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SBTRKT (pronounced "subtract") is the electronic music project of Aaron Jerome, a producer based in London. Initially know for the tribal masks he and his collaborators wore in their live performances, Jerome shed the masks in the run-up to this fourth album, "The Rat Road." SBTRKT debuted in 2009 with remixes of artists like Radiohead, M.I.A, Basement Jaxx (‘Scars’) and Franz Ferdinand (‘Send Him Away’). These remixes gained the attention of radio DJs and tastemaker blogs, leading to more releases on Brainmath label, Ramp and Young. Read more on Last.fm

1) The Charlatans, known in the United States as The Charlatans UK, is an English rock band formed in the West Midlands in 1988 and later developed in Northwich, Cheshire. The band has released thirteen studio albums, all of which have reached the top 40 of the UK Albums Chart, including three number ones. They have achieved 22 top 40 singles and four top 10 entries, including "The Only One I Know" and "One to Another". The band was founded by bassist Martin Blunt Read more on Last.fm

1. Justice is a French electronic music duo consisting of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay. They are known for incorporating strong rock and disco influences into their music and image. The band's debut album Cross was released in June 2007 to critical acclaim. The album was later nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album and came in at number 15 on Pitchfork's "Top 50 Albums of 2007" and number 18 on Blender's "25 Best Albums of 2007" list. Read more on Last.fm

Barrington Ainsworth Levy (born 30 April 1964) is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, as a youngster, Barrington Levy formed the Mighty Multitude with his cousin Everton Dacres. They started off playing the sound systems and cut their first single, “My Black Girl,” in 1977. All of 14, Levy broke out his own the next year and recorded his debut solo single, A Long Time Since We Don’t Have No Love.” It didn’t have much of an impact Read more on Last.fm

North Carolina-born cellist and vocalist Kelsey Lu recorded their debut EP live at a church in Brooklyn with a loop pedal, and it’s one of the most startling and evocative pieces of music you’ll hear all year. Lu was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness and fled home at 18 to escape their strict upbringing, so their choice of location, the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family, is in a way a subverted act of rebellion. A suite of songs that push and pummel gospel music into experimental new places Read more on Last.fm

There are at least five artists using this name: 1. Eve (いぶ ibu), also known as Keitora (けいとら) and Kurowa (クロわ), is a Japanese singer and producer who gained recognition on platforms such as Niconico and YouTube. He has composed original works, participated in live events, and been featured in utaite-centric magazines including Utattemita no Hon and 2.5Song MATE. Eve's music has been featured as the theme song for various anime and he has over 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube. Read more on Last.fm

TTSSFU is a solo project by Tasmin Nicole Stephens from Manchester UK. Tasmin is a multi-instrumentalist who is heavily inspired by 90s shoe-gaze/experimental rock bands such as The microphones , my bloody valentine and sonic youth. Tasmin first started posting her music publicly on sound-cloud in 2020 at 16 years old taking a low-fi approach to recording in her bedroom on Garage Band which she still uses now, because "it's awesome" . Read more on Last.fm

Mitsuki Laycock (born September 27, 1990), also known as Mitski Miyawaki, and known professionally as Mitski, is a Japanese-American singer and songwriter. She self-released her first two albums, Lush (2012), and Retired from Sad, New Career in Business (2013), while studying composition at Purchase College's Conservatory of Music. Her third studio album, Bury Me at Makeout Creek, was released in 2014 on the label Double Double Whammy. Mitski signed with Dead Oceans in 2015 and released Puberty 2 (2016) Read more on Last.fm

Apollo 440 (alternately known as Apollo Four Forty or @440) is an English band formed in 1990 in Liverpool, UK by brothers Trevor Gray and Howard Gray with fellow Liverpudlians Noko and James Gardner, although Gardner left after the recording of the first album. All members sing and add a profusion of samples, electronics, and computer-based sounds. The name comes from the Greek god Apollo and the frequency of concert pitch — the A note at 440 Hz, often denoted as "A440", and the Sequential Circuits sampler/sequencer, the Studio 440. Read more on Last.fm

There are at least six artists with the name Chalk 1. Chalk is an artist from Brighton, UK . Bio: “Chalk” is the sound of a thousand cigarettes in an empty room. Raw, stark, devastating – it is less a simple collection of doubts and disappointments than a full-blown window to purgatory. At its core is a question: is this it?" Chalk's first album was released through Sonic Anhedonic Recording Company on the 2nd September 2013 and Second Album Via Kissability and Sonic Anhedonic Recording Company on the 27th October 2014. Read more on Last.fm