Kiran Leonard, Irma Vep

"Anyone lamenting a lack of great British eccentrics in today's musical landscape is pointed in the direction of Kiran Leonard, a precocious 20-year-old from Saddleworth, Greater Manchester. His 2012 debut album Bowler Hat Soup, on which he played upwards of 20 different instruments himself, sounded like Sufjan Stevens jamming with Frank Zappa in a music hall.

Current single Pink Fruit is a craggy 16-minute epic about an erotic encounter between a woman and a squid as a metaphor for emotional freedom. It's fair to say that Leonard is the anti-Jake Bugg." The Guardian