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
If anyone from the IFPI is reading this track is linked direct from the Blank Realm Last.FM site and is therefore freely available so please refrain from alleging infringement of copyright.
Go Visit
Blank Realm - Myspace // Last.FM
"You only get to appreciate what you do when you're not doing it," says bassist Rob Canning, slurping on a tea. "and now we're back, we're buzzing to go."
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