The singer-songwriter’s warm laconic voice holds together lounge jazz stylings, dreamy pop and amenable folk, cut through with a self-deprecating wit

From North London
Recommended if you like Helena Deland, Billie Eilish, Okay Kaya
Up next Headlining Bermondsey Social Club, 30 July; playing Green Man festival, Brecon Beacons, August

London-based singer-songwriter Sarah Meth makes eerie, skeletal dream-pop cut through with a self-deprecating, very online sense of humour. A scan of her artist page on any streaming service offers a gratifying biography of an artist slowly but surely chipping away at her style in search of a distinct point of view: the lounge jazz stylings of 2020’s Dead End World give way to piquant, post-King Krule bedroom pop on 2022’s Leak Your Own Blues and Billie Eilish-ish pathos on 2023’s Steps EP.