Royal Blood (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Bombay Bicycle Club, Wild Beasts and Royal Blood will compete for the Album Award at this year’s 60th annual Ivor Novellos.
Nominated acts were unveiled today (April 21st) ahead of a ceremony in London on May 21st. Elsewhere, Bear’s Den, Ben Howard and Hozier have been nominated for the ‘Best Song Musically and Lyrically’ prize, while Alt-J‘s hypnotic ‘Every Other Freckle‘ is along side tracks from Clean Bandit and FKA Twigs in the ‘Best Contemporary Song’ section.
The nominees so far are:
Best Song Musically and Lyrically
‘Above The Clouds Of Pompeii’
Written by Andrew Davie
Performed by Bear’s Den
‘I Forget Where We Were’
Written and Performed by Ben Howard
‘Take Me To Church’
Written by Andrew Hozier-Byrne
Performed by Hozier
Best Contemporary Song
‘Every Other Freckle’
Written by Thomas Green, Joe Newman and Gus Unger-Hamilton
Performed by alt-J
‘Rather Be’
Written by James Napier and Jack Patterson
Performed by Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne
‘Two Weeks’
Written by Tahliah Debrett Barnett and Emile Haynie
Performed by FKA twigs
PRS for Music Most Performed Work
‘Budapest’
Written by George Ezra Barnett and Joel Pott
Performed by George Ezra
‘Rather Be’
Written by James Napier and Jack Patterson
Performed by Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne
‘Stay With Me’
Written by James Napier, William Phillips and Sam Smith
Performed by Sam Smith
Album Award
Present Tense
Written by Thomas Fleming, Ben Little, Christopher Talbot and Hayden Thorpe
Performed by Wild Beasts
Royal Blood
Written by Michael Kerr and Ben Thatcher
Performed by Royal Blood
So Long, See You Tomorrow
Written by Jack Steadman
Performed by Bombay Bicycle Club
Best Original Film Score
’71
Composed by David Holmes
Mr Turner
Composed by Gary Yershon
The Boxtrolls
Composed by Dario Marianelli
Best Television Soundtrack
The Honourable Woman
Composed by Natalie Holt and Martin Phipps
The Mill – Series 2
Composed by Samuel Sim
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher – Beyond the Pale
Composed by Edmund Butt