All the other blogs seemed to have their shit together and posted their end of year lists at exactly midnight on Dec 1st. I suppose it’s time enough for The Sound Sniffer’s list. Here are our top 20 emerging artists in the UK in 2020 (in no particular order) – it’s been a long, lazy and lamentable year but these breakthrough people made it that bit more tolerable. I’m not going to write too much here – I’ll just share the tunes and the genre they fit into and let you make your own mind up if they are certified fresh or not!
Billy Nomates
Punk/Bedroom/Indie
Leicester
Lavender
Experimental/Electronic
London
Wassailer
Indie/Pop/Experimental
London
Jackson Mathod
Jazz Fusion
London
Noé Solange
Trip-Hop/Electronica
London
Matt Ryder
Indie Pop/Shoegaze/Electronic
Birmingham
Biig Piig
Lo-Fi/Shoegaze/Pop
London
FIKA
Indie Pop/Electric
London
SOTO
Jazz/Jazz Fusion
Brighton
SHAKU
Soft Rock/Frog Rock
Leeds
Michael Baker
Indie/Indie Folk
Brighton
Holly Redford Jones
Indie Folk
Derbyshire
Samuel Nicholson
Indie Folk/Folk/Acoustic
Edinburgh
SONNEE
Electronic/House
Manchester
Most Akin
Indie Pop/Downtempo/Experimental
Bristol
DC
Rap/Grime
London
Jonny Ong
Indie Rock/Soft Rock
London
Alex Bayly
Indie Folk
London
Sam Johnson
Indie Folk
Oswestry
Neev
Folk
Glasgow
About ‘The Sound Sniffer’
The Sound Sniffer is a one-man music blog which is still only a baby – Founded and run by Kevin Coakley in early 2019. He is a music writer and ghostwriter. ‘The Sound Sniffer’ also runs gigs and showcases in London since Oct 2019. The showcases are picked from artists found in the blog’s submission inbox.
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