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Nick Cave, Flume and more revealed in 12th Australian Music Prize longlist
The 12th annual Australian Music Prize has revealed its longlist for 2016 and it features Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Flume, The Avalanches and loads more brilliant homegrown artists.
After whittling it down from a whopping 364 albums, the longlist aims to celebrate the very best in Australian music before releasing a shortlist and then an overall award winner.
Last year, Melbourne-based singer/songwriter Courtney Barnett bagged the top spot with her highly acclaimed record, Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit.
Check the full list below:
A.B. Original – Reclaim Australia
Archie Roach – Let Love Rule
The Avalanches – Wildflower
Big Scary – Animal
Big White – Teenage Dreams
Camp Cope – Camp Cope
Cash Savage and the Last Drinks – One Of Us
Chook Race – Around The House
Curse Ov Dialect – Twisted Strangers
D.D Dumbo – Utopia Defeated
Deborah Conway/Willy Zygier – Everybody’s Begging
The Delta Riggs – Active Galactic
Dope Lemon – Honey Bones
Dorsal Fins – Digital Zodiac
The Drones – Feelin’ Kinda Free
Ducks! – Ding Ding Ding
Ela Stiles – Molten Metal
Emma Russack – In a New State
Flume – Skin
friendships – Nullarbor 1988 – 1989
Gabriella Cohen – Full Closure And No Detail
Gawurra – Ratja Yaliyal
Gentleforce – Refuge From The Great Sadness
Halfway – The Golden Halfway Record
Jagwar Ma – Every Now & Then
Jarrow – 2003 Dream
The Jezabels – Synthia
Julia Jacklin – Don’t Let The Kids Win
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity
Koi Child – Koi Child
Liz Stringer – All Of The Bridges
Marcus Whale – Inland Sea
Mark Pritchard – Under The Sun
Melody Pool – Deep Dark Savage Heart
Mike Noga – King
The Moles – Tonight’s Music
Mt. Mountain – Cosmos Terros
The Nation Blue – Black
NGAIIRE – Blastoma
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
NO ZU – Afterlife
Olympia – Self Talk
Pale Earth – Always
The Peep Tempel – Joy
Pikelet – Tronc
Rainbow Chan – Spacings
REMI – Divas & Demons
Richard Cuthbert – Peach Plum
Safe Hands – Tie Your Soul To Mine
Sara Storer – Silos
Sarah Mary Chadwick – Roses Always Die
Solo Andata – In The Lens
Sophie Hutchings – Wide Asleep
Stu Hunter – the migration
Summer Flake – Hello Friends
Teeth & Tongue – Give Up On Your Health
Troy Cassar-Daley – Things I Carry Around
Twelve Foot Ninja – Outlier
Urthboy – The Past Beats Inside Me Like A Second Heartbeat
Violent Soho – WACO
Yeo – Ganbaru
The 12th Australian Music Prize announces its shortlist on 18 January before the final winner is confirmed on March 2016 and awarded $30,000 in prize money.
