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Arlo Parks

• 19-year-old Londoner Arlo Parks channels the malaise of a generation - over issues like employment, rising house prices and easily-available prescription drugs – into thoughtful, left-field soul songs.

• “In my age group, there’s a lot of prevalence of mental health [problems], being self-destructive, and quite hopeless,” she told Line Of Best Fit. “I’m not sure if it’s social media, or what it is, but we’re all sad”.

• Raised in Hammermsith, West London, she says she was a “loner” who found solace in poetry and literature, before setting her own words to music.

• Her laid-back sound has been compared to everyone from Cocteau Twins and Leonard Cohen to Frank Ocean and A Tribe Called Quest; but Park says: “I’m just an Internet kid… doing my own thing.”

Beabadoobee

• Beabadoobee is the stage name of 19-year-old indie musician Bea Kristi, who built a huge online following while revising for her A-Levels.

• Born in Manilla and raised in London, she was inspired to make music by Kimya Dawson's soundtrack for the coming-of-age comedy Juno.

• She wrote her first song, a melodic, lo-fi ballad called Coffee, in 2017, after her dad bought her a second-hand guitar. When a friend uploaded a muffled recording to Spotify, it received hundreds of thousands of plays within days.

• She’s since been signed to Dirty Hit - home to The 1975 and Wolf Alice – with whom she’s released three well-received EPs that channel the chiming ‘90s indie-pop of Belly and The Lemonheads.

Georgia

• Producer, songwriter and beatmaker Georgia Barnes has been going to Glastonbury since she was seven years old – not least because her dad is Neil Barnes, co-founder of dance icons Leftfield.

• The 29-year-old started out as a session drummer for artists such as Kate Tempest and Mica Levi before striking out as a solo artist in 2015.

• Inspired by the propulsive hedonism of Chicago house and Detroit techno; her self-produced club single About Work The Dancefloor took up permanent residence on Radio 1 earlier this year.

• The song, a sort of second cousin to Robyn’s Dancing On My Own, proved so successful that the release of Georgia’s second album, Seeking Thrills, was pushed back by nine months. “A lot of artists would probably find it quite frustrating,” she told The Guardian, “but I’m always writing new music, so I was like, ‘yeah!’”

Joesef

• Earlier this year, 24-year-old singer-songwriter Joesef became the second artist to sell out Glasgow’s legendary King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut before releasing any music online. The first was Lewis Capaldi…

• The singer, who grew up in the Glasgow “ghetto” of Garthamlock, only goes by his first name: “kind of like Cher, or Shaggy,” he told the NME, “but not as cool.”

• The soul-baring pop songs of his debut EP, Play Me Something Nice, document the catastrophic break-down of his first relationship. “We were still sleeping together,” he told 大象传媒 Scotland. “It was like that grey area - it was a horrible situation to be in. I was still in love.”

• The singer has been open about his bisexuality, telling Vogue: “I’ve been with girls, I’ve been with boys. I feel like now is the best time to be that kind of person. In Glasgow, people are more likely to slag your shoes than your sexuality.”

Squid

• All angular guitars and scowled vocals, Squid started life as a “really bad” jazz band before settling on their current line-up.

• Inspired by art-rock bands like Talking Heads, XTC, Television and Neu!, they’ve even recorded a cover of Steve Reich’s rule-breaking minimalist work, Clapping Music.

• The Brighton-based band have been called “one of Britain’s most energetic new live guitar bands”, by the Guardian, and “the weirdo-punk band making the avant-garde accessible”, by the NME.

• “We’re only a year in properly and I don’t think anyone can tell what it’ll sound like in years to come,” keyboardist Arthur Leadbetter told DIY magazine.