Young Fathers make history by winning their third SAY Award
nme.comYoung Fathers have made history by winning their third Scottish Album of the Year award with the LP ‘Heavy, Heavy‘.While accepting the prize, frontman Alloysious Massaquoi said: “Thank you to the judges, and all the nominees and everybody that’s turned up tonight – it’s a bit radge!”He continued: “The album is called ‘Heavy Heavy’ for a reason, it’s the trials and tribulations of everybody.
It’s one of those things where we sort of had to start from scratch, it had been four or five years since we put something out since ‘Cocoa Sugar’.
For us to get back together and get excited again with each other, all the ideas that everybody else brings – it’s great and this is topping off a great year”.Thank You @SAYaward ❤️ https://t.co/7upYas0cZu— Young Fathers (@Youngfathers) October 26, 2023The award also comes with a financial prize of £20,000.
This is the first time that any artist has won the award more than twice with Young Fathers winning back in 2014 for ‘Tape Two’ and in 2018 for ‘Cocoa Sugar‘.In a five-star review of ‘Heavy Heavy’, NME said: “[It] is a passionate, soulful and often mesmerising work that will stick around long past the first listen.
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