This year's poll result is in, collating the views of over one hundred critics and broadcasters (i.e. the best of whatever was on their desk in December) and the top five looks like this.
1. Ellie Goulding
2. Marina and the Diamonds
3. Delphic
4. Hurts
5. The Drums
So, these are the artists to hit the blogs for now - ensuring your iPod is the one most lauded in February and most criticised come November.
Interestingly the BBC describe winner Ellie Goulding's sound as as "If Kate Bush, Bjork and Stevie Nicks shared a flat in trendy Shoreditch in 2010, this noise would emerge."
Three middle-aged women living in a flat in Shoreditch? Sounds more like a modern, musical pitch on the Golden Girls - now if they can just convince Duffy to join them I think the BBC might have a true winner here.
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its all well and good this list, but the amount of coverage it seems to be getting (or is it just cos i wake up to 6music) is starting to come across as us, the public, being told what the new bands we are going to like are.
ReplyDeleteand as soon as someone tells me that i'm going to like something, i'm already leaning against it then.
"hey public kids, people types, did you like la roux last year? yes, then you will now buy this, do you hear..."