The shortlist for this year's RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2019, in association with IMRO & IRMA, was announced today with Tracy  by Jim Carroll, chairman of the judging panel.

Dermot Kennedy kicked off our celebration of Studio 8 with an incredible, intimate performance with Tracy Clifford and some very lucky 2FM listeners

St. Vincent - ‘Birth In Reverse’ Meljoann - ‘Company Retreat’ The Avalanches - ‘Subways’ The Chemical Brothers - ‘Out Of Control’ (The Avalanches Surrender To Love Mix) Rejjie Snow - ‘Pink Beetle’ Blur - ‘Beetlebum’ Sinead O’Brien - ‘Fall With

Alex Gough - ‘Fool’ Jain - ‘Makeba’ The Gossip - ‘Jealous Girls’ Gadget & The Cloud - ‘Keep You' (Kobina Remix) The Japanese Popstars (feat: Jon Spencer) - ‘Destroy’ The Claque - ‘Hush’ Rollerskate Skinny - ‘Cradle Burns’ Meljoann -

Roisin Murphy - ‘Murphy’s Law’ The Chemical Brothers (feat: St. Vincent) - ‘Under Neon Lights’ Warmduscher - ‘Midnight Dipper’ (Soulwax Remix) Beabadoobee - ‘Space Cadet’ Babylon Zoo - ‘Space Man’ Young Wonder - ‘Intergalactic’ Beastie Boys -

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Nadine Shah - ‘Ladies For Babies (Goats For Love)’ The Rapture - ‘Love Is All’ A Guy Called Gerald - ‘Voodoo Ray’ Ultraista - ‘Anybody’ Easy Star All-Stars (feat: Horace Andy) - ‘Airbag’ Radiohead - ‘Paranoid Android’ Ava Archbold - ‘Exit Music

SUPERORGANISM – ‘Something For Your M.I.N.D.’ SLYK - ‘What I Really Need’ Iggy Pop - ‘Lust For Life’ (The Prodigy Remix) The Prodigy (feat: Pop Will Eat Itself) - ‘Their Law’ Jilted - ‘KingCon’ Pop Will Eat Itself – ‘Ich Bin Ein

Fontaines D.C. – ‘Hurricane Laughter’ Ash – ‘A Life Less Ordinary’ Thumper – ‘Ad Nauseam’ Pillow Queens - ‘Favourite’ Roisin Murphy – ‘Murphy’s Law’ (Dub) Brian Deady – ‘I Can’t Go For That’ (Doo Wop version) The Scratch - ‘God Slap’ The Frank

Alex Gough - ‘Fool’ U2 - ‘Lemon’ (Perfecto Remix) All Tvvins - ‘Darkest Ocean’ Son - ‘When The Light Shines Down’ Kerbdog – ‘Severed’ Sister Ghost – ‘Bruised Fruit’ Otherkin – ‘Come On Hello’ Blood Donor – ‘Bienvenue’ Malaki – ‘Gem In The

Inhaler – ‘We Have To Move On’ Bantum - ‘Gully’ Le Galaxie – ‘Pleasure’ Kormac (feat: Irvine Welsh) - ‘Another Screen’ The Radiators From Space - ‘Television Screen’ Fontaines D.C. - ‘Television Screen’ First Class & Coach –

Rejjie Snow – ‘Charlie Brown’ Fight Like Apes - ‘Lend Me Your Face’ The Murder Capital - ‘Feeling Fades’ Sultans Of Ping F.C. - ‘U Talk 2 Much’ Shakalak - ‘Kindness’ Shane McGowan & The Popes - ‘That Woman’s Got Me Drinking’ Sinead O’Brien