Top Artists Reviewed or Interviewed on Mystic Sounds in 2011
We at Mystic Sounds decided to put our heads together and come up with a joint list of favorite indie artists that we reviewed or interviewed in 2011. So Andrew compiled his list and I compiled mine.
Andrew’s List
10. Screen Vinyl Image (1 point)
9. Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes (2 points)
8. The Dagons (3 points)
7. Sabrepulse (4 points)
6. Amanda Palmer (5 points)
5. The Flashbulb (6 points)
4. GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES! (7 points)
3. Circle Takes The Square (8 points)
2. Captain Ahab (9 points)
1. Tyler, The Creator (10 points)
Michael’s List
10. GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES! (1 point)
9. The Flashbulb (2 points)
8. Sabrepulse (3 points)
7. Love and a .38 (4 points)
6. Emilie Autumn (5 points)
5. Hanzelle (6 points)
4. Alexx Calise (7 points)
3. Clairy Browne and the Bangin’ Rackettes (8 points)
2. Florrie (9 points)
1. Stevie Scott (10 points)
You can see that Andrew and I have quite different musical tastes, though there is some overlap in our lists. To give more weight to those artists on whom we both agreed, any artist landing on both our lists earned an additional 5 points.
Mystic Sounds Editors’ Top Choices
10. Alexx Calise (7 total points)
9. Circle Takes The Square (8 total points)
7. Captain Ahab (tie, 9 total points)
7. Florrie (tie, 9 total points)
5. Tyler, the Creator (tie, 10 total points)
5. Stevie Scott (tie, 10 total points)
4. Sabrepulse (12 total points)
2. GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES! (tie, 13 total points)
2. The Flashbulb (tie, 13 total points)
1. Clairy Browne and the Bangin’ Rackettes (15 total points)
Congratulations to Clairy Browne and the Bangin’ Rackettes for landing at the #1 spot on the Mystic Sounds Editors’ Top Choices list!
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I probably would have favored Hanzelle more if I liked their first album. I enjoy their newest release, but it only has 2 songs. As much as I liked them, I can’t put them in a Top 10.
I’m also fairly surprised you ranked Tyler, The Creator so high. I thought you did not care for rap?
I liked Hanzelle’s two songs well enough to buy them, which I can’t say for many of the other bandcamp acts reviewed on this site in 2011, so I ranked them higher than many others who may have released more songs.
Also, I didn’t rank Tyler, the Creator at all. It’s because you ranked him as your #1 pick that he ranked on the joint list. And yeah, I don’t care for most rap, though some of it, if it flows with the rest of the song, isn’t so bad. Maybe I am starting to get accustomed to some of it. But Tyler’s form of rap is not for me.