2fm have just unveiled the shortlist for this year's RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2017, in association with IMRO & IRMA, on the Tracy Clifford Show.
The €10,000 cheque will be handed out on March 8 in Vicar St., Dublin where most of the acts will be speed-gigging.
The runners and riders are:
Come On Live Long - In The Still (self released)
Marlene Enright - Placemats and Second Cuts (self released)
Fangclub (pictured) – Fangclub (Universal)
Lankum - Beneath the Earth and the Sky (Rough Trade)
James Vincent McMorrow - True Care (Faction Records)
New Jackson - From Night to Night (All City)
Otherkin – OK (Rubyworks)
Fionn Regan - The Meetings of the Waters (Abbey Records)
Ships – Precession (Ships Music)
Talos - Wild Alee (Feel Good Lost)