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Mercury Prize shortlist

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Arctic Monkeys - AM

David Bowie - The Next Day

Disclosure - Settle

Foals - Holy Fire

Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg

James Blake - Overgrown

Jon Hopkins - Immunity

Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle

Laura Mvula - Sing to the Moon

Rudimental - Home

Savages - Silence Yourself

Villagers - Awayland

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What are your favourites? Push comes to shove, either Disclosure or Jon Hopkins for me, although I like the Foals and Arctic Monkeys ones too. Haven't heard many of the others.

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I don't get how AM can make the short list with an album that has been out for a massive 2days.

Quite often I am blown away by an album on the first few listens but to me the secret to a great album is one that you can go back to weeks, months etc after the release and it still hits you like the first time you heard it

All seems a bit obvious like they were added before they had even heard the album to me

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I don't think there is one stand out album amongst them but then I don't think there has been from anyone.

 

The James Blake is very good and I will probably get slated for this but the Rudimental album is very good too, it has a very British sound that I love.

 

I agree with Jay on AM. As the list has been shortlisted from 250 releases they managed to vote very quickly.

 

I would imagine, if he turns up on the night as that's when the final decision is made, then Bowie will get it.

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Only got Arctic Monkeys, Jake Bugg and Bowie. So can't really comment/consider all of them. Bowie's was decent enough, not as bad as what people make out. Bugg's was good for a debut album as well, every song on it was decent and the lyrics made sense.

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