A nice list - Stereogum chooses 40 musicians who have done "something... in the past year that makes us feel like they’ve reached or are about to reach their full potential". It's not really a global list - the vast majority is American, and a few come from the UK or Australia - but still, it's quite colorful. The full list: Age Of Apocalypse, Anxious, Blackbraid, Caroline, Chat Pile, Dazy, Dijon, Doechii, DOMi & JD Beck, Dummy, Dust Star, Ethel Cain, Fugitive, Glorilla, High Vis, Jane Inc, Jane Remover, Jockstrap, King Hannah, Knifeplay, LF System, Lowertown, Maria BC, Mess Esque, MSPAINT, Naima Bock, Pool Kids, Rachika, Nayar, Rat Tally, Ripped To Shreds, Romero, RXK Nephew, Saucy Santana, Scowl, They Are Gutting A Body Of Water, Trapland Pat, Undeath, Why Bonnie, Zoh Amba, and ZORA.

"Simple, sparse, and hard to pull away from" - Stereogum writes about folk artist Maria BC's debut album 'Hyline'; also tagged it Album of the Week. Pitchfork rated it 8.1, picking out the mood as its biggest quality - "an overarching melancholy that shadows everything like heavy storm clouds".

"With haunting serenity, there is a flitting consciousness to the these brief, nightmarish lullabies that leaves you transfixed within a realm of broken intimacy" - Secret Meeting writes in a review of debut EP by New York singer-songwriter Maria BC. They are classical training as a mezzo-soprano, but their voice, hushed in pop melodies, seems to reach only a portion of what might next from them. Promising...

Italian progressive metal band Benthos shares ephemeral 'Debris // Essence'; Maria BC shares 'Adelaide' from their minimal synth-pop debut EP; For Your Health share melodic punk screamo 'Push the Fucking Rock Sissy'; Debby Friday shares her banging pop song 'Runnin''; Spectral Wound share their melodic black metal assault 'Frigid and Spellbound'.