Watch Girls in Hawaii perform ‘Misses’ for The Line of Best Fit
Girls in Hawaii‘s somber psych-country indie belies their home nation of Belgium but this year sees the band – a decade into their existence – finally making the rest of the world sit up a take note...
View ArticleWatch Thumpers in session for Best Fit
Formed from the ashes of indie trio Pull Tiger Tail, schoolfriends Marcus and John’s beat heavy pop hybrid Thumpers got us all excited in February with debut single ‘Dancing’s Done’. The London-based...
View ArticleWatch Phosphorescent perform Song for Zula in a saxophone repair workshop
Back in May, we met up with Matthew Houck while Phosphorescent was over for a show at Brighton’s Great Escape festival. Pre-show, Houck hopped a cab with us to the backstreets of the English coastal...
View ArticleWatch Ane Brun perform ‘My Lover Will Go’ for Best Fit
Across ten years and six studio albums, Ane Brun has developed into one of Scandinavia’s best musical exports as well as one of the world’s most intriguing songwriting talents. The Norwegian has...
View ArticleWatch: Temples perform ‘Colours to Life’ for Best Fit
Temples made a sizeable splash with ‘Shelter Song‘ back in November of last year, winning acclaim across the board for the Kettering four piece’s debut. Their confident revivalist has found a natural...
View ArticleWatch Icelandic shoegazers Oyama in session on Brighton Beach
Stripping back their guitar & pedal heavy setup for a Best Fit Session proved to be no problem for Iceland’s Oyama. We met the five-strong band in Brighton last month and took them onto the windy...
View ArticleWatch Ane Brun take on ‘Feeling Good’ for Best Fit
Ane Brun stuck around for a little longer after the track we filmed with her last week to mark the release of a ten-year career spanning compilation. As well as recording a version of ‘My Lover Will...
View ArticleWatch William Tyler in session
You’ll hear William Tyler‘s guitar work on some of the best Americana records of the last ten years. Lambchop, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Silver Jews, have all benefitted from his musicianship and this...
View ArticleWatch Iceland’s Pascal Pinon & Sin Fang together in session
We try hard to cast our musical net far and wide as (not surprisingly) there are as many treasures beyond the seas as they are here and when good fortune brings them together right on our doorstep,...
View ArticleWatch Lissie in session for Best Fit
With one of the most powerful rock vocals we’ve heard in quite some time, Illinois-born Elisabeth Corrin Maurus, better known as Lissie, returns this September with her second long player Back To...
View ArticleWatch: John Newman performs ‘Love Me Again’ for Best Fit
Rudimental collaborator John Newman stands as one of the most interesting homegrown male voices emerging from the current crop of hook-ups between producer and singer. We first met the 21-year old...
View ArticleWatch Bebe Black in session for Best Fit
We first encountered Bebe Black via her start turn skydiving from a plane in the Benga video for ‘Icon‘. The big-voiced Dorset-born singer is due to drop her debut album later this year, with French...
View ArticleSam Amidon performs ‘Short Life’ in session for Best Fit
Sam Amidon‘s latest album Bright Sunny South sees the Vermont-born singer-songwriter extending his reinvention of folk even further with a collection of tracks that strike at the grassroots of the...
View ArticleWatch Bebe Black cover Queens of the Stone Age for Best Fit
Bebe Black‘s take on ‘No One Knows’ shows yet another side to the honey-voiced girl from Dorset. Mining a paced sultriness from one of Queens of the Stone Age‘s signature tracks, Black injects both...
View ArticleWatch Jacco Gardner perform ‘How To Live Again’ on Brighton beach
2013 has been something of a renewal for the many iternation of psych music. The Horrors and Tame Impala might have been the first to really scatter some of the elements from the experimental mid-60s...
View ArticleWatch Mind Enterprises in session for Best Fit
We caught up Italian-born producer Andrea Tirone, aka Mind Enterprises, atop of an East London roof to cut this stripped back take on his sweet digital love song ‘My Girl’ . Released this week via...
View ArticleWatch: Fenech-Soler in session for Best Fit
Northamptonshire four-piece Fenech-Soler return this autumn with their second long-player Rituals. Three years on from their self-titled debut, the synth-bolstering pop and falsettos that the band...
View ArticleFutur Primitif performs Hotel Toyko in session for Best Fit
One-time Low Anthem member Daniel Lefkowitz reconvened his musical career last year following a break from music, under the Futur Primitif moniker. Hooking up with synth and beats man Jared Elmore for...
View ArticleWatch Emiliana Torrini in session for Best Fit
It must be something in the DNA of Iceland that makes its musical prodigies so apt at cutting a singular and most distinctive path through their chosen art. If Emiliana Torrini‘s career as a...
View ArticleWatch London Grammar perform ‘Strong’ in session for Best Fit
There’s no doubt that London Grammar are one of 2013′s most exciting bands and poised to be something truly incredible in the years to come. The calibre of the trio’s abilities is assured; Hannah...
View ArticleWatch Mausi perform ‘Move’ for Best Fit
The song of 2013′s long and wonderful English summer wasn’t by two shouty Swedes (although we did hit the ‘I Love It’-on-repeat button as hard this season as a year back) but an English/Italian four...
View ArticleWatch Frightened Rabbit perform ‘The Modern Leper’ on a pirate ship at End of...
After meeting up with Frightened Rabbit‘s Scott Hutchison for an ale tasting at this year’s End of the Road Festival, we figured he might be up for a bit of music too. Commandeering a pirate ship in...
View ArticleWatch: London Grammar –‘Wasting My Young Years’ (Best Fit Session)
London Grammar‘s debut album If You Wait will fight it out with Arctic Monkeys‘ latest long-player for the UK album charts top spot this weekend, capping off an incredible year for the band. Watch the...
View ArticleWatch: Fenech-Soler –‘Last Forever’ (Best Fit Session)
‘Last Forever’ is the latest single from Fenech-Soler, released ahead of next week’s sophomore record Rituals. The band met up with Best Fit back in the summer (remember that, UK readers?) for a...
View ArticleWatch Caitlin Rose perform ‘Waitin’ at The End of the Road Festival
Caitlin Rose played her biggest UK show to date last week, with a superlative set at Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Riding high this year on the success of second longplayer The Stand In, Rose also gave one...
View ArticleWatch Au Revoir Simone in session for Best Fit
With their first album in four years released this week – the Jorge Elbrecht (Violens)-produced Move in Spectrums - Au Revoir Simone also reach another milestone as 2013 marks a decade since their...
View ArticleWatch: Mausi – Sol (Best Fit Session)
As the upbeat joy of sunny afternoons gives way to a grey mess, we can only reminisce about the glorious tunes that soundtracked 2013′s unprecedented UK summer. Mausi‘s name comes high on the list of...
View ArticleWatch Archipel perform ‘Love is Coming Back’
Archipel is the side project of Francois & The Atlas Mountains‘ Amaury Ranger. During their spring date at Brighton’s Great Escape Festival, Best Fit captured their disparate frolicking...
View ArticleWatch Melanie Pain perform Black Widow on a boat in Paris
Taken from her second solo album Bye Bye Manchester, released this week, Melanie Pain performed ‘Black Widow’ for us on a boat in Paris. The single, officially released via Fierce Panda on 14 October...
View ArticleWatch Landshapes perform ‘Night So Strong’ at End of the Road Festival
Their impressive debut album Rambutan might have only dropped back in June but Bella Union signings Landshapes had a pretty busy couple of years leading up to it. Transitioning from their previous...
View ArticleWatch: MONEY perform a night-time rendition of ‘I’ll Be The Night’ during End...
As memories of the summer fade we’re still enamoured with this year’s End of The Road Festival, which just so happens to be the place this little number with MONEY was recorded. The original B-side to...
View ArticleWatch Moodoïd in session performing “Je suis la Montagne”
Ahead of their appearance at OohlaLA! Festival next week, French quartet Moodoïd gave us an intimate rendition of recently released EP featuring number “Je suis la Montagne.” Headed by Parisian...
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Watch Bo Ningen perform “Maki-Modoshi” in session
Japanese-born/London-based quartet Bo Ningen play the kind of acid-noise-jam that meshes a prog spirit and black-hearted groove together in glorious disharmony. A staple of the East London scene,...
View ArticleActive Child performs “Evening Ceremony” for The Line of Best Fit
Pat Grossi’s first substantial body of work since his debut long player You Are All That I See was released earlier this month, marking the welcome re-emergance of Active Child after an intense period...
View ArticleBasia Bulat performs “Wires” in a pop-up shop
With Tall Tall Shadow, Canada’s Basia Bulat delivered one of the late summer’s most impressive records. Her third longplayer to date, it finds her organically pushing the boundaries of modern folk...
View ArticleWatch: Laura Welsh –“Cold Front”
The Robin (Rhye) Hannibal-produced “Cold Front” was yet another slice of awesome UK soul/pop from the incredible Laura Welsh that made our summer just a little bit more bearable. The track’s lush...
View ArticleWatch Woman’s Hour perform “Darkest Place” for Best Fit
In both sound and aesthetic, Woman’s Hour are one of 2013′s most exciting talents. Over the last twelve months, the London-via-Kendal four piece have dropped a string of quality tracks and...
View ArticleWatch: Disappears – Kone
Minimal garage four piece Disappears have played liberally with sound and genre in their half-decade of life, and haven’t been shy of recording their journey. The Chicago, IL-based band have changed...
View ArticleWatch Sumie perform ‘Hunting Sky’ at Iceland Airwaves
The debut record from Sumie sees the confirmation of a most understated and genuine songwriting talent. Entirely self-taught, the Gothenberg-born musician began recording her compositions after...
View ArticleWatch Warpaint perform “Love Is To Die” for Best Fit
The welcome news of a Warpaint record – three years since their debut long-player – marks the return of one of this decade’s most exciting guitar bands. The LA-based quartet’s hypnotic jam-rock has...
View ArticleWatch Ásgeir perform ‘Torrent’ during Iceland Airwaves 2013
Laugarbakki, Iceland-born Ásgeir Trausti (a “a one-man One Direction”, according to The Independent earlier this week) has broken sales records in his native country and is set to release his debut...
View ArticleWatch: This Is The Kit – Spores
Songwriter Kate Stables has been an essential fixture of British folk music for the past 10 years under the This is the Kit name. We took her to the Westminster Reference Library archives for a unique...
View ArticleWatch LOLO in session for Best Fit X Notion
Under the LOLO name, Lauren Pritchard sweats swagger, attitude and big talk all over the fuzzy concept of in-you-face pop. The Jackson, Tennessee-born girl with a no-bullshit attitude and serrated...
View ArticleWatch Samaris perform new song “Hafið” in exclusive Best Fit session
Having just revealed the exciting news of their new album Silkidrangar, Icelandic trio Samaris perform new track “Hafið” in session, exclusively for Best Fit. Filmed in the studio at Iceland Airwaves...
View ArticleWatch: LOLO covers Drake for Best Fit X Notion
Big voiced LOLO turned in a feisty studio take of recent single “Year Long Summer Of Love” as part of our hookup with Planet Notion – but we also cut a second track with the Memphis-born new pop...
View ArticleWatch Basia Bulat perform “The City With No Rivers” for Best Fit
We met up with Canada’s Basia Bulat for a performance of one of the tracks from her latest record Tall Tall Shadow. The 29-year old Ontarian is also shortlisted for this year’s Juno Awards, due to be...
View ArticleWatch GAPS perform ‘I Know It’s You’ for Best Fit
Folk mathgaze (yes, we went there) duo GAPS continue to keep us entertained and pleasantly baffled with their sonic experiments. The Brighton duo (Ed and Rachel) have turned in some memorable live...
View ArticleWatch Rökkurró perform “White Mountain” for Best Fit
Formed in 2006, Icelanders Rökkurró recently broke a three-year absence to deliver the stunning “Killing Time“, their first release with two new members and a move into more abstract electronic...
View ArticleWatch Hauschka in session for Best Fit
Following the release of his latest full length album Abandoned City (our now via City Slang Records), experimental German composer and instrumentalist Hauschka sat down to give us an improvisation he...
View ArticleWatch Jimi Goodwin perform “Oh! Whiskey” for Best Fit
Jimi Goodwin returned this year with his first solo long player following a prolific career that spanned four hugely successful albums with his former band Doves. Odludek finds Goodwin mixing his...
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