Merlin Congratulates Its 60+ Member Labels and Distributors Nominated for 2023 Libera Awards, Making Up 76% of Total Nominations

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Congratulations to all of the Merlin Members nominated for 2023 Libera Awards. Over 60 Merlin label and distributor members have nominations with 166 total nominations, making up 76% of total nominations. The following is a list of Merlin Member nominees.

!K7 Records

  • Best Classical Record – “At the Crest” – Jonas Colstrup
  • Best Dance Record – “DJ-Kicks” – Theo Parrish

4AD (Beggars)

  • Record of the Year – “Stumpwork” – Dry Cleaning
  • Best Alternative Rock Record – “Stumpwork” – Dry Cleaning
  • Best Folk Record – “Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You” – Big Thief
  • Best Latin Record – “Ya No Astoy Aquí” – Helado Negro
  • Best Live/Livestream Act – Live at the Getty – Bartees Strange
  • Best Remix – “Wretched (keiyaA Remix)” – Bartees Strange
  • Best Singer Songwriter Record – “Warm Chris” – Aldous Harding

Alligator Records (Exceleration Music)

  • Best Blues Record – “Done Come Too Far” – Shemekia Copeland

ANTI- (Epitaph)

  • Best American Roots Record – “El Mirador” – Calexico
  • Best Country Record – “I Walked With You A Ways” – Plains
  • Best Folk Record – “Quitters” – Christian Lee Hutson
  • Best Latin Record – “IRE” – Combo Chimbita
  • Best Outlier Record – “Jazz Codes” – Moor Mother
  • Best Re-Issue – “Wild Creatures” – Neko Case

ATO Records

  • Label of the Year (15 or more employees)
  • Video of the Year presented by YouTube Music – “Hawk For The Dove” – Amanda Shires
  • Best Alternative Rock Record – “Painless” – Nilüfer Yanya
  • Best Global Record presented by Redeye Worldwide – “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” – Rodrigo y Gabriela
  • Best Latin Record – “Boleros Psicodélicos” – Adrian Quesada
  • Best Live/Livestream Act – “Colors Live at Abbey Road Studios” – Black Pumas
  • Best Outlier Record – “COMETA” – Nick Hakim
  • Best Remix – “Midnight Sun (Sampha remix)” – Nilüfer Yanya
  • Best Soul/Funk Record – “The Alien Coast” – St. Paul & The Broken Bones
  • Creative Packaging – “Circuital, Deluxe Edition” – My Morning Jacket 

Bayonet Records (Secretly Distribution)

  • Best Outlier Record – “Glitch Princess” – yeule

Big Dada (Ninja Tune)

  • Best R&B Record – “Remember Your North Star” – Yaya Bey

Because Music

  • A2IM Humanitarian Award – Björk
  • Best Dance Record – “Can’t Stop Thinking About” – Logic1000
  • Best Electronic Record  – “Topical Dancer ” – Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul
  • Best Electronic Record  – “Nymph” – Shygirl
  • Best Remix – “Cliché (Soulwax Remix)” – Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul

Blackground Music 2.0 (EMPIRE Distribution)

  • A2IM Humanitarian Award – Killer Mike

Brainfeeder (Ninja Tune)

  • Best Remix – “Get Sun (Georgia Anne Muldrow Remix)” – Hiatus Kaiyote

Candid Records (Exceleration Music)

  • Best Jazz Record – “new STANDARDS Vol. 1” – Terri Lyne Carrington, Kris Davis, Linda May Han Oh, Nicholas Payton, Matthew Stevens
  • Best Latin Record – “Quietude” – Eliane Elias

Captured Tracks (Secretly Distribution)

  • Label of the Year (6-14 Employees) – Captured Tracks
  • Video of the Year presented by YouTube Music – “Thank You” – JayWood

Chrysalis (Reservoir Media)

  • Best Blues Record – “Bloodline Maintenance” – Ben Harper
  • Best Sync Usage – “Drink Before the War,” Euphoria – Sinéad O’Connor

City Slang (Zebralution)

  • Label of the Year (6-14 Employees) – City Slang
  • Best Global Record presented by Redeye Worldwide – “Let the Festivities Begin!” – Los Bitchos
  • Best Short-Form Video – The Runner – Boy Harsher

Daptone Records (Redeye)

  • Label of the Year (6-14 Employees) – Daptone Records
  • Best R&B Record – “Thee Sacred Souls” – Thee Sacred Souls
  • Best Soul/Funk Record – “Sentimental Fool” – Lee Fields

Dead Oceans (Secretly)

  • Best Alternative Rock Record – “Laurel Hell” – Mitski
  • Best American Roots Record – “This Is A Photograph” – Kevin Morby
  • Best Global Record presented by Redeye Worldwide – “Ali” – Vieux Farka Touré et Khruangbin
  • Best Live/Livestream Act – Glastonbury 2022 – Phoebe Bridgers
  • Best R&B Record – “Texas Moon” – Khruangbin & Leon Bridges
  • Best Short-Form Video – MAHAL TikTok series – Toro y Moi
  • Creative Packaging – “Laurel Hell” – Mitski 

Domino Recording Co.

  • Record of the Year – “Wet Leg” – Wet Leg
  • Video of the Year presented by YouTube Music – “Ur Mum” – Wet Leg
  • Best Alternative Rock Record – “Wet Leg” – Wet Leg
  • Best Live/Livestream Act – US 2022 tour – Wet Leg
  • Best Outlier Record – “Time Skiffs ” – Animal Collective
  • Best Remix – “Too Late Now (Soulwax Remix)” – Wet Leg
  • Marketing Genius – “Wet Leg” – Wet Leg

Don Giovanni Records (Redeye Worldwide)

  • Label of the Year (1-5 Employees) – Don Giovanni Records
  • Best Country Record – “Blackberry Rose” – Lavender Country
  • Best Soul/Funk Record – “I Need A Job…So I Can Buy More Auto-Tune” – Swamp Dog

Epitaph

  • Record of the Year – “Diaspora Problems” – Soul Glo
  • Breakthrough Artist/Release – Soul Glo
  • Breakthrough Artist/Release – The Linda Lindas
  • Best Heavy Record – “Diaspora Problems” – Soul Glo
  • Best Punk Record – “Growing Up” – The Linda Lindas

Fire Talk (Redeye Worldwide)

  • Label of the Year (1-5 Employees) – Fire Talk

Foreign Family Collective (Ninja Tune)

  • Best Electronic Record – “The Last Goodbye” – ODESZA

Friends of Friends (!K7)

  • Best Classical Record – “We Will Live On” – Deru

FUGA

  • Independent Champion – FUGA

Ghostly International (Secretly)

  • Best Electronic Record – “Let’s Turn It Into Sound” – Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Hopeless Records

  • Label of the Year (15 or more employees) – Hopeless Records
  • A2IM Humanitarian Award – Hopeless Records
  • Best Punk Record – “The Hum Goes On Forever” – The Wonder Years

Innovative Leisure (Redeye Worldwide)

  • Label of the Year (1-5 Employees) – Innovative Leisure
  • Best Jazz Record – “Living Sky” – Leland Whitty

Jagjaguwar (Secretly)

  • Best American Roots Record – “Big Time” – Angel Olsen
  • Best Re-Issue – “Bon Iver, 10th Anniversary Edition ” – Bon Iver
  • Best Sync Usage – “Go Home,” Empire of Light Trailer – Angel Olsen

KGLW (ATO Records)

  • Best Live/Livestream Act – King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard at Red Rocks – King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

Kill Rock Stars (Redeye Worldwide)

  • Best Punk Record – “Back Home ” – Big Joanie

Matador Records (Beggars)

  • Best Global Record presented by Redeye Worldwide – “Afrique Refait” – Mdou Moctar
  • Best Rock Record – “Lucifer On The Sofa” – Spoon
  • Best Short-Form Video – “Scooter” – Belle And Sebastian

Merge Records

  • Label of the Year (15 or more employees) – Merge Records
  • Best Classical Record – “Pigments” – Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn
  • Best Global Record presented by Redeye Worldwide – “Electricity” – Ibibio Sound Machine

Mexican Summer (Redeye Worldwide)

  • Best Global Record presented by Redeye Worldwide – “En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog” – Dungen
  • Best Latin Record – “Estrela Acesa” – Sessa

Mom + Pop

  • A2IM Humanitarian Award – Tegan and Sara
  • Best Pop Record – “Second Nature” – Lucius
  • Best Pop Record – “Crybaby” – Tegan and Sara

Nettwerk Music Group

  • Best Classical Record – “memorie” – doeke

New West Records (Redeye Worldwide & [PIAS])

  • Label of the Year (15 or more employees) – New West Records
  • Best American Roots Record – “Denim & Diamonds ” – Nikki Lane
  • Best Blues Record – “Set Sail” – North Mississippi Allstars
  • Best Country Record – “Neon Blue” – Joshua Hedley
  • Best Country Record – “JERRY JEFF” – Steve Earle and The Dukes
  • Best Soul/Funk Record – “Love & Algorhythms” – SERATONES
  • Best American Roots Record – “Fortune Favors the Bold” – 49 Winchester

Ninja Tune

  • Label of the Year (15 or more employees) – Ninja Tune
  • Best Dance Record – “Water” – Bicep
  • Best Electronic Record – “Fragments” – Bonobo
  • Creative Packaging – “Ants From Up There, Deluxe” – Black Country, New Road

Partisan Records ([PIAS])

  • Label of the Year (15 or more employees) – Partisan Records
  • Video of the Year presented by YouTube Music – “Jackie Down The Line” – Fontaines D.C.
  • Video of the Year presented by YouTube Music – “Parasites” – NoSo
  • Best Jazz Record – “Where I’m Meant To Be” – Ezra Collective
  • Best Live/Livestream Act – Live on ‘From The Basement’ – IDLES
  • Best Pop Record – “Stay Proud of Me ” – NoSo
  • Best Re-Issue – “Fela with Ginger Baker Live!” – Fela Kuti
  • Best Rock Record – “Skinty Fia” – Fontaines D.C.
  • Best Short-Form Video – “Pistol ” – Cigarettes After Sex
  • Best Singer Songwriter Record – “Weather Alive” – Beth Orton
  • Best Sync Usage – “Water No Get Enemy,” Airbnb – Fela Kuti
  • Marketing Genius – “Skinty Fia” – Fontaines D.C.

Pentatone (Naxos)

  • Best Classical Record – “Lost & Found” – Sean Shibe

Polyvinyl Record Co.

  • Record of the Year – “Blue Rev” – Alvvays
  • Best Alternative Rock Record – “Blue Rev” – Alvvays
  • Best Folk Record – “PRE PLEASURE ” – Julia Jacklin

Reach Records

  • Best Spiritual Record – “Church Clothes 4” – Lecrae

Redeye Worldwide

  • Independent Champion – Redeye Worldwide

Rough Trade (Beggars)

  • Best Electronic Record  – “I Love You Jennifer B” – Jockstrap
  • Best Heavy Record – “Hellfire” – black midi
  • Best Punk Record – “Endure” – Special Interest
  • Best Short-Form Video – Hellfire TikTok promotion – Black Midi

Saddest Factory Records (Secretly)

  • Best Pop Record – “MUNA” – MUNA

Saddle Creek

  • Label of the Year (6-14 Employees) – Saddle Creek

Secretly Canadian (Secretly)

  • Video of the Year presented by YouTube Music – “Spitting Off the Edge of the World” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
  • Best Folk Record – “Quiet The Room” – Skullcrusher
  • Best Outlier Record – “Please Have A Seat” – NNAMDÏ 
  • Marketing Genius – “Cool It Down ” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Secretly Distribution (Secretly)

  • Independent Champion – Secretly Distribution

Stones Throw Records

  • Breakthrough Artist/Release – Sudan Archives
  • Best R&B Record – “Natural Brown Prom Queen” – Sudan Archives
  • Marketing Genius – “Natural Brown Prom Queen” – Sudan Archives

Strut Records (!K7)

  • Best Latin Record – “If You Will” – Flora Purim

Sub Pop

  • Label of the Year (15 or more employees) – Sub Pop
  • Best Live/Livestream Act – Live – Low
  • Best Remix – “Nothing Is Safe (remx)” – Clipping
  • Best Rock Record – “When The Wind Forgets Your Name” – Built to Spill
  • Best Singer Songwriter Record – “And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow” – Weyes Blood

Tangerine Records (Exceleration Music)

  • Best Re-Issue – “A Message From The People” – Ray Charles
  • Best Soul/Funk Record – “Live in Stockholm 1972” – Ray Charles

Third Man Records

  • Label of the Year (15 or more employees) – Third Man Records
  • Best Rock Record – “Fear of the Dawn” – Jack White
  • Creative Packaging – “2022 Collector’s Set” – Jack White
  • Creative Packaging – “Dopesmoker, Weedian High-Fi Edition” – Sleep

Warp Records

  • Label of the Year (15 or more employees) – Warp Records
  • Best Dance Record – “Happy Ending” – Kelela
  • Best Punk Record – “LOGGERHEAD ” – Wu-Lu
  • Best Sync Usage – “A Flower Called Nowhere,” Atlanta – Warp Records

XL Recordings (Beggars)

  • Record of the Year – “A Light for Attracting Attention” – The Smile
  • Best Hip-Hop/Rap Record – “LOUIE” – Kenny Beats
  • Best Short-Form Video – LOUIE 001 Instagram vignette series  – Kenny Beats 

Yep Roc Records (Redeye Worldwide)

  • Best Folk Record – “Age of Apathy” – Aoife O’Donovan

YOUNG (Beggars)

  • Best Dance Record – “Strong” – Romy feat. Fred Again… 
  • Best Jazz Record – “The Garden Path” – Kamasi Washington

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