Reykjavík Grapevine - 06.01.2017, Page 17

The Fifth Annual
Grapevine Music Awards
Words PARKER YAMASAKI
What do they have that you don’t? It’s the fifth annual Grapevine Music Awards. Which means that it’s the
fifth time we’ve rounded up a panel of expert music nerds for a few rounds of drinks and the chance to hash
out everything that has happened in sound since the Earth’s last orbit around the sun. We scoured the Sound-
Clouds and dug the crates. We got together to asked the pressing questions: What’s more important, versatil-
ity or consistency? How do artists get attention these days, and how do others purposely avoid it? Is it better
to be a total dick and make great sounds, or be a nice guy with mediocre music? After two weeks of turning
over tune after tune we got together to ask the final question of our 2016 musicians. What do they have that
you don’t? Here’s what we came up with: who they are and why they’re better than the rest.
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Song of
the Year
–
‘Sports’
Fufanu
Artist of
the Year
–
GKR
Album of
the Year
–
‘Black
Lights’
Samaris
Best Live
Band
–
Hatari
You Should
Have Heard
This
–
‘Andi’
Andi
Band to
Watch
–
aYia
Shout Out
–
Hið Myrka
Man
Artist to
Remember
–
Biogen