Ones To Watch In 2010 - Part One

by The Devil Has The Best Tuna on Mon, 2010/01/11 - 6:35pm Post to Twitter

Predictions of who will make it big are always liable to provide a journalist with more egg on face than Humpty Dumpty’s renologist. The history of music is littered with band’s who were destined for greatness and disappeared without leaving so much as a smudge on the window of the music world. It’s even harder for bloggers like the Devil because, by our very nature, we deal in the obscure and the uncommercial. However I’m going to stick my neck out and predict that during the next twelve months at least one of the bands featured over the next two days will become bigger than Obama.

In no particular order the Devil’s first set of tips for 2010 are…

First Aid Kit
From: Stockholm, Sweden

First Aid Kit are young sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg and they sound like angels tears falling into a dark, deep fjord. They are the most likely of the Devil’s tips to be household names by the time Father Christmas puts on his boots again.

Go Visit

First Aid Kit - Myspace // Last.FM

Lord Auch
From: London, United Kingdom

Lord Auch are a hammer horror version of Nick Cave covering early Echo & The Bunnymen b-sides and could be the band that take Darkrock into the mainstream. They are the sound of hard times and their chances of making the breakthrough are inextricably linked to whether Britain ever crawls out of recession!

Go Visit

Lord Auch - Myspace // Last.FM


Lyrebirds
From: Brighton, United Kingdom

The Lyrebirds’ sound is austere, minimal, monochrome yet powerful and beautiful. Over the next twelve months they will be scuffling with Lord Auch for ownership of the Darkrock crown. Their chances of breaking through will be improved if they can avoid the tag of the new Editors.

Go Visit

Lyrebirds - Myspace // Last.FM


Blank Realm
From: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

The sound inside an antipodean robots head after a bad dream. Their chances of worldwide success are limited unless there is a mass ingestion of LSD although stranger things have happened.

Go Try

MP3 - Blank Realm - Untitled
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Go Visit

Blank Realm - Myspace // Last.FM