Fleet Foxes scoop Uncut Music Award

Fleet Foxes have been awarded the first ever Uncut album of the year gong.

The magazine's inaugural Music Award went to the Seattle folk-pop act's self-titled debut LP. Fleet Foxes was described as a "rewarding and inspiring" album.

It beat off competition from Radiohead's In Rainbows, Elbow's The Seldom Seen Kid and The Raconteurs Consolers Of The Lonely.

A panel of judges including DJ Mark Radcliffe decided on the winner.

Frontman Robin Pecknold commented: "It makes us want to step up our game. I see it as you throwing down the gauntlet - now we have to live up to it.

"Obviously prizes are not something you should think about or hope for when you're making music. I hope our next album isn't like an awards grab, like the equivalent of a Clint Eastwood movie, y'know, Oscar bait."