The Australian Music Prize has revealed its longlist

The Australian Music Prize has released its 2018 longlist. The highly coveted longlist is determined by 21 judges including journalists, retailers, artists, programmers and more. It is a celebration of some of the finest Australian records released this year.

AMP judge and Hoodoo Gurus frontman Dave Faulkner has shared the statement: "This year the quantity of Australian albums has really increased, but along with that, so has the quality. The judges have been blown away by the number of albums that we’ve discovered for ourselves as part of this process. The reality that the Australian Music Prize can be a recognition of the winner, but also a platform for music-lovers everywhere to discover new records without the shackles of genre and format is so exciting."

Previous winners include A.B. Original, Courtney Barnett, Sampa the Great and Lisa Mitchell. The winner of the AMP will take home $30,000.

So without further ado, here are your 2018 nominees.

THE 14th ANNUAL AUSTRALIAN MUSIC PRIZE LONGLIST

Abbe May - Fruit Alice Ivy - I'm Dreamin Alice Skye - Friends With Feelings Amy Shark - Love Monster Barney McAll feat. Monash Art Ensemble - Zephyrix Camp Cope - How To Socialise & Make Friends Cash Savage and the Last Drinks - Good Citizens Catherine Britt & The Cold Cold Hearts - Catherine Britt & The Cold Cold Hearts Confidence Man - Confident Music for Confident People Cosmo's Midnight - What Comes Next Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel Dark Fair - Off Into My Head Dead Can Dance - Dionysus Deaf Wish - Lithium Zion DZ Deathrays - Bloody Lovely East Brunswick All Girls Choir - Teddywaddy Emily Wurramara - Milyakburra Emma Louise - Lilac Everything: A Project By Emma Louise Evelyn Ida Morris - Evelyn Ida Morris Evelyn Ida Morris - Acute Misfortune Flowertruck - Mostly Sunny Fraser A Gorman - Easy Dazy Freya Josephine Hollick - Feral Fusion Gabriella Cohen - Pink Is The Colour Of Unconditional Love The Goon Sax - We're Not Talking Grand Salvo - Sea Glass Gregor - Silver Drop Gurrumul - Djarimirri High Tension - Purge Hockey Dad - Blend Inn Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders - Blue Poles Jack River - Sugar Mountain Jethro Pickett - France Jonathan Zwartz - Animarum (Expanded Edition) Joseph Tawadros The Bluebird, The Mystic & The Fool Joyride - Sunrise Chaser Kasey Chambers & The Fireside Disciples - Campfire King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Gumboot Soup Lachlan Bryan And The Wildes - Some Girls (Quite) Like Country Music Laura Jean - Devotion Loose Tooth - Keep Up Lowtide - Southern Mind LUCIANBLOMKAMP - Sick Of What I Don't Understand (Pts 1 - 3) Luke Howard - Open Heart Story The Lulu Raes - LULU Matt Corby - Rainbow Valley Mia Dyson - If I Said Only So Far I Take It Back Middle Kids - Lost Friends Mojo Juju - Native Tongue The Moles - Code Word Morning Harvey - With The Pinstripes The Necks - Body Ned Collette - Old Chestnut New War - COIN The Ocean Party - The Oddfellows Hall Odette - To A Stranger Oh Pep! - I Wasn't Only Thinking About You… Padma Newsome - The Vanity of Trees Perry Keyes - Jim Salmon’s Lament Peter Bibby - Grand Champion The Presets - Hi Viz Primitive Motion - House in the Wave Psycroptic - As The Kingdom Drowns The Putbacks - The Putbacks Rabbit Island - Deep in the Big Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs Ryan Downey - Running Sam Anning - Across A Field As Vast As One Sarah Blasko - Depth Of Field Sarah Mary Chadwick - Sugar Still Melts In The Rain Setec - Atrial Flutters (or Raise Yr Hand If Yr Afraid) Shepparton Airplane - Almurta Southeast Desert Metal - Break The Silence Space Invadas - Wild World Steve Barry Quartet - Blueprints & Vignettes Straight Arrows - On Top SURFING - ‘Incubo’ Incubo Tangents - New Bodies Tape/Off - Broadcast Park Tia Gostelow - Thick Skin Tom Noonan - Pas de Deux Tori Forsyth - Dawn Of The Dark Totally Mild - Her Tropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death in Meatspace Troye Sivan - Bloom William Crighton - Empire

Listen to the Australian Music Prize playlist below.