Uncut Music Award Winner Revealed
Tinariwen have beaten the likes of Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors and Grizzly Bear to win.
Posted 10th November 2009, 3:38pm in News, by DIY News Desk
Tinariwen have beaten the likes of Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors and Grizzly Bear to win this year's Uncut Music Award, given to 'the most inspirational and rewarding album of the year'.'Imidiwan: Companions' is the band's fourth record, and was chosen by a 'panel of industry figures' including Billy Bragg, Rachel Unthank and Robin Pecknold (of Fleet Foxes), Mark Radcliffe and Mark Cooper, BBC Head Of Music Entertainment.
Ibrahim Ag Alhabib of Tinariwen said of winning the award: "This makes us really really happy, all of us and I'm glad that this important magazine should recognise our music. It gives us the strength to carry on working and spreading the message about the peace of our desert home, and I’m glad that our music can cross the frontiers and talk to people around the world. Thanks very very much."
The full shortlist, in alphabetical order, read:
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
Bob Dylan – Together Through Life (Columbia)
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca (Domino)
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest (Warp)
Kings of Leon – Only By The Night (Columbia)
The Low Anthem – Oh My God Charlie Darwin (Bella Union)
Tinariwen – Imidiwan: Companions (Independiente)
Wilco – Wilco (Nonesuch)
Last year, the award went to Fleet Foxes.
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