SAY AWARDS LONGLIST ANNOUNCED

The Scottish Album of The Year (SAY) longlist was announced last night and can be viewed below and at the SAY site http://www.sayaward.com/. It's crammed full of superb Scottish music featuring albums released between January 2014 and March 2015 and there are many albums on the list that I love. The public vote will take place from May 25th to May 27th following which the list will be whittled down to 10 with that list announced on 28th May. The winner will be announced on June 17th at the SAY award ceremony. My personal favourites are Happy Meals, Mogwai, The Twilight Sad, Erros, Kathryn Joseph, King Creosote and Belle and Sebastian as they have all released superb albums of late. The whole list, however, is a celebration of the remarkably fine state of Scottish music at the moment. Go and vote when the public vote opens and keep an eye on SAY's site and Twitter feed in the meantime 

LONGLIST

Belle and Sebastian - Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance

Blue Rose Code - The Ballads of Peckham and Rye

Errors - Lease of Life

Fatherson - I Am An Island

Happy Meals - Apero

Honeyblood - Honeyblood

Idlewild - Everything Ever Written

Kathryn Joseph - Bones You Have Thrown At Me And Blood I've Spilled

King Creosote - From Scotland With Love

Mike Vass - In The Wake Of Neil Gunn

Mogwai - Rave Tapes

Paulo 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

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Scottish Album of The Year

The Scottish Album of The Year (SAY) longlist has been announced. The 20 albums on the list are:

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 And Bone
Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire - Roddy Heart & The Lonesome Fire
Scottish Chamber Orchestra (R Ticciati) - Berlioz: Les Nuits D'ete
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 longlist will be promoted through the SAY website (click) for four weeks during which time one of the longlisted albums can be streamed each weekday. A public vote begins on 26 May for 72 hours to allow the public to choose one album to go onto the final shortlist of 10, the other nine being chosen by the judging panel. 

Get listening and then get voting. It's a hugely impressive list that reflects the quality of music coming out of Scotland at the moment. Like I keep saying, we are in the midst of a great period for Scottish music and that's why it's really important to support awards like this and the music scene in general.

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