The RTÉ Choice Music Prize shortlist has been announced

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)