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
NoƩ 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
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