Perth psych-lords Tame Impala have taken out the J Award for Australian Album of the Year at a ceremony held last night at the Ding Dong Lounge in Melbourne. The quartet’s debut LP, Innerspeaker, beat out the likes of Sia, Washington, Cloud Control, Bliss N Eso and Angus & Julia Stone who took out the Best Album gong at the ARIAs earlier this year. Other winners included Unearthed Artist of the Year Boy & Bear and Mairi Cameron and Stephen Lance who took out Australian Video of the Year for Washington’s Godard-inspired clip for “Sunday Best”.
FULL LIST OF NOMINEES (winners in bold)
Australian Album of the Year
Birds of Tokyo Birds Of Tokyo
Bliss N Eso Running On Air
Cloud Control Bliss Release
Sia We Are Born
Tame Impala InnerSpeaker
Washington I Believe You Liar
Angus & Julia Stone Down The Way
Parkway Drive Deep Blue
M-Phazes Good Gracious
Bag Raiders Bag Raiders
Unearthed Artist of the Year
The Jezabels
Big Scary
Gypsy & The Cat
Boy & Bear
Stonefield
Australian Video of the Year
Lucinda Schreiber and Beatrice Pegard (Directors) – Midnight Juggernauts ‘Lara vs The Savage Pack’
SPOD (Director) – Richard In Your Mind ‘Candelabra’
John Hillcoat (Director) – Grinderman ‘Heathen Child’
Mairi Cameron and Stephen Lance (Directors) – Washington ‘Sunday Best’
Sam Kristofski (Director) – Parades ‘Loserspeak In A New Tongue’
