Shortlist Music Prize unveils nominees
Sixth annual award rolls out list of 61 nominees for top album of 2006, to be whittled down to 10 finalists later this spring.
The Shortlist Music Prize unveiled its Long List of nominees today, giving 61 bands and artists a chance to claim one of the most coveted awards in indie music.
The nominees include acts that dominated critics' best-of-2006 lists, including TV on the Radio, Lupe Fiasco, The Roots, Band of Horses, Hot Chip, Girl Talk, The Knife, Beck, Cat Power, The Decemberists, Neil Young, Editors, Beirut, Wolfmother, and Spank Rock.
The award, which goes to 2006's best album that hasn't sold more than 500,000 copies in the US, is chosen by a handful of prominent artists and journalists. This year's panel of listmakers, each of whom chose nominees for the Long List, include: Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody, the Killers' Ronnie Vannucci, Franz Ferdinand, KT Tunstall, Panic! at the Disco, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, journalists Toure and Rev. Moose, and 2006 Shortlist winner Sufjan Stevens.
The panel will pick 10 finalists in April, and the winner will be announced later in the spring.
"This year's Listmakers have created a streetwise playlist of state-of-the art rock, dance, and hip hop," Shortlist Creative Director Greg Spotts said in a statement.
Lightbody called this year's Long List "an incredible list that looks like my own iPod."
In addition to Stevens, who won for his 2006 album Illinois, previous Shortlist winners include Sigur Ros, N*E*R*D, Damien Rice, and TV on the Radio.
Stevens nominated Dabrye's Two/Three, Danielson's Ships, Kidd Jordan's Palm of Soul, Matmos' The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast, Midlake's The Trials of Van Occupanther, OOIOO's Taiga, Serena Maneesh's self-titled album, and The Blow's Paper Television.
Ronnie Vannucci of the Killers chose Jeremy Enigk's World Waits, Neil Young's Living With War, The Decemberists' The Crane Wife, The Strokes' First Impression of Earth, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Show Your Bones.
Flaming Lips' frontman Wayne Coyne nominated Cat Power's The Greatest, CSS's Cansei de Ser Sexy, Girl Talk's Night Ripper, Teddy Bears' Soft Machine, and Wolfmother's self-titled debut album.
Lightbody nominated Band of Horses' Everything All the Time, Beirut's Gulag Orskestar, Bonnie Prince Billy's The Letting Go, Editors' The Back Room, Field Music's self-titled album, Mates of State's Bring It Back, Secret Machines' Ten Silver Drops, The Weepies' Say I Am You, and We Are Scientists' With Love and Squalor.
KT Tunstall picked Beck's The Information, Joanna Newsom's Ys, Regina Spektor's Begin to Hope, and Tom Waits' Orphans.
Franz Ferdinand chose Belle and Sebastian's The Life Pursuit, Country Teasers' The Empire Strikes Back, Hot Chip's The Warning, Liars' Drums Not Dead, Skream's self-titled album, Spank Rock's YoYoYoYoYo, The Gossip's Standing in the Way of Control, and TV On the Radio's Return to Cookie Mountain.
Panic! At the Disco picked Cursive's Happy Hollow, Forgive Durden's Wonderland, Mew's And the Glass Hand Kites, Mute Math's self-titled album, The Bronx's eponymous album, The Hush Sound's Like Vines, The Stills' Without Feathers, and The Velvet Teen's Cum Laude.
CMJ Editor-in-Chief Rev. Moose nominated Against Me's Americans Abroad Live in London, ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead's So Divided, Art Brut's Bang Bang Rock & Roll, Dead Heart Bloom's self-titled album, Kimya Dawson's Remember That I Love You, Mohair's Small Talk, Peeping Tom's eponymous album, The Knife's Silent Shout, and Vaux's Beyond Virtue Beyond Vice.
Hip-hop journalist Toure's picks included Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor, Raconteurs' Broken Boy Soldiers, and The Roots' Game Theory.
Sixth Annual Shortlist Music Prize nominees:
Against Me - Americans Abroad Live in London
And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - So Divided
Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
Beck - The Information
Beirut - Gulag Orskestar
Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go
Cat Power - The Greatest
Country Teasers - The Empire Strikes Back
CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy
Cursive - Happy Hollow
Dabrye - Two/Three
Danielson - Ships
Dead Heart Bloom - Dead Heart Bloom
Editors - The Back Room
Field Music - Field Music
Forgive Durden - Wonderland
Girl Talk - Night Ripper
Hot Chip - The Warning
Howling Bells - Howling Bells
Jeremy Enigk - World Waits
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Kidd Jordan, Hamid Drake + William Parker - Palm of Soul
Kimya Dawson - Remember that I Love You
Liars - Drum's Not Dead
Love is All - Nine Times That Same Song
Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
Mates of State - Bring It Back
Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast
Mew - And the Glass Hand Kites
Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
Mohair - Small Talk
Mute Math - Mutemath
Neil Young - Living With War
OOIOO - Taiga
Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom
Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
Roots - Game Theory
Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
Serena Maneesh - Serena Maneesh
Skream - Skream
Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo
Teddybears - Soft Machine
The Blow - Paper Television
The Bronx - The Bronx
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
The Gossip - Standing In the Way of Control
The Hush Sound - Like Vines
The Knife - Silent Shout
The Stills - Without Feathers
The Strokes - First Impression of Earth
The Velvet Teen - Cum Laude
The Weepies - Say I am You
Tom Waits - Orphans
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Vaux - Beyond Virtue Beyond Vice
We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor
Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
