Errors, Honeyblood and PAWS make SAY Award 2015 shortlist

Yasmin Sulaiman

28 May 2015

The shortlist of ten includes a mix of established and emerging artists, plus one former winner

The shortlist for this year's Scottish Album of the Year Award has been revealed – and it's a healthy mix of established and lesser-known names.

The ten albums that made the cut this year are:

Belle and Sebastian, Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance

Errors, Lease of Life

Happy Meals, Apéro

Honeyblood, Honeyblood

Kathryn Joseph, Bones You Have Thrown Me and Blood I’ve Spilled

Paolo Nutini, Caustic Love

PAWS, Youth Culture Forever

Slam, Reverse Proceed

The Amazing Snakeheads, Amphetamine Ballads

Young Fathers, DEAD

Paolo Nutini's Caustic Love won the public vote, which took place over 72 hours earlier this week, and the remaining nine albums were chosen by a panel of independent judges.

Stewart Henderson, chair of the SMIA, said: 'Reducing The SAY Award longlist to a shortlist of 10 is never an easy task but by all accounts this year’s process has been particularly painful. We can only wish the remaining titles the very best of luck and congratulate them on emerging from such an extraordinary crop of albums.'

Mogwai, Idlewild, the Phantom Band, King Creosote and the Twilight Sad are among the longlisted artists that didn't make the final ten.

Past SAY Award winners include Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat for Everything's Getting Older (2012), RM Hubbert's Thirteen Lost & Found (2013) and Young Fathers with Tape Two (2014). Young Fathers are also shortlisted this year for DEAD.

The 2015 SAY Award winner will be announced on Wed 17 Jun, at an awards ceremony at the O2 ABC, Glasgow, hosted by broadcasters Janice Forsyth and Vic Galloway. A live stream of the ceremony will be available to watch online.

To find out more about the SAY Award 2015, go to sayaward.com