Jagwar Ma, Boy & Bear, Jimblah Join Amp Prize Longlist

The Coopers Amp has added 14 new albums to the longlist today, with 33 artists now in the running for the prestigious $30,000 prize.

The likes of Cloud Control, Boy & Bear, Jagwar Ma, Jimblah, Adalita and The Palms have joined the longlist, which will be whittled down by the judging panel.

The names join previously-longlisted albums from Horrorshow, The Drones, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds amongst others. Entries are now closed for albums.

New additions to the longlist:

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

Already announced are:

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

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