Twenty of the best albums released in the last year are in the running for the fourth annual Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) award.
The awards celebrate, promote and reward albums released by Scottish artists, with a top prize of £20,000 up for grabs. There are also nine runners-up prizes of £1,000 and a Graduate Design Commission valued at £2,500 on offer.
The longlist will be whittled down to ten before the judges make the final decision of who will take Young Fathers' crown from them - unless of course they take the prize for a second consecutive year!
The nominations are:
- Fatherson - 'I Am An Island'
- Happy Meals - 'Apero'
- Kathryn Joseph - 'Bones You Have Thrown Me And Blood I Have Spilled'
- Mogwai - 'Rave Tapes'
- King Creosote - 'From Scotland With Love'
- Belle & Sebastian - 'Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance'
- Withered Hand - 'New Gods'
- Slam - 'Reverse Proceed'
- The Twilight Sad - 'Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave'
- The Amazing Snakeheads - 'Amphetamine Ballads'
- Young Fathers - 'DEAD'
- Paolo Nutini - 'Caustic Love'
- Honeyblood - 'Honeyblood'
- Treacherous Orchestra - 'Grind'
- Blue Rose Code - 'The Ballads Of Peckham Rye'
- PAWS - 'Youth Culture Forever'
- Idlewild - 'Everything Ever Written'
- The Phantom Band - 'Strange Friend'
- Mike Vass - 'In The Wake Of Neil Gunn'
- Errors - 'Lease Of Life'
You can listen to a track from each of the artist (except Kathryn Joseph) on the Spotify playlist below:
Over the next four weeks one album will be named 'Album of the Day' on the Say Award site providing the chance for music fans can listen to the album in full.
On May 25, voting will open for 72 hours to allow the public to choose one album to make the final ten. The other nine will be chosen by a number of judges including playwright Cora Bissett, 'Grand Theft Auto' soundtrack composer Craig Conner and chair of the panel (and former Belle & Sebastian manager) John Williamson. The shortlist will be announced on May 28 ahead of the final awards ceremony on June 17 at Glasgow's O2 ABC.
So if you want your favourite release to win, don't forget to cast your vote.
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