Longlist announced for 11th Australian Music Prize (AMP)

The 11th Australian Music Prize (AMP) is inching closer to the winner announcement, with the final Longlist of 56 albums now complete, to be followed by the Shortlist announcement on February 3 and the winner announcement at the ‘Amped Up In Conversation’ event to be held on March 9.

The Longlist for the 11th AMP is listed below in alphabetical order, with the final 12 albums added to the list today (and marked with a *):

The Apartments ’No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal’ * Au.Ra ‘Jane’s Lament’
Bad//Dreems ’Dogs At Bay’
Blank Realm ’Illegals In Heaven’
Courtney Barnett ’Sometimes I Sit And Think, Sometimes I Just Sit’ Cured Pink ‘As A Four Piece Band’
Dan Kelly ’Leisure Panic’
Daniel Johns ’Talk’
* Darren Hanlon ‘Where Did You Come From’ Daughter’s Fever ’Daughter’s Fever’
Dick Diver ’Melbourne, Florida’
* Dumbsaint ‘Panorama, In Ten Pieces’ Förstöra ’For All That Will Save Or Destroy Us’ F**k the Fitzroy Doom Scene ’Facing The Ruin’ * Gang of Youths ‘The Positions’
Gold Class ’It’s You’
The Grates ’Dream Team’
Grenadiers ’Summer’
* GUM ‘Glamorous Damage’
Hermitude ’Dark Night Sweet Light’
Hiatus Kaiyote ’Choose Your Weapon’
* Hierophants ‘Parallax Error’
High Tension ’Bully’
HOLY HOLY ’When The Storms Would Come’ Jaala ’Hard Hold’
Jess Ribeiro ’Kill It Yourself’
King Parrot ’Dead Set’
* Leah Senior ‘Summer’s On The Ground’ Marlon Williams ’Marlon Williams’
* Mathas ‘Armwrestling Atlas’
Melanie Horsnell ’Quatre Chemins’
Methyl Ethel ’Oh Inhuman Spectacle’
* Moses Gunn Collective ‘Mercy Mountain’ My Disco ’Severe’
Nite Fields ’Depersonalisation’
Oh Mercy ’When We Talk About Love’ Oisima ’Nicaragua Nights’
* Orpheus Omega ‘Partum Vita Mortem’ Palms ‘Crazy Rack’
Parkway Drive ‘Ire’
Peter Bibby ’Butcher/Hairstylist/Beautician’ POND ’Man, It Feels Like Space Again’
Rand & Holland ’Rand & Holland’
Roland Tings ’Roland Tings’
Royal Headache ’High’
Sally Greenaway ’Aubade & Nocturne’
Sally Whitwell ’I Was Flying’
* Sampa The Great ‘The Great Mixtape’ Sarah Blasko ‘Eternal Return’
Sarah Mary Chadwick ‘9 Classic Tracks’ Szymon ’Tigersapp’
Tame Impala ’Currents’
Terrible Truths ’Terrible Truths’
Thy Art Is Murder ‘Holy War’
Totally Mild ’Down Time’
* Tuka ‘Life Death Time Eternal’

Dan Kelly said about his inclusion, “It’s tremendous to be included in this year’s Longlist for the AMP awards. It’s been a mental year for great Australian albums and just to be in included with the likes of Royal Headache, Tame Impala, Totally MIld, My Disco, Courtney Barnett, Jess Ribeiro and all the nominees is a great honour for me and my musical cohorts and gives me an all round good feeling. The diversity of the list is very inspiring. So many styles to plunder for my next disc/stream! If I win I promise to buy some golden swimmers and go snorkeling in the Maldives with the Dream Band and/or record another album.”

PPCA’s Chief Executive Officer Dan Rosen said, “PPCA is proud to again be on board as the $30,000 major prize sponsor of The AMP – a prize that has remained close to our hearts since its inception over a decade ago. This prize has helped further the careers of some fantastic Australian artists including The Drones, Lisa Mitchell and most recently, REMI.

“The support of Australian recording artists has been the cornerstone of PPCA for over 40 years, therefore we are honoured to have been the major prize sponsor of the Australian Music Prize since day one.

“2015 has been an exceptional year for Australian music and we eagerly look forward for the winner of this year’s AMP to be announced.”

The 11th AMP continues to recognise and promote excellence in Australian music, with a generous incentive of $30,000 in prize money courtesy of PPCA.