Moses Boyd / Digga D

UK electronic-jazz drummer Moses Boyd and drill rapper Digga D are the most nominated artists for this year’s AIM Independent Music Awards, with three nominations each. Electronic music trailblazers Flying Lotus and Floating Points, as well as Polish pianist Hania Rani and psychedelic R'n'B singer Greentea Peng are vying for two awards each. The most attractive category, Best Independent Album, is filled with interesting releases: Brooke Bentham 'Everyday Nothing', Everything Is Recorded 'Friday Forever', Kidjo Ojua 'The Mixtape', Kim Gordon 'No Home Record', Laura Marling 'Song For Our Daughter', Moses Boyd 'Dark Matter', Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 'Ghosteen', The Ninth Wave 'Infancy', Phoenix Da Icefire & Husky Brown 'Panacea' and Sarathy Korwar 'More Arriving'.

Little Simz

Each week NME picks out stand-out songs from various genres, and this week their menu for hungry ears offers the following: indie-pop band Pronoun, rapper Little Simz, r'n'b singer Poppy Ajudha, noise-poppers The Ninth Wave, rapper Tierra Whack, indie rockers Amyl and the Sniffers, soul singer Asiatica, pop-rockers Body Type, tropical electronics artist Durante, and […]