The Blog Sound of the year was set up as an alternative poll of emerging musical talent to look forward to in 2012, it was completely compiled through the recommendations of online bloggers alone(full list of which below). This exercise was in no way intended as a platform to criticise or disrespect the Beebs official Sound of , it was more an experiment to see if blogs can come up with some interesting alternatives.
As you can imagine the suggestions for this poll were very wide and varied reflecting the tremendous musical mix UK music blogs cover. Long may they all continue ! Here are the fifteen acts that make up our longlist, and as is traditional these will subsequently be narrowed down, and then later a winner will be crowned!
The Long List ( in no particular order)
Lianne La Havas http://www.myspace.com/liannelahavas
Theme Park http://www.themeparkband.com
The Jezabels www.thejezabels.com
Lucy Rose www.lucyrosemusic.co.uk
The fine blogs involved in compiling this list:
Breaking More Waves, God Is In the TV, Sweeping The Nation, The Von Pip Musical Express, The Recommender, Faded Glamour, Drunken Werewolf, Flying With Anna, Not Many Experts, Underclassed idle Ideas, Sonic Masala, Mudkiss, The Pop Cop, The Ring Master, Both Bars On, Music From A Green Window, Dots And Dashes, Daily Growl, And Everyones A DJ, Kowolskiy, Just Music i Like, Cruel Rhythms, The Blue Walrus, Music Fans Mic, Seventeen Seconds, Eaten By Monsters, Seven Sevens, Unpeeled, New Rave Brain Wave, Peenko, Music Liberation, Song By Toad.
PLAYLIST
http://open.spotify.com/user/fadedglamourblog/playlist/6c6bdLSHVEBkzcaoXoRAEn
Lianne La Havas was earmarked for greatness in my book when she covered Everything Everything.
Really like the sound of Friends too. I didn’t think the BBC Sound of poll was too bad this year. A bit urban though, for want of a better collective tag.
Hoping that the Civil Wars get big in 2012.
And that BBC list just to compare:
A$AP Rocky
Azealia Banks
Dot Rotten
Dry The River
Flux Pavilion
Frank Ocean
Friends
Jamie N Commons
Lianne La Havas
Michael Kiwanuka
Niki & The Dove
Ren Harvieu
Skrillex
Spector
Stooshe
You should add iamamiwhoami to your list. Word has it they’ll be releasing their debut album next year.
Here are their releases from 2011:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLPxTKR7A70
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VduvB5xY2L0&feature=related
http://blog.amazingtunes.com/2011/12/05/news-bbc-sound-of-2012-blog-sound-of-2012/