fRoots Announces Winners of Critics Poll Albums Of 2014

 

The winners of the 29th annual fRoots Critics Poll for Albums of the Year which were announced last night in the UK on BBC Radio 3’s World On 3.

The poll is divided into three categories. The main classification is Album Of 2014, which this year was awarded to Martin & Eliza Carthy for their first ever duo CD The Moral Of The Elephant (Topic).

The best Re-issue/ Compilation/ Historic Album Of 2014 was judged to be Les Ambassadeurs’ Les Ambassadeurs Du Motel De Bamako (Stern’s)

 

 

The Best Packaged Album Of 2014 winner was Kepa Junkera’s Galiza (Folmusica)

 

 

Every year since 1986 (when the first winner was Paul Simon’s Graceland), British fRoots magazine has polled experts in the UK and abroad to decide the Album Of The Year in folk, roots & world music. With over 300 writers, broadcasters and activists worldwide invited to vote, it is one of the most extensively researched and prestigious annual poll of any in its musical field.

fRoots Editor Ian Anderson also makes a personal selection from micro independent label releases for his Editor’s Choice Album Of The Year, this year awarding it to Stick In The Wheel for their Bones EP.

fRoots (pronounced “eff-Roots”) is the world’s leading and longest continually published folk, roots and world music magazine, and celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2014.