# Libera Award for Record of the Year

The Libera Award for Record of the Year (known as Album of the Year prior to 2021) is an award presented by the American Association of Independent Music at the annual Libera Award which recognizes "best album released commercially in the United States by an independent label" since 2012.
American band Bon Iver was the first recipients of the award for their eponymous album. Since 2013, a set of nominees is presented annually alongside the winner. Rock band Alabama Shakes are the only artists who have received the award more than once with two wins, for Boys & Girls in 2013 and for Sound & Color in 2016. Hip-hop duo Run the Jewels holds the most nominations in the category with three.

## Winners and nominees

| Year | Winner(s) | Work | Nominees | Ref. |
| 2012 | Bon Iver | Bon Iver | — | |
| 2013 | Alabama Shakes | Boys & Girls | Allah-Las – Allah-Las Bloom – Beach House Shields – Grizzly Bear Celebration Rock – Japandroids The Heist – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Babel – Mumford & Sons Red – Taylor Swift The Lumineers – The Lumineers Coexist – The xx | |
| 2014 | Arcade Fire (tie) | Reflektor | Tomorrow's Harvest – Boards of Canada WomanChild – Cécile McLorin Salvant The Bones of What You Believe – Chvrches The Worse Things Get... – Neko Case Muchacho – Phosphorescent Trouble Will Find Me – The National Modern Vampires of the City – Vampire Weekend Who is William Onyeabor? – William Onyeabor | |
| 2014 | Arctic Monkeys (tie) | AM | Tomorrow's Harvest – Boards of Canada WomanChild – Cécile McLorin Salvant The Bones of What You Believe – Chvrches The Worse Things Get... – Neko Case Muchacho – Phosphorescent Trouble Will Find Me – The National Modern Vampires of the City – Vampire Weekend Who is William Onyeabor? – William Onyeabor | |
| 2015 | The War on Drugs | Lost in the Dream | 1989 – Taylor Swift Awake – Tycho I Love You, Honeybear – Father John Misty LP1 – FKA twigs No Cities to Love – Sleater-Kinney Rips – Ex Hex Run the Jewels 2 – Run the Jewels Syro – Aphex Twin They Want My Soul – Spoon | |
| 2016 | Alabama Shakes | Sound & Color | Carrie & Lowell – Sufjan Stevens Depression Cherry – Beach House In Colour – Jamie xx Multi-Love – Unknown Mortal Orchestra Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit – Courtney Barnett The Epic – Kamasi Washington | |
| 2017 | Angel Olsen | My Woman | 22, A Million – Bon Iver A Moon Shaped Pool – Radiohead Blindfaller – Mandolin Orange Drunk – Thundercat Migration – Bonobo Run the Jewels 3 – Run the Jewels | |
| 2018 | Slowdive | Slowdive | Capacity – Big Thief Chuck – Chuck Berry Cigarettes After Sex – Cigarettes After Sex Pure Comedy – Father John Misty | |
| 2019 | Kamasi Washington | Heaven and Earth | Be the Cowboy – Mitski Joy as an Act of Resistance – Idles Safe in the Hands of Love – Yves Tumor Soil – Serpentwithfeet | |
| 2020 | Big Thief | U.F.O.F. | Magdalene – FKA Twigs All Mirrors – Angel Olsen Jaime – Brittany Howard Pony – Orville Peck | |
| 2021 | Phoebe Bridgers | Punisher | RTJ4 – Run the Jewels Set My Heart on Fire Immediately – Perfume Genius Heaven to a Tortured Mind – Yves Tumor It Is What It Is – Thundercat Saint Cloud – Waxahatchee | |
| 2022 | Japanese Breakfast | Jubilee | Collapsed in Sunbeams – Arlo Parks Georgia Blue – Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Hey What – Low New Long Leg – Dry Cleaning Valentine – Snail Mail | |
| 2023 | Wet Leg | Wet Leg | Blue Rev – Alvvays Stumpwork – Dry Cleaning I Walked with You a Ways – Plains Diaspora Problems – Soul Glo A Light for Attracting Attention – The Smile | [21] [22] |

## Artists with multiple wins
### 2 wins

* Alabama Shakes

## Artists with multiple nominations
### 3 nominations

* Run the Jewels

### 2 nominations

* Alabama Shakes
* Beach House
* Bon Iver
* Father John Misty
* Kamasi Washington
* Thundercat
* Yves Tumor
* Dry Cleaning
* Big Thief