Scottish Album Of The Year Award

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http://sayaward.com/

"The Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award is an ambitious new national prize established to reward and promote the diversity and creativity of music and art in Scotland. Developed by the Scottish Music Industry Association, in partnership with Creative Scotland, the award recognises the most outstanding albums released by Scottish artists in 2011. The SAY Award will place its focus on artistic merit rather than sales history, genre or label affiliation, offering £20,000 to the winning album and £1,000 to each of the nine runners-up."

There are some really great albums that have made it through to the 20-strong longlist and I highly recommend that everyone take a look and listen.

Sorry that I didn't get a chance to post this in time for the 24 hour public voting period yesterday. Maybe I'll make a poll if anyone seems interested though.

aye,some decent albums.i forgot to vote,but no big loss i guess,was just going to vote for my pal's album,not really in the true spirit of competition that.

someone name a Scottish metal album from last year I can pretend to be butthurt about it not being on the list

holy mountains got an album out? my google is broken.

mountain singular even,damn predictive typing.

Seems a worthwhile enterprise this. There have been a lot of bullshit award ceremonies set up for old musos to pat each other on the back, but this is actually credible. Decent enough selection, although Tattie Toes and Richard Youngs should be on there instead of landfill Twin Atlantic and We Were Promised Jetpacks. Hope the award goes to Muscles of Joy or Rustie, but there's a fair chane it'll go to King Creosote (zzz) or Aidan Moffat/Bill Wells (decent record, but far from either's best).

Holy Mountain album just came out - will be eligible for next year's award.

Richard Youngs is not Scottish, he may be based in Glasgow but he was born in Cambridge or somewhere

that's a decent list, but i think i'll direct my butthurt towards the lack of trembling bells.

richard's ours now. although by that standard i'm not. oh well.

I know that, but as far as I'm concerned if he's based here he should be in. He's part of the local scene in a way a Scottish band who've moved to London, say, aren't - which isn't to say I'd exclude anyone on those grounds either. Doing these things on grounds of ethnicity is totally bogus. After all, only one of Trembling Bells is Scottish, but they've all been based here for years. Same goes for Tattie Toes and numerous other acts. It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at and all that.

tbh i still think of veronica falls as a scottish band, i claim everyone i can.

Traitorous expats are always the ones like that ;)

anyone based in scotland is eligible for inclusion no matter where they were born.

Why was the voting only open for 24 hours? That seems a bit odd.

Public vote was to narrow the longlist into a shortlist.

Ah, okay. I think.

Yeah, that's still a bit brief though!

something sinister about the scottish album of the year award being a turquoise hexaon

well, almost

Pretty sharp marketing. Brings a bit more urgency to the voting. Plus they streamed an album a day ahead of the public vote which is pretty good exposure for all concerned.

If the awards were based on artwork then Bwani Junction would have to get the wooden spoon. "Ok guys, so like, the album is called 'Fully Cocked', so get this - we'll put a COCK on the cover. No, not that kind of cock..."

That 6th Borough Project is a shameless and rather shoddy Ghost Box rip-off and the Twin Atlantic cover is just a bunch of shit.

Best covers are easily Rustie and RememberRemember.

I keep seeing dance partisan kinda ppl rep for Fudge Fingas but I can't bring myself to listen to something calling itself Fudge Fingas

A finga of fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat...

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Went for the Conquering Animal Sound album, but there's quite a few good albums on the list. Seems like being (long)shortlisted has at least meant that the Happy Particles album has made it to CD, spotted copies in HMV.

Yeah, the Happy Particles album was pushed into a much-needed physical release because of their being nominated.

The final shortlist of ten was announced this morning and is as follows...

King Creosote & Jon Hopkins 'Diamond Mine'
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat 'Everything's Getting Older'
Mungo's Hi Fi 'Forward Ever'
Twin Atlantic 'Free'
Rustie 'Glass Swords'
Mogwai 'Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will'
Conquering Animal Sound 'Kammerspiel'
Tommy Smith 'Karma'
Remember Remember 'The Quickening'
Happy Particles 'Under Sleeping Waves'

Apparently there were 9000 votes in the 24 hour long public voting period, which was won by Twin Atlantic.

I kinda feel that this is the obvious shortlist drawn from what was available? Still, it's good to be reminded what talents sit on our doorstep.

really surprised at Twin Atlantic fans being the sort of noodlebrained lemmings who egg each other on to vote en masse for an ultimately pointless award that they're never going to actually win

No Steve Mason. Boo :(

Award ceremony is tonight...

It will be streamed live, with the winner announced at 10:30pm UK time, if anyone is interested: http://sayaward.com/article/stream-the-say-award-ceremony-online

Congratulations to winners Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat!

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sort of expected this /hindsight

I was expecting King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, if anything.

Wells & Moffat was my favourite album of last year, so I can be happy with the result, even if I personally would rather have seen the award go to Happy Particles.

Not my favourite Wells record, but it's cool he's getting his dues. And I'm glad it was that insipid and overrated King Creosote/Jon Hopkins album. There, I said it. I shall now be chased out of Scotland by irate Fifers.

Ha!

"glad it wasn't" obv

Ah well, as Ian Hamilton Finlay said, typos are "life's income tax"