Megan Wroe is from Bolton and produces UK garage that sounds like it remembers what UK garage was supposed to feel like. She sings on her own tracks. She writes them. The five-track LOVESTEP EP arrived in February on Locked On and it did the thing the genre has needed for a decade: it gave the bassline a person to belong to.
"See Thru" was the first single. It opens like a 2003 club record and then the vocal arrives and it is unmistakably 2026 — confident, conversational, slightly bored in a way that reads as cool rather than disengaged. "Burning For You" with Prozak is the EP's emotional centre, a lovesick garage cut that swings on a bassline you can taste. "Ecstasy" is the one the BBC Radio 1 evening shows have been pulling for.
What she is doing
The trick is that she is not pretending to be anyone else. UK garage in the streaming era has had no shortage of revivalists. Most of them sing in someone else's voice and hope the bass covers for them. Wroe sings in her own. "Closer 2 U" and "Back 2 Tha Start" — older singles that pre-date the Lovestep era — already had this quality. The EP just confirmed it.
The wider picture
Locked On has been quietly reassembling the UK garage ecosystem for two years. Wroe is the artist around whom that ecosystem most obviously orbits now. She is twenty-something, she produces, she sings, she DJs, and the songs work outside the rave. That is the part most revivals miss. Start with "See Thru." Stay for "Burning For You."
Allastair Voss
