
Through the New Music Guide, reviews, Presents features, playlists and videos, it’s been another twelve months when Live4ever has showcased hundreds of breaking bands, artists and brand new songs on our pages.
Here, Live4ever editor Dave Smith has been back through the extensive 2015 archives to pick out some of the very best Indie music tracks which have registered on our radar during that period, focusing on the standout New Music Guide highlights that you’ll perhaps be sampling for the first time, as well as one or two more established anthems which have been dominating our Spotify Stereo and which you can enjoy again before the festive celebrations really get into swing!
Keep a look out for a special end of year interview with the act we placed at #1 on the rundown also coming up today. For now though, without further ado, let the tunes do the talking…
20: The Yellow Traffic Light – ‘Cole Drives Too Fast’

19: Johnny Sands – ‘Arno Arno’

18: Electric Eye – ‘Bless’

17: Kieran Leonard & The Horses – ‘Underwood Milk’

16: Library Voices – ‘Oh Donna’

15: Blur – ‘Lonesome Street’

14: Låpsley – ‘Brownlow’

13: Matthew E. White – ‘Rock & Roll Is Cold’

12: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – ‘Lock All The Doors’

11: SOAK – ‘Sea Creatures’

10: Crows – ‘Pray’

9: Pretty Vicious – ‘National Plastics’

8: Sauna Youth – ‘Transmitters’

7: Modest Mouse – ‘Lampshades On Fire’

6: Year Of Glad – ‘Blythe’

5: Josefin Öhrn & The Liberation – ‘Sunny Afternoon’

4: Everything Everything – ‘Distant Past’

3: Mike Garry & Joe Duddell – ‘St. Anthony: An Ode To Anthony H Wilson’

2: The Bulletproof Bomb – ‘1-10’

1: Asylums – ‘Wet Dream Fanzine’

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