i think they had a concert here a while ago.... actually that song is tad bit surprising since i only heard this one lol:


they seem to be quite well known.

UNIST (ORANGE RANGE meets singer-songwriter type of group! lol)


Natsuiro

Yes, Hurts are great! I am loving Exile too - I actually prefer it to their first album.

I keep meaning to properly check him out. I've had a little listen to some of his songs before but nothing caught my attention. He has some really cool CD covers though, and after reading his Wiki page, I really like that he pays more attention to composing music than to writing lyrics - its usually the other way around! (Slightly OT but I think some singers bang on about writing their own lyrics/connecting to the song/talk about how "personal" the song is too much. I'm more about the music than the lyrics myself.)

mi|kshake~

Hurts surprised me a while ago positively. I never got into "wonderful life" , but I really started to like their music when I heard these songs:

and:


Other artist I'm trying out right now:
ROME

Karmin - Acapella
 

Kinda cheeky song. At first I thought it was Jesse J or Minaj. Love it!

Kodaline

I found them accidentally, and been in love :love particularly with this song

^ I love Kodaline!

^I just found them not long ago by curiosity and turns out the album is really good!

^ I loved their album. There's something for everyone.

Happy to see all that Hurts appreciation hahahaha (: I'm starting to get into their first album now... I first listenned Exile and was so into it that couldn't give Happiness a proper chance to be heard :laugh It's not as... intense as Exile, but it's also amazing.

My new obssesion now is Bastille, their sound got me at first listen



Plus, I wish I had Dan Smith's hairstyle lol

I'm starting to think Hurts need their own thread! Yep, definitely prefer Exile to Happiness although I think that's an unpopular opinion. Happiness has some great tracks but I prefer Exile as an album.

^ I prefer Exile as well. It's just perfect.

I'm trying out:

oooooo ~resurrection~

:D

As a result of khan's thread, I found a few new people I was liking.

Yvbo @ jps


Haruka Nakamura


Smells. It's funky lol




annd the singer from EA, Maika Leboutet, is branching a bit and making her own demos and things. And I've been spamming her everywhere.
https://soundcloud.com/maikaleboutet/yayuyo

bird (japanese)
IU (korean)
Akiko Shikata (japanese but sings part of songs in a lot of other language such as german,italian,unknown etc.)
Vaness Wu (taiwanese)
Seamo (japanese)

I downloaded some Hitomi Shimatani albums (posted on AHS by Miku) and I've listened to some of them. I LOVED Poinsettia, such a great Christmas album! :heart Papillon was also nice, a different pop sound from what I usually listen to. I'll have to try the other albums soon too, because these two were really worth it. :)

Trying Passenger right now, a handful of friends told me I should try his album and well let's see.

Recently I've also downloaded things from The Neighbourhood - which I loved at first listen - and Rangleklods - which I haven't heard yet.

^^^^I will check out some of these :D

And here's a recently recommended at JPS artist Hebe Tien~



gorgeousness everything overload.

^ try her second album :)

Been listening to the Swedish band Niki & the Dove lately.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YZIpE3ybA8

I don't know how to embed videos on the forum.

^ the part after 'v=' goes into

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