SOAK (seen here performing at ATL30) was the recipient of last year's Choice Music Prize.
The annual RTÉ Choice Music Prize will return for a twelfth year, celebrating ‘the best in Irish recorded music’ with the announcement taking place at a live event in Vicar Street, Dublin, on Thursday 9th March 2017.
The prize is awarded to the ‘Irish Album Of The Year’, chosen from a shortlist of ten releases, by a panel of twelve Irish music media professionals and industry experts.
This shortlist has now been announced, and is as follows:
All Tvvins - IIVV (Warner Music)
Bantum - Move (Self Released)
Wallis Bird - Home (Mount Silver / Caroline International)
The Divine Comedy - Foreverland (Divine Comedy Records)
Lisa Hannigan - At Swim (Hoop Recordings)
Katie Kim - Salt (Art For Blind Records)
James Vincent McMorrow - We Move (Faction Records)
Overhead, The Albatross - Learning to Growl (Self Released)
Rusangano Family - Let The Dead Bury The Dead (Self Released)
We Cut Corners - The Cadences Of Others (Delphi)
The winning act will receive a prize of €10,000, provided by The Irish Music Rights Organisation and the Irish Recorded Music Association.
