The Soundmerch Australian Music Prize
2023 Nominations
(the best albums of 2023 by Australian artists)
30/70 - Art Make love
a.s.o. - a.s.o.
Adam Spark - Snow Vs Mountain
Ainsley Farrell - Dirt
Alex Lahey - The Answer Is Always Yes
All India Radio - Diamonds In The Dark
Amanda Brown - Eight Guitars
Angie McMahon - Light, Dark, Light Again
Babaganouj - Jumbo Pets
Bad//Dreems - Hoo Ha!
Bec Stevens — Big Worry
Big Words - Nightmares of a Stardom Dream
Body Type - Expired Candy
Bones And Jones - Love You
Busby Marou - Blood Red
Cable Ties - All Her Plans
Caitlin Harnett & The Pony Boys - All Night Long
Cam Butler - Strings Music
Cash Savage And The Last Drinks — So This Is Love
Civic — Taken By Force
Classic - Did You Have Fun?
Coda Chroma - Dreamself
Clea - Idle Light
Close Counters - SOULACOASTA II
Courtney Barnett - End Of The Day
Cub Sport — Jesus At The Gay Bar
Dan Sultan - Dan Sultan
David Bridie - It's Been A While Since Our Last Correspondence
Didirri - Caught In The Act
Eliott - just calling to tell you I'm ok
Ella Hooper - Small Town Temple
Exek - The Map and the Territory
Fanny Lumsden - Hey Dawn
Fenn Wilson - Honey Dates Death / Ghazals
Floodlights — Painting Of My Time
Flyying Colours - You Never Know
Genesis Owusu - Struggler
Ghostwoods - My Neon
Glitoris - Glitoris
Golden Features - Sisyphus
Gretta Ray - Positive Spin
GUM - Saturnia
Hannah Cameron - Holding Pattern
Hard-Ons - Ripper ‘23
Henry Wagons — South Of Everywhere
Hope D - Clash Of The Substance
Immy Owusu - LO-LIFE!
Jack River - Endless Summer
Jen Cloher — I Am The River, The River Is Me
Joshua Moshe - Inner Search
Juice Webster - Julia
Katie Wighton - The End
Katy Steele - Big Star
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
Kosmetika - Illustration
Kylie Minogue - Tension
Last Quokka - Red Dirt
Lastlings - Perfect World
Leah Senior - The Music That I Make
Lilith Lane - Trickery
Luca Brasi - The World Don't Owe You Anything
Maple Glider - I Get Into Trouble
Martin Frawley - The Wannabe
Matt Corby - Everything’s Fine
Mo'Ju — ORO, PLATA, MATA
Moody Beaches — Acid Ocean
Mungmung - Boujee Bby
Nat Vazer - Strange Adrenaline
Nick Huggins with Mckisko and Mary Glenn - Soft Buried Glass
Ninajirachi - Second Nature
Pacific Avenue - Flowers
Polaris - Fatalism
Robert Forster - The Candle And The Flame
Romanie - Are We There Yet?
RVG — Brainworms
Seja - Here Is One I Know You Know
Simona Castricum - Sink
Sinj Clarke - The Height Of Love
Skeleten - Under Utopia
Snowy - Lipreader
Spice World - There’s no ‘I’ in Spice World
Summer Flake — One Less Thing
Superego - Who Are You Hiding From?
Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers - I Love You
Teenage Joans - The Rot That Grows Inside My Chest
Teether & Kuya Neil - Stressor
Terry - Call Me Terry
Tex Perkins & The Fat Rubber Band - Other World
The Finks - Birthdays At Solo Pasta
The Maggie Pills - Hope Is A Risk
The Murlocs - Calm Ya Farm
The Seven Ups - A Free Blowing Wind
The Teskey Brothers - The Winding Way
The Vanns - Last Of Your Kind
The Rookies - Feed The Fire
Tia Gostelow - Head Noise
Tim Rogers & The Twin Set - Tines of Stars Unfurled
Tropical Fuck Storm — Submersive Behaviour
Troy Sivan - Something To Give Each Other
Urthboy - Savour
V - Faithless
Voyager - Fearless In Love
Watty Thompson - Watty Thompson
WILSN - Those Days Are Over
Women Of Soul - Feel Good
Xylouris White — The Forest In Me
Ziggy Ramo - Sugar Coated Lies