Shortlist revealed for Choice Music Prize album of the year award
CMAT, Lankum and Grian Chatten are among the acts on the shortlist for the RTÉ Choice Music Prize 2023.
Lankum and CMAT are probably the top two favourites to take the RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year following the publication of the shortlist on Monday.
Ten albums will vie for a €10,000 award chosen by a panel of industry experts and announced at a live event at Vicar St on March 7.
Last year’s winner CMAT is back in the running again with her widely-praised Crazymad, For Me album, while Lankum topped several ‘best of the year’ lists at home and abroad with their False Lankum record.
Grian Chatten is also on the shortlist with Chaos For The Fly, having somewhat surprisingly never won the prize for any of the three albums his band Fontaines DC released.
As ever with the Choice, the shortlist will spark plenty debate among music aficionados, with well-known artists whose albums won’t be in the running including Hozier, the Mary Wallopers, and Róisín Murphy.
The shortlists for other related prizes, including Song of the Year and Breakthrough Artist, will be announced on RTÉ 2FM through the week.
The Choice Music Prize was founded in 2005, when Julie Feeney took home the inaugural award for 13 Songs, and the 18 winners through the years have also included Villagers, The Gloaming, and Denise Chaila.
- Grian Chatten – Chaos For The Fly (Partisan Records)
- CMAT – Crazymad, For Me (CMATBABY/AWAL)
- John Francis Flynn – Look Over The Wall, See The Sky (River Lea Recordings)
- Kojaque – PHANTOM OF THE AFTERS (Soft Boy Records)
- Lankum – False Lankum (Rough Trade Records)
- Rachael Lavelle – Big Dreams (Rest Energy)
- Soda Blonde – Dream Big (Overbite Records)
- The Murder Capital – Gigi’s Recovery (Human Season Records)
- The Scratch – Mind Yourself (Perrystown Music Limited)
- Ezra Williams – Supernumeraries (Ezra Williams / AWAL)
