Best Fit Newcomers: Our Five Ones-To-Watch for 2015 are revealed!

01 December 2014, 01:00 | Written by The Line of Best Fit

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In a year of amazing music, it's been hard to find five standouts with the innate talent and the potential to blow apart 2015 in every conceivable way - but over the last week we've revealed the artists we think might just do that very thing.

Five amazing newcomers who came onto our radar in the last twelve months have done more than convince us of their status as ones-to-watch in the coming year.

Spanish four-piece Deers make some of the most energised and inventive rock n roll we've heard in a very long time. As the breakout stars from the Madrid garage scene, they bring the unpretentious and honest to a lo-fi funtime live show that breaks all the rules.

From Norway is Emilie Nicolas, who makes the kind of music that re-writes emotion and the brittle brilliance of love and loss. Her debut album Like I’m a Warrior takes things one step further with a shot of energy and sexuality into her incredible leftfield pop sound.

Britain is repped by pint–sized newcomer Shura (aka Alexandra Denton; Shura is a Russian nickname) who won us over from her first heartbreaking track “Touch”. Half-Iranian, half-British TĀLĀ is a former BRIT school student who began making music at the age of seven. Her sound mixes Middle Eastern tradition, sultry R&B and atmospheric industrialism.

And from the US is Alex Giannascoli, the Philadelphian singer-songwriter who's been igniting a firey buzz as Alex G. Earlier this year, his album DSU sold out two limited pressings almost instantly and since its international release proper last month, he's become the word on everyone's lips.

Check the links above to find out more about these five incredible artists.