Jai Paul, from Harrow, creates wonky funk pop freakouts, all blissful, miasmic and soulful. His warbling voice and throbbing dubsteppy bass are so overwhelming, so brilliant, that there is no way the charts shan't be his this year. This track, 'BTSU', has been circulating the blogs for a while now and is a free download on various sites such as The Fader. Download it.
White Fence is one guy, Tim Presley, from California. His music is what I, being a youth of today, would label 'well cool'. In his rambunctious ramblings, he fuses snappy, catchy droplets of blues with showers of fuzzy reverb and sounds a bit like Wavves, or the Babies, or *insert another American lo-fi rock n roll band here*.
But the point is he writes great, memorable tunes. The tune I'm most into at the moment is 'Lillian (Won't You Play Drums?):
