Kyle Fensom, Journalist

With her dizzying blend of global and regional influences, Catalan singer Rosalía represents everything about where music is going in 2019.

In 2018 it was all but impossible to take your eyes off slowthai, tearing through a post-Brexit Britain to emerge as the UK's most vital new voice.

Perth teenager Arno Faraji has transcended expectations with his effortlessly cool "vibe music" to emerge as one of Australian hip hop's brightest futures

On 'Ekko', Kult Kyss further carve out a space for their ritualistic future-pop whilst also pushing out into their most purely euphoric sonic territory yet