Welsh Music Prize

The Welsh Music Prize is an annual music prize awarded for the best album from Wales. It was founded by Welsh radio presenter Huw Stephens in 2011.^[1]

Winners and shortlisted nominees

Year	Winner	Shortlisted nominees
2010–11	Gruff Rhys – Hotel Shampoo	Al Lewis – In the Wake Colorama – Box Lleuwen Steffan – Tân Manic Street Preachers – Postcards from a Young Man Stagga – The Warm Air Room Sweet Baboo – I'm a Dancer/Songs About Sleepin' The Blackout – Hope The Gentle Good – Tethered for the Storm The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar Y Niwl – Y Niwl Funeral for a Friend – Welcome Home Armageddon
2011–12	Future of the Left – The Plot Against Common Sense	Bright Light Bright Light – Make Me Believe in Hope Cate Le Bon – Cyrk Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog – Draw Dros Y Mynydd Exit International – Black Junk Huw M – Gathering Dusk Islet – Illuminated People Jodie Marie – Mountain Echo Kids in Glass Houses – In Gold Blood Kutosis – Fanatical Love Los Campesinos! – Hello Sadness Truckers of Husk – Accelerated Learning
2012–13	Georgia Ruth – Week of Pines	Euros Childs – Summer Special Fist of the First Man – Fist of the First Man Laurence Made Me Cry – The Diary of Me Little Arrow – Wild Wishes Metabeats – Caviar Crackle Neon Neon – Praxis Makes Perfect Race Horses – Furniture Sweet Baboo – Ships Trwbador – Trwbador Winter Villains – February Zervas and Pepper – Lifebringer
2013–14	Joanna Gruesome – Weird Sister	9 Bach – Tincian Cate Le Bon – Mug Museum Euros Childs – Situation Comedy Future of the Left – How to Stop Your Brain in an Accident Gruff Rhys – American Interior Gulp – Season Sun Manic Street Preachers – Futurology Samoans – Rescue Slowly Rolling Camera – Slowly Rolling Camera The Gentle Good – Y Bardd Anfarwol The People The Poet – The Narrator
2014–15	Gwenno – Y Dydd Olaf^[2]	Calan – Dinas Catfish and the Bottlemen – The Balcony Geraint Jarman – Dwyn yr Hogyn Nol H. Hawkline – In the Pink of Condition Hippies vs Ghosts – Droogs Houdini Dax – Naughty Nation Joanna Gruesome – Peanut Butter Keys – Ring the Changes Paper Aeroplanes – Joy Richard James – All the New Highways Tender Prey – Organ Calzone Trwbador – Several Wolves Zarelli – Soft Rains Zefur Wolves – Zefur Wolves
2015–16	Meilyr Jones – 2013	9Bach – Anian Alun Gaffey – Alun Gaffey Cate Le Bon – Crab Day Climbing Trees – Borders Datblygu – Porwr Trallod Plu – Tir a Golau Right Hand Left Hand – Right Hand Left Hand Simon Love – It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time Skindred – Volume Sŵnami – Sŵnami The Anchoress – Confessions of a Romance Novelist

References

↑ Catfish and The Bottlemen, Joanna Gruesome lead Welsh Music Prize nominees
↑ "Gwenno wins Welsh Music Prize 2015". BBC Wales. 26 November 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2015.

External links

Official website

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