Jessica Pratt’s Right here within the Pitch took house document of the yr on the A2IM Libera Awards Monday night time in New York, whereas MJ Lenderman was named breakthrough artist and Raye gained self-released document of the yr for “Genesis.”
The awards, hosted by the American Affiliation of Impartial Music (A2IM) and introduced by Merlin kicked off Indie Week and got out at speedy fireplace between performances from nominees Ekko Astral, Swamp Dogg, Serpantwithfeet and Reyna Tropical, the latter of whom gained for Latin document for final yr’s Malegria.
“Music to me is what survived, to me, via a lot ache and grief and continues to,” Reyna Tropical’s Fabi Reyna mentioned via tears as she accepted her award in particular person Monday night time. “This album was one thing I created from the most important griefs of my life, become a pathway that has proven me and continues to point out me who I’m meant to turn out to be and has allowed me to be reborn.”
Right here within the Pitch additionally gained finest people document and finest singer-songwriter document. Different winners Monday night time included Waxahatchee, who gained finest nation document with Tiger’s Blood, Fontaines D.C., who have been awarded finest rock document for Romance, and Kim Gordon, whose The Collective gained finest various rock document. Shaboozey, who had one of many greatest hits of final yr with “A Bar Music (Tipsey),” gained this yr’s influence award. MF Doom, who died in 2020, gained finest reissue for Mm..Meals (twentieth Anniversary Version) in addition to for finest remix with “One Beer (Madlib Remix).”
!K7 founder Horst Weidenmüller, who died again in February, was posthumously awarded the lifetime achievement award Monday night time, and A2IM president and CEO Richard James Burgess, who will probably be stepping down at first of 2026, was additionally honored Monday night time to acknowledge is 10 years on the helm.
See the Libera Awards’ full winners record beneath:
Greatest Different Rock File
Kim Gordon – The Collective (Matador Information)
Greatest American Roots File
MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks (ANTI-)
Greatest Blues File
Ruthie Foster – Mileage (Solar Information)
Greatest Classical
Kelly Moran – Strikes within the Subject (Warp Information)
Greatest Nation File
Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood (ANTI-)
Greatest Dance File
Fcukers – Dishevelled$$ (Technicolour / Ninja Tune)
Greatest Digital File
Caribou – Honey (Merge Information)
Greatest Folks File
Jessica Pratt – Right here within the Pitch (Mexican Summer season)
Greatest International File
Mdou Moctar – Funeral for Justice (Matador Information)
Greatest Heavy File
METZ – Up On Gravity Hill (Sub Pop Information)
Greatest Hip-Hop/Rap File
Shygirl – “Immaculate (feat. Saweetie)” (As a result of Music)
Greatest Jazz File
Nala Sinephro – Endlessness (Warp Information)
Kamasi Washington – Fearless Motion (Younger)
Greatest Latin File
Reyna Tropical – Malegría (Psychic Hotline)
Greatest Outlier File
Khruangbin – A LA SALA (Useless Oceans)
SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE – YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING (Saddle Creek)
Greatest Pop File
Magdalena Bay – Imaginal Disk (Mother+Pop)
Greatest Punk File
Pissed Denims – Half Divorced (Sub Pop Information)
Greatest R&B File
Mavis Staples – “Worthy” (ANTI-)
Greatest Reissue
MF DOOM – MM..FOOD (twentieth Anniversary Version) (Rhymesayers Leisure)
Greatest Remix
MF DOOM – “One Beer (Madlib Remix)” (Rhymesayers Leisure)
Greatest Rock File
Fontaines D.C. – Romance (XL Recordings)
Greatest Singer-Songwriter File
Jessica Pratt – Right here within the Pitch (Mexican Summer season)
Greatest Soul/Funk File
Thee Sacred Souls – Bought a Story to Inform (Daptone Information)
Greatest Non secular File
The Harlem Gospel Vacationers – Rhapsody (Colemine Information)
Greatest Sync Utilization
De La Soul – “Say No Go” (Civil Struggle) (A.O.I./Chrysalis/Reservoir)
Breakthrough Artist
MJ Lenderman (ANTI-)
Artistic Packaging
MF DOOM – MM..FOOD (20 12 months Anniversary Version) (Rhymesayers Leisure)
Distributor of the 12 months
Redeye
Impartial Champion
Bandcamp
Impression Award
Shaboozey – The place I’ve Been, Isn’t The place I’m Going (American Dogwood/EMPIRE)
Label of the 12 months (15 or extra workers)
Partisan Information
Label of the 12 months (5 or fewer workers)
True Panther
Label of the 12 months (6-14 workers)
Mexican Summer season
Advertising and marketing Genius
IDLES – TANGK (Partisan Information)
Music Video of the 12 months
Fontaines D.C. – “Starburster” (XL Recordings)
Writer of the 12 months
Warp Publishing
File of the 12 months
Jessica Pratt – Right here within the Pitch (Mexican Summer season)
Self-Launched File of the 12 months
RAYE – Genesis. (Human Re Sources)
