Autumn is a goldmine for finding new music: chilled nights in geeking out on blogs; loading up mixtapes for travels or parties; christmas wish lists; and getting excited for the new year's releases. So to stoke your sonic adventures, Nollie have tallied our top ten new bands you fall for in 2001 - in association with BlackBerry ® Torch™ available in the UK in November.
Keep reading to discover your new favourite band...
If you think Death Cab For Cutie died when they joined the Twilight soundtrack, make some space in your heart for Lonely Forest.
From Nacortes, Washington, John, Braydn, Eric and Ton make gorgeous, shimmering indie-pop rock: heart warming, touching and crammed with tear-jerking emotion, next to hooks that haunt all day. Prepare for a life-changing band crush - before Hollywood snaps them up.
New Zealand's the perfect country. Incredible mountains, stunning landscapes and fantastic surf. The people are chilled, super friendly and way cool. Plus the ratio of men to women is favourable if you're single.
Kiwis also have fine musical taste: The Naked and Famous are their latest export, who reached number one. Think synth-driven, 80s power pop, like a less pretentious, more listenable MGMT or Animal Collective, with android, but hot, female vocals. Add a light dusting of metallic riffs and itt's like the Never Ending Story all over again.
A trio of street soul savvy ladies from London town, Troy, 21, combines her caramel early 90s R&B influenced vocals with that of the sweet Alicia Keys fan Martika, topped with some crunch from MC Chronicle together being Ruff Diamondz.
Not mass-market ready yet, but the buzz on the Ms Dynamite and All Saints influenced three is big: they've just released a mix tape with Dead-Prez sampling single Do It Like Me some nice covers (J Cole's Who Dat and Billionare by Travis McCoy). Their debut album is also produced by the whizzes behind Chipmunk and Roll Deep.
4) Sleep Over
Stefanie Franciotti (keyboards, vocals), Sarah Brown (bass, vocals), Christa Palazzolo (guitar, vocals) make up Austin, Texas trio Sleep Over. In the vein of summer's best kept secret Beach House, but on a darker, more PMT tip - they are shimmery synth-like guitars and ghostly strung out vocals as if from another world. Twin Peak's favourite girl band.
An extended alt-folk family from Norfolk, London and Brighton, The Mariner's Children lie between the inner-glow inducing Mumford & Sons and the collective grandness of Arcade Fire, to pen songs of 'wonder and wanderlust.'
Harmonised vocals, accordions, mandolins, guitars, harps, drums, firing rock riffs and dance inducing beats - they're a soundtrack compiler's dream.
Watch out for more new bands in Top 10 Bands You Don't Know Yet (part 2) - in association with BlackBerry ® Torch™ available in the UK in November.
