Mercury Prize 2014

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Shortlist been announced for this year, lots of new faces, 7 debut albums. I guess only Damon Albarn and Bombay Bicycle Club are the 'big' name nominees.

 

Anna Calvi - One Breath

Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow

Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots

East India Youth - Total Strife Forever

FKA twigs - LP1

Go Go Penguin - v2.0

Jungle - Jungle

Kate Tempest - Everybody Down

Nick Mulvey - First Mind

Polar Bear - In Each and Every One

Royal Blood - Royal Blood

Young Fathers - Dead

 

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/sep/10/mercury-prize-2014-ignores-big-stars-in-favour-of-fka-twigs-young-fathers-and-east-india-youth

 

[pSinatra]

Good to see some some not so well known artists, but unfortunately the Mercury Prize means less & less each year

[RobHawk]

This list tells me that when it comes to music I'm getting old! Can't keep up!

[ealingfox]

Heard of 7 of them! My best return in years.

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Heard of 7 of them! My best return in years.

Thats 2 more than me. Didnt rate Albarns solo album much, saw Royal Blood live recently and they were decent enough.

Winning the Mercury prize can be a burden sometimes, whatever happened to Speech Debelle?

[ScouseFox]

Jungle - Jungle is good

[Samilktray]

In truth it's a shit award.

[Fox92]

Only heard of three of them. Saw Royal Blood support Arctic Monkeys though, and they were surprisingly decent.

[Rocket-Ron]

In truth it's a shit award.

Possibly the best British music award there is!

Just poorly presented.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Royal Blood, Jungle and FKA Twigs' efforts all get the thumbs up from me.

[filbertway]

Royal Blood, Jungle and FKA Twigs' efforts all get the thumbs up from me.

 

That's good enough for me to check out FKA Twigs on spotify. Loved Jungles album, not heard the whole of Royal Blood's but if the second half is as good as the first half and the singles I've heard then I'm a fan.