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The Scottish Album of the Year Shortlist Revealed

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The Scottish Album of the Year Shortlist Revealed


The Scottish Album of the Year Shortlist Revealed

Scotland’s national music prize, The Scottish Album of The Year (SAY) Award, has just announced which ten enthralling albums have made 2018’s Shortlist. The Shortlist represents an incredibly strong, diverse and important selection of albums created by artists living and working in Scotland.

The Shortlist for The SAY Award 2018 is as follows:

BABE
Kiss & Tell
Best Girl Athlete
Franz Ferdinand
Always Ascending
Golden Teacher
No Luscious Life
Karine Polwart with Pippa Murphy
A Pocket of Wind Resistance
Kobi Onyame
Gold
Mogwai
Every Country’s Sun
Out Lines
Conflats
Siobhan Wilson
There Are No Saints
Young Fathers
Cocoa Sugar

The SAY Award celebrates and champions the best of Scottish music whilst recognizing creativity and artistic endeavor encompassing a broad spectrum of musical genres.

The Shortlist was chosen by a highly-respected panel of judges including Strawberry Switchblade’s Rose McDowall, BAFTA award-winning film maker Lynne Ramsay and curator of National Museum Scotland’s ‘Rip It Up: The Story of Scottish Pop’, Stephen Allen. Each Shortlisted album has automatically won a guaranteed £1,000 prize, with the winning album (decided on the night of the Ceremony) being awarded £20,000.

The Shortlist was exclusively revealed earlier this evening at a special BBC Radio Scotland Quay Session hosted by Roddy Hart. The live show and broadcast included previews of new material from pop-duo Sacred Paws whose debut album, ‘Strike a Match’, won the coveted SAY Award in 2017. Also performing was Lomond Campbell (Longlisted in 2012 for Found’s celebrated album ‘Factorycraft’), and Dunfermline’s finest post punk quintet The Skids, famous for ‎their hits ‘Into the Valley’, ‘Working for the Yankee ‎Dollar’ and ‘Masquerade’.

The 72-hour voting window, which closed at midnight on Wednesday, saw a record number of Public Votes being cast by engaged music fans, all hoping to secure their favourite Longlisted album a place on the 2018 SAY Award Shortlist. The winner of the Public Vote was Franz Ferdinand for ‘Always Ascending’.

Paul Thomson of Franz Ferdinand said, "This year has been a particularly good one for music coming out of Scotland and the SAY Award longlist and shortlist reflects that. We’re delighted to be up there with the hard hitters.â€

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