This year’s shortlist of nominees for the RTE Choice Music Prize Album of the Year has been revealed and the competition is fierce.
2020 was an excellent year for Irish music, despite everything else. With no gigs or festivals to tour and nowhere to go, our favourite Irish artists had no choice but to retreat to the studio to produce new music.
In fact, the RTE Choice Music Prize committee counted just under 200 new Irish albums that were released in the last 12 months!
This year’s shortlist of nominees for the RTE Choice Music Prize Album of the Year has been revealed and the competition is fierce. Pic: RTE
Shortlist revealed for RTÉ Choice Music Prize s Irish Album of the Year 2020
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The shortlist for this year s RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2020 was revealed on Wednesday.
Bitch Falcon, Denise Chaila, Fontaines D.C, JyellowL and Róisín Murphy are among those acts nominated for the Album of the Year 2020.
Now in its 16th year, the Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year award is chosen from a shortlist of ten albums by a panel of eleven Irish music media professionals and industry experts. Jim Carroll, chairman of the judging panel, announced the shortlist on RTÉ 2FM’s Tracy Clifford Show.
John Mangru With his hyper-feminine designs, which bring silhouette and form to the fore, stylist John Mangru National College of Art and Design’s graduate class of 2020 is determined to rewrite the codes of modern dressing. Just take a look at the emerging designer’s Instagram account, where you’ll find a smorgasbord of visual goodies most notable are Mangru’s recognisable handmade corsets in a fizzy colour palette of fire-engine red, zingy neon green and candyfloss pink.
“I have always been obsessed with undergarments being worn on the outside,” the young designer says of his passion for classic silhouettes. “I love the way they’re tight to the body and I love creating shapes that may not be there normally. On a deeper level, I also love the idea that the corset was always seen as a symbol of oppression and I wanted to take it out of its original context by mixing new techniques and fabrics.”
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Grian Chatten of Fontaines D.C.
With the live music industry holed below water level for most of the year, music became a solitary pursuit for many people and despite or maybe because of the travails, musicians stepped up to the mark with some truly stellar work
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