Past Winners and Short List Nominees
Year |
Winner |
Album |
Shortlisted nominees & albums |
Other awards |
Ref(s) |
2005 |
The Drones |
Wait Long By The River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By |
- Ben Lee — Awake Is the New Sleep
- The Devastations — Coal
- The Go-Betweens — Oceans Apart
- The Mess Hall — Notes From A Ceiling
- Tex, Don and Charlie — All is Forgiven
- TZU — Smiling at Strangers
- Wolfmother — Wolfmother
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2006 |
Augie March |
Moo, You Bloody Choir |
- Bob Evans — Suburban Songbook
- Gotye — Like Drawing Blood
- Howling Bells — Howling Bells
- Jackie Marshall — Fight n'Flight
- Lisa Gerrard — The Silver Tree
- Sarah Blasko — What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have
- The Drones — Gala Mill
- The Grates — Gravity Won't Get You High
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- The inaugural Red Bull Award in recognition of Outstanding Potential was awarded to Gotye.
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2007 |
The Mess Hall |
Devils Elbow |
- Architecture in Helsinki — Places Like This
- bluejuice — Problems
- Dardanelles — Mirror Mirror
- The Devastations — Yes U
- Lisa Miller — Morning in the Bowl of Night
- Midnight Juggernauts — Dystopia
- New Buffalo — Somewhere, Anywhere
- Perry Keyes — Last Ghost Train Home
- Urthboy — The Signal
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- The MySpace Public Vote Award was won by New Buffalo.
- The Red Bull Award for Outstanding Potential was won by bluejuice.
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2008 |
Eddy Current Suppression Ring |
Primary Colours |
- The Presets — Apocalypso
- Beaches — Beaches
- The Drones — Havilah
- Cut Copy — In Ghost Colours
- C. W. Stoneking — Jungle Blues
- Jack Ladder — Love Is Gone
- Tom Cooney — Presque Vu
- Ross McLennan — For the New World
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- The Red Bull Award for Best Debut Album was won by Jack Ladder for Love is Gone.
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2009 |
Lisa Mitchell |
Wonder |
- Bertie Blackman — Secrets and Lies
- Black Cab — Call Signs
- Kid Sam — Kid Sam
- Lucie Thorne — Black Across the Field
- Oh Mercy — Privileged Woes
- Sarah Blasko — As Day Follows Night
- The Mess Hall — For The Birds
- Urthboy — Spitshine
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- The Red Bull Award for Best Debut Album was won by Oh Mercy for Privileged Woes.
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2010 |
Cloud Control |
Bliss Release |
- The Holidays — Post Paradise
- Dan Kelly — Dan Kelly's Dream
- Eddy Current Suppression Ring — Rush To Relax
- Gareth Liddard — Strange Tourist
- Pikelet — Stem
- Richard In Your Mind — My Volcano
- Sally Seltmann — Heart That's Pounding
- Tame Impala — Innerspeaker
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- The Red Bull Award for Best Debut Album was won by The Holidays for Post Paradise.
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2011 |
The Jezabels |
Prisoner |
- Abbe May — Design Desire
- Adalita — Adalita
- Boy & Bear — Moonfire
- Gotye — Making Mirrors
- Gurrumul — Rrakala
- Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders — Hurtsville
- Kimbra — Vows
- The Middle East — I Want That You Are Always Happy
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