Laura Welsh has popped up on this very site a couple of times now and is probably one the artists I’ve been listening to the most over the last few months, no mean feat considering that she currently has only 2 songs on her Soundcloud and has been pretty silent since releasing them both in September. But it just goes to show that that’s all it takes, she could well have just put up the stunningly beautiful Call to Arms and I would still have put her on this list. It’s difficult for me to fully put into words how much I love this song, everything about it, from the sparse, cavernous instrumental to the un-ironically borderline maudlin lyrics hit me like a bullet to the chest. The news that Laura is currently working on new material is the only thing keeping me from sending that grovelling/threatening email I have saved in my drafts folder.