Kathryn Joseph tops Scottish music writers' poll

Joseph's debut album – which received the Scottish Album of the Year Award in June 2015 – topped the poll of more than 30 writers and publications, with Miaoux Miaoux's School of Velocity and C Duncan's Mercury Prize-nominated debut LP Architect coming in third place. Read the full top 20 below.

Receiving the award, Joseph said: "(2015) has honestly been the best year of my life. All of the things I've got to do, all of the people I've got to meet, and all of the other music I've got to hear. It's been amazing. Even if nothing good happens this year I won't mind because I have that.”

The Twilight Sad topped the BAMS poll in 2014 with their fourth album Nobody Wants To Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave, with this year's fifth-place finishers CHVRCHES also among the previous winners of the award. Meursault, Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat, The National and The Phantom Band have also received the BAMS award since its inception in 2009. 

BAMS Album of 2015 list in full:

1) Kathryn Joseph – Bones You Have Thrown Me, And Blood I’ve Spilled
2) Miaoux Miaoux – School Of Velocity 
3) C Duncan – Architect 
4) Young Fathers – White Men Are Black Men Too 
5) CHVRCHES – Every Open Eye 
6) Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell 
7) Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly 
8) Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit 
9) Wolf Alice – My Love Is Cool
10) Public Service Broadcasting – The Race For Space 
11) Belle & Sebastian – Girls In Peacetime Want to Dance 
12) Julia Holter – Have You in My Wilderness 
13) Best Girl Athlete – Carve Every Word 
14) Lonelady – Hinterland 
15) FFS – FFS 
16) Garden Of Elks – A Distorted Sigh 
17) CARBS – Joyous Material Failure 
18) STOOR – STOOR
19) Sleater-Kinney – No Cities To Love
20 (tie)) Prehistoric Friends – Prehistoric Friends; The Cathode Ray – Infinite Variety