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Deli Best of Local Scenes 2009 Final Summary - don't miss these bands!

The Deli's Year End Polls for emerging artists are a great opportunity to catch up with all the most exciting up and coming bands that left a mark in the previous 12 months. Don't forget to check out these bands as they might hit it big in 2010 (if they haven't already!).

AUSTIN BEST EMERGING ARTIST OF 2009STEREO IS A LIE


Also check out
Missions (2nd place overall)
Neon Indian (3rd place overall)
Black Joe Lewis (3rd place overall)
Austin Overall Chart - Austin Fans' Chart

CHICAGO BEST EMERGING ARTIST OF 2009I FIGHT DRAGONS


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Hey Champ (2nd place overall)
Netherfriends (3rd place overall)
Chicago Overall Chart - Chicago Fans' Chart

LOS ANGELES BEST EMERGING ARTIST OF 2009LOCAL NATIVES


Also check out:
Fitz & The Tantrums (2nd place overall)
Crash Kings (3rd place overall)
Light FM - (Fans' Poll Winners)
LA Overall Chart - LA Fans' Chart

NEW ENGLAND BEST EMERGING ARTIST OF 2009MEAN CREEK


Also check out:
Michael Bernier and the Uprising (2nd place overall)
Jesse Dee (3rd place overall)
McAlister Drive - (Fans' Poll Winners)
New England Overall Chart - New England Fans' Chart

NASHVILLE BEST EMERGING ARTIST OF 2009THOSE DARLINS


Also check out:
Non Commissioned Officers (2nd place overall)
Protomen (3rd place overall and Fans' Poll winners)
Nashville Overall Chart - Nashville Fans' Chart

NYC BEST EMERGING ARTIST OF 2009TALK NORMAL


Also check out:
Freelance Whales (2nd place overall)
Bear in Heaven (3rd place overall)
Midnight Spin (Fans' Poll winners)
NYC Overall Chart - NYC Fans' Chart

PHILLY BEST EMERGING ARTIST OF 2009READING RAINBOW


Also check out:
Grandchildren
(2nd place overall)
Free Energy (3rd place overall)
Levee Drivers
(Fans' Poll winners)
Philly Overall Chart - Philly Fans' Chart

PORTLAND BEST EMERGING ARTIST OF 2009EXPLODE INTO COLORS


Also check out:
Nurses
(2nd place overall)
Bodhi (3rd place overall and Fans' Poll winners)
Portland Overall Chart - Portland Fans' Chart

SAN FRANCISCO BEST EMERGING ARTIST OF 2009: GIRLS


Also check out:
Man/Miracle
(2nd place overall)
Or, The Whale (3rd place overall and Fans' Poll winners)
Orchestra of Antlers (Fans' Poll winners)
SF Overall Chart - SF Fans' Chart

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January 2010
Balmorhea
Constellations

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Any band that claims Gillian Welch and Avro Part as influences is bound to be unusual; but unusual by itself is not so exciting: what Balmorhea continues to do is mix their unusual with extraordinarily compelling. Hanging descriptive words on their wordless creations feels almost tacky…but that’s our job.

Steady as clockwork but far more interesting, Balmorhea is releasing their now fourth early-year album of delicate, emotional, occasionally prickly instrumental tracks. (Previously: Balmorhea, April 2007, Rivers Arms, February 2008, All is Wild, All is Silent, March, 2009.) This one drops - does a Balmorhea record drop? Let’s say it floats - on Western Vinyl this Feb. 23rd. We’ll all be expecting another early 2011. The first, and most obvious quality of any Balmorhea record, for those of us on a steady diet of indie pop, is the lack of vocals: you’re launched into a completely different headspace by Constellations, not so much guided by the hand to a particular mood as you are given a huge space in which to wander free. Their compositions have a strange way of feeling shorter than they are, because you immediately lose track of both time and your immediate surroundings. (Or, anyway, some of us do – maybe we were unhinged to begin with.)

They are following in the footsteps of many of their Icelandic contemporaries in doing away with the distinction between classical and pop. It’s dark, it’s haunting, it has occasional vestiges of country – or, maybe, western is the better word, a soundtrack to a cold winter in Monument Valley.

It’s not, of course, a commercial sound; there is no single, but for me there’s an early standout track: “On the Weight of Night”, coming toward the end of the album, patiently builds to a glowing, expansive climax; it is the sound of the moment when All is Revealed. For a band that at first listen seems subdued, they inspire some powerful associations: biblical, abstract, apocalyptic, primal. It’s as if Balmorhea backtracked to a time before rock & blues and followed a different musical evolutionary path: there is some recognizable DNA in there, but this is a new creature altogether. Constellations will put you somewhere beyond.

The band – Michael Muller and the distractingly named Rob Lowe backed by Aisha Burns, Travis Chapman, Nicole Kern, Mike Bell, Bruce Blay and Taylor Tehan – will head out in support of this one shortly after release, and return for SXSW. No word as of yet on a Austin release party…

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