#1

Longlist announced:

Anna Meredith: FIBS
Blanck Mass: Animated Violence Mild
Bossy Love: Me + U
Callum Easter: Here Or Nowhere
Cloth: Cloth
Comfort: Not Passing
Declan Welsh & The Decadent West: Cheaply Bought, Expensively Sold
Elephant Sessions: What Makes You
Erland Cooper: Sule Skerry
Fat-Suit: Waifs & Strays
Free Love: Extreme Dance Anthems
Honeyblood: In Plain Sight
Karine Polwart: Karine Polwart’s Scottish Songbook
Lewis Capaldi: Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent
Mezcla: Shoot the Moon
The Ninth Wave: Infancy
NOVA: RE-UP
Sacred Paws: Run Around The Sun
SHHE: SHHE
Vistas: Everything Changes In The End

#2

Already?!

#4

based in Edinburgh isn’t he? first album was on Rock Action

#5

is this a little bit late this year? i remember Fopp having the nominees out on display when I was over at the Fringe last August. got a free SAY Award tote bag for buying the Kathryn Joseph album.

#7

Someone should let Rina Sawayama know this.

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#8

Like the Mercury, Booker and Turner, it’s not for 2020 it’s for a time period that straddles years.

This time of year when students go (back) to uni used to be a really key time for people to buy music and discover a new favourite band before the big Christmas campaigns started, so a lot of awards tended to be about now.

Also I’d imagine running any album of the year list in December wouldn’t get much coverage or have much impact nowadays.

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#9

Sounds like NOVA has won it. Never heard of her so off to investigate.

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#10

I did the same, have to say the album didn’t do much for me.

#11

Yeah not really for me…

#12

regardless of the actual album (will listen soon), got to love that such a big award can go to someone with 1500 listeners. The possibility of such an unknown winning can only be good

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