Post-rock top picks Mogwai have been delegated champs of the Scottish Album of the Year Award interestingly.
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| Mogwai have won the Scottish Album of the Year Award for the first time. |
The Glasgow band, who been shortlisted four times for the honour, were recognised ahead of Mogwai, Biffy Clyro, Stanley Odd and The Snuts.
Mogwai were honoured for the tenth studio album they have released forming more than 25 years ago. The ten shortlisted collections in dispute during the current year's SAY Award were trimmed down from 327 qualified deliveries during the Covid pandemic between June 2020 and May of this current year. Others competitors included AiiTee, Joesef, Lizzie Reid, Rachel Newton and The Ninth Wave.The fundamental honor accompanies a £20,000 monetary reward one of the most worthwhile in the UK social scene.Ten long periods of the honor - which has recently been won by Auntie Flo, Sacred Paws, Anna Meredith, Kathryn Joseph, RM Hubbert and Young Fathers - were commended in an extravagant function at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, as the occasion was opened up to general society to go to interestingly. The audience was treated to performances by Hamish Hawk, Sacred Paws, Bemz and Alasdair Roberts and last year’s winner, Edinburgh-based rap star Nova Scotia, who opened the ceremony, which was hosted by broadcasters Nicola Meighan and Vic Galloway. Rising Edinburgh singing star Lvra, who was born in the city to Chinese parents, was honoured with a new Sound of Young Scotland Award and also took to the stage to perform. The 21-year-old released an EP last summer which she said sought to “to paint a positive image of Chinese culture in the wake of COVID-19” at a time when racist attacks on Chinese students were on the rise. Morag Macdonald, youth music initiative manager at Creative Scotland said: “Using East-Asian, R&B and electronic music influences, Lvray’s music offers a refreshing and punchy alternative pop sound.” The ceremony also saw Frightened Rabbit crowned the inaugural winner of a new annual award to recognise a “Modern Scottish Classic” album for The Midnight Organ Fight, their second album.The winner was decided by a panel of judges including The Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess, author Ian Rankin, former Scots Makar Jackie Kay, actor Daniel Portman and comic Ashley Storrie. |