Gossling, High Highs, World’s End Press Finalise Amp Longlist

$30,000 Australian album prize The Coopers Amp has finalised its long-list today with ten albums deemed good enough to be in the running.

Records from Gossling and World's End Press sit alongside The Trouble With Templeton and High Highs in the final reveal.

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The 2013 Coopers Amp Longlist

Ainslie Wills – You Go Your Way, I'll Go Mine
Dog Trumpet – Medicated Spirits
Gossling – Harvest Of Gold
High Highs – Open Season
Melanie Horsnell – The Cloud Appreciation Society
Montero – The Loving Gaze
Sara Storer – Lovegrass
Songs – Malabar
The Trouble With Templeton – Rookie
World's End Press – World's End Press

They join the already announced…

Adalita – All Day Venus
Cloud Control – Dream Cave
Palms – Step Brothers
Boy & Bear – Harlequin Dream
Fluent Form – Flu Season
Jagwar Ma – Howlin'
Josh Pyke – The Beginning And The End Of Everything
Machine Translations – The Bright Door
Paul Kelly, James Ledger, Genevieve Lacey & ANAMlly – Conversations With Ghosts
Heath Cullen – The Still And The Steep
Jimblah – Phoenix
Jimmy Tait – Golden
New Gods – Beloved
Ross McClennan – The Night Deeds Are Vapour
Brighter Later – The Wolves
Sam Buckingham – I'm A Bird
Luke Howard – Sun, Cloud
Pikelet – Calluses
Horrorshow – King Amongst Many
Dick Diver – Calendar Days
The Tongue – Surrender To Victory
The Delta Riggs – Hex Lover Killer
Standish/Carlyon – Deleted Scenes
PVT – Homosapien
Jen Cloher – In Blood Memory
Beaches – She Beats
Kirin J. Callinan – Embracism
The Drones – I See Seaweed
Bob Evans – Familiar Stranger
Abbe May – Kiss My Apocalypse
Big Scary – Not Art
Dialectrix – The Cold Light Of Day
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away

The list will be reduced to the shortlist at The Coopers Amp's Australia Day event in Melbourne, headlined by Hermitude.