We’ve rounded up ten Asian artists, innovators and traditionalists alike who seem like prime candidates to make waves overseas very soon.
It’s hard to overstate the quietly revolutionary potential of R&B singer-songwriter Alextbh’s music. The 24-year-old Malaysian makes wry, romantic pop about other men; in a country where homosexuality is still broadly condemned and sodomy is illegal, that’s a strong-willed act of rebellion.
Filipino-born British artist beabadoobee makes an endearingly old-school kind of bedroom pop. Mixing dream-pop with hazed-out acoustic interludes and earnest indie rock ballads, beabadoobee’s music harkens back to to the endearing aesthetic jumble of-era Feist, her surprisingly agile vocals effortlessly sounding in a falsetto on the lullaby-like “Dance With Me” and in a lower register on the breakout “Coffee.
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