Having given the proles the pleasure of trimming down the original list of 32, artists and “music industry types” will chose the winner of Xfm’s New Music Award from a shortlist of ten debut records.
Set to be announced at ceremony at Koko in London on the 16th of January, the Brits only list reads thus:
Air Traffic - Fractured Life
the Enemy - We’ll Live and Die in These Towns
Frank Turner - Sleep is for the Week
Kate Nash - Made of Bricks
Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
the Maccabees - Colour it in
the Pigeon Detectives - Wait for Me
the Twang - Love it When I Feel Like This
the View - Hats Off to the Buskers
the Wombats - Proudly Present… a Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation
"We've always known that Xfm listeners have excellent taste and here is more proof," said Xfm music chief Mike Walsh.
"This is a very strong list of 10 great British debut albums and Xfm is proud to have been associated with all of them. I'm really looking forward to seeing what the judges decide is the overall winner, it will not be an easy call".
Klaxons then, yeah?
DiScuss: Yeah?
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having listened to about 30 minutes of XFM in my entire life
i can safely say that the Pigeon Detectives are going to win this
"We've always known that Xfm listeners have excellent taste"
Couldn't have set that one up any better.
^ This
Klaxons are good though, even if they're essentially just a slightly more pretentious version of Pop Will Eat Itself.
In general, a hideous carbuncle of a list.
Klaxons should NEVER be mentioned in the same sentence as PWEI
unless that sentence is either:
A) Klaxons should never be mentioned in the same sentence as PWEI.
or
B) Klaxons are no way near as good as PWEI and never will be.
I bet their t-shirts aren't as good either!
^^^^
best comment ever mate
bring back poppies!
I'd say they are a slightly more pretentious version...
of Carter USM.
I haven't listened to XFM for about 3 years. I do miss John Kennedy and Eddie Temple Morris though.
Carter predicted the whole New Cross thing
way back in 1992, visionaries!
uhhhhhhhhhhhm
Twilight Sad
Oh, you mean they weren't on the list?
Battles then....
...oh
Frank Turner has to win
He's the only half decent one on the list!
agreed
Mr Turner gets my vote
it better be
the maccebees vs klaxons.
I vote for
None of the above.
phew!
good job you're not on the panel!
I think the Maccabees should win,
other than the Klaxons (Who've already got a bleedin' Mercury award), I don't think any onther band deserves to win anything. It's a criminally underated album in my opinion.
What a pile of absolute shit.
hahahah
couldn't agree more. worst list ever.
premier league comparison
this list is like the premier league player of the season shortlist being
-micheal carrick (boring)
-robbie savage (both pricks)
-noe pamarot
-kevin doyle (and shes a dickhead)
-cesc fabregas (i dont mind klaxons im just sick of hearing how good they are)
-steward downing (once again dont mind them, just they come across as a bunch of pussies)
-tony hibbert
-david james (although i suspect the twang are at least twice the age of james)
-darren flecther (both scottish and both shit)
^^
i enjoyed this list. alot more than reading the real list.
Maccabees should win it but i bet it goes to the Enemy.
^^^^^
Frank Turner- John Arne Riise, works hard, hit and miss (but when he scores its usually a stunner) bad hair, and Frank's probably skint as well.
Oh, really?
"We've always known that Xfm listeners have excellent taste and here is more proof," said Xfm music chief Mike Walsh.
"We've always known that Xfm listeners have dreadfully boring taste, and the presence of The View on this list is more proof" said DiS reader ben6984.
They'll probably win it as well. We all know buskers have an incredibly dull and predictable repertoire. Hats off to the buskers indeed.
I remember listening to Xfm in 1994 when they ahd their trial licence.
Fugazi, Smashing Pumpkins (circa Siamese Dream), Sonic Youth, Pavement......and that was during the breakfast show!
It was amazing.
Such a tragedy that C(r)apital FM bought them and ruined everything, although they were going downhill before that.
Surely Europe's largest city and undisputed capital of music can sustain one real independent music radio station?
Surely?!
Oh well, Last FM it is then.
Resonance FM
is usually quite good.
This is why I don't
listen to XFM.
Another prejudice happily confirmed.
The Maccabees
Should win it. There album is seriously underrated.
gash gash gash gash gash
This is frustrating
XFM used to be quite good once. Now whenever I listen to it it is just boring Jo Whiley-esque rubbish they play on it. I hope the Pigeon Detectives, Twang, Enemy or View win it as it will show how shit the station has become and may wake them up to being good again.
Frank Turner clearly
the only good album there. And the only surprise, XFM playlists are so predictable and dull, i have caught a couple of decent nighttime shows on xfm manchester though.
hang on
Aren't four of them the same band? that's hardly fair.
(was) my favourite radio station
The view. the twang. the enemy... just sums up what a shit year its been for new British music. joke list compared to the new music you get from America and Canada.
absolute tosh...
"We've always known that Xfm listeners have excellent taste and here is more proof," said Xfm music chief Mike Walsh.
Has anyone listened to their XU feature (it is called that isn't it?)? The people are horrific and definitely don't have excellent taste. James from Glossop "The Twang are mint, man, reminds me of the Mondays, init, i first heard this when i were in Asda's, wiv Robbo & Dave, safe". Morons.
When XFM Manchester started i was initially thrilled, we'd been crying out for a decent station for years. Unless you like R&B or can listen to Steve Penk wihtout wanting to stab your own eyes out, then you've been pretty screwed. It was quite good for a while, in comparison to the competition, and they played a varied set of stuff, but now it's just horrible. The last time i listened i could pretty much guess the entire playlist for the day, it seemed about nine songs heavy. Arctics, Editors, Max Park, The Twang, The Enemy, The View, Pigeon Detectives, The Gossip, Biffy Clyro, it's awful; there's only so much Fratelli's someone can take. John Kennedy aside i can't imagine why anyone would listen.
Of the records i've heard on that list, 'Colour It In' is the only one that goes beyond mediocrity. A great record, really.
IT'S LIKE THEY DON'T ACTUALLY LIKE MUSIC INNIT
THIS DEMOGRAPHIC BUSINESS IS KILLING MUSIC, IT REALLY IS
IF EVERYONE HAS TO LIKE THE SAME DULL "18-24, BIG CHORUS, 4/4 AND A BIT FICK" MUSIC, THEN THERE IS NO NEED FOR RECORD SHOPS
COS TESCO CAN COPE WITH STOCKING THE 10 BEST RECORDS AND UNDERCUTTING EVERYONE
THEN THERE IS NO REAL NEED FOR RECORD LABELS
THEN THERE IS NO-ONE TO HELP BRING THE MUSIC TO THE PEOPLE
THEN THERE IS NO VITALITY IN THE MUSIC SCENE
THEN THERE IS NO NEW MUSIC
THEN THERE IS NO NEED FOR XFM
OOPS
IF I HAVE TO HEAR CHELSEA DAGGER AGAIN
ON TV
AS THE ACCOMPANIMENT
TO THE DARTS FINAL
OR A PUBLIC HANGING
OR AN INSIGHTFUL PIECE ON BINGE DRINKING
THEN I WILL EITHER KILL MYSELF
OR
IF I HAVE MY WITS ABOUT ME
MEBBE
THE FRATELLIS
BUT WOULD THAT MEAN IT WAS LAYED EVEN MORE
BUT IN A MORE POIGNANT WAY?
NO.
Keep shouting, it's good.
ARE YOU AN ANGRY MAN
that's all
yes
I mean,
NO