Courtney Barnett receives multiple nods for UK’s Indie Music Awards

Melbourne artist Courtney Barnett shares the same number of nominations as British artists FKA Twigs and alt-J, and Scottish hip hop group Young Fathers for the UK’s 5th annual AIM Independent Awards.

Barnett is up for three awards: Hardest Working Band or Artist, Independent Breakthrough of the Year and Independent Track of the Year with her US radio favourite Pedestrian at Best.

Interestingly, it’s the second time she’s been nominated for the AIM Independent Breakthrough of the Year award. Last year she lost out to British trio London Grammar.

2015 has undoubtedly been a banner year for Barnett, who since releasing her debut album Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit earlier in the year, has been sought after and praised on both sides of the Pacific. The album debuted at #1 on the Rock, Alternative, Folk, Independent and Vinyl charts and entered the Billboard Top 200 at #20. The album entered at #16 in the UK, #19 in New Zealand, and #4 in Australia.

Last year Barnett performed some of the world’s biggest international festivals like Coachella, Lollapalooza and Glastonbury, and in March last year she performed on US talk show The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. This year she’s added UK's Glastonbury festival to her worldwide accomplishments, as well as a performance on US talk show Ellen.

In March, Barnett was named one of the recipients of the Grulke Prize awarded by SXSW. The award included $10,000 cash plus a two-day studio and hotel package in LA at Nightbird Recording Studio and Sunset Marquis Hotel.

Most recently Barnett has launched a global guerilla marketing campaign for upcoming single Nobody Really Cares If You Don’t Go to the Party. Tonedeaf ran a story today whih included Instagram posts of posters and billboards bearing the song's title.

Of the 43 artists in the running for AIM awards this year Barnett, FKA Twigs and Young Fathers received the most nods, with Bjork, Jme and Wof Alice following behind with two nods each.

AIM is UK’s independent music trade body representing the territory’s independent labels and distributors. It will announce the winners on September 8 at London's The Brewery.

See below for the full list of nominees:

Best Small Label
Basick Records
Erased Tapes Records 
High Focus Records
Planet Mu Records
Rocket Girl

Best Difficult Second Album
Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color 
Holly Herndon – Platform 
Nadine Shah – Fast Food 
The 2 Bears – The Night is Young 
Young Fathers – White Men Are Black Men Too

Special Catalogue Release of the Year
Cities of Darkscorch Boardgame 
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Inside the Pleasuredome 
Bjork – Coloured Vinyl Catalogue Reissue
The Pretty Things – Bouquets From a Cloudy Sky 
Imogen Heap – Sparks (Deluxe Boxset) 
Oasis (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? Reissue 

Hardest Working Band or Artist 
Courtney Barnett 
Jme
Little Comets 
Swans 
Young Fathers 

Golden Welly Award for Best Independent Festival
ArcTanGent
Barn On The Farm
Brainchild Festival
Pete The Monkey
Truck Festival

Independent Breakthrough of the Year
Courtney Barnett 
FKA twigs 
Run The Jewels 
Songhoy Blues 
Wolf Alice 

Indie Champion
Camilla Pia, BBC 6Music
Marc Riley, BBC 6Music
Peter Guy, Getintothis
Rupert Morrison, The Drift Record Shop
Tim Burgess, Songwriter & O Genesis Music Ltd

Independent Video of the Year
Alt-J – Hunger Of The Pine 
Flying Lotus – Never Catch Me
Ghostpoet – Sorry My Love, It’s You Not Me 
Ibeyi – River 
Son Lux – Change Is Everything 

Best Live Act
All Time Low 
Alt-J 
Erasure 
Thunder 
To Kill a King 
Twin Atlantic 

Independent Track of the Year
Alt-J – Every Other Freckle 
Courtney Barnett – Pedestrian at Best 
FKA twigs – Two Weeks 
Jamie XX – Loud Places
LA Priest – Oino 
Major Lazer – Lean On 
Mogwai – Teenage Exorcists 
Neck Deep – Can’t Kick Up The Roots 
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love 
Wiley – On A Level 

PPL Award for Most Played New Independent Act
FKA twigs 
Ghetts 
Jungle 
Ward Thomas

Independent Album of the Year
Bjork – Vulnicura
Enter Shikari – The Mindsweep 
Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear 
Ghostpoet – Shedding Skin 
Jme – Integrity> 
The Bug – Angels & Devils 
The Charlatans – Modern Nature 
The Xcerts – There Is Only You 
Wolf Alice – My Love Is Cool 
Young Fathers – White Men Are Black Men Too 

Independent Label of the Year
Epitaph Records
Erased Tapes Records
Heavenly Recordings
Planet Mu Records
Transgressive Records

Pioneer Award
Digby Pearson, Earache Records

Innovator Award
Peter Quicke, Matt Black and Jonathan More of Ninja Tune