BEST BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST (Album)☐ Boy & Bear — Moonfire
☐ Drapht — The Life of Riley
☐ Gypsy & The Cat — Gilgamesh
☐ Oh Mercy — Great Barrier Grief
☐ The Middle East — I Want That You Are Always Happy
The Winner: Boy & Bear. The Sydney indi-folk rockers were as refreshing as anyone this year. Big things lay ahead.
Smoky: Gypsy & The Cat
BEST BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST (Single)
☐ Boy & Bear — Feeding Line
☐ Drapht — Rapunzel
☐ Havana Brown — We Run The Night
☐ The Jezabels — Dark Storm
☐ Zoe Badwi — Freefallin’
The Winner: Drapht. Helping break down the barriers for Oz hip-hop, Rapunzel was the genre’s biggest chart and radio hit in recent memory.
Smoky: The Jezabels
BEST POP RELEASE
☐ Architecture in Helsinki — Moment Bends
☐ Gotye — Somebody That I Used to Know (featuring Kimbra)
☐ Guy Sebastian — Who’s That Girl (featuring Eve)
☐ Gypsy & The Cat — Gilgamesh
☐ Washington — Holy Moses
The Winner: Gotye. He cleaned up as an unknown in 2007 and will do so again as Aussie music’s hottest name.
Smoky: Washington (There's also a sneaky part of me that wants Guy Sebastian to win!)
BEST URBAN RELEASE
☐ Drapht — The Life Of Riley
☐ Illy — The Chase
☐ Koolism — The ‘Umu
☐ Phrase — Babylon
☐ Vents — Marked For Death
The Winner: Drapht. Only for the fact that Melbourne's Phrase only released the brilliant Babylon in August.
Smoky: Phrase
BEST INDEPENDENT RELEASE:
☐ Art vs Science — The Experiment
☐ Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu — Rrakala
☐ John Butler Trio — Live At Red Rocks
☐ Tex Perkins & The Dark Horses — Tex Perkins & The Dark Horses
☐ The Jezabels — Dark Storm
The Winner: The Jezabels. Always a tough one to pick, The Jez’s cracking Dark Storm debuted at No.2 on the charts. Nuff said.
Smoky: Art vs Science
BEST ROCK RELEASE
☐ Children Collide — Theory Of Everything
☐ Eskimo Joe — Ghosts Of The Past
☐ Jebediah — Kosciuszko
☐ Papa Vs Pretty — United In Isolation
☐ The Living End — The Ending Is Just The Beginning Repeating
The Winner: The Living End. You can bet your double bass on this one. Lucky Gotye doesn’t use more electric guitar.
Smoky: Papa Vs Pretty
BEST DANCE RELEASE
☐ Bag Raiders — Bag Raiders
☐ Cut Copy — Zonoscope
☐ Miami Horror — Illumination
☐ Pnau — Soft Universe
☐ The Potbelleez — From The Music
The Winner: Cut Copy. Just. All nominees have solid claims on this gong, Wouldn’t be surprised to see Miami Horror nab it.
Smoky: Miami Horror
BEST GROUP
☐ Birds of Tokyo — Wild at Heart
☐ Boy & Bear — Moonfire
☐ Eskimo Joe — Ghosts of the Past
☐ Grinderman — 2
☐ The Living End — The Ending Is Just The Beginning Repeating
The Winner: Boy & Bear. It’s a battle of the newbies versus the old guard. Newbies on a points decision.
Smoky: Birds of Tokyo
BEST MALE ARTIST
☐ Drapht — The Life of Riley
☐ Gareth Liddiard — Strange Tourist
☐ Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu — Rrakala
☐ Gotye — Somebody That I Used to Know (featuring Kimbra)
☐ Josh Pyke — No One Wants a Lover
The Winner: Gotye. Next ...
Smoky: Drapht
BEST FEMALE ARTIST
☐ Adalita — Adalita
☐ Clare Bowditch — Are You Ready Yet?
☐ Kasey Chambers — Little Bird
☐ Kimbra — Cameo Lover
☐ Washington — Holy Moses
The Winner: Kimbra. The Dido to Gotye’s Eminem. To arrive in body paint (hopefully).
Smoky: Kasey Chambers
SINGLE OF THE YEAR
☐ Birds of Tokyo — Wild at Heart
☐ Boy & Bear — Feeding Line
☐ Drapht — Rapunzel
☐ Gotye — Somebody That I Used to Know (featuring Kimbra)
☐ Guy Sebastian — Who’s That Girl (featuring Eve)
☐ The Jezabels — Dark Storm (MGM Distribution)
The Winner: Gotye. Music’s answer to Black Caviar. Unbackable.
Smoky: Drapht
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
☐ Boy & Bear — Moonfire
☐ Cut Copy — Zonoscope
☐ Eskimo Joe — Ghosts of the Past
☐ Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu — Rrakala
☐ Grinderman — 2
The Winner: Boy & Bear, Must thank Gotye for releasing his album too late to qualify.
Smoky: Grinderman
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