Kiwi band Street Chant has been announced as the eighth annual Taite Music Prize winner for their album Hauora.
The award was announced at a presentation at The Civic's Wintergarden in Auckland.
Judging panel member Henry Oliver called Hauora "a portrait of the lives of a certain breed of the twenty-something Creative middle/under-class".
"Over-read and under-employed, drinking too much and earning too little, busing from an existential crisis to a house party, walking from breakup to hangover."
Street Chant was given $10,000 and a year's supply of Red Bull and Corona alongside the award, named after New Zealand music journalist Dylan Taite.
Alongside the main prize, two additional awards were presented at the ceremony: the Independent Music NZ Classic Record Award for The Clean's 'Boodle Boodle Boodle' and the newly created Auckland Live Best Independent Debut Award awarded to Merk 'Swordfish'.
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