grapevine music awards 2022
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Video Of The Year: Máni Sigfússon for Kælan Mikla’s “Hvítir Sandar”
Kælan Mikla are a band with a very particular visual aesthetic, and it came as no surprise to the awards panel that one of last year’s strongest videos was theirs. Their track “Hvítir Sandar”, which translates as “White Sand”, is a collaboration…
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Reykjavík Grapevine Music Awards: Shout Out To Minningar
Every year, the Grapevine Music Awards give a shout out to someone who has made the musical world a better place over the preceding 12 months. But for 2022, we’re highlighting a project that set out to make the actual world a…
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Artist Of The Year: Inspector Spacetime
Inspector Spacetime materialise unexpectedly in the middle of the Grapevine Awards party, and tumble out of their time-travelling British phone box. We suspect that they’d actually set the controls for late nineties London clubland—their spiritual home—but once it dawns on them that…
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One To Watch: Sucks To Be You, Nigel and Árný Margrét
The grassroots in Iceland is lively in the time of COVID-19 and therefore, the panel couldn’t decide what to pick. So, why limit yourself? The panel decided to go for one band and a solo artist this year. First. It sucks to…
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Song Of The Year: Vesturbæjar Beach
The song Vesturbæjar Beach by BSÍ is not only our Song Of The Year. It is, in some ways, the most telling song about the COVID year of 2021. It describes awful summers in Iceland, as well as the will to do…
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Album of the Year: Sóley & kef LAVÍK
Album of the year: Mother Melancholia by Sóley ‘Mother Melancholia’ is a dark, deep exploration into the feeling of the end of the world, imminent death and destruction, as well as the complexity of a feminist riot surging within the heart of…
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You Should Have Heard This: Sunna Friðjóns
Listening to Sunna Friðjóns’ new album, ‘Let the Light In’, is to be transported to another world. The mystically flowing songs evoke scenes that are easy to retreat into when you feel the need to escape this pandemic-infused reality for a moment.…