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released a single on a suspiciously new record label within the past 4 or 5 months.

Or was she on it last year?

Any anyone who has been on Jools Holland but has only released EPs and free tracks so they haven't had a chart position? (Hi MS MR)

2012 was:
A$AP Rocky (did ok?),
Azealia Banks (no album, yet),
Dot Rotten (who?),
Dry The River (surprised they didn't have a better year),
Flux Pavilion (?!),
Frank Ocean (probably the only one who did proper well),
Friends (one single... were kinda bad live)
Jamie N Commons (think he's working on an new LP),
Lianne La Havas (did ok),
Michael Kiwanuka (headlined festival hall, lots of radio play, list probably really helped),
Niki & The Dove (er...),
Ren Harvieu (did alright),
Skrillex (became a joke),
Spector (well done Les Incompetents!)
Stooshe (how did they do? I've seen TV ads...).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_of...#Sound_of_2012

For my money the best new band I've discovered for about five years.

And Peace.

Had a hit with Black Heart, which was quite different in tone to the early stuff. As a result, the album was pushed back in order to record more stuff in the vein of Black Heart. New release date and tracklist were announced, although the tracklist would keep changing on a monthly basis (with more and more of the early songs being either dropped off or relegated as bonus tracks). They released a cover version of TLC's Waterfalls which flopped pretty badly, resulting in another album delay announcement only a couple of days before the album was supposed to be in stores. As an insult to injury, the announcement was so close to the release date that a few major digital webstores actually put the album on sale for a fairly long while on the original release date.

The result is such a confusing mess of release hell and kneejerk reactions that not even Stooshe themselves seem to have any idea what the label's actually planning.

Palma Violets are one of the most entertaining live bands I've seen this year.
Still lacking a little in the songs department but the promise is there.
Savages are just a dreadful case of style over substance. Peace too.

Churches or Chvrches, however you want to spell it.

cheers sean

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAasfgE_Y-c

oh

Francesco Cuticura
Keys
Marianne & the Deep Blue Sea
Rofl Harris
Semper Semper
Pillars
Belgrade
Laura Davis
Alpha November
Glacial Lagoons

All good shouts I reckon.

This celebrity / band name amalgamation shite should have died long ago.

but Palma Violets are alright, just a stupid guitar band but nothing to make me angry.

and deservedly too. I'm surprised there isn't more hype surrounding him actually.

Also Haim (great), Theme Park (shite), The Child of Lov (promising) and Money (lots of potential, if they drop all the pseudo-intellectualism. They come across like a non-tongue-in-cheek Wu Lyf)

Heart-Ships
Hookworms
D E N A
Haim
Kate Boy
Solomon Grey
Savages
Eaux
Chvrches
MØ
Brolin
Dan Croll
MS MR
Beneath
Liphemra
Hello Ocho
Happa
WIFE
Wildlife Control
Twinsy
Kilo Kish

I always worry about this lists, but I think he would actually do good with the dubious accolade of winning.

But for me what sets new artists apart is an ability to maintain a high level of songwriting, originality and variation across a whole album. A couple of years ago I went overboard with picking emerging artists with interesting sounds, but the majority have disappointed. A list of upcoming sophomore albums (from artists with good debuts) would be of greater use.

WALL
Mykus
INK
Kodaline

Deap Vally
Haim
Little Green Cars
Childhood

someone will have lost an awful lot of cash if they don't.

Both Palma Violets et Peace, I mean. What a joke.

Disclosure
AlunaGeorge
Haim
Deep Vally
Bastille
Jhameel
Willy Moon
Chvrches
Inc.
Madeon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiqIush2nTA

Yes yes yes yes. Great stuff. Definitely for fans of Chairlift.

right now, really good.

but most of it was released in 2011. Disappointing

but I really don't get the hype for this lot. Saw someone on here saying they were better than Fever Ray. As if.

Twigs
Palma Violets
Peace
Chvrches
Haim
KIng Krule

fun fact, AlunaGeorge surprised released Your Drums, Your Love a week early out of the blue, the gist being it sabotaged their chances of getting a top 40 hit, solely so they could win this. For that level of determination they should win.

http://open.spotify.com/user/thesmallerpicture/playlist/273mW5LtEY8LEaufwIPjen

Work in progress.

Only including the non-terrible stuff. A couple of thoughts:

1. In the grand tradition of genres bubbling under before breaking to the surface, I wonder if 2013 is going to be the year that all this Pitchfork-approved post-RnB stuff is going to be more of a Radio 1 staple - things like AlunaGeorge, How To Dress Well, Autre Ne Veut, Inc., Jhameel, etc - or whether it's destined to be kinda niche.

2. Going through all these acts, what strikes me is the almost total lack of indie pop bands, let alone any decent ones. It's all trendy/cutesy synth stuff, WHICH IS FINE OBVS, but I pigged out on that in 2012 and I'm going to throw up from all the sugariness if I have to face another year of it. I know I moaned about this in another thread but I'd kill for a new, intelligent but fun and awesome indie band like British Sea Power or Wild Beasts or something. Or even a Johnny Foreigner...

I've been through pretty much every name in this thread and, with the exception of Haim (the Fleetwood Mac throwback), none of it sounds very exciting at all :(

Keep the suggestions coming though.

I was sick of that in 2011 nevermind this year..stuff like the Purity Ring album just seemed really old hat i thought, sounded like some of the stuff which rode Witch House's coattails in 2010. Don't want MORE of that, that's why I can't be bothered with Chvrches etc.

And that R&B thing is fast becoming an indie cliche. Whether or not it breaks through to the mainstream, I reckon in Pitchforky indie circles it's gonna quickly die a death.

and i can't believe you don't know who dot rotten is. what a sean adams.

likely

not being conversant with a lot of Moby stuff. Slight ressemblance I admit, but New Peaks is a lot more subtle and the feel from the whole song is totally different.

They've got a sligth witchy sound, great atmospherics. They remind me of Purity Ring for that matter. I also love the singer's voice.

I liked Eaux in previous posts and I do (sweet synth things etc .) but I do feel like both of you in that respect - I'm sure the backlash already started!

There will be bands under the radar with grittier, indier stuff than that in the pipeline - already Toy and Tall Ships last year spring to mind, more will come surely.
Forever optimistic as usual

... As special as they're hyped up to be. Savages are pretty intense live and I like their aesthetic, but the recorded stuff doesn't cut it for me. I've only heard one Peace song (can't remember the name) and I did quite enjoy it, but it wasn't revolutionary or anything... They just sound like a slightly more '90s Mystery Jets.

Palma Violets are OK, I liked the B- Side "Last of the Summer Wine" more than "Best of Friends," but yeah, they aren't anything amazing either. Give up on new music?

I "This'd" this comment for the "I'd kill for new, intelligent but fun and awesome indie band like BSP or Wild Beasts..." Bang on.

&
Cheatahs

have been getting some 6 music airtime with their EPs / singles - could be shouts.

Of how to ruin some promising early momentum.

Well worth picking up http://drownedinsound.com/releases/17372/reviews/4145813
Be stunned if they made the Sound of poll, they're far too good for that sort of popularity contest.

I don't like Haim (mostly as they don't really have more than half a 'song'). They seemed destined to be next year's Friends i.e. a band for people who buy all their music from Urban Outfitters so they can hang it on their wall.

adams-wave?

Sounds like Yuck / TPOBPAH / all that lo-fi indie revivalist stuff. And, like those bands, they do it fairly well, but still...

Cheatahs sound good too

Cheers!

Flux Pavilion is pretty big as well if you like commercial dubstep.

brilliant.

Also Chairlift made their name on an iTunes ad so whatevs

;)

not out officially until after midnight.

Or is the definition of new just far too ridiculous in when it judges an act is no longer new?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20607499 (I'm still not gonna copy paste the list in case it breaks the embargo)

Never has the gulf between how much I dislike a person yet how much I love their music been so wide, but he definitely deserves to win. Best thing on that list, out of the artists I've heard.

AlunaGeorge
A*M*E
Angel Haze
Arlissa
Chvrches
Haim
King Krule
Kodaline
Laura Mvula
Little Green Cars
Palma Violets
Peace
Savages
The Weeknd
Tom Odell

good to see some Irish acts on there.

Drowned In Sound is an influential music website. :)

I have now listened to that Palma Violets track for the first time, although as much as anything this tells me that I need to put the radio on more. They have a pulse, which is an improvement on some things that NME has championed in recent years but... I struggle to find it that exciting. Give me the new Dutch Uncles single anyday.

I'm an old bastard mind, so discount my opinion. :)

These things are very much about the actual sound of the artists, rather than the songs. Especially in terms of the indie bands on the list. Out of every artist on the list that I have now listened to, it appears only three can actually write songs (Haim, Chvrches and Arlissa). A.M.E is pop without the hooks. Alunageorge are appropriating "hip" post dubstep but again, to a stiflingly dull level. Angel Haze is a decent enough sounding rapper, but fairly generic all the same and lacking any real quality that makes her stand out. King Krule is awful, meandering garage rock with terrible vocals. Kodaline are trying to be Coldplay, but seem to forget that the only reason Coldplay are great is the huge sweeping choruses, which they ultimately lack and are therefore dull as fuck. Laura Mvula I guess just isn't my type of thing, seems monstrously dull to me. Little Green Cars manage to be worse at what they do than Bumfords. Palma Violets are touted as mainstream indie guitar heroes, but can't write a decent mainstream guitar song, so end up as a strangely meandering noisy dull mess, possibly the worst of all these acts. Peace once again focus more on trying to sound like foals etc than actually coming up with any kind of hooks. Savages at least know that there is actually such a thing called guitar distortioon, but manage to render themselves completely dull, merely emulating thousands of other shouty female post punk acts without a discernible hook (once again). The Weeknd I have heard before, but it really isn't my thing, the songs amble along without any real sense of purpose (in my opinion, I know his stuff is well loved around these parts, I just don't really "get" it). Tom Odell is seemingly a singer songwriter in the mould of whoever else has released a schmaltzy piano ballad in the last decade or so, and admittedly the song on the bbc website is kind of inoffensively listenable, but its a sad day when I'm giving this kind of thing praise over most the other acts.

As far as the three that I mentioned that I actually like go, Arlissa's duet with Nas is very well written and could go on to become a classic pop song. Chvrches do big, hooky synthpop which is pretty great, and while I've only heard one Haim song, it seems quite pleasant really.

So yeah, basically, either all new-ish music will be dull and shite over the next year, or the bbc has clearly chosen the wrong acts. I'm thinking probably both.

except King Krule. I wouldn't describe him as garage rock at all. Listen to a few more songs and see what you would describe him as.

I know a few people though who can't deal with his voice though, so if that's your reasoning then cool.

it isn't the BBC who chooses the list, it's 200 journos (including DiS' Wendy Roby... I wasn't eligible to vote now that I run a label again) plus tv and radio people - most of whom work at the BBC.

really enjoying the cheatahs, brolin and eaux stuff

Yep. All ace. The Weeknd is clearly going to bag the winning spot.

I hope Savages come last on account of them being well rubbish.

for BBC Sound of 2011.

whatever

The buzz will instantly die the minute after their album release.

You're a dumb hipster if you don't see that.

they're more likely to be unpretentious teenagers who read the NME

that his collection of ancient material was top 5 on the Billboard 100 2 weeks ago! The list must have leaked early or something... :->

I would say CHVRCHES, Arlyssa, The Weeknd, A*M*E and Little Green Cars for my top5, but I expect they'll shove in some Kiwanuka-esque singer-songwriter stuff too.

The full once over:
http://tunewaffle.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/bbcsoundof201/

Joanna Gruesome, MYSTRYS, Three Blind Wolves, Winter Villains, Tashaki Miyaki, Heart-Ships, PINS, Serafina Steer, Death At Sea, Kwes, and No Ceremony.

I weep for the future

jesus

http://joannagruesome.bandcamp.com/

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2012/12/10/flutes-flutes/

5th - Chvrches
4th - Laura Mvula
3rd - Angel Haze
2nd - AlunaGeorge
1st - Haim

Not a bad result given what was on the shortlist. Glad Chvrches were so high up, and Haim are one of the better bands on the list.

Haim sound like budget Chairlift.

due to her unpronouncable surname. Can't comment on what she sounds like, but them's the breaks

but, like I said further up the thread, the problem with lauding emerging artists is that songwriting rarely comes into it. The truest way of appraising songwriting skills would be to look at a full album, though hardly any Sound Of acts have released more than an EP.

today I discovered that HAIM is pronounced ha-i'm or HI-UM or HYM rather than like shame. #biffyclyro

bad.

Haim would definitely hit on top of my poll ( Woof woof)

Not heard of Haim tbf. Probably won't be checking them out if they're just some Chairlift rip-off though.

Crystal Head (My favourite band in the UK) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q8otpMCQGA
Eaux - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4S3yyctydQ
Goat - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyE9FM2Y7as
Hookworms - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lETd39FzL_8
Dead Skeletons - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsyrOGRxF0E
Bo Ningen - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gFlnYaXvLE
The Lucid Dream - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34vipr6pO08
Eat Lights Become Lights - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyQqSP_PNbM
Blindness - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whHdElMtIc0
Exit Calm - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9tHeKgtm-c
Public Service Broadcasting - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u4Md_aXVJE
Radar Men From The Moon - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIHPn08-r2I
The Lost Rivers - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fELqBO6g5Q4
Mugstar - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY-VmSsHTOY
Creatures Of Love - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwSt197rSNY
The Blood Choir - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IJ5ksQrNXA

Exit Calm, been around for 3 or 4 years now though. Be good to see them get recognition.

Ladyhawke in disguise?

Nice song though

AlunaGeorge is better but still a bit ... antiseptic or something

I dunno

nothing really strikes me in this list
I've had a listen and it's like reading a comedy script and going 'yeah, these are decent jokes' instead of actually laughing

Which makes me think you could possibly be wrong about lots of other things.

courtsey of this interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKHwDHaVv9w

but then she's 11.

But at least there is a bit of verve and tension to what they are doing. I'm sick of English indie guitar bands sounding all wry and quirky.

Does this mean they wont be massive now?