Chet Faker Only Multiple Independent Music Award Winner

The winners of the Jagermeister Independent Music Awards have all been announced this evening with a large contingent of the nominated artists sharing the spoils of victory as, much like last year, no one artist managed to completely dominate the awards.

We tipped pretty damn poorly, getting just five correct out of 12 awards; a tipping score of 41.66 percent.

Melbourne's Chet Faker was the only artist to pick up more than one award, taking out both the Best Independent Single/EP for his Thinking In Textures release and the Breakthrough Independent Artist award as well. He dominated the nominations.

Sydney garage rock acolytes Royal Headache had their hugely acclaimed eponymous LP bestowed with the Best Independent Album award, another massive coup for the band who have had an enormous year and a half, rapidly rising through the ranks to become one of the country's most well–loved acts.

They picked up a couple of awards last year, but this year Sydney's The Jezabels were content with just the one gong, this year for Best Independent Artist – one of the awards that they also picked up in 2011.

The man who has arguably had the biggest year of any independent Australian artist, 360, also wasn't going home empty handed; his Falling & Flying record rather unsurprisingly stormed through the pack to take out the Best Independent Hip Hop Album award.

Brisbane's DZ Deathrays also scored the top honours in their genre award, blitzing the strong pack to take out the Best Independent Hard Rock Or Punk Album in 2012 for the aural assault that is their debut album Bloodstreams.

We couldn't pick who was going to win the Best Independent Label category, so strong were its contestants, but you'd hard pressed to find anyone arguing with Elefant Traks taking out the inaugural award, after a year that featured releases from The Herd, Urthboy, Hermitude, Sietta, The Last Kinnection and Sky'High.

Speaking of Hermitude, the Blue Mountains duo picked up the gong for Best Independent Dance/Electronica Album for their much loved HyperParadise release, which soundtracked plenty of parties around the country upon its release early this year. No stranger to the winner's podium, Tom Piper made it two in a row when he picked up Best Independent Dance/Electronica or Club Single for his collaboration with Daniel Harley, LGFU.

We had no issue in metaphorically putting the house on Lanie Lane to take out the Best Independent Blues and Roots Album, which she did for her To The Horses release, which has helped greatly with her explosion onto the Australian live scene. We felt much the same way about the Mike Nock Trio Plus, who took out the Best Independent Jazz Album for their Hear And Know, the legendary pianist adding yet another accolade to his huge list.

My Little River earned Jess Ribiero & The Bone Collectors their first ever Jagermeister Independent Music Award; their debut record of dark and dusty ballads earning them the award for Best Independent Country Album this evening.

Full list of winners is below. Stay tuned for more goss on what went on throughout the evening.

Breakthrough Independent Artist – Chet Faker
Best Independent Single/EP – Chet Faker Thinking In Textures
Best Independent Album – Royal Headache Royal Headache
Best Independent Artist – The Jezabels
Best Independent Hip Hop/Urban Album – 360 Falling & Flying
Best Independent Hard Rock or Punk Album – DZ Deathrays Bloodstreams
Best Independent Label – Elefant Traks
Best Independent Dance/Electronica a Club Single – Tom Piper & Daniel Harley LGFU
Best Independent Dance/Electronica Album – Hermitude HyperParadise
Best Independent Blues And Roots Album – Lanie Lane To The Horses
Best Independent Country Album – Jess Ribeiro & The Bone Collectors My Little River
Best Independent Jazz Album – Mike Nock Trio Plus Hear And Know