Nick Cave shortlisted for 2024 Australian Music Awards

Albums by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Amyl and The Sniffer, Dirty Three and Hiatus Kaiyote were announced as finalists at the 20th annual Australian Music Awards on Thursday 14 November.

The 2024 shortlist includes nine albums selected from a pool of 600 albums from 46 nominated albums released by Australian musicians in the past year.

This year’s list features veteran performers such as Nick Cave and Bad Seeds with their 18th albums wild god. Cave has been nominated four times in the award’s twenty-year history, including in 2016 Skeleton tree2019 ghostand his 2021 collaboration with Warren Ellis, massacre.

Punk band Amyl and The Sniffer shortlisted again with third album cartoon dark giving them their third nomination to date. Meanwhile, Melbourne neo-soul quartet Hiatus Kaiyote was nominated love heart cheat codestheir second nomination following 2021 in a heroic mood.

First-timers like Grace Cummings and Rowena Wise also hit the charts with their Ramona and meaningless act of beauty Record separately. Australian Aboriginal community recognized through Walmatjarri Elder Kankawa Nagarrra Weimani and Dobby’s Wallancourt; river story.

Two of the shortlisted albums on this year’s list will also compete for the ARIA Awards later this month, including Dobby Records and Audrey Powne’s Recordings, which are up for Best World Music Album. from firewhich is in the running for best jazz album.

Led by founder and awards director Scott Murphy, previous AMP winners include Sampa the Great (twice), Avalanches, Courtney Barnett, the late Gurrumul, King Stingray and recent champions RVG.

“On behalf of AMP, SoundMerch, our industry partners and the entire Australian music industry, I would like to sincerely thank our judges for their time, expertise and enthusiasm!” said Murphy. “Looking back at over 600 albums and choosing 9 to highlight is no easy task.”

The winning album will be announced at an event at APRA AMCOS on Wednesday 4 December.

“Thank you everyone for your support. Being recognized by AMP means a lot to us,” Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds said in a statement.

“We are delighted to be shortlisted for this award,” echoed Amyl and The Sniffer’s Dec Mehrtens. “Australian music is very dear to our hearts and we are extremely proud to create and perform the music we produce.”

2024 AMP shortlist:

Audrey Bone – from fire
Emile and the Sniffer – cartoon dark
Dobby—— Wallancourt; river story
Grace Cummings—— Ramona
Cayote Interruption – love heart cheat codes
Sekikawa Nagara – Weimani
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – wild god
Rowena Wise – meaningless act of beauty
The Dirty Three—— love changes everything