PLUG Awards Keeping The Bases Covered

kater | November 15, 2007 1:30 am
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Nominees for the annual PLUG Independent Music Awards (a.k.a. Dudes! With! Beards!) were announced today, with few surprises and an excess of categorical minutiae. Let’s all work together to figure out why they’ve got separate categories for Best Album of the Year and Best Indie Rock Album of the Year.

Best Album of the Year Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (Merge) Band Of Horses – Cease To Begin (Sub Pop) Battles – Mirrored (Warp) Beirut – The Flying Club Cup (Ba Da Bing) El-P – I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead (Definitive Jux) Justice – † (Downtown / Vice / Ed Banger) Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (Polyvinyl) Panda Bear – Person Pitch (Paw Tracks) Radiohead – In Rainbows (self-released) Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – 100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone) Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge) The National – Boxer (Beggars Banquet)

Best Indie Rock Album of the Year Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam (Domino) Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (Merge) Band Of Horses – Cease To Begin (Sub Pop) Battles – Mirrored (Warp) Deerhunter – Cryptograms (Kranky) Les Savy Fav – Let’s Stay Friends (Frenchkiss) Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (Polyvinyl) Okkervil River – The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar) Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge) Sunset Rubdown – Random Spirit Lover (Jagjaguar) The National – Boxer (Beggars Banquet) The New Pornographers – Challengers (Matador)

Maybe one or two overlap albums would seem acceptable, but an even six? Excessive, music nerds! Find more efficient and logical ways of qualifying your snobbery!

PLUG Independent Music Awards [Official site]