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Last night, the Independent Music AIM Awards took place. Virtual for the second year running, the awards featured performances from nominees Lava La Rue, Working Men's Club and Enny. 

Surprising no-one, Arlo Parks lead the way for wins, though ENNY also took home two prestigious awards: Best Independent Track for her hit 'Peng Black Girls' and the One To Watch Award.

Joan Armatrading, meanwhile, took home the Outstanding Achievement Award, for which she made a rare appearance. In a satisfyingly humble and humorous acceptance speech, she said: "very often you hear people saying that they don’t like awards because awards are meaningless, but I think mostly, they’re the people who haven’t been given an award".

See the full list of nominees and winners here:

UK Independent Breakthrough in association with YouTube Music:
Arlo Parks (Transgressive Records) WINNER
Conducta (Kiwi Rekords)
India Jordan (Ninja Tune)
Rina Sawayama (Dirty Hit)
Working Men’s Club  (Heavenly Recordings)

International Breakthrough in association with Deezer:
Bicep (Ninja Tune)
Fontaines D.C. (Partisan Records)
Jayda G (Ninja Tune) WINNER
박혜진 Park Hye Jin (Ninja Tune)
Tkay Maidza (4AD)

Best Independent Track in association with Facebook:
Arlo Parks – Hope (Transgressive Records)
Bonobo & Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Heartbreak (OUTLIER – Ninja Tune)
ENNY – Peng Black Girls ft. Amia Brave (FAMM) WINNER
Katy J Pearson – Take Back The Radio (Heavenly Recordings)
Lava La Rue – Magpie (Marathon Artists)
Mustafa – Air Forces (Young)
serpentwithfeet – Fellowship (Secretly Canadian)
Shygirl – TASTY (Because Music)
Squid – Narrator ft. Martha Skye Murphy (Warp Records)
Tkay Maidza – Shook (4AD)

Best Independent Album in association with Spotify:
Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams (Transgressive Records) WINNER
Che Lingo – The Worst Generation  (7Wallace Music)
Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg (4AD)
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (Luaka Bop)
Krust – The Edge of Everything (Crosstown Rebels)
Moses Sumney – græ (Jagjaguwar)
Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher (Dead Oceans)
Speaker Music – Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry (Planet Mu)
Rian Treanor – File Under UK Metaplasm (Planet Mu)
Working Men’s Club – Working Men’s Club (Heavenly Recordings)

Best [Difficult] Second Album in association with BBC Radio 6 Music:
AJ Tracey – Flu Game (Revenge Records)
Bicep – Isles (Ninja Tune)
Dream Wife – So When You Gonna… (Lucky Number)
Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death (Partisan Records) WINNER
Leon Vynehall – Rare, Forever (Ninja Tune)

Best Independent Remix in association with SoundCloud:
Bon Bon (Mike Lindsay Remix) – Songhoy Blues (Transgressive Records)
Fair Chance ft. Ty Dolla $ign & Lil B (Floating Points Remix) – Thundercat (Brainfeeder)
megapunk (Elkka Remix) – Ela Minus (Domino) WINNER
soulboy (IZCO Remix) – p-rallel, Greentea Peng (Different Recordings)
Sweat ft. LIZ (SOPHIE Remix) – Sonikku (Bella Union)

One To Watch in association with BBC Music Introducing:
Che Lingo (7Wallace Music)
ENNY (FAMM) WINNER
Lava La Rue (Marathon Artists)
Nova Twins (Nova Twins Ltd)
TSHA (Ninja Tune)

Best Creative Packaging:
AJ Tracey – Flu Game (Special Edition) (Revenge Records)
Figaro de Montmartre – Emotion Soap (Figaro de Montmartre)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Eco Wax Editions (Heavenly Recordings and Flightless Records)
Sleaford Mods – Spare Ribs (Rough Trade Records)
Working Men’s Club – Working Men’s Club (RAW Edition) (Heavenly Recordings) WINNER

Best Independent Video in association with Vevo:
Arlo Parks – Hope (Transgressive Records)
Julien Baker – Hardline (Matador Records)
Kojaque – No Hands (Different Recordings)
Novo Amor – If We’re Being Honest (AllPoints)
Wesley Joseph – Thrilla (EEVILTWINN) WINNER

Best Independent Label in association with [Integral]:
4AD
Dead Oceans
Forever Living Originals WINNER
Partisan Records
Transgressive Records

Best Small Label in association with Believe:
Athens of the North
Finesse Foreva
Killing Moon
Sonic Cathedral
Strut Records WINNER

PPL Award For Most Played New Independent Artist:

Arlo Parks
Central Cee
John Summit
KC Lights
Lauv WINNER

Best Live [Streamed] Act in association with On Air:

Arlo Parks
Beabadoobee
Ben Böhmer WINNER
Kate Rusby
Lucy Spraggan

Pioneer Award in association FUGA

Tricky WINNER

Innovator Award in association with Amazon Music:

Adrian Sherwood WINNER

Outstanding Contribution To Music in association with Merlin:

Joan Armatrading CBE WINNER

Indie Champion in association with MCPS:

Love Record Stores WINNER
Bandcamp WINNER

Diversity Champion:

Paulette Long OBE WINNER

Full list of Local Heroes Awards winners in association with BBC Music Introducing:

Sammy Clarke (BBC Music Introducing in Kent)
Billy Lockett (BBC Music Introducing in Northampton)
David Plumtree & his Cafe Indie Team (BBC Music Introducing in Humberside)
Bryony Williams (BBC Music Introducing in the West Midlands)
Bridgitte Tetteh (BBC Music Introducing in Berkshire)
Chloe Mogg & Amy Crouch (7 Arts Still Exist) (BBC Music Introducing in Hereford &
Worcester)
Georgie Keen (BBC Music Introducing in Suffolk)
Ladies of Rage, Cardiff (BBC Music Introducing in Wales)
Ace Ambrose (BBC Music Introducing in Coventry & Warwickshire)
Tramlines Festival (BBC Music Introducing in Sheffield)
Lavz (BBC Music Introducing in Beds, Herts and Bucks)
Zahra Tehrani (BBC Music Introducing in Oxford)
Jennifer John (BBC Music Introducing in Merseyside)
Yasin El Ashrafi (BBC Music Introducing in the East Midlands - Notts, Derbys, Leics, East Staffs, Rutland)
Xidus Pain (BBC Music Introducing in Cambridgeshire)
Come Play With Me (BBC Music Introducing in West Yorkshire)
Joe Townsley, Noise Academy (BBC Music Introducing in Lincolnshire)
Hot Box Live Events (BBC Music Introducing in Essex)
Guy Britton (BBC Music Introducing in the West)
Harkirit Boparai & Joe Coates (BBC Music Introducing in York)
Save Our Scene - George Fleming (BBC Music Introducing in London)
Wendy House (BBC Music Introducing in Norfolk)
Ensemble (BBC Music Introducing in Scotland)
Nelson Navarro (BBC Music Introducing The South)
Trademark Blud (BBC Music Introducing in Shropshire)
Young Musicians Project - Laura Brewis (BBC Music Introducing in the North East)
Sarah Wilson (BBC Music Introducing Tees)
Danni Brownsill (BBC Music Introducing in Stoke)
Nikki MacRae (BBC Music Introducing in Northern Ireland)
Emma Twamley (BBC Music Introducing in South West)
The Lottery Winners (BBC Music Introducing in Lancashire)
Rivca Burns (SFTOC, MIF Festival) (BBC Music Introducing in Manchester)
Tyrone Gordon (BBC Music Introducing Solent)
Kiya Ashton (BBC Music Introducing in the Channel Islands)
Josh Duncan (JD) & Josh Spedding (Swerve) (BBC Music Introducing in Cumbria)

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