The Mercury Prize celebrates the best in British music each year. Here’s the shortlist of this year’s nominees courtesy of the chaps over at NME.
Seeing these kinds of lists always reminds me that I have some record shopping to do.
- Basement Jaxx ? ?Kish Kash?
- Belle & Sebastian ? ?Dear Catastrophe Waitress?
- Franz Ferdinand ? ?Franz Ferdinand?
- Jamelia ? ?Thank You?
- Keane ? ?Hopes And Fears?
- Snow Patrol ? ?Final Straw?
- Joss Stone ? ?The Soul Sessions?
- The Streets ? ?A Grand Don?t Come For Free?
- Ty ? ?Upwards?
- Amy Winehouse ? ?Frank?
- Robert Wyatt ? ?Cuckooland?
- The Zutons ? ?Who Killed…The Zutons?
Past winners:
- 1992 – Primal Scream ‘Screamadelica’
- 1993 – Suede: ‘Suede’
- 1994 – M People: ‘Elegant Slumming’
- 1995 – Portishead: ‘Dummy’
- 1996 – Pulp: ‘Different Class’
- 1997 – Roni Size: ‘New Forms’
- 1998 – Gomez: ‘Bring It On’
- 1999 – Talvin Singh: ‘OK’
- 2000 – Badly Drawn Boy: ‘The Hour Of Bewilderbeast’
- 2001 – PJ Harvey: ‘Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea’
- 2002 – Ms Dynamite: ‘A Little Deeper’
- 2003 ? Dizzee Rascal ? ?Boy In Da Corner?