2025
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Best Alternative / Indie Performance
Recognizes a single finished alternative and indie track as you actually hear it — its vocals, instruments, and overall sound.
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2025 Awards
Best Alternative / Indie Performance
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Imogen Heap - Aftercare
Imogen Heap wrote and released “Aftercare” in October 2025 using the voice of her own consented AI model, Mogen, to process and voice parts of the track under her direction. As an established alternative/art-pop artist working with a self-owned, consent-based AI, it is the cleanest publicly-owned AI alternative recording of the year — and the clearest embodiment of augment-not-replace in the genre.
Other nominees
An electropop single sung from an AI's perspective; uses only two AI-generated vocal samples (a deliberately minimal AI role).
A 2024–25 AI-choir installation (Serpentine North) built on consented choir recordings under a data trust — a landmark work, though more an art installation than a conventional single.