Short List

From a field of more than 300 Australian artist albums of 2012, The Coopers AMP judging panel painstakingly arrived at a list of 71 official entrants for the highly revered and hotly contested 8th Australian Music Prize. From there, numbers were crunched and heartstrings pulled with the view of once again narrowing the field to just nine shortlisted artist albums. After much debate, deliberation and even dispute, the votes are in and the list of shortlisted contenders is finally here.