Frankie Rose, Stranger Gallery, y Darkling I Listen

A grand purveyor of garage-rock, Frankie Rose can stake a claim over acts such as Crystal Stilts, Dum Dum Girls, Vivian Girls and Beverly. It's a pretty impressive resumé she can slap her name upon, but Rose isn't content sharing the spotlight. Leaping into the unknown under her own name, she's dropped three magnificent records which combine her garage-rock rawness, '80s synthpop melodies and a penchant for dreamy gauze.
What's most impressive is the amount of noise she can create from just a basic rock set-up. Sans ramshackle synthesisers and orchestras of axes, she (plus a bassist, backing guitarist and drummer) blast out walls of sound when gracing stages. She's got a clutch of hits to pluck from, but recent numbers from her 2013 record Herein Wild are superb – things like “Street Of Dreams”, “Into Blue” and “Requiem” – combining grazed-elbow sharpness and fluffy dreampop antics to jury-rig a kind of garage-fuzz deluge. It's simultaneously hypnotic and rugged, with Rose at the centre of it all, launching her everything at the music. She's not completely done with her groups either, often sliding back into the roster – as on her upcoming record with Beverly, for example. A woman with many fingers in many pies, Rose is a valuable talent to behold.