1. Sweater punk from Taipei! Forests 森林合唱樂團 Forests is the coolest fucking band that most people we know have never heard. What isn’t shrouded in myth and legend about these Taiwanese rock’n’rollers is their extraordinary ability to genre-bend effectively. Their sound manages to simultaneously morph between King Khan and the Shrines, Television, and Wire, while maintaining a level of constructive variance that might convince you they hadn’t actually ever listened to any of their musical forebears.