Line-up Muziekgieterij Best Kept Secret 2025

Daniela Pes’s evocative, emotionally resonant music feels like it’s ancient – yet at the same time – it sounds like pop music that has travelled all the way from the future. At this year’s Eurosonic festival, the Sardinian artist collectively took people’s breath away with her highly fluid mix of organic and electronic music – harnessing her own vocal linguistics in the process. Awe-inspiring, otherworldly stuff.

Lael Neale's timeless music sounds like a relic from some lost era: garage rock nursery rhymes, Motorik dance dirges and solitary Omnichord meditations that sound like Lana del Rey has been binging Broadcast records. A brilliant lyricist, Neale extracts the poetry from life's pivotal polarities. Through her musical lens, the mundane becomes mythical, and new spaces are carved out between excess and isolation.

When you hear Iris Jean, reality suddenly becomes like a movie scene or a fairy tale: not a place to escape from, but a world to fully immerse in, rendered with vivid textures and fun poetic twists. Even when she sings about themes likes death, heartbreak and homesickness, her voice and melodies never fail to soothe and uplift. It’s no wonder Iris Jean has become a viral sensation already.

Merce Lemon’s charming alt-folk episodes surrender to impulse and randomness, juxtaposing the playful with the profound. Lemon’s desire – to paraphrase one of her songs – is to ‘spill it out’: whether it's writing about the migration of crows or her tendency to play the G-chord too much. Her songs magically capture those little thought bubbles that blindside and slip into oblivion