The winner was chosen by a panel of judges from across the creative industries, chaired by music journalist Arusa Qureshi.<\/p>\n
Robert Kilpatrick, creative director of the Scottish Music Industry Association, said Kai Reesu’s album was a “truly well-deserved” winner.<\/p>\n
He added: “Massive congratulations to Kai Reesu for a bold, genre-blending record that moves effortlessly between jazz, hip-hop, grime and psychedelia. <\/p>\n
“It’s prophetic, propulsive and defiantly inventive.”<\/p>\n
The ceremony included live performances from 2024 winner Redolent and a set from KT Tunstall to close the night. <\/p>\n
Tunstall, who grew up in St Andrews, performed three songs from 2005 album Eye to the Telescope.<\/p>\n
She said: “I live in America and I travel all over the world and people love Scottish musicians.<\/p>\n
“So I’m just very proud to be in that lineage of amazing Scottish artists that have contributed an awful lot to the world, even though we’re such a wee country.”<\/p>\n
Previous winners of the award include Young Fathers in 2023, Fergus McCreadie in 2022 and Mogwai in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The winner was chosen by a panel of judges from across the creative industries, chaired by music journalist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-121876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}