All records have 10% off for existing and new Loud And Quiet members. They’ve all played their important roles through 2020, and now we’ve collected them all together.ġ2 of our selected albums feature in this month’s L&Q x DRIFT Records collection. There’s been something for every angle of 2020’s singular mood, from the records that seemed to predict social collapse and sound exactly like it (Protomartyr, Keeley Forsyth, Run the Jewels) to Hen Ogledd’s surreal adventures for a surreal time, to escapist pop masterpieces from Dua Lipa and Georgia, to the healing electronics of Kelly Lee Owens, Kate NV and Sparkle Division. Taylor Swift became the first woman to win the award for album of the year three times when Folklore triumphed in that marquee category at the Grammy Awards Sunday night.
Against the odds, the pandemic was unable to kill off new releases, though, and after a few weeks of listening to Blonde and the first Jamie T album, new records soundtracked and saved our years with a heightened sense of connectivity community clapping to the domestic theatrics of Fiona Apple, shuffling along Morrison’s grief conga to the horribly apt horrorcore of Clipping, finding a summer where there wasn’t one in Megan Thee Stallion’s mixtape of house party sex tunes.
Most of us spent a good chunk of 2020 listening to old albums we definitely knew we liked, just in case it was the last thing we heard. The nominees for Album of the Year along with Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist and several genre awards were previously decided by secretive nomination review.
ALBUM OF THE YEAR FULL
To be eligible, it has to have at least five new full songs and be 15 minutes long or be 30 minutes long, with as many damn tracks as it wants. Catchy, moody, pop rock that fluctuates between the. Album of the Year is the award for a whole-ass album. The sum of these parts is found on 'Album Of The Year'. Each record is now in the running for the £20,000 prize, as well as the coveted title of Scottish Album of the Year. The bands sound has evolved from the refined, quiet pop of the first full-length, 'Novena On A Nocturn', to the moody hooks of 2002s 'Black Out' to the anthems of divorce and disillusionment found on the recent 'Lovers Need Lawyers' EP.
The album should be judged on all aspects including, but not limited to, artist’s performance, musical background, engineering, packaging, design, art, layout and liner notes. The Award is for a Country album as a whole unit as defined by the Billboard Album charts. It’s that time of year again, when us and others like us (maybe even you) agonise over our favourite records released since January. From harrowing bass music, dissonant IDM, pulsing electro, engulfing jungle, bubbling ambient and beyond, the year has seen a raft of more esoteric works. 10 outstanding Scottish albums have been announced as The SAY Award Shortlist for 2021 whittled down from 327 Eligible Albums by 100 impartial music industry Nominators, and subsequently, by an online public vote and The SAY Award judging panel. ALBUM OF THE YEAR BALLOTING/ VOTING This Award goes to the artist and producer.
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