Also up for that category were Jackie Onassis, Dustin Tebbutt, Wave Racer, Jeremy Neale, SAFIA and Tigertown.
Australian Music Video of the Year went to Clubfeet’s Everything You Wanted, in which singer Sebastian Cohen melted himself into a series of frozen mirror-images as he walked down a long street. Behind the trickery was director Josh Thomas, a member of the Melbourne-based Oh Yeah Wow collective.
Other videos nominated had been The Paper Kites’ Young (director: Darcy Prendergast), Bluejuice’s SOS (directors: Christian J Heinrich and Nicholas Rabone),
Vance Joy’s Riptide (director: Dimitri Basil and Laura Gorun), Kingswood’s Ohio (director: Matt Campbell) and Thundamental’s Smiles Don’t Lie (director: Adam Callen).
Flume’s album win put him alongside previous winners Wolfmother (2005), Hilltop Hoods (2006), The Panics (2007), The Presets (2008), Sarah Blasko (2009), Gotye (2011) and Tame Impala (2010 and 2012).
triple j Music Director Richard Kingsmill commented: “Flume’s self-titled debut is remarkable for so many reasons. It had equal measures of light and dark, upbeat and mellow, straightforward and obscure. Where he will take his music now is as exciting a prospect as this album has been for us all in 2013.”
Also nominated were The Drones’ I See Seaweed, RUFUS’ Atlas, Cloud Control’s Dream Cave, Jagwar Ma’s Howlin’, Big Scary’s Not Art, Abbe May’s Kiss My Apocalypse, Boy & Bear’s Harlequin Dream, Horrorshow’s King Amongst Many, Karnivool’s Asymmetry and Northlane’s Singularity.
