The NI Music Prize has shared the long list of albums and singles eligible to be nominated for this year’s event. The lists includes 81 albums and over 200 singles released between July 15th 2020 and July 14th 2021.

The album list includes releases from the likes of Saint Sister, Sortbet, Owen Denvir, New Pagans, Joshua Burnside, Hannah Peel, Dani Larkin, Autumns and Jealous of The Birds. The NI Music Prize 2021 will take place on Wednesday 17th November.

NI Music Prize Eligible Albums 2021

Acoustic Dan Smick Folk

Alpha Chrome Yayo Page Me

Andrew McGibbon Northern Gothic

Andrew Simon McAllister Memories

Andy White Rarer

Arvo Party Inheritance

Autumns Dyslexia Sound System

Ben Blademan Simpson BLADEman

Bicep Isles

BJC (K) Documenting & Digging

Bobsled Team The Colours Blur

Brién DIY VOL. 1

Bróna McVittie The Man in the Mountain

Calibre Feeling Normal

CATALAN! Veritas

Centre/Left/Right Bikes & Bridges Lead to Broken Bones

Champion Things Deep Within the Slum Kitchen

Chris Kelly More Ways Than One

Owen Lamont Just Smile

Chris Madden Dive Bar / Dead Town

Chrisy Mc Cullagh The Sun That Does Not Set

Cloakroom Q. Yes, Again

Comrade Hat Old Gods, Vol. 1

Conn Thornton Destroyer

Dani Larkin Notes For A Maiden Warrior

David Ballantine Solaris: A Sonic Encounter

Dreaming In Denial I Felt a Funeral, In My Brain

Dutch Schultz Friends Like Brutus

Dying Pharaohs Heart Stops Or Regeneration?!

Electric Octopus Inclinations

Eve Williams Scratch the Surface

Exhalers Exhalers

Gaze Is Ghost Lapis Colbalt Indigo Blue

Geoff Hatt Out of the Hatt Box

Grim17 I’m Counting to Three

Hannah Peel Fir Wave

Hidden Hand Songs Without Choice

Jack Bashful Only Fools Die

Jealous of the Birds Peninsula

Joanne Hogg Avec Toi

Joshua Burnside Into The Depths Of Hell

Kaidi Tatham An Insight To All Minds

Kevin Young Lonely Demon

Kyle John Suckling Everyone

manuel burns colourful woman

Maverick Ethereality

MellowBeast On The Tablets Of Fate

Moon Paw Print The Importance of Flowers

Neil Brogan Magnolia Day

New Pagans The Seed, The Vessel, The Roots and All

Nomadic Rituals Tides

Otherish Otherish

Owen Denvir Sticks, Stones & Bones

Owsey Castaway At The Crossroads Of Time

Paddy McGeown The Good Step

Peter J. McCauley Amnesty

Planting Coordinates

REWS Warrior

Ricky Warwick When Life Was Hard & Fast

Roy Arbuckle Random Acts of Senseless Kindness

Saint Sister Where I Should End

Son Zept B

SORBET This Was Paradise

Stormzone Ignite The Machine

Strength NIA Ulster Is Dance Master

T h e . V e l v e t . V o r t e x ???????? ?

The Night Guild Devil, Repent!

The Vandetta Suite The Kempe Stone Portal

The Zang! The Zang!

This Ship Argo Always the Bees: Never the Honey

trash.man Assorted Beat Tape #1

TRÚ No Fixed Abode

Trucker Diablo Tail End Of A Hurricane

Una Lee Songs to Stay Awake to

Van Morrison Latest Record Project Volume 1

VerseChorusVerse what if we won

We Are Aerials Maps

Whiteabbey Volume One

WhiteRoomNightmare The Way Of All Things?

Willow Springs Night-time Radio

Listen to 190 of the 203 eligible singles below