Mogwai, Young Fathers nominated for the Scottish Album of the Year Award 2015

The nominees for this year’s Scottish Album of the Year Award have been announced, with last year’s winners Young Fathers being nominated with their 2014 LP ‘Dead’.

Last year’s award was given to the Edinburgh group’s ‘Tape Two’ - they then went on to win the 2015 Mercury Prize with their ‘Dead’ follow-up.

Other nominees in the shortlist of twenty include Honeyblood’s self-titled debut, The Twilight Sad for ‘Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave’, the now defunct Amazing Snakeheads for ‘Amphetamine Ballads’, Mogwai for their top-10 charting ‘Rave Tapes’ and Idlewild with their comeback LP ‘Everything Ever Written’.

The shortlist brings together albums released between January 2014 and March 2015. Winners will pick up a prize of £20,000, while nine runners up are awarded £1,000.

Winners are announced at an O2 ABC Glasgow ceremony on Wednesday 17th June.

2015 SAY Award Nominees:

Belle and Sebastian, Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance 
Blue Rose Code, The Ballads of Peckham Rye 
Errors, Lease of Life
 Fatherson, I Am An Island 
Happy Meals, Apéro 
Honeyblood, Honeyblood 
Idlewild, Everything Ever Written 
Kathryn Joseph, Bones You Have Thrown Me and Blood I’ve Spilled
 King Creosote, From Scotland With Love 
Mike Vass, In The Wake of Neil Gunn 
Mogwai, Rave Tapes
 Paolo Nutini, Caustic Love 
PAWS, Youth Culture Forever 
Slam, Reverse Proceed 
The Amazing Snakeheads, Amphetamine Ballads 
The Phantom Band, Strange Friend 
The Twilight Sad, Nobody Wants To Be Here and Nobody Wants To Leave
 Treacherous Orchestra, Grind 
Withered Hand, New Gods 
Young Fathers, DEAD