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It’s interesting to measure what music gets you excited against what was making your pulse race five years ago. A large portion of the generation that got hyped over Arctic Monkeys way back when probably still love their latest release, but their sound has become irreversibly stale. They’ll soldier on, and so will their many thousands of fans, unfettered. For the rest of us, there are artists like MEDLA.

You know that you’ve stumbled across a gem when you can’t quite believe that it’s not already been hyped to high heaven by everyone else. Most of the time, it either has or the artist in question has simply been stealing tracks from another, more famous act. Just as there are many SoundCloud accounts dedicated to people trying to convince their friends that they just made Baths ‘Seaside Town’ on GarageBand, it’d be no surprise if MEDLA was the same.

But let’s not be so cynical for the moment. Coming out of the post-dubstep wilderness, this is probably ‘future-garage’, and it certainly feels like the kind of stuff you could drop alongside an XXXY track with relative ease. Still, there’s not really been a genre name or tag that manages to convey the sense of invention nor breadth of emotion that these tracks convey. He’s 19, lives in Leeds and certainly knows how to construct (and deconstruct, by the sounds of things) a tune – or, at worst, knows how to artfully plagiarise someone else’s work to make it looks like it’s his own. At least it’s not ‘Seaside Town’ that he’s nicked.

What You Did by MEDLA