Scottish Album of the Year Award 2013 to hold public vote

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The Scottish Album of the Year Award (SAY Award) have announced that they’ll let the public help them decide on their final shortlist for this year’s accolade.

The ceremony, akin to the Mercury Prize, returns for its second year, with organisers revealing today that a public vote will be held to pick one of the ten-strong shortlist.

The shortlist, which cuts the longer list already revealed in half from 20 acts, will be made public on 30 May. The public vote will be held on 27 May via the SAY Award website, open for only 24 hours.

The eventual winner will be unveiled at ceremony in Barrowlands on 20 June, receiving a £20,000 cash prize. The full list of current nominees is as below:

Admiral Fallow – Tree Bursts In Snow
Auntie Flo – Future Rhythm Machine
Calvin Harris – 18 Months
Dam Mantle – Brothers Fowl
Django Django – Django Django
Duncan Chisholm – Affric
Emeli Sandé – Our Version of Events
Errors - Have Some Faith In Magic
Human Don’t Be Angry – Human Don’t Be Angry
Karine Polwart - Traces
Konrad Wiszniewski & Euan Stevenson – New Focus
Lau - Race The Loser
Meursault – Something For The Weakened
Miaoux Miaoux – Light of the North
Paul Buchanan – Mid Air
PAWS – Cokefloat!
RM Hubbert – Thirteen Lost & Found
Stanley Odd – Reject
The Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know
The Unwinding Hours – Afterlives