The Kraumur Music Award, set up by Aurora Foundation in 2008, will be awarded for the seventeenth time later this month for the Icelandic records that are deemed to excel in terms of quality, ambition and originality.
The award’s jury has now chosen the albums that will receive nominations for this year’s Kraumur Music Awards, and thus make up the Kraumur List 2024. The nominations this year are characterized by great diversity – where the growth that reigns in Icelandic music life in the fields of pop, rock, techno, hip hop and experimental music is hampered. A large part of the artists who are nominated for the Kraumur Music Awards 2024 are appearing on the scene with their first LPs.
The Kraumur Music Award is intended to promote album releases by Icelandic artists and bands. The awards are not tied to a specific music genre and there are no subcategories. In total, close to ninety artists and bands have received the Kraumur Music Awards for their albums, most of them early in their careers, since the award was first awarded in 2008.
Among the artists who have received the Kraumur Music Award for their albums are; Agent Fresco, Anna Þorvaldsóttir, Ásgeir, Bjarki, BSÍ, Cell7, Daníel Bjarnason, Elín Hall, FM Belfast, GKR, Grísalappalía, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Hjaltalín, Hugi Guðmundsson, Ísafold kammersveit, JDFR, Kvikindi, Kælan mikla, Lay Low, Mammút, Moses Hightower, Ojba Rasta, Ólöf Arnalds, Retro Stefson, Samaris, Sing Fang, Sóley, Una Torga and many others.
The nominees for the 2024 Kraumur Music Awards are:
– Amor Vincit Omnia – brb babe
– Björg Brjánsdóttir – Growl Power
– Iðunn Einars – Í hennar heim
– Jónbjörn – Gárur
– Kaktus Einarsson – Lobster Coda
– Katla Yamagata – Postulín
– Kött Grá Pje & Fonetik Simbol – Dulræn Atferlismeðferð
– MC MYASNOI – slugs are legal now
– Múr – Múr
– Saint Pete – Græni pakkinn
– sideproject – sourcepond
– Sigrún – Monster Milk
– Sigtryggur Berg og Glupsk – Beyond Happy
– Skorri – randyrtsport
– Sunna Margrét – Finger on Tongue
– Supersport – allt sem hefur gerst
– Tonik Ensemble – Music Is Mass
– Torfi Tómasson – Eitt
– Xiupill – Mythology
– Young Nazareth – 200 – 101 vol. 1
The Kraumur Music Awards 2024 are chosen by a twelve-member jury made up of people with a wide range of experience in discussing, playing and working with Icelandic music in the media and on other platforms. The jury is composed of; Árni Matthíasson (chairman of the jury), Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen, Birgitta Björg Guðmarsdóttir, Eldar Ástthórsson, Júlía Kröyer, Karólína Einars Mariúdóttir, Lovísa Rut Kristjánsdóttir, Óli Dóri, Rósa Birgitta Ísfeld, Trausti Júlíusson, Vaka Orradóttir and Þorbjörg Roach Gunnarsdóttir.
