Hometown: Cardiff, Wales

Genre: Folk

Why We're Excited: Novo Amor, a.k.a. singer-songwriter Ali Lacey, pieces together his songs using only the finest and most fragile organic ingredients: lightly plucked acoustic guitars and banjos, tender bits of piano, subtle string sweeps. But most exquisite of all is Lacey's own falsetto — imagine Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, but more straightforwardly angelic — which binds "Birthplace" and sends the whole arrangement hurtling heavenward.