Final Artists Added To Coopers Amp Long-List

Another six artists and their respective albums have been added to the Coopers Amp long-list, with the list now finalised.

Eclectic singer-songwriter Bertie Blackman, party-rap quartet Daily Meds, fuzz-rock collective King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, progressive Melbourne trio Krakatau, blues and jazz artist Lanie Lane and Perth indie-pop and rock muso Shiny Joe Ryan have been added to the list, which takes its tally up to 65.

updated long-list

#1 Dads – About Face
Allday – Startup Cult
Andras & Oscar — Cafe Romantica
Angus & Julia Stone — Angus & Julia Stone
Augie March – Havens Dumb
Ball Park Music – Puddinghead
Bertie Blackman — The Dash
Bird Traps – The Colour Fields
Black Cab — Games Of The XXI Olympiad
Blank Realm – Grassed Inn
Bored Nothing – Some Songs
Briggs – Sheplife
Buried In Verona – Faceless
Caitlin Park – The Sleeper
Chet Faker – Built On Glass
C.W.Stoneking – Gon’ Boogaloo
Caitlin Park — The Sleeper
Chet Faker — Built On Glass
Collarbones — Return
Daily Meds — Sour Milk
Dune Rats — Dune Rats
DZ Deathrays – Black Rat
East Brunswick All Girls Choir – Seven Drummers
Emma Russack — You Changed Me
Firekites — Closing Forever Sky
Fishing – Shy Glow
Flight Facilities — Down To Earth
Four Hours Sleep — Four Hours Sleep
Guerre — Ex Nihilo
GUM — Delorean Highway
Harmony – Carpetbombing
Harts – Daydreamer
Hilltop Hoods – Walking Under Stars
HITS — Hikikomori
HTRK – Psychic 9-5 Club
Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders — Playmates
Jane Tyrrell — Echoes In The Aviary
Joelistics — Blue Volume
John Butler Trio – Flesh & Blood
Kate Miller-Heidke – O Vertigo
Kimbra — The Golden Echo
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — I'm In Your Mind Fuzz
Krakatau — Water Near A Bridge
Lanie Lane — Night Shade
Laura Jean – Laura Jean
Lowlakes – Iceberg Nerves
Lowtide — Lowtide
Mia Dyson – Idyllwyld
Mike Rivett — Digital Seed
Nun – Nun
One Day – Mainline
REMI – Raw X Infinity
Richard In Your Mind – Ponderosa
Sally Seltmann – Hey Daydreamer
Seekae – The Worry
Shiny Joe Ryan — Shiny Joe Ryan & The Cosmic Microwave Background
Sticky Fingers — Land Of Pleasure
Straight Arrows – Rising
Sweet Amphetamines – Duke
Tape/Off – Chipper
Teeth & Tongue – Grids
The Amity Affliction — Let The Ocean Take Me
The Ocean Party — Soft Focus
The Peep Tempel – Tales
Thundamentals — So We Can Remember
Tom E. Lewis – Beneath The Sun
Total Control – Typical System

previous winners

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
2012: Hermitude – HyperParadise
2013: Big Scary – Not Art

The $30,000 prize, funded by PPCA, will be judged by a panel of 15 industry figures. The short-list will be announced on Wednesday 21 January, with the winner revealed at a ceremony on Wednesday 4 March.