The 12 finalists for this year’s Nordic Music Prize – an annual award for the best Nordic album of the year features Iceland’s Múm and Hjaltalín.

The Nordic Music Prize, inspired by the UK’s Mercury Music Prize, was instigated in 2010 by by:Larm, the leading music industry festival held every year in Oslo, Norway. (Hjaltalín will be appearing at this year’s by:Larm, as will fellow Icelandic artists Disa and Sisy Ey.)

Last year’s winners were Swedish group First Aid Kit, who won the prize for their album “The Lion’s Roar”.

The winner is decided by a selection process that begins with a panel in each Nordic country selecting their respective nations’ ten best albums from 2013.

The jury leaders from each country – Ralf Christensen (Denmark), Ilkka Mattila (Finland), Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen (Iceland), Audun Vinger (Norway) and Jan Gradvall (Sweden) – have nominated the following 12 albums for the Nordic Music Prize 2013:

Atlanter – Vidde
Death Hawks – Death Hawks
Hjaltalín – Enter 4
Iceage – You’re Nothing
Jenny Hval – Innocence Is Kinky
Jenny Wilson – Demand The Impossible.
Minä ja Ville Ahonen – Mia
Mona & Maria – My Sun
Múm – Smilewound
Rhye – Woman
Synd Og Skam – Lad Mig Falde Ind Til Dig / Center

The Knife – Shaking The Habitual

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