This band manage to show all the sincerity and angst of a confused teenager, whilst emanating a certain maturity and skill. With its powerful, authoritative beat and forceful vocals, You’re a Runner is like nothing else on amazingtunes.com at the moment. Verging on the enjoyable side of depressive – if that’s even possible – they manage to combine solemnity and intent with an energy that will have you tapping all day long!

You can hear more from these Berlin beauties in May when they release their debut album The Hawk, The Beak, The Prey.

Mt Wolf take on the potentially disastrous task of combining folk and electronica to produce something contemporary, unique and utterly mesmerizing. Described as “dream folk” this four piece from London captivate and hypnotize all who cross their musical path. With eerie and beautiful vocals, alluring strings and resonating bass there is a strong mystical element to their tracks, especially the stunning Life Size Ghosts which draws you in and doesn’t let go of its grip right up until the very last note.

However, it is not all fairylike and dreamy, Life Size Ghosts, with its title, weighty bass and plodding rhythm has a somewhat bleak and despairing overtone, filling you with contemplative melancholy it creates a conflict of emotion; a mixture, anguish yet relish in its elegance, which we find weirdly addictive!

Check out more from the band at their amazingtunes.com profile.

Slightly Laura Marling-esque, Liz Lawrence from London is a singer songwriter with charisma and one we are rather excited about. Her guitar led songs are happy and hopeful yet lyrically reflective and genuine. Her music is full of subtlety, complimented by her soft, warm and cheery voice and diverse range of faint backing instruments.

Having released her album Bedroom Hero over in Ireland, we are eagerly awaiting her EP release over in the UK in May. But for now check out the single above.

For some reason the ‘City’ part of this song title seems apt. Maybe it’s the upbeat “oos” in the background, the marching rhythm or the light electronica niggling in the background, but whatever it is, there’s something vaguely familiar about Swim Deep. Iglu & Hartly perhaps but more contemporary.

It seems wrong to compare a track to a television soap opera, even if it is a great one! However with its catchy drum beats and feel good element it only follows that a program such as The OC should spring to mind. Toe tappingly good, we can only look forward to what’s to come next from Swim Deep.

Also, for the curious amongst you, the chorus refers to Jenny Lee Lindberg – the bassist from Warpaint.

Lucy Kitt is a lady who manages to combine the soul of Norah Jones with the country of Alison Krauss. A singer song writer from London, Kitt’s acoustic songs are simple and honest. Twinned with a knowing and undulating voice there is an element of maturity to her sound, meaning songs are somewhat timeless, easily enjoyed by anyone, anywhere, at any time. Tassled leather, hay bales and cowboy boots spring to mind through songs such as Right or Wrong and Laurel Canyon whereas Eagle could easily be the back drop to a dinner party or simply listened to in the car.

Her combination of pop, folk and blues means her sound is authentic yet contemporary and having performed for over 10 years, Kitt has picked up fans around the world from Europe, California and the UK, and it’s not hard to see why.

It’s not often that in an album the music outweighs the vocals, however Rough Fields’ new album Edge of the Firelight sees this balance shift and it is a nice to hear tracks which let the music do the work for a change. Experimental and dreamy their melancholy tunes transport you into an almost dreamlike state, a potential outer body experience waiting to happen. Intriguing as their sound is, there is a sort of comforting familiarity to their eerie vocals and twinkling backing tunes, showing slight similarities to the likes of Death Cab For Cutie and Bright Eyes.

Songs such as Watery Fable and The Harbour Wall have a somewhat mismatched character, a bit like matching a patterned shirt with patterned trousers. It shouldn’t work but it does, and this clash is what makes Rough Fields so distinctive.