The Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award 2018 longlist has been revealed

The SAY Award reaches its seventh edition as over 100 nominators gathered to choose their favourite Scottish albums of 2018.

The winner(s) will pick up a £20,000 prize, with the nine runners-up each receiving £1,000.

In alphabetical order, the longlist of nominations is as follows:

1. Adam Holmes and The Embers – Midnight Milk
2. BABE – Kiss & Tell
3. Best Girl Athlete – Best Girl Athlete
4. Blue Rose Code – The Water of Leith
5. Catholic Action – In Memory Of
6. Chris Stout and Catriona McKay – Bare Knuckle
7. Elephant Sessions – All We Have Is Now
8. Franz Ferdinand – Always Ascending
9. Golden Teacher – No Luscious Life
10. Happy Meals (now known as Free Love) – Full Ashram Devotional Ceremony (Volumes IV - VI)
11. Karine Polwart with Pippa Murphy – A Pocket Of Wind Resistance
12. Kobi Onyame – Gold
13. Martha Ffion – Sunday Best
14. Mogwai – Every Country’s Sun
15. Neon Waltz – Strange Hymns
16. Out Lines – Conflats
17. Pronto Mama – Any Joy
18. Siobhan Wilson – There Are No Saints
19. The Spook School – Could It Be Different
20. Young Fathers – Cocoa Sugar

The longlist will be shortened to a shortlist of 10 albums, one chosen by music fans via a 72-hour online vote on 20- 22 August, and the other nine chosen by a panel of independent judges.

All 10 of the artists that make it onto the shortlist will receive an exclusively designed award, created by the winner of The SAY 2018 Design Commission.

Robert Kilpatrick, General Manager of the Scottish Music Industry Association, states, "The announcement was set to a backdrop of incredible live performances from previously nominated acts, and we were delighted to be raising money for our Charity Partner Help Musicians Scotland."