As you’re all probably aware the Longlist for the annual Scottish Album of the Year Award were announced at midnight last night.
There’s some massive albums from the likes of CHVRCHES and Frightened Rabbit on there as well as some wee gems that are well worth of mention like Hector Bizerk and Adam Stafford, not to mention the glorious return of Boards of Canada and the new album from last year’s winner RM Hubbert.
Still, it a year full of great Scottish releases there are some releases we would have loved to see in there that missed out, particularly Conquering Animal Sounds‘ mesmerising On Floating Bodies and it’s a wee surprise to not see Three Will Be Fireworks on there.
Rave Child was asked along with another 99 people to nominate a top five album of last year and the list was collated from this.
Here’s the full list:
Adam Holmes and the Embers – Heirs and Graces
Adam Stafford – Imaginary Walls Collapse
Biffy Clyro – Opposites
Boards Of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest
Camera Obscura – Desire Lines
CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe
Dunedin Consort (Dir. John Butt) – J. S. Bach: Six Brandenburg Concertos
Edwyn Collins – Understated
Frightened Rabbit – Pedestrian Verse
Hector Bizerk – Nobody Seen Nothing
Kid Canaveral – Now That You Are A Dancer
Mogwai – Les Revenants
Rick Redbeard – No Selfish Heart
RM Hubbert – Breaks & Bone
Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire – Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire
Scottish Chamber Orchestra (R. Ticciati) – Berlioz: Les Nuit D’été
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra – In the Spirit of Duke
Steve Mason – Monkey Minds in the Devil’s Time
The Pastels – Slow Summits
Young Fathers – Tape Two
The Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award is a prestigious and exciting arts prize developed by the Scottish Music Industry Association to celebrate, promote and reward the most outstanding albums released by Scottish artists between January and December of the previous calendar year.
Inaugurated in partnership with Creative Scotland, The SAY Award promotes a longlist of twenty albums which, in turn, is reduced to a shortlist of ten in advance of the award ceremony when the winner is announced.
With a first prize of £20,000, nine runners-up prizes of £1,000 and an Art Commission valued at £20,000, The SAY Award is a hugely ambitious arts prize that reflects the cultural importance of music in Scotland, celebrates its links with the visual arts and rewards the extraordinary wealth of artistic talent we seem to effortlessly produce on an annual basis.
The SAY Award this year, has been an SMIA production in partnership with Creative Scotland, PPL and Clyde Gateway. Our media partners are The List and The Skinny.
