Nick Cave shortlisted for 2024 Australian Music Prize

nme.com:

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have been shortlisted for the 20th annual Australian Music Prize for his most recent album ‘Wild God’.It marks Cave’s fourth time being nominated for the prestigious award, having previously received recognition for 2016’s ‘Skeleton Tree‘, ‘Ghosteen‘ in 2019 and ‘Carnage‘, his collaborative album with Warren Ellis, in 2021.The nine albums shortlisted come from a list of 46 nominated records, selected from a pool of 600 released by Australian artists over the past year.Other acts making the shortlist are Amyl and The Sniffers for their album ‘Cartoon Darkness‘, Hiatus Kaiyote with ‘Love Heart Cheat Code’, both of whom have also been nominated previously.A post shared by Natalie Files (@theprfiles)The winning album will be announced on December 4, and will see the chosen artist receive a prize of $50,000 (£25,567) courtesy of sponsor SoundMerch.Previous winners include Sampa the Great, Genesis Owusu, the Avalanches, Courtney Barnett, Gurrumul, King Stingray, and RVG who won the award in 2023.Other shortlisted artists for 2024 include Grace Cummings, Rowena Wise, Dirty Three, Dobby, Audrey Powne and Kankawa Nagarra.

Find a full list above.A post shared by Nick Cave (@nickcaveofficial)In a statement, Cave said: “Thank you to everyone for their support.

It means a great deal to us to be recognised by AMP.”Amyl and The Sniffers’ Dec Mehrtens said the band are “grateful” to be shortlisted, adding: “Australian music is dear to our hearts, and we are incredibly proud to be able to create and perform the music we make.”In a four-star review of ‘Wild God’, NME said: “Bad Seeds records are infamously loaded with gothic doom and gloom.