Australian luminaries Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have already found great success with their 15th studio album Push The Sky Away.
The first to be released through the group’s own Bad Seed label, the record is the band’s first ever #1 album in Australia in their 30 year career while over in the UK it is one of the year’s best-selling releases in independent record stores.
Push The Sky Away has now also earned the band a nomination for Independent Album Of The Year, alongside a fellow Aussie band equally beloved by Britain, as part of the UK’s annual AIM Independent Music Awards, as NME reports.
Now in its third year, AIM has announced the nominations for its 2013 Independent Music Awards, with Sydney’s Jagwar Ma – who have just wrapped up a sold-out Australian headline tour – getting a nod for the top gong for their debut album Howlin’.
Jagwar Ma – the duo of Jono Ma and Gab Winterfield – are also nominated in the Independent Track Of The Year category for their track ‘The Throw’, lifted from Howlin’ “a record filled with as much raw energy as precision,” as our Tone Deaf reviewer noted. Push The Sky Away has earned a nomination for Independent Album Of The Year, alongside a fellow Aussie band equally beloved by Britain.
‘The Throw’ squares off against Palma Violets, Passenger, and TNGHT in the best track award, as well as indie favourites Vampire Weekend and Daughter, who also face down the Sydney duo in the best album category, alongside releases from The xx, David Byrne & St Vincent, Jon Hopkins, Ghostpoet, Public Service Broadcasting, John Grant, and fellow countrymen Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
Both bands were also part of a handful of Aussies that appeared on the lineup for this year’s mammoth, Rolling Stones-headlined Glastonbury festival, with both Cave’s world-renowned live show and Jagwar Ma’s Madchester-informed rock proving to go down a treat with UK audiences and critics alike to rave reviews.
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Other notable AIM Independent Music Awards nominations include the recent Splendour (not so) Mystery Band, Alt-J, up for the Hardest Working Band award, while forthcoming Big Day Out feature act (and painfully awkward interviewees) Major Lazer are up for the Best ‘Difficult’ Seocnd Album award, and an Outstanding Contribution To Music platitude to Billy Bragg.
The awards will be handed out at the official ceremony at London’s The Brewery on 3rd September.
Jagwar Ma are now headed overseas to play Japan before heading to Europe for a run of festival dates, including Lowlands in the Netherlands, Pukkelpop in Belgium, as well as Bestival and Reading and Leeds Festivals in the UK.
Similarly, Nick Cave continues his overseas trek with the Bad Seeds for a string of festival appearances but will check into Brisbane’s BIGSOUND via satellite for a special keynote address as part of the music industry conference’s Music + Design program.
