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Writer's pictureSofia Pfaffl

Artists That Deserve More

Updated: Jul 8, 2021

I am usually on top of everything but I completely forgot to post last Saturday the 5th as I have been trying to get my life back together now that I moved back on campus at Belmont.


Here are some artists that I LOVE that I think are super underrated or deserve more attention - some are more popular now but most are still unknown -

 

Tom Odell

FAVORITE ARTIST!!!! (next to Elton John of course)



<-- chills!







British singer/songwriter Best songs:

- Another Love (2nd fav song of all time

emotional, painful, raw - Can't Pretend

- Long Way Down

indie pop - Wrong Crowd

- Magnetised

- Jealousy


 

Christopher

Amazing song concept, lyrics, music video










Danish singer/songwriter from Copenhagen

Really cool music videos!!!!!!!

pop

No one talks about him!!!

Best Songs:

- Irony - My Heart

- Ghost - Heartbeat

- Naked (reg & acoustic) - Monogamy


 

Dermot Kennedy










super intense voice!!


Irish singer/songwriter

Best Songs:

pop-rock - Lost

contemporary folk - After Rain

- Power Over Me (reg & acoustic)

something so rough - All My Friends

and raw about his voice - An Evening I Will Not Forget (reg & acoustic)

- Shelter

 

Matt Maltese










I have no words for this song ahhhhhhhh



feeling as if you're in a movie

British singer/songwriter

alt indie

his songwriting and sound

Best Songs: gives me major goosebumps

- As the World Caves In

- I Hear The Day Has Come

- In A New Bed heart cracking open

- Paper Thin Hotel

- No One Won The War almost feels oldies/retro


 

Sea Girls


known for their indie anthems

and energetic live shows



fun dancing around music


very funny band



English band

London, UK


indie rock


Best Songs:

- Lost

- Call Me Out (reg & acoustic)

- All I Want To Hear You Say

- Damage Done

- What For

- Favourite Color


 

Theo Katzman

a member of the funk band Vulfpeck


saw him at Live On The Green in Nashville 2018


I'm surprised I like his music but I LOVE his voice and genres and music and instruments


American singer/songwriter/multi-instrunmentalist


pop, jazz, indie, folk, rock


Best Songs:

- (I Don't Want to Be A) Billionaire

- Like a Woman Scorned

- You Could Be President

- Crappy Love Song

- My Heart Is Dead

- Plain Jane Heroin

- Break up together

(I could go on and on...)


 

MUNA

finally some girls up in here!!




girl power





American girl band

I have no clue how I found them

electronic pop band but I am super glad I did



Best Songs:

- Who It is important to support female

- Stayaway artists right now!!

- Taken

- Crying On The Bathroom Floor

- I Know A Place (reg & acoustic)


 

Agnes Obel

For some reason her music just kills me


Danish singer/songwriter

1st time I heard her was in the TV show

Revenge and I was hit instantly

folk classical

All of her songs should be in an indie movie

or a dystopian rebellion movie like Hunger Games

Best Songs:

- Familiar (chills when deeper voice comes in)

- Riverside

- Avenue

- September Song (all instrumental - LOVE)

- The Curse

- Fuel to Fire


 

The Revivalists



such a fun sound!


New Orleans Southern folk blues country


soo soulful and heartwarming



American rock band


alternative rock

roots rock


Best Songs:

- Wish I Knew You (classic, popular)

- Soulfight

- Keep Going

- All My Friends

- It Was A Sin

- Catching Fireflies

- Not Turn Away


 

Carolina Liar











American rock band

1st time I heard them was in the TV show

90210 (2008 reboot

alternative pop rock



Best Songs:

- Show Me What I'm Looking For (hits just right)

- I'm Not Over

- Beautiful World

- Coming to Terms

- California Bound

- When You Are Near


 

We The Kings


classic 2000s band


would be sooo good in some 2010s romcom





American rock band



emo punk pop alternative rock



Best Songs:

- Check Yes, Juliet

- The Story Of Tonight

- The Secret to New York

- Sleep With Me

- Friday is Forever


 

The Civil Wars












American musical duo

1st time I heard them was on the

TV show The Vampire Diaries

americana indie folk


Sadly, the couple broke up

Best Songs:

- Poison & Wine

- Safe & Sound (from The Hunger Games) Did a cover of Elliot Smith's Between the Bars

- Kingdom Come (The Hunger Games)

- Dust to Dust Great cover of Michael Jackson's Billie Jean

- Billie Jean

 

Tom Rosenthal











English singer/songwriter



indie folk pop

would be good in a coming of age movie


Best Songs:

- It's Ok (reg & acoustic) - All of Them Dreams

- Go Solo - Soon Soon

- Take Care - Going to be Wonderful


 

kickass driving around songs

Charlotte Lawrence

normally wouldn't like music like this but LOVE hers



kickasssss driving around songs



dark edge



new song in Birds of Prey movie




American singer/songwriter



indie pop



Best Songs:

- Why Do You Love Me (former anthem)

- Joke's On You

- Sleep Talking

- Everybody Loves You

- The Few Things (with JP Saxe)


 

Honorable Mentions:


- Alec Benjamin (way more popular now) - Best Songs: Water Fountain, Must Have Been The Wind, Oh My God, Boy In The Bubble, If I Killed Someone For You, Jesus In LA)

- Gavin DeGraw (many people know him but he deserves more attention) - Best Songs: Not Over You (obv), Making Love With The Radio On, You Make My Heart Sing Louder (LOVE LOVE), Chariot, How Lucky Can A Man Get

- INXS (my mom's band she showed me - popular for her but not younger generations sadly) - Best Songs: Need You Tonight (my mom and my song - as creepy as that is), New Sensation, Mystify, What You Need, Mystify, By My Side (headphones full volume) , Devil Inside, Never Tear Us Apart, The One Thing

- GGOOLLDD (opener for American Authors) - Best Songs: Undercovers, Secrets, Gold, The Way That I Feel, All Night

- Matt and Kim (happy happy) - Best Songs: Daylight, Let's Go, Good For Great, Get It, Not That Bad, Cameras

- Elliott Smith (1st heard him from movie Stuck In Love) - Best Songs: Between the Bars, Thirteen, Angeles, Say Yes, Someone That I Used To Know, Son Of Sam


 

Comment below your favorite underrated artist/band or if you found a new favorite from this list!

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