Unwrapping new talent: The Future Vibrations holiday edition

The elf on the shelf is up to goodness knows what, the advent calendar has not been opened in four days, and the real question is, is it too early to watch The Holiday? Ah yes…the festive season has officially arrived! Of course, before Blonde Vibrations gets anywhere near the milk and cookies, there is one final assignment to complete. It is time to reveal who has made it into the final Future Vibrations of 2025. Wow, time flies when you get a sneak peak at future music royalty.

So… who secured a spot on the Nice List? Time to unwrap!

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Eli via Callum Walker Hutchinson

Eli - 'Glitter'

With the release of her debut album ‘Stage Girl’, it feels entirely fitting that ‘Glitter’ gets its own moment to shine as the next single. Eli transports us straight back to the early 2000s, with Legally Blonde playing on the TV and Hilary Duff as everyone’s parasocial best friend, entirely wrapping us in nostalgic shimmer. The track glows with glossy vocals and an intimate delivery, lifting the whole thing into that frequency-raising pop sparkle that pulls you instantly into her world and implores you to explore the rest of the album. There is the instantly addictive spoken bridge, the cherry on top, with Eli’s tongue-in-cheek delivery of lines like ‘he doesn’t even have a job / I mean we don’t have jobs either but, like / he’s horrible.’ Then, rhetorically asking, ‘how is he supposed to know what a girl needs?’ is pure rom-com perfection. ‘Glitter’ acts as the soundtrack to remembering exactly who you are, and who deserves to be cut from the cast list of your life.

Lucy Deakin via Tanya Hanley

Lucy Deakin - 'Sunburn'

Lucy Deakin ushered in a new era this year with her previous single ‘Solar Power’, and now she is back, blessing us with the irresistibly irritable alt-pop follow-up, ‘Sunburn’. The track feels like a snapshot of nostalgia, sonically buzzing with that endless-night energy, while the lyrics tell a different story entirely of longing, the lingering thoughts of holding onto something you know you should have let go of already. Lucy describes the song as ‘an attempt to do anything to keep that summer feeling alive’, and you can feel that swirling idea of being pulled in different directions at the track’s core. It perfectly captures the kind of escapism where you are trying to outrun the truth, putting off the inevitable that you know distance is overdue between you and someone, yet attempting to ignoring that emotional fatigue. ’Sunburn’ will certainly be carrying us through winter until brighter days return. Honestly, can you put aloe vera on a situationship? This track might be the closest thing.

'Me forever :(' artwork via @beanlette.aep

samxemma - 'Me forever :('

Samxemma have singlehandedly crafted the ultimate anthem that screams burnout on the inside, club-ready on the outside. ‘Me forever

:(‘ hits immediately as a maximalist electro-pop banger with ravey production, perfect for Friday nights that stretch into forever. Beneath the smoke and euphoria, the melancholy seeps in. The track explores digital fatigue and the self-awareness of how we present online, how our curated persona clashes with reality, and the paralysis that comes when self-worth is constantly questioned. Lyrics like ‘you can take the girl offline / but she’ll still think in tweets’ and ‘you can pry me off the couch / But I’ll still sleep all week’ cut straight to the heart of a generation obsessing over screens while grappling with the person behind them. It simultaneously feels infectiously euphoric and introspective, leaving you wanting to dance to the line ‘I like you I just hate myself’  while secretly wanting to cry, caught between pressure, reflection, and ultimately the catharsis release of it all through this delicious crunchy pop song.

Alex Apolline via Coco Widauer

Alex Apolline - 'HIT ME WHERE IT HURTS.'

The inward pull of ‘HIT ME WHERE IT HURTS.’ is immediate from the very first notes. It feels three-dimensional, so vivid. It becomes almost physical, like something you could reach out and touch. There is something deeply cinematic about the world Alex Apolline creates, and this track has our undivided attention. It explores that sting of heartbreak after witnessing a former flame wrapped up with someone else, that world-stopping moment where everything blurs and suddenly feels unfamiliar through this confusion of rejection. The track captures that feeling perfectly and balances something so heavy-hearted and visceral, yet somehow spacious and ascending all at once, intertwining to become something ethereal.  Every detail in the arrangement feels intentional, tying together effortlessly, and Alex has crafted something truly unique and rich. ‘HIT ME WHERE IT HURTS.’ pulls the listener deep into this story once you are in, you never want it to end.

Anna Lynch via Romy Caton-Jones

Anna Lynch - 'My Body'

Anna Lynch’s voice feels genuinely timeless, every note warm, full-bodied, and wrapping itself around the listener. She conveys emotion effortlessly, and ‘My Body’ lured us in from the very first moment. Her gorgeous blend of pop and jazz creates something smooth and sophisticated, and this is utterly easy to listen to. This track is perfect for fans of Amy Winehouse, Joy Crookes, and Sienna Spiro. Even as just her second release, this feels like borrowed time before the masses are clinging to every last word and melody as she explores the idea of letting your body settle so that your mind can follow suit. The track serves as a reminder to take a pause and trust in your body to process things you experience so that you can let go and power on forwards. Anna is a newcomer with a distinct vision, and there is a true element of storytelling running through her veins, discovering her this early feels genuinely special. Seeing snippets of her live performance on socials only adds to the buzz, and the Blonde Vibrations crystal ball sees a very bright future on the music scene for Anna Lynch. We are eagerly anticipating Anna’s next powerhouse release.

Austel via Artemis Szekir-Rigas

Austel - 'The Beach In December'

This intimate, folky track reminds us that life is a collection of vivid and distant moments, bottled up like sand in a jar. ‘The Beach In December’ talks to the experience of building up to come to terms with the ending of a relationship that never took flight, and the long-buried inner feelings that this can bring up. Austel has made something that feels like actually sitting on a quiet beach, back to being immersed in nature at its purest form, navigating emotions from fleeting romance with little distraction. The sound is delicate and contained with moments that feel expansive and welcoming, like intertwining journal entries spanning a period of personal growth and a story to get entirely lost within. With its authentic tone and a refreshing break from the usual sugary sweet holiday pop, the track is a reminder that longing and introspection never truly go out of season, and listeners will connect deeply with its honesty.

Lucy Kruger via Mitch Stöhring

Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys - 'Woolf'

Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys have an unmatched ability to craft an immersive atmosphere that quietly haunts you as it intensifies, and also leaves anticipating what is yet to come in its quieter moments. Their latest offering, 'Woolf,' feels intimate and dreamlike, yet shadows of despair linger at the edges, giving a beautifully twisted take on a 'love letter of a song' that becomes overwhelmingly hypnotic. There is a tenderness in Kruger’s vocals, each word whispered with such emotional precision that it slips straight into your soul with its tension and release. The song builds an entire ecosystem around you, a sensory world that feels alive as it breathes, and pulsing with feeling that expands it into something so much bigger than just a song. Their sound feels like performance art bottled up into an audio file, and it makes for something intoxicating that you cannot, and would not even want to, step away from.

Claire Brooks via @chrissteelframe

Claire Brooks - 'MORTAL HIDE'

Claire Brookes feels like an artist fully charged with creative curiosity, constantly pushing at the edges of what sound can be, and how it can be stretched and reimagined. Her latest track, 'MORTAL HIDE', carves out something experimental and distorted, pulling the listener into an immersive, almost otherworldly experience. She refuses to stay in the shadows or be confined by genre, instead navigating growth and self-reflection through a blend of huge, cinematic moments and the smallest, sharpest details. The track thrives on juxtaposition of clarity against chaos which acts as a catalyst to achieve almost a pure calmness. The result of Claire's confident use of experimentalism is something undeniably cool and forward-thinking. If 2026 is paying attention, it needs to turn its spotlight towards Claire Brookes, quickly.

'Ladybird' visualizer, directed by Ned Botwood

Jasmine Jethwa - 'Ladybird'

This is a huge thank you to the algorithm gods for sending this artist our way this month. If you are looking to discover someone whose music radiates pure warmth, Jasmine Jethwa might just be the one. Her latest single, ‘Ladybird’, highlights everything she does best. She crafts a soundscape that feels comfortingly familiar while also refreshingly new, and her vocals carry a softness that drifts in like a gentle breeze. The track is instantly soothing to you, opening with birdsong before folky guitars guide us in and introduce us to Jasmine’s voice. Jasmine told listeners that the song was 'a calling out to ask for a sign that something was meant for me, asking the cosmos for help, for it to communicate with me,' and you can feel that otherworldly pull throughout the whole piece. There is a sense of freedom shimmering at the edges of the song, like something slightly beyond reach. It perhaps does feel a bit like the cosmos wanted us to find her elegant sound.

Déyyess via Nicole Negai

Déyyess - 'Would You Go Down On A Girl?'

Blonde Vibrations would be doing the entire year a complete disservice if we did not include the self-proclaimed, and honestly, perfectly titled might we add, 'people’s lesbian princess' Déyyess in our roundup. They are truly an artist to keep both eyes on. Fresh off supporting Alessi Rose on 'The Voyeur Tour', Déyyess has already flashed a dazzling pop-grunge persona that makes stardom feel inevitable. 'Would You Go Down On A Girl?', the titular track of their latest EP released in November, is dreamy in the most hazy, intoxicating way, with washed-out vocals creating something swirling and almost delirious. The lyrics unapologetically blunt, but yearning runs through every second of it as its laced with confusion and knotted with tension. In other words, this track is the perfect introduction to Déyyess’ emotionally messy and wonderful world, a world that we have become thrilled to keep watching unfold.

Until the new year, Blondies. Thank you for discovering with us. 𖹭