THE Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award have announced the 2015 longlist.
Acts including PAWS, The Phantom Band, Honeyblood, Young Fathers, Errors, The Amazing Snakeheads and Paolo Nutini are within the 20 strong first wave of nominees.
The 2014 prize went to Young Fathers who beat the likes of Hector Bizerk and Biffy Clyro to the punch.
With Tenement TV joining the group of nominators for the first time this year, these acts will be go to public vote over 25th -27th May 2015. A shortlist of 10 acts will be announced on 28th May with the award ceremony and winner announced on 17th June.
With a first prize of £20,000, nine runners-up prizes of £1,000 and a Graduate Design Commission valued at £2,500, The SAY Award is a hugely ambitious arts prize that reflects the cultural importance of music in Scotland.
Celebrating its links with art and design and rewards the extraordinary wealth of artistic talent we seem to effortlessly produce on an annual basis.
The 2015 longlist is as follows:
Belle & Sebastian – Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance
Blue Rose Code – The Ballads Of Peckham Rye
Errors – Lease Of Life
Fatherson – I Am An Island
Happy Meals – Apéro
Honeyblood – Honeyblood
Idlewild – Everything Ever Written
Kathryn Joseph – Bones You Have Thrown Me And Blood I’ve Spilled
King Creosote – From Scotland With Love
Mike Vass – In The Wake Of Neil Gunn
Mogwai – Rave Tapes
Paolo Nutini – Caustic Love
PAWS – Youth Culture Forever
Slam – Reverse Proceed
The Amazing Snakeheads – Amphetamine Ballads
The Phantom Band – Strange Friend
The Twilight Sad – Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave
Treacherous Orchestra – Grind
Withered Hand – New Gods
Young Fathers – DEAD
