Arctic Monkeys and Savages, I love them.
But I love Laura Marling more: give her the Mercury, judges!
But I love Laura Marling more: give her the Mercury, judges!
Time to fly to Mercury again.
Let Pitchfork explain why:
The shortlist of nominees for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize, which honors the best British album of the past year, as chosen by a panel of British music critics and industry folks, has been announced. Last year's winner was Alt-J. Previous winners have included PJ Harvey, the xx, Pulp, Portishead, Arctic Monkeys, Antony and the Johnsons, Franz Ferdinand, and more This year's shortlist is:
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
They are all on Spotify and you can listen to them in the first embedded playlist below. While if you wanna dig in the past, the other two playlists are some old Spotirama peanuts, just updated: Mercury Prize Winners from 1992 to 2012 and the huge The Complete Mercury Prize Mammoth (1992-2013).
Enjoy!
MERCURY PRIZE 2013
(all 12 shortlisted albums)
MERCURY PRIZE WINNERS
(all 21 winning albums from 1992 to 2012, 2013 yet to be announced)
THE COMPLETE MERCURY PRIZE MAMMOTH
(all shortlisted & winners from 1992 to 2013)
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Take care, this last one is huge: 231 albums, 2730 songs
Missing albums: 21
("missing" means "missing from my italian Spotify", maybe they're available in other countries; the year refers to when the album was shortlisted)
("missing" means "missing from my italian Spotify", maybe they're available in other countries; the year refers to when the album was shortlisted)
Rising Above Bedlam (Jah Wobble, 1992)
Head Like a Rock (Ian McNabb, 1994)
Into the Blue (Guy Barker, 1995)
Elastica (Elastica, 1995)
Seven Last Words From the Cross (James MacMillan, 1995)
Days Like This (Van Morrison, 1995)
Help (Artists For War Child, 1996)
The Beltane Fire/Caroline Mathilde (Peter Maxwell Davies/BBC Philarmonic, 1996)
Proverbs & Songs (John Surman, 1998)
Sleepless (Kate Rusby, 1999)
Violin Concerto (Nicholas Maw, 2000)
Sunshine Hit Me (The Bees, 2002)
Conversations With the Unseen (Soweto Kinch, 2003)
Untitled (Terri Walker, 2003)
Melting Pot (Zoe Rahman, 2006)
This Is My Demo (Sway, 2006)
The Eraser (Thom Yorke, 2006)
Basquiat Strings (Basquiat Strings with Seb Rochford, 2007)
In Rainbows (Radiohead, 2008)
Sensible Shoes (Led Bib, 2009)
Tongue n'Cheek (Dizzee Rascal, 2010)
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