Viking metallers Skálmöld tops 2014 award list with three wins to their name
Full list of Icelandic Music Awards winners below. Prins Póló—Grapevine’s BAND OF 2014 and makers of THE SONG OF 2014—won two categories at last night’s Icelandic Music Awards; for making “Pop Album of 2014,” and with main man Svavar Pétur claiming the title of “Songwriter of 2014” in the pop division. Lucky you can learn just why everyone loves Prins Póló so much at tonight’s inaugural Húrra! Grapevine! concert, where the band is joined by the increasingly irresistible Páll Ivan frá Eiðum (stream a playlist of his tracks here to prepare!). Tickets are moving fast, so be smart and get yours online right now!
Other winners that might be of special interest to Grapevine readers include Skálmöld, who took the cake for “Best lyricist,” “Best performers,” and “Music event of the year” (for their show with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra), current Oscar nominee-slash-recent Golden Globe winner-slash-former HAM badass Jóhann Jóhannsson, composer Daníel Bjarnason, who won “Composition of the year,” and was named “Composer of the year,” crazy jazz futurists ADHD, who won “Composition of the year” for the track Sveðjan off ADHD5, Samaris, who won Icelandair’s “Export award,” hot young things Young Karin, who won “Best newcomer album” —and last but definitely not least The Sugarcubes, who were honoured for their career and life’s work.
Check it out, here’s the full list of winners for the 2014 Icelandic Music Awards:
POP AND ROCK
Album of the year—Rock
In The Eye Of The Storm—Mono Town
Album of the year—Pop
Sorrí—Prins Póló
Song of the year—Rock
Peacemaker—Mono Town
Song of the year—Pop
Color Decay—Unnar Gísli Sigurmundsson (Júníus Meyvant)
Male vocalist
Valdimar Guðmundsson (Valdimar)
Female vocalist
Salka Sól Eyfeld (AmabAdamA)
Music performer
Music event of the year
Skálmöld and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra at Eldborg
Lyricist
Snæbjörn Ragnarsson (Skálmöld)
Songwriter
Svavar Pétur Eysteinsson (Prins Póló)
Newcomer album of the year
n1—Young Karin
Brightest hope
Júníus Meyvant
OPEN CATEGORY
Album cover of the year
Kippi Kanínus—Temperaments
Designed by: Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir and Orri Jónsson
Music video of the year
Úlfur Úlfur—Tarantúlur
Director: Magnús Leifsson
(what a great goddamn video though. As Icelandic as it gets!)
Producer of the year
Jóhann Jóhannsson—for The Theory Of Everything
Open category album of the year
The Theory Of Everything—Jóhann Jóhannsson
The Icelandair Export Award
CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY
Music event of the year
Summer concert at Skálholt church
Male vocalist of the year
Elmar Gilbertsson
Female vocalist of the year
Hanna Dóra Sturludóttir
Album of the year
Fantasíur fyrir einleiksfiðlu by G.P. Telemann—Elfa Rún Kristinsdóttir
Composition of the year
Ek ken di nag—Daníel Bjarnason
Composer of the year
Daníel Bjarnason for the compositions Blow Bright og Ek ken di nag
Live performer of the year
Víkingur Heiðar Ólafsson
Brightest hope
Oddur Arnþór Jónsson
JAZZ AND BLUES
Brightest hope
Anna Gréta Sigurðardóttir, piano player and songwriter
Composition of the year
Sveðjan—ADHD, from ADHD5
Album of the year
Íslendingur í Alhambrahöll—Stórsveit Reykjavíkur
Composer of the year
Stefán S. Stefánsson, for his work on Íslendingur í Alhambrahöll
Music performer of the year
Sigurður Flosason
Music event of the year
Reykjavík Jazz Festival
HONORARY PRIZE
The Icelandic Music Awards honorary prize this year goes to The Sugarcubes. Much respect to them and all their work, of course.
Full list of 2014 nominees (English).
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