SAY Awards announces final shortlist

Paolo Nutini made the cut first after winning the public vote. Each of the shortlisted nominees will receive £1000, as well as a "one of a kind quilt from Glasgow School of Art graduate Vanessa Hindshaw".

The winner will be announced 17 June at O2 ABC Glasgow.

Stewart Henderson, the chair of the Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA), said: “Reducing The SAY Award longlist to a shortlist of 10 is never an easy task but by all accounts this year’s process has been particularly painful. We can only wish the remaining titles the very best of luck and congratulate them on emerging from such an extraordinary crop of albums.”

For more information about the awards, check here.

You can check out the full shortlist, and our verdicts on the albums, below. The longlist is available here.

Belle and Sebastian - Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance
Errors - Lease of Life
Happy Meals - Apéro
Honeyblood - Honeyblood
Kathryn Joseph - Bones You Have Thrown Me and Blood I’ve Spilled
Paolo Nutini - Caustic Love
PAWS - Youth Culture Forever
Slam - Reverse Proceed
The Amazing Snakeheads - Amphetamine Ballads
Young Fathers - DEAD