussie delivery for the first time felt a little like that profound conviction, slightly the...
We're late on FEMME, who launched her AA-side single Fever Boy/Heartbeat at White Heat last week, but we're also pleased to...

FEMME
Fever Boy
We're late on FEMME, who launched her AA-side single Fever Boy/Heartbeat at White Heat last week, but we're also pleased to...
Like Kenya's long-distance runners, we're starting to wonder if the Netherlands' unbeatable track record for turning out world-class DJs originates...

Hardwell feat. Matthew Koma
Dare You
Like Kenya's long-distance runners, we're starting to wonder if the Netherlands' unbeatable track record for turning out world-class DJs originates...
More than one watcher in Ones-to-Watch season has noted the dizzying plenitude of male singer-songwriters jostling for a share of...

Saint Raymond
Young Blood
More than one watcher in Ones-to-Watch season has noted the dizzying plenitude of male singer-songwriters jostling for a share of...
Anyone tempted to suggest the world has had its fill of rousing indie folk probably hasn't heard Eliza & The...

Eliza & The Bear
It Gets Cold
Anyone tempted to suggest the world has had its fill of rousing indie folk probably hasn't heard Eliza & The...
There's a 'school's out' vibe scrawled all over the fuzzy garage rock of The Orwells' first album Remember When, hardly surprising...

The Orwells
Dirty Sheets
There's a 'school's out' vibe scrawled all over the fuzzy garage rock of The Orwells' first album Remember When, hardly surprising...
Possibly the only band more likely to win Nobel prizes than Brit awards, Breton take a lab-based, multi-disciplinary approach to...

Breton
Envy
Possibly the only band more likely to win Nobel prizes than Brit awards, Breton take a lab-based, multi-disciplinary approach to...
No surprise seeing Sam Smith on the BBC Sound of 2014 longlist yesterday, and many agree he's a strong contender for...

Sam Smith
Money On My Mind
No surprise seeing Sam Smith on the BBC Sound of 2014 longlist yesterday, and many agree he's a strong contender for...
Incredibly, 24 year-old singer-songwriter Rhodes only started writing and playing his own material this year which, quite apart from the...

Rhodes
Raise Your Love
Incredibly, 24 year-old singer-songwriter Rhodes only started writing and playing his own material this year which, quite apart from the...