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Artist News Awards
Nova wins Scottish Album Of The Year Award
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 30 October 2020
Nova has been named the winner of this year’s Scottish Album Of The Year Award for her debut release ‘Re-Up’.
Accepted the £20,000 prize at last night’s ceremony via video link – due to a positive COVID-19 test – she said: “It is such an incredible feeling to have won the 2020 Scottish Album Of The Year Award, just a couple of weeks shy of my 25th birthday! It is so affirming – any doubts that I might have had previously are now out of the window and I’m seriously so excited for the future”.
“I’m excited to keep on this upwards trajectory, THRILLED to encounter new experiences and take my professionalism to the next level”, she added. “To think that my manager and I had no idea where we would end up when we started working together and now to have made it here is just fantastic”.
“It hasn’t always been easy”, she continued. “There have been a lot of late nights, night buses and moments of uncertainty, to name a few challenges, but winning this award has solidified my belief that hard work and determination bring results. So don’t call me lucky because I worked my butt off to move forward – and you can too.
“There is so much possibility in the air and I feel so free”, she concluded, “nurturing old bonds and making new ones is what I can see on the horizon. I’ve already begun working on my next project and I cannot wait to see how that is received. I’m sending much love and blessings to everyone who made this possible”.
Chair of this year’s judging panel, John Williamson, added: “Choosing one album over others to award a prize is, at the best of times, something of a fool’s errand. This year the judges had a not inconsiderable task – trying to compare the lavishly-produced and orchestrated against more homespun, DIY creations spanning a range of styles, backgrounds and outlooks”.
“Nova’s ‘Re-Up’ is, regardless, a worthy winner”, he went on, calling the winning album “brilliant, idiosyncratic and poetic: its brevity [featuring six tracks over eighteen minutes] even challenges what we consider an album in the first place”.
The other nine shortlisted artists also receive £1000 each. Watch highlights from last night’s ceremony on the BBC iPlayer here.
