The BBC conducted a poll of 150 music critics regarding the new bands they see breaking out in ’08. For those of you who read the lists by British experts we posted a couple weeks ago, the top 10 shouldn’t be much of a surprise — eight of the acts appeared previously, but there are two outsiders. Here’s the top 10 via NME:
10 Santogold
09 MGMT
08 Black Kids
07 Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong
06 Vampire Weekend
05 Foals
04 Glasvegas
03 The Ting Tings
02 Duffy
01 Adele
Can you name the two we didn’t see last time? If you guessed the elegantly emotional Scottish rock quartet Glasvegas and Stereofave Santogold, you either have a great memory, or you went back and cross-referenced (or you were commenter Michael who sagely posted last time, “Shocked no one mentioned Santogold”). According to that list, it really is the big year of female vocalists (Adele, Duffy, The Ting Tings, etc), bands we all expected to blow-up (Vampire Weekend, Black Kids), and ex-Pipettes drummers (Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong). Anything missing? What say you? We’ll start: These New Puritans, right?
Anyway, Santi White: Cover Girl. Already!
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Ida Maria from Norway. Sounds like Björk gone punk. Click at my blog for sample.
Yeah, Santogold! PHILLY IN THE HOUSE!
Santogold and Glasvegas. It’s like they read my mind.
Wait, a list WITHOUT M.I.A.?
Do..do you hear that, it’s the faint sound of an American Apparel stock slipping, and in the west, tears from thousands of girls with huge pink-rimmed sunglasses have nothing to justify their taste in shitty music with. Is there no GOD!?
“Sounds like Bjork gone punk”
Don’t be so stupid.
y’all haters
At the top of that list should be the band Okay
I lovvee MGMT.
SANTOGOLD suck assballs.
Remember personal info? sure.
OKAY is great— how’s the dude’s Crohn’s? Jukebox the Ghost should be up there– Freddie Mercury mixed with Ben Folds gone indie? Viva Jukebox the Ghost!
I just listened to Okay.
They were…what’s the word..they were just alright.
Pretty good list i must say (at least for the most part). I agree with The Black Kids, Vampire Weekend (as does the rest of the world apparently) and i am pretty excited to see Glasvegs, they are pretty awesome.
In the last post, Broken Records came up, and I must say that I wholeheartedly agree with the recommendation.
They sort of remind me of The Arcade Fire’s very early stuff (that the band later denounced after succumbing to lethal doses of bowie-infused hype….)
http://myspace.com/brokenrecordsedinburgh
What about me on this list??
Uhhhhhhhhh,
Haven’t we been living with Vampire Weekend and MGMT for a year already?