As part of the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards we have an Album of the Year category (sponsored by Birnam CD). We asked musicians to add their albums from the last 12 months (September 2015 to August 2016) and then in September 2016 we asked our Album panel (20 musicians / industry people) to listen to all the releases and bring it down to 20. You can view all the albums from the period here. Below is our 2016 Scots Trad Album of the Year Longlist. Click on the links and read about the albums. We have also created a Scots Trad Album of the Year podcast featuring all 20 longlisted albums for you to listen to here.
To vote for your Album of the Year click here.
| MAIM by WHYTE has been shortlisted in Trad Album of the Year in the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2021. If you would like to vote for this album please click here. Read about MAIM below. | |
| Artist Name | WHYTE |
| Album title | MAIM |
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| Any more information you would like to tell us? | WHYTE infuse original and traditional Gaelic song with the newest techniques in electronica. The duo comprises electronic composer, musician and Scottish Album of the Year-longlisted Ross Whyte (Aberdeenshire) and Gaelic singer, songwriter, twice-nominated Hands Up for Trad Gaelic Singer of the Year and Scottish Government Gaelic Ambassador of the Year 2019–20 Alasdair C. Whyte (Muile/Mull). The band’s sound has been described as “important for Scottish music in general and Gaelic in particular” (Alun Woodward, Chemikal Underground Records) and “moody and alluring” (Songlines). WHYTE’s awards include the 2019 Scottish Gaelic Arts and Culture Award and the 2017 Hands Up for Trad/Creative Scotland Nòs Ùr Songwriting Award for their original Gaelic song ‘Cionran’. Their new album MAIM, released April 2021, follows their award-winning second album ‘Tairm’ (2019), described as “a thing of beauty” (Scots Whay Hae!), and their debut album ‘Fairich’ (2016), described as “absorbing” (fRoots), “completely distinctive” (Bright Young Folk) and “cinematic” (Northern Sky). |
| Label Name | Self release |
| Release Date | 09/04/2021 |
| Website | whytenoise.co.uk |
| Listen to album link 1 | spotify.com |
| Listen to album link 2 | bandcamp.com |
