Northampton-based Sadie Dupuis’ bedroom-project-turned-band has been up to some big things this past year. An edgy noise-pop quartet dealing in moody musings— buoyed by fuzzed-out guitars and Dupuis’ oft-changing vocals—Speedy Ortiz won New Artist of the Year at the Boston Music Awards and released this killer debut, called out in Pitchfork’s Best New Music roundup. Now they can add this award to their list of accomplishments, because we can’t stop spinning it.
Other Winners
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2015 Winner: Will Dailey’s National Throat
Will Dailey’s first album since splitting with a major label finds the singer/songwriter at a career high…...
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2016 Winner: Quilt’s Plaza
You don’t have to remember the Summer of Love to appreciate Plaza, which finds Quilt channeling seriously retro vibes that are somehow as at home on our Summer 2016 Spotify playlist as they’d have been a half century ago...
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2017 Winner: The Hotelier’s Goodness
We don’t want to tell them how to do their jobs, but the Worcester-bred outfit might be underselling the product with the title of their third studio album...
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