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One to watch: Myles Smith

A passionate purveyor of anthemic folk-pop with an alt-country vibe, everything this Luton singer-songwriter has released so far sounds like a hit

The 25-year-old graduate from Luton first surfaced in 2022 with judiciously chosen TikTok covers – Amber Run’s I Found, Neighbourhood’s Sweater Weather – that suit his passionate, expressive voice. Yet what makes his folk-pop spark is a deft ability to parse the craft of the most successful songwriters – such as his heroes Green Day, the Mumfords, Ed Sheeran and Labrinth. What makes this a good year for Smith is that there’s more than a hint of Americana and alt-country in tracks such as Behind, while his love of wordless exhortations (woh-oh-oh) marks his music as the ideal meeting place between Coldplay and Black country artist Shaboozey.

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