Uncut is excited to reveal which eight artists have made it through to this year's Uncut Music Award shortlist!

See which eight albums are up for the annual prize!

The second annual Uncut Music Award launches today (September 23) as we reveal our longlist of albums in the running for the prize to reward the "most inspiring and rewarding musical experience" of the past year.

See the longlist in contention to grab the prize Fleet Foxes scooped last year

Uncut gives you the full line-up

An opulent, inessential boxset, with not one note remastered

True grit! The desert-bluesers’ fourth is raw, and all the better for it

I’m not necessarily the best judge of which bands are likely to make some kind of significant hipster/commercial breakthrough. But listening to this Ganglians album, “Monster Head Room”, on Woodsist, it surely makes sense that they should be right at the forefront of this new indie/lo-fi/garage scene that’s coming out of the States right now.

A message that one of the Uncut team, Bud Scoppa, had filed his Top 25 tracks of the last six months inspired me this morning to do something similar.

When I was grappling with the Dirty Projectors’ “Bitte Orca” a while back, I came to the fairly trite conclusion that I liked the band best when Angel Deradoorian or Amber Coffman took the lead, rather than David Longstreth.