Every year some of the finest music bloggers from around the UK, including a number of Descrier music sources, put their collective heads together and produce a list of 15 bands and artists which they believe should be making some serious waves in the coming year.
Each blogger gets to nominate five acts, and then Robin from Breaking More Waves and Andy from Von Pip’s Musical Express work out which are the fifteeen most nominated artists. This year the 49 blogs involved nominated 170 different acts, so this is a huge variety of tastes on offer, but the 15 most popular are nominated below. The winner is then announced to coincide with the BBC’s own Sound of 2013 poll, which this compliments, on the 2nd January.
The panel of bloggers was made up of the fine folk from:
A New Band A Day, A Pocket Full Of Seeds, All Noise, Alphabet Bands,Both Bars On, Brapscallions, Breaking More Waves, Brighton Music Blog, Details Of My Life So Far, Don’t Watch Me Dancing, Dots And Dashes, Drunken Werewolf, Eaten By Monsters, Electronic Rumors,Faded Glamour, Folly Of Youth, Flying With Anna, God Is In The TV,Harder Blogger Faster, Howl, In Love Not Limbo, Just Music That I Like, Killing Moon, Kowalskiy, Love Music : Love Life, Mudkiss,Music Broke My Bones, Music Fans Mic, Music Liberation, Music Like Dirt, My Bands Better Than Your Band, Not Many Experts, Peenko,Real Horrorshow, Scottish Fiction, Skeletory, Song By Toad, Sounds Good To Me Too, Storm’s Brewing, Sweeping The Nation, The Blue Walrus, The Electricity Club, The Mad Mackerel, The Metaphorical Boat, The Music Hoarder, The Recommender, This Must Be Pop, Von Pip Musical Express, 17 Seconds.
Here are the nominations (in alphabetical order):
AlunaGeorge – Infectious and pop-infused R&B.
Curxes – Industrial and almost gothic sounding at times electronic two-piece.
Chvrches – Catchy electropop from Scotland
Daughter – Soft, and beautiful folk music
Haim – Catchy rock’n’roll and tipped for great things from everybody from NME to Neon Gold
Laura Mvula – Jazz and soul that steps away from the mainstream
MØ – Cool Scandinavian electro-pop
Palma Violets – Ferocious and energetic rock
Pins – Ultra-hip all girl indie from Manchester
Randolph’s Leap – Brass-infused folk from Glasgow
Rhye – Soothing and blissed-out pop
Savages – Female-fronted post-punk with some serious swagger
Seasfire – Electronics and rock’n’roll from Bristol
The Neighbourhood – Atmospheric pop from the sun-drenched California
Tom Odell – Piano-led pop ballads
