SAY LONGLIST ANNOUNCED: WINNING ARTIST SET TO RECEIVE £20,000

AWARD CEREMONY TO BE HELD AT BARROWLANDS ON ON THURSDAY, JUNE 20th

The Scottish Music Industry Association [SMIA] is delighted to announce the longlist of twenty albums for the 2013 Scottish Album of the Year Award. The albums on the list represent a dazzling range of genres and musical styles highlighting, once again, the extraordinary depth of talent being produced in Scotland.

Open to Scottish artists who released albums in 2012, the longlist is the product of a rigorous and thorough nomination process, with submissions received by 100 specially invited nominators from the Scottish and UK music industries as well as elsewhere in the arts and media. See Format & Eligibility Guidelines for more details.

A four-week promotion of the longlist will follow, allowing the public to stream every one of the twenty longlisted titles. The promotion concludes with a 24 hour public vote on Monday 27th May when the public can choose their favourite from the list. The album with the most public votes will secure an automatic place on The SAY Award Shortlist of ten, with the other nine titles being chosen by an independent panel of judges – see notes for editors for full list of judges.

The SAY Award Longlist is: (in alphabetical order)

Admiral Fallow Tree Bursts In Snow

Auntie Flo Future Rhythm Machine

Calvin Harris 18 Months

Dam Mantle Brothers Fowl

Django Django Django Django

Duncan Chisholm Affric

Emeli Sandé Our Version of Events

Errors Have Some Faith In Magic

Human Don’t Be Angry Human Don’t Be Angry

Karine Polwart Traces

Konrad Wiszniewski & Euan Stevenson New Focus

Lau Race The Loser

Meursault Something For The Weakened

Miaoux Miaoux Light of the North

Paul Buchanan Mid Air

PAWS Cokefloat

RM Hubbert Thirteen Lost & Found

Stanley Odd Reject

The Twilight Sad No One Can Ever Know

The Unwinding Hours Afterlives

Source: SMIA