Scottish Album of the Year Award (rolling)

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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

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Already?!

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

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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.

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Someone should let Rina Sawayama know this.

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

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

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Yeah not really for me…

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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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2023 winner gets announced this evening. It should be Young Fathers but I can’t imagine they’d want to give it to the same artist 3 times.

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Aha! Young Fathers won after all!

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THE YOUNG FATHERS ALBUM OF THE YEAR AWARD basically.

i mean, i get it, they’ve yet to put out anything shite, but it’s funny

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It was a pretty uninspiring list. Would have gone with Brìghde Chaimbeul personally but whilst I didn’t love this album it’s hard to begrudge Young Fathers another win when their live shows really deserve to be putting them up a few levels of fame from where they are now.

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Seems to have been a couple of different threads for this over the years, will just convert this to a rolling one. Going to try and check out more of the list than I normally do as well.

2024 longlist:

Afterlands – We Are the Animals in the Night

Amy Laurenson – Strands

Arab Strap – I’m totally fine with it :+1:don’t give a fuck anymore :+1:

Barry Can’t Swim – When Will We Land?

Becky Sikasa – The Writings and the Pictures and the Song

Bee Asha – Goodbye, Gracious

Blue Rose Code – Bright Circumstance

Broken Chanter – Chorus Of Doubt

corto.alto – Bad With Names

Dead Pony – IGNORE THIS

Empire State Bastard – Rivers of Heresy

Fergus McCreadie – Stream

Kathryn Williams & Withered Hand – Willson Williams

Lucia & The Best Boys – Burning Castles

Malin Lewis – Halocline

Mama Terra – The Summoned

Rachel Sermanni – Dreamer Awake

rEDOLENT – dinny greet

The Snuts – Millennials

Theo Bleak – Pain

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bit embarrassing we don’t have a Scottish thread generally, look how busy the Irish one is!

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also only listened to Arab Strap and Fergus McCreadie from that (and vaguely friends-of-friends with another one of the nominees)

Savage Mansion robbed! (if they were eligible)

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Broken Chanter is support on the Arab Strap tour, so will listen to that album before next weekend.

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oh yeah, good shout

corto.alto was on my list too, and always meant to get round to Empire State Bastard

Fergus is some beautiful evocative folk-jazz btw, recommend

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Theo Bleak is brilliant.