Electronic duo The Avalanches have won the 2020 Australian Music Prize for their album ‘We Will Always Love You’, uDiscover Music reports. The Avalanches were nominated next to Tame Impala’s ‘The Slow Rush’, Ziggy Ramo’s ‘Black Thoughts’, ‘Nyaaringu’ by Miiesha, Alice Ivy’s ‘Don’t Sleep’, Blake Scott’s ‘Niscitam’, Emma Donovan and the Putbacks’ ‘Crossover’, Fanny Lumsden’s ‘Fallow’ and Gordon Koang’s ‘Unity’. Previous winners of the Australian Music Prize include Sampa The Great, Gurrumul, A.B. Original, Courtney Barnett, and The Drones.

Melbourne-based hip-hop artist Sampa the Great won the Australian music prize yesterday with her album 'The Return', two years after she first won the award for 2017 album 'Birds and the BEE9', making her the first artist in the history to win the Australian music prize twice, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Zambian-born Sampa Tembo thanked the judging panel for recognising an album “not written for radio play or commercial appeal”, the Music Network reports. The album deals with themes of migration and displacement. Sampa’s album beat out a shortlist that included recordings by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Thelma Plum, Amyl & the Sniffers and more. Previous winners of the AMP include Gurrumul, Augie March, Courtney Barnett and AB Original.

Albums by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Courtney Barnett, Dead Can Dance, The Presets, Troye Sivan and 80 more are nominated for the Australian Music Prize. The prestigious annual honor is modeled on Britain's Mercury Music Prize and Canada's Polaris Prize and is decided by a music industry panel, whose chief goal is to identify […]