Glasgow band Kai Reesu have won the coveted Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) award at a prize ceremony in Dundee.<\/p>\n
Their debut album, titled Kompromat Vol. I, blends jazz and hip-hop, psychedelia and grime.<\/p>\n
Led by Paul Copeland on keys and featuring vocals from rapper Jurnalist, the band scooped the \u00a320,000 prize at the ceremony in Caird Hall.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, KT Tunstall\u2019s debut album Eye to the Telescope was given the Modern Scottish Classic Award by the Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA).<\/p>\n
SMIA chief executive officer Robert Kilpatrick said: \u201cMassive congratulations to Kai Reesu, with Kompromat Vol. I claiming 2025\u2019s coveted title of Scottish Album of the Year for a bold, genre-blending record that moves effortlessly between jazz, hip-hop, grime and psychedelia.<\/p>\n
\u201cRich with live instrumentation and storytelling, it traces Jurnalist\u2019s journey to Scotland and the collaborative spark at the heart of the group.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s prophetic, propulsive and defiantly inventive \u2013 a truly well-deserved SAY Award winner.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cTonight we also celebrated Alice Faye as 2025\u2019s Sound of Young Scotland winner as well as KT Tunstall\u2019s Eye To The Telescope as this year\u2019s Modern Scottish Classic \u2013 two awards that shine a light on Scottish music\u2019s bright future and rich past.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was particularly special to have KT perform at the ceremony this year, closing what was another emotive celebration of the strength and diversity of Scottish music.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glasgow band Kai Reesu have won the coveted Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) award at a prize…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,693,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-554572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-showbiz","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115507074394051853","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}