Five WA Acts Longlisted for 2017 Australian Music Prize

13 Dec

The complete 13th Australian Music Prize (AMP) Longlist has been announced at an event at the National Hotel in Melbourne with five WA acts making the cut including Nerve Quakes, Boat Show, Methyl Ethel, Pond and Cam Avery, along with another 40 Australian acts will vie for the $30,000 cash prize from the PPCA.

After listening to more than 400 Australian albums – a new record – released in the 2017 calendar year, the judging panel, chaired by Dave Faulkner of Hoodoo Gurus, have confirmed the following albums have made the Longlist:

Alex Lahey – I Love You Like A Brother

Ali Barter – A Suitable Girl

Alex Cameron – Forced Witness

Beaches – Second of Spring

Ben Salter – Back Yourself

Billy Davis – A Family Portrait

Birdz – Train of Thought

BOAT SHOW – Groundbreaking Masterpiece

Boo Seeka – Never Too Soon

Brightness – Teething

Cable Ties– Cable Ties

Cameron Avery – Ripe Dreams, Pipe Dreams

The Creases – Tremolow

Courtney Barnett, Kurt Vile – Lotta Sea Lice

Cub Sport – BATS

Dappled Cities – IIIII

Darcy Baylis – Intimacy & Isolation

Ecca Vandal – Ecca Vandal

EWAH & The Vision of Paradise – Everything Fades to Blue

Gang of Youths – Go Farther In Lightness

Glitter Veils – Figures in Sight

Gold Class – Drum

Gordi – Reservoir

Gretta Ziller – Queen of Boomtown

Hazel English – Just Give In/Never Going Home

Holly Throsby – After A Time

Jen Cloher – Jen Cloher

Jess Locke – Universe

Jordan Ireland with Purple Orchestra – Jordan Ireland with Purple Orchestra

Jordan Rakei – Wallflower

Kasey Chambers – Dragonfly

King Gizzard & the Wizard Lizard – Flying Microtonal Banana

Liars – TFCF

Machine Translations – Oh

Mere Women – Big Skies

Methyl Ethel – Everything Is Forgotten

Nerve Quakes – A New State

Paul Kelly – Life Is Fine

Pond – The Weather

Sampa The Great – Birds and the BEE9

The Smith Street Band – More Scared Of You Than You Are Of Me

Tim Rogers – An Actor Repairs

Time For Dreams – In Time

Tornado Wallace – Lonely Planet

Underground Lovers – Staring At You Staring At Me

The Vampires – The Vampires Meet Lionel Loueke

 
The 13th AMP Shortlist will be announced in late January, before the winner is announced in early March.