A2iM Libera independent music award winners 2023 – The Full List

The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) announced the 2023 Libera Awards winners on Thursday night during a ceremony at Town Hall in New York City.

Here is a full list of the 2023 Libera Awards winners.

Record of the Year

• Wet Leg – Wet Leg (Domino Recording Co.)

Label of the Year (5 or fewer employees)

• Innovative Leisure

Label of the Year (6-14 employees)

• Captured Tracks

Label of the Year (15 or more employees)

• Partisan Records

A2IM Humanitarian Award

• Killer Mike

Independent Champion

• Bandcamp

Video of the Year presented by YouTube Music

• Wet Leg – Ur Mum (Domino Recording Co.)

Breakthrough Artist/Release

• Sudan Archives (Stones Throw Records)

Best Alternative Rock Record

• Wet Leg – Wet Leg (Domino Recording Co.)

Best American Roots Record

• Angel Olsen – Big Time (Jagjaguwar)

Best Blues Record

• Shemekia Copeland – Done Come Too Far (Alligator Records)

Best Classical Record

• Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn – Pigments (Merge Records)

Best Country Record

• Plains – I Walked With You A Ways (ANTI-)

Best Dance Record

• Bicep – Water (Ninja Tune)

Best Electronic Record presented by Ingrooves

• ODESZA – The Last Goodbye (Ninja Tune/Foreign Family Collective)

Best Folk Record

• Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (4AD)

Best Global Record presented by Redeye Worldwide

• Rodrigo y Gabriela – Weird Fishes/Arpeggi (ATO Records)

Best Heavy Record

• black midi – Hellfire (Rough Trade Records)

Best Hip-Hop/Rap Record presented by Virgin Music

• Kenny Beats – LOUIE (XL Recordings)
• Run The Jewels – RTJ CU4TRO (BMG)

Best Jazz Record

• Kamasi Washington – The Garden Path (Young)

Best Latin Record

• Helado Negro – Ya No Astoy Aquí (4AD)

Best Live/Livestream Act

• Low – Live (Sub Pop Records)

Best Outlier Record

• NNAMDÏ – Please Have A Seat (Secretly Canadian/Sooper Records)

Best Pop Record

• MUNA – MUNA (Saddest Factory Records)

Best Punk Record

• The Linda Lindas – Growing Up (Epitaph)

Best R&B Record presented by TuneCore

• Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw Records)

Best Re-Issue

• Fela Kuti – Fela with Ginger Baker Live! (Partisan Records)

Best Remix

• Wet Leg – Too Late Now (Soulwax Remix) (Domino Recording Co.)

Best Rock Record

• Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia (Partisan Records)

Best Short-Form Video

• Toro y Moi – MAHAL TikTok series (Dead Oceans)

Best Singer-Songwriter Record

• Weyes Blood – And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop Records)

Best Soul/Funk Record

• Lee Fields – Sentimental Fool (Daptone Records)

Best Spiritual Record

• Montell Fish – JAMIE (Lord’s Child)

Self-Released Record of the Year

• Sarah Davachi – Two Sisters (Late Music)

Best Sync Usage

• Stereolab – A Flower Called Nowhere, Atlanta (Warp Records)

Creative Packaging

• Black Country, New Road – Ants From Up There, Deluxe (Ninja Tune)

Marketing Genius

• Wet Leg – Wet Leg (Domino Recording Co.)

Bruce Houghton