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Tinariwen, the Mali blues group hailing from the Sahara Desert, won this year's Uncut music award for their album Imidiwan, reports BBC 6 Music.

A group of judges, including Fleet Foxes' frontman Robin Pecknold and Mark Cooper, BBC Head Of Music Entertainment, awarded the album for being the most inspirational of the year. The band beat prominent indie acts such as Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, Grizzly Bear and Wilco.

"It gives us the strength to carry on working and spreading the message about the peace of our desert home," said Ibrahim Ag Alhabib of Tinariwen. "And I’m glad that our music can cross the frontiers and talk to people around the world."

Tinariwen formed in 1979 and throughout the 80's became popular for their political and social activism in southern Sahara.

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