Final Albums Announced For $30,000 Aus Music Prize

The Coopers Amp – a $30,000 prize for Australian albums – has announced its third, and final, batch of albums up for shortlist consideration today.

With the recent news that Hermitude's HyperParadise was the first album selected for the final nine – and the first to be part of their Amp Alive live Melbourne showcase – the 24 albums added to the list today complete the 71-strong long list.

Without further ado, here are the final 24:

Ali E Landless                             
Bertie Blackman Pope Innocent X
Big Strong Brute Avalanche Of Truth
Bored Nothing Bored Nothing
Charles Jenkins & The Zhivagos Love Your Crooked Neighbour With Your Crooked Heart
Chasm This Is How We Never Die
Corey Colum Corey Colum
Flume Flume
Galapagoose Commitments
Glenn Cardier Stranger Than Fiction
Joe Robinson Let Me Introduce You
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson Wreck & Ruin
Lisa Mitchell Bless This Mess
Love Migrate Plagued Are All My Thoughts, Like White Ants In The Fence
Maundz Zero
Paul Kelly Spring And Fall
San Cisco San Cisco
Sarah Blasko I Awake
Skryptcha Mindful
Tame Impala Lonerism
The Black Sorrows Crooked Little Thoughts
The Pataphysics Subversive
The Trouble with Templeton Bleeders
Yung Warriors Standing Strong

There have been a number of changes to the prize this year, the organisers dropped the entry price and then asked industry and fans to submit albums for consideration. After 230 records were identified, two rounds of eligible albums were selected for the long-list. The first 26 records were announced October, with the second round of 21 albums in November.

The other eight albums that will make the final shortlist for the PPCA-donated cash prize, will be announced next year.

Past winners include:

2005: The Drones - Wait Long By The River And The Bodies of You Enemies Will Float By
2006: Augie March - Moo, You Bloody Choir
2007: The Mess Hall - Devils Elbow
2008: Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Primary Colours
2009: Lisa Mitchell - Wonder
2010: Cloud Control - Bliss Release
2011: The Jezabels - Prisoner