Enter Shikari went home with the Independent Album Of The Year prize from last night’s (September 8th) AIM Independent Music Awards.
The band’s ‘The Mindsweep’ LP beat off competition from the likes of Wolf Alice, The Charlatans and Young Fathers to land one of the evening’s main accolades.
Wolf Alice and Young Fathers did though find consolation in the Independent Breakthrough Of The Year and Best Difficult Second Album categories respectively.
AIM Independent Music Awards 2015 winners:
Best Small Label
Erased Tape Records
Best Difficult Second Album
Young Fathers – ‘White Men Are Black Men Too’
Special Catalogue Release Of The Year
Cities Of Darkscorch Boardgame
Hardest Working Band or Artist
Swans
Golden Welly Award For Best Independent Festival
Brainchild Festival
Independent Breakthrough Of The Year
Wolf Alice
Indie Champion
Marc Riley, BBC 6 Music
Independent Video of the Year
Flying Lotus – ‘Never Catch Me’
Best Live Act
All Time Low
Independent Track Of The Year
FKA Twigs – ‘Two Weeks’
PPL Award For Most Played New Independent Act
Jungle
Independent Album Of The Year
Enter Shikari – ‘The Mindsweep’
Independent Label Of The Year
Transgressive Records
Pioneer Award
Digby Pearson, Earache Records
Innovator Award
Peter Quicke, Matt Black and Jonathan More of Ninja Tune
Outstanding Contribution To Music
Skepta