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Green Man are a festival notorious for having their finger on the pulse. With a line-up as extensive as this, featuring huge names and some of the best up-and-comers from all corners of the globe, this year looks set to be their best yet.

From the incredible line up, we've handpicked 9 bands and artists that we think are worth planning a Wales weekender for:

The War On Drugs

TWOD return to Green Man after their astonishing performance in 2014. The band head back to Wales off the back of their Best Rock Album Grammy Award for their 2017 release, A Deeper Understanding. 

Be prepared for 80s Dylan-esque vocals, a mortorik rhythm section and layers upon layers of jangly guitars, vintage synths and electric organs!

Grizzly Bear

13 years after the release of their debut LP, Horn Of Plenty, Grizzly Bear are still a formidable quartet with the ability to create huge, spaced-out sonic landscapes all the way down to intimate and beautifully haunting melodic lines.

Their fifth release, Painted Ruins, which arrived last August, five years after the critically acclaimed Shields, reminded the music world of their status as one the most creative bands out there today. The album highlighted their natural progression into an an even more refined, maturer sound whilst staying true to the originality and style that has defined them as one of the best bands in recent times.

Returning to the festival for the first time since 2009, prepare for layers of dream-like synths, washed out guitars and floating vocal harmonies.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Emerging during the shoe-gaze phenomenon before quickly transitioning toward the more 60s-inspired psychedelic rock of the 1990s, the cleverly named Brian Jonestown Massacre have been killing it for almost 30 years, with no mention of slowing down.

With experimentation and 60s sounds at their core, this band are the kings of refreshing and reinventive blues, garage and psychedelic rock for the new age.

Led by the characteristic Anton Newcombe and surrounded by a cast of stellar musicians with 17 studio albums’ worth of material, this band remains a wild and wonderfully unique treasure.     

The Lemon Twigs

Just take a look at brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario and you’ll want to hear what they’re about.  With a sound as eccentric and authentic as their 70s inspired mullets and bell-bottom jeans, this is a band of brothers worthy of the hype - and the flares.

Hailing from Long Island, New York, their music takes the baroque-pop of the late 60s (think Beatles, Beach Boys, Zombies) the power-pop and art-rock of the 70s (Todd Rungren, 10cc, Badfinger), mixed in with a little soft rock (Wings, Supertramp) and a dash of underground edge (Velvet Underground, Big Star, Ramones) to create a concentrated and eccentric listening experience turning the heads of teenagers and dad-rockers alike.

This is a band you don’t want to miss. Their live shows are a spectacle of their eccentricity, and having grown up on the stage and screen in Broadway and television shows, their overwhelming confidence oozes out in the form of glam rock high kicks, Pete Townshend guitar moves and Keith Moon-like drumming antics!

Mount Kimbie

With the release of their third album late in 2017, Mount Kimbie returned with arguably one of the best volumes of electronic music of the year. With features from King Krule to James Blake, this album almost feels like a collection of single-worthy tracks.

Expanding upon their already well-established sound, the duo venture into newer territory, infusing elements and ideas of Punk and Krautrock into their favoured analogue synth and drum machines to create a punchy, churning collection of songs strong enough to challenge some of the recent garage/psych-rock releases.   

Alex Cameron

Alex Cameron is a character to say the least. The Sydney born singer-songwriter and member of electronica act, Seekae, initially began his solo career as a ‘high-concept’, taking on the persona of a failed entertainer turned musician. Cameron is never afraid of a wry smile at himself, and backs this up with a thrilling collection of synth-soaked, electro-pop songs from his debut album, and the more band-oriented sounds of his newest LP.

Featuring collaborations with Angel Olsen, Foxygen and the Killer’s frontman Brandon Flowers, Alex Cameron has been making serious waves over the last couple of years, and in a world of inflated egos and self-importance, his laid-back stance is not only refreshing but allows his music to wholly define him.  

Goat Girl

Described by the Guardian as “the band rebuilding London’s indie scene”, Goat Girl are a group on a fast trajectory to the top. Having signed to the legendary Rough Trade label after releasing just one single, the band are already making serious waves.

With hypnotic, dark and snarling guitar-pop hits, be sure to catch this band on a smaller stage before they fly up festival line-ups as headliners!

Omni

Heading to Wales this year are Atlanta based three piece, Omni. Too often than not, new bands are too comfortable within familiar and established sounds and genres, however this trio are pushing the envelope with their glowing sense of exploration and groovy post-punk.

Their second record, a dense collection of twists and turns, interesting production techniques and scorching guitar playing has won them acclaim from the likes of Pitchfork and the Guardian, who have heralded them as a deadpan version of the Talking Heads.

Xylouris White

One for the Jazz fans looking for something truly unique and a bit more out there. Xylouris White are signed to Bella Union alongside artists such as Father John Misty, Beach House, Ezra Furman and The Flaming Lips. This incredibly talented duo consist of legendary Australian Jazz and free-form drummer, Jim White and Cretan lute player, George Xyloruis.

With just two instruments, the pair create a powerful sound that could stand up to some of the modern psych-rock bands out there, drawing from a wide range of influences to produce beautifully avant-garde, Cretan folk-tinged free-jazz.

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