Banks and Marika Hackman are joint winners of the Blog Sound of 2014 poll, picked by 59 of the UK’s finest music bloggers. This is the first time the poll has had joint winners, with both artists receiving exactly the same number of votes.
Banks
Banks made a name for herself in 2013 with her perfectly produced sultry R&B, featuring coming 3rd on the BBC Sound of 2014 poll, and being the 9th most blogged about artists by British music bloggers.
Marika Hackman
Marika Hackman has a contrasting style to Banks, with her strepped back haunting, ethereal tunes that makes her so much more than the folk badge many ascribe to her. She was the 8th most blogged artist by British music bloggers in 2013, but did not make the BBC’s list.
The music blogs involved were:
17 Seconds, A Pocket Full Of Seeds, All Noise, Alphabet Bands, Beat Surrender, Both Bars On, Brapscallions, Breaking More Waves, Brighton Music Blog, Cat From Japan, Daisy Digital, Details Of My Life, Don’t Watch Me Dancing, Dots and Dashes, Drunken Werewolf, Eaten By Monsters, Echoes and Dust, Electronic Rumors, Faded Glamour, God Is In The TV, Gold Flake Paint, Hearty Vibes, I Love Pie, In Love Not Limbo, Just Music That I Like, Killing Moon, Like 1999, Little Indie Blogs, Love Music : Love Life, Music Broke My Bones, Music Liberation,Music Like Dirt, My Band’s Better Than Your Band, My Day By Day Music, Not Many Experts, Peenko, Pop Dodger, Repeat Button,Scientists Of Sound, Scottish Fiction, Skeletory, Sleep In Music, Some Of It Is True, Sound Influx, Sounds Good To Me Too, Sounds Of Now Music, Sweeping The Nation, The Blue Walrus, The Devil Has The Best Tuna, The Electricity Club, The Evening’s Empire, The Mad Mackerel,The Metaphorical Boat, The Sound Of Confusion, The Underclassed,This Must Be Pop, Thoughts On Music, Von Pip Musical Express, When The Gramophone Rings
