The American Affiliation of Impartial Music (A2IM) has revealed the recipients of this 12 months’s Libera Awards, which honors the successes of the unbiased music neighborhood.
Held on June sixteenth, 2022, the ceremony celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Liberas with an in-person, ticketed gala at New York Metropolis’s iconic Webster Corridor. EDM.com proudly offered this 12 months’s Libera Award for Finest Dance Report, nabbed by British digital band jungle, whose Loving In Stereo album is a sultry rush of funk and soul.
Specializing in business and advocacy awards, the evening’s pièce de résistance was the Impartial Icon Award, received by famend DJ and report producer Madlib. Revered for his seminal collaborations with the late MF DOOM, amongst different influential initiatives, Madlib’s indelible contributions to hip-hop date again to the early 90s.
One other spotlight got here courtesy of veteran rapper Widespread, who was honored with the A2IM Humanitarian Award. The award commemorates work by an individual, artist, or firm “designed to raised the world by means of the unbiased music neighborhood.”
Madlib additionally carried out reside this 12 months, amongst others, akin to Grammy-nominated alt-pop outfit Japanese Breakfast, who swept the classes by taking dwelling the Report of the 12 months, Finest Different Rock Report, Inventive Packaging and Advertising Genius for her album Jubilee.
You possibly can learn the complete checklist of winners and watch this 12 months’s full Libera Awards ceremony under.
Libera Awards 2022 Winners
Report of the 12 months: Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee (Lifeless Oceans)
Self-released report of the 12 months: Cautious Clay – Deadpan Love (Cautious Clay)
Video of the 12 months: Moist Leg – “Chaise Longue” (Domino Recording Co.)
Label of the 12 months (large) (tie): Mother + Pop Music; Matador Data
Label of the 12 months (medium): Sacred Bones Data
Label of the 12 months (small): Oh Boy Data
A2IM humanitarian award: Widespread
Finest various rock report: Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee (Lifeless Oceans)
Finest Americana report: Madi Diaz – Historical past of a Feeling (ANTI-)
Finest blues report (tie): Cedric Burnside – I Be Making an attempt (Single Lock Data); Christone “Kingfish” Ingram – 662 (Alligator Data)
Finest classical report: Bryce Dessner, Australian String Quartet, Sydney Dance Firm – Impermanence/Disintegration (37d03d)
Finest nation report: Sturgill Simpson – The Ballad of Dood & Juanita (Excessive High Mountain Data / Thirty Tigers)
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Finest dance report: Jungle – Loving In Stereo (AWAL)
Finest digital report: 박혜진 Park Hye Jin – Earlier than I Die (Ninja Tune)
Finest people/bluegrass report (tie): Hand Habits – Enjoyable Home (Saddle Creek); Jose Gonzalez – Native Valley (Mute)
Finest heavy report: Deafheaven – Infinite Granite (Sargent Home)
Finest hip-hop/rap report: Little Simz – Generally I May Be Introvert (AWAL)
Finest jazz report: BADBADNOTGOOD – Speak Reminiscence (XL Recordings/Revolutionary Leisure)
Finest Latin report: Helado Negro – Far In (4AD)
Finest reside/livestream act: Mdou Moctar – “Dwell on the Niger River”
Finest outlier report: L’Rain – Fatigue (Mexican Summer time)
Finest pop report: Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams (Transgressive/[PIAS])
Finest punk report: The Linda Lindas – “Racist, Sexist Boy” (Dwell at LA Public Library) (Epitaph)
Finest R&B report: Hiatus Kaiyote – Temper Valiant (Brainfeeder (Ninja Tune))
Finest reissue: Radiohead – Child A Mnesia (XL Recordings)
Finest rock report: IDLES – CRAWLER (Partisan Data)
Finest non secular report: Blind Boys of Alabama feat. Bela Fleck – “I Want I Knew How It Would Really feel to Be Free” (Single Lock Data)
Finest sync utilization: Phoebe Bridgers – “I Know the Finish” – Ep 106 Mare of Easttown (Lifeless Oceans)
Finest world report: Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime (Matador Data)
Breakthrough artist/launch: Moist Leg – Chaise Longue (Domino Recording Co.)
Inventive packaging: Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee (Lifeless Oceans)
Impartial champion: Bandcamp
Advertising genius: Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee (Lifeless Oceans)