The Australian Music Prize has announced its 2019 nominees

The Australian Music Prize has unveiled its list of 2019 nominees, with one lucky local album set to receive the coveted $30,000 prize that comes with it.

For 15 years now, the Australian Music Prize has existed to honour the finest local record from the previous year, bestowing upon it widespread recognition, critical praise, and following it up with a $30,000 prize for the artist to do with as they see fit.

Having announced their first round of nominees back in July, the gruelling judging process has today seen 40 of the country’s most admired tastemakers, retailers, media, and artists participating in creating a list of 107 Australian albums that are in the running to take home the massive honour.

Culled from over 450 albums released across the year, this lis features some of the finest in Australian music, with a diverse collection of genres celebrating buzz acts like Amyl & The Sniffers, Dope Lemon, Bad//Dreems, and Alex Lahey, to legends like Jimmy Barnes, Archie Roach, and Robert Forster, and underground discoveries like Daggy Man, Sarah Mary Chadwick, Hexdebt, Squaring Circles, and Vulture Street Tape Gang

Check out a playlist of this year's nominees:

"For this 15th prize we expanded the judging panel and created three separate stages of judging, with the 1st stage now complete,” explained Australian Music Prize director Scott Murphy.

“Around 40 judges listened to a record number of 454 eligible Australian album releases and have delivered a list of 107 albums – the best of 2019.

"We thank the panel of stage 1 judges for their time and effort. The 2nd stage judges started listening to Nominated albums from August and are busy right now familiarising themselves with all 107 nominated albums – their job is to eliminate 98 of them so that in January we can announce a Shortlist of 9 – good luck!”

With the final shortlist of just nine expected to be released next month, the annual ceremony to find out just which record takes home the top prize will be held in March.

With so many great albums in the running, it'll be a close competition, so remember that even just being nominated is a massive win for these artists. Check out the full list of nominees below.

Check out the 2019 Australian Music Prize nominees:

Ainslie Wills – All You Have Is All You Need [NEW] Air Land Sea – Air Land Sea [NEW] Alex Lahey – The Best Of Luck Club Ali Barter – Hello, I’m Doing My Best [NEW] Amyl & The Sniffers – Amyl & The Sniffers Alex Cameron – Miami Memory [NEW] Allday – Starry Night Over The Phone [NEW] Andrea Keller – Transients Volume 1 Angie McMahon – Salt [NEW] Archie Roach – Tell Me Why [NEW] Art Of Fighting – Luna Low Ausmuteants – Present The World In Handcuffs [NEW] Bad//Dreems – Doomsday Ballet [NEW] Batts – The Grand Tour Belle Chen – Departure [NEW] Bench Press – Not The Past, Can’t Be The Future Black Lung – The Great Manipulator Brightness – Brightness [NEW] Carla Dal Forno – Look Up Sharp [NEW] Ceres – We Are A Team [NEW] Charlie Collins – Snowpine Chelsea Wilson – Chasing Gold [NEW] Collarbones – Futurity [NEW] Cool Sounds – More To Enjoy [NEW] Corin – Manifest [NEW] Cub Sport – Cub Sport Daggy Man – I’m Going To Love As Long As I Live Deborah Conway & Willy Zygier – The Words Of Men [NEW] Dispossessed – Warpath Never Ended Dope Lemon – Smooth Big Cat Dying Adolescence – Please Be Kind [NEW] Dyson Stringer Cloher – Dyson Stringer Cloher [NEW] DZ Deathrays – Positive Rising: Part 1 [NEW] Elizabeth – The Wonderful World Of Nature [NEW] Emma Russack – Winter Blues Exek – Some Beautiful Species Left [NEW] Ferla – It’s Personal Gena Rose Bruce – Can’t Make You Love Me [NEW] Godtet – II [NEW] Gold Fields – Dalawa Grace Cummings – Refuge Cove [NEW] Hatchie – Keepsake Hermitude – Pollyanarchy [NEW] Hexdebt – Rule Of Four Holy Holy – My Own Pool Of Light [NEW] HTRK – Venus In Leo [NEW] Huntly – Low Grade Buzz I Know Leopard – Love Is A Landmine J. McFarlane’s Reality Guest – TA DA [NEW] Jade Imagine – Basic Love [NEW] Jess Ribeiro – Love Hate Jimmy Barnes – My Criminal Record Jo Schornikow – Secret Weapon Julia Jacklin – Crushing June Jones – Diana [NEW] King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Fishing For Fishies King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Infest The Rats’ Nest [NEW] Kirin J Callinan – Return To The Centre [NEW] Laurence Pike – Holy Spring [NEW] Lachlan Denton & Studio Magic – A Brother [NEW] Low Life – Downer EDN [NEW] Lucky Oceans – Purple Sky [NEW] Lucy Roleff – Left Open In A Room [NEW] Lupa J – Swallow Me Whole [NEW] Mansionair – Shadowboxer Married Man – Hard Bargain [NEW] Martin Frawley – Undone At 31 Methyl Ethel – Triage Montaigne – Complex [NEW] Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Ghosteen [NEW] No Mono – Islands (Part 2) [NEW] Olympia – Flamingo On Diamond – On Diamond [NEW] Oren Ambarchi – Simian Angel [NEW] Parsnip – When The Tree Bears Fruit [NEW] Paul Mac – Mesmerism [NEW] Phil Slater – The Dark Pattern [NEW] Polish Club – Iguana Pond – Tasmania Possible Humans – Everybody Split [NEW] Rainbow Chan – Pillar [NEW] Robert Forster – Inferno Russell Morris – Black & Blue Heart Ry X – Unfurl Sampa The Great – The Return [NEW] Sarah Mary Chadwick – Queen Who Stole The Sky Skydeck – Eureka Moment [NEW] Sleep D – Rebel Force [NEW] Sports Bra – Talk It Out [NEW] Squaring Circles – Motion Stella Donnelly – Beware Of The Dogs Stonefield - Bent Sui Zhen – Losing, Linda [NEW] Sunbeam Sound Machine – Goodness Gracious The Beasts – Still Here The Money War – Home The Snakes – The Snakes [NEW] Thelma Plum – Better In Blak These New South Whales – I Just Do What God Tells Me To Do [NEW] Tropical Fuck Storm – Braindrops [NEW] Two People – First Body U-Bahn – U-Bahn [NEW] Underground Lovers – A Left Turn [NEW] Vulture St. Tape Gang – More Mature Themes For Childish People WAAX – Big Grief [NEW] We Lost The Sea – Triumph & Disaster [NEW] Wilson Tanner – II [NEW]