こんなアワードあるの、知らなかった！ インディの祭典、リベラ・アワードのノミネート

どうも。

こんなアワードがあったことを、今日、知りました。

これ、リベラ・アワードっていう、アメリカのインディ・ミュージックの祭典で、2012年くらいからやってたみたいなんですけど、申し訳ないことに今まで知りませんでした。

で、これ、しかもノミネートがすごくいいんですよ。なので紹介しておきますと

Record of the Year
L’Rain – I Killed Your Dog (Mexican Summer)
Killer Mike – MICHAEL (Loma Vista Recordings)
Mitski – The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (Dead Oceans)
Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want To Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)
Wednesday – Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans)

良い感じでしょ？キラー・マイク以外は僕の去年の年間ベストに入れた作品でもあります。

これが一番メインの賞ですけど、過去の受賞者がですね

2023 Wet Leg/Wet Leg
2022 Jubilee/Japanese Breakfast
2021 Punisher/Phoebe Bridgers
2020 U.F.O.F./Big Thief
2019 Heaven And Earth/Kamashi Washington
2018 Slowdive/Slowdive
2017 My Woman/Angel Olsen
2016 Sound & Color/Alabama Shakes
2015 Lost In The Dream/The War On Drugs
2014 Reflektor/Arcade Fire & AM/Arctic Monkeys
2013 Boys & Girls/Alabama Shakes

こんな感じなんですよね。いいでしょ？

これ、ジャズからクラシックからすごくいろんな部門があるんですけど、かいつまんで紹介すると

Breakthrough Artist
BAMBII (Innovative Leisure)
bar italia (Matador Records)
Blondshell (Partisan Records)
Indigo De Souza (Saddle Creek)
Say She She (Colemine Records)
Slow Pulp (ANTI)
Wednesday (Dead Oceans)

Music Video of the Year
Black Pumas – “More Than A Love Song” (ATO Records)
Blondshell – “Salad” (Partisan Records)
Indigo De Souza – “Younger & Dumber” (Saddle Creek)
Geese – “Cowboy Nudes” (Partisan Records)
IDLES – “Dancer” (Partisan Records)
Arlo Parks – “Blades” (Transgressive)
Shygirl – “Heaven (feat. Tinashe)” (Because Music)

Best Alternative Rock Record
Courtney Barnett – End Of The Day (Mom+Pop)
Geese – 3D Country (Partisan Records)
Hotline TNT – Cartwheel (Third Man Records)
Mitski – The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (Dead Oceans)
Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want To Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)
Wednesday – Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans)

Best Dance Record
Aluna – MYCELiUM (Mad Decent)
Braxe + Falcon – Step by Step (Remixes) (Smugglers Way/Domino Recording Company)
Jayda G – Guy (Ninja Tune)
LP Giobbi – Light Places (Counter Records/Ninja Tune)
Peggy Gou – “(It Goes Like) Nanana” (XL Recordings)
Hudson Mohawke & Nikki Nair – Set The Roof (Warp Records)
Romy – Mid Air (Young)

Best Electronic Record
Floating Points – “Birth4000” (Ninja Tune)
Sofia Kourtesis – Madres (Ninja Tune)
Little Dragon – Slugs of Love (Ninja Tune)
ODESZA, Yellow House – Flaws In Our Design (Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune)
Overmono – Good Lies (XL Recordings)
DJ Shadow – Action Adventure (Mass Appeal)
Yaeji – With A Hammer (XL Recordings)

Best Heavy Record
Beartooth – The Surface (Red Bull Records)
The Callous Daoboys – God Smiles Upon The Callous Daoboys (MNRK Music Group)
From Ashes to New – Blackout (Better Noise Music)
Fucked Up – One Day (Merge Records)
Model/Actriz – Dogsbody (True Panther)
Soul Glo – “If I Speak (Shut The Fuck Up)” (Epitaph)
Zulu – A New Tomorrow (Flatspot Records)

Best Hip-Hop/Rap Record
Aesop Rock – Integrated Tech Solutions (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
Atmosphere – So Many Other Realities Exist Simultaneously (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
Danny Brown – Quaranta (Warp Records)
Conway The Machine – WON’T HE DO IT (Drumwork Music Group LLC/EMPIRE)
McKinley Dixon – Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!? (City Slang)
Kari Faux – REAL B*TCHES DON’T DIE! (drink sum wtr)
Killer Mike – MICHAEL (Loma Vista Recordings)
billy woods, Kenny Segal – Maps (Backwoodz Studios/Fat Possum Records)

Best R&B Record
Emily King – Special Occasion (ATO Records)
Sampha – Lahai (Young)
Emeli Sandé – How Were We To Know (Chrysalis Records)
Jorja Smith – falling or flying (FAMM Limited)
Cleo Sol – Gold (Forever Living Originals/TuneCore)
Jamila Woods – Water Made Us (Jagjaguwar)

Best Pop Record
Belle and Sebastian – Late Developers (Matador Records)
CHAI – CHAI (Sub Pop Records)
Becca Mancari – Left Hand (Captured Tracks)
Samia – Honey (Grand Jury Music)
Suki Waterhouse – “To Love” (Sub Pop Records)

Best Punk Record
CIVIC – Taken By Force (ATO Records)
Mannequin Pussy – “I Got Heaven” (Epitaph)
Neck Deep – “Take Me With You” (Hopeless Records)
Scowl – Psychic Dance Routine (Flatspot Records)
Snõõper – Super Snõõper (Third Man Records)
Soul Glo – “If I Speak (Shut The Fuck Up)” (Epitaph)

Best Rock Record
Be Your Own Pet – Mommy (Third Man Records)
Blondshell – Blondshell (Partisan Records)
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Weathervanes (Southeastern Records)
Manchester Orchestra – The Valley Of Vision (Loma Vista Recordings)
The National – First Two Pages of Frankenstein (4AD)
Queens of the Stone Age – In Times New Roman… (Matador Records)
Ratboys – The Window (Topshelf Records)

こんな感じです。グラミーとかより圧倒的に面白いです。なんかすごい、ッリアルなものを感じさせます。

これ、授賞式は6月10日にやるみたいなんですけど、それも紹介したいと思います。