This year's Ivor Novello award nominations pitch young British talent against musical heavyweights for some of the highest accolades in British music.
The awards, which celebrate the best in British songwriting, this year see trip-hop trio London Grammar receiving their first nomination in the category for best song musically and lyrically for their hit Strong.
They are up against Best of Friends by Palma Violets, an indie band from south London, which won NME's song of the year in 2012, and Love Me Again, performed by John Newman.
The nominees shortlisted in the best contemporary song are Latch, by Disclosure featuring Sam Smith, which is up against Retrograde by electronic music producer and singer-songwriter James Blake, and Kemosabe by art rock outfit Everything Everything.
Arctic Monkeys' album AM will battle it out against Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' record Push the Sky Away – their 15th studio album – and Sing to the Moon by Laura Mvula for the album award.
Last year's winner Emeli Sandé – who won best song musically and lyrically for her hit Next to Me – was nominated again in the most performed work category for her song Clown.
The Ivor Novello awards ,now in their 59th year, celebrate excellence in British songwriting and are judged by the songwriting and composing community. Former winners include Kate Bush, Mick Jagger, Radiohead, Freddie Mercury and Elton John.
London Grammar, which is made up of Hannah Reid, Dan Rothman and Dominic "Dot" Major, said it "felt amazing" to be nominated. "It is lovely as the Ivor Novellos are so prestigious," said Reid, 24. "This has all come really quickly, it's been a bit crazy."
Speaking about the creative process behind the song, Reid added: "I don't know why, but I remember writing Strong really well. We were in Dan's garage in Hendon where we wrote loads of our music and he had written this guitar riff that was really catchy and it just evolved really quickly from there. It was the production of the track that took a year to get right."
Major added: "It was the song more than any that brought us together as a band. Hannah didn't even want to include it on the album initially."
The trio, who recently supported Coldplay on tour, said the award had given them more confidence as they enter the studio to start recording their highly-anticipated second album.
This year's awards will take place on 22 May at Grosvenor House.
Best Song Musically and Lyrically
Best of Friends
Written by Will Doyle, Sam Fryer, Chilli Jesson and Pete Mayhew
Performed by Palma Violets
Love Me Again
Written by Steve Booker and John Newman
Performed by John Newman
Strong
Written by Dominic Major, Hannah Reid and Daniel Rothman
Performed by London Grammar
Best Contemporary Song
Kemosabe
Written by Jonathan Higgs, Jeremy Pritchard, Alexander Robertshaw and Michael Spearman
Performed by Everything Everything
Latch
Written by Guy Lawrence, Howard Lawrence, James Napier and Sam Smith
Performed by Disclosure ft Sam Smith
Retrograde
Written and Performed by James Blake
PRS for Music Most Performed Work
Clown
Written by Shahid "Naughty Boy" Khan, Grant Mitchell and Emeli Sandé
Performed by Emeli Sandé
Let Her Go
Written by Mike Rosenberg
Performed by Passenger
Troublemaker
Written by Claude Kelly, Oliver Murs and Steve Robson
Performed by Olly Murs ft Flo Rida
Album Award
AM
Written by Alex Turner
Performed by Arctic Monkeys
Push the Sky Away
Written by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
Performed by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Sing to the Moon
Written and Performed by Laura Mvula
Best Original Film Score
Captain Phillips
Composed by Henry Jackman
Gravity
Composed by Steven Price
The Epic of Everest
Composed by Simon Fisher Turner
Best Television Soundtrack
Mr Selfridge
Composed by Charlie Mole
Ripper Street
Composed by Dominik Scherrer
The Thirteenth Tale
Composed by Benjamin Wallfisch
