The hunt is on to find the best Scottish album of the past year, with a £20,000 prize at stake for the winner.

The 20-strong longlist for the inaugural Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award was published today, with contenders ranging from King Creosote and Jon Hopkins' Mercury-nominated Diamond Mine to independent Bandcamp-only digital releases.

Narrowed down from the most popular selections by 100 industry nominators, the list will be whittled down still further when it opens to public vote via the SAY Award website [1] and a specially-designed app. The public's top choice will earn a place on the Scottish Album of the Year Award Short List, along with nine other longlist albums selected by ten industry expert judges.

The winner of the title and £20,000 grand prize will be announced at a ceremony in Glasgow Film City on June 19th. The nine runners-up will each receive £1,000, and all ten shortlisted finalists will also receive an artwork from the winner of the SAY Award art commission, selected from the graduates of Scotland's four principal art schools.

The longlisted albums are:

- 6th Borough Project: One Night in the Borough

- Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat: Everything's Getting Older

- Bwani Junction: Fully Cocked

- Chris Stout's Brazilian Theory: Live in Concert

- Conquering Animal Sound: Kammerspiel

- FOUND: factorycraft

- Fudge Fingas: Now About How

- Happy Particles: Under Sleeping Waves

- Jonny: Jonny

- King Creosote & Jon Hopkins: Diamond Mine

- Mogwai: Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will

- Mungo's Hi Fi: Forward Ever

- Muscles of Joy: Muscles of Joy

- Remember Remember: The Quickening

- Richard Craig: Inward

- Rustie: Glass Swords

- Steve Mason & Dennis Bovell: Ghosts Outside

- Tommy Smith: Karma

- Twin Atlantic: Free

- We Were Promised Jetpacks: In The Pit of the Stomach