Launch ceremony: 26/07/2018
The winner will be revealed on this date: 20/09/2018
Possible contenders:
Ghostpoet
Young Fathers
George Ezra
Liam Gallagher
Ben Howard
Nadine Shah
Arctic Monkeys
Benjamin Clementine
Shame
Baxter Dury
GoGo Penguin
Jon Hopkins/Daniel Avery/George Fitzgerald (at least one of the three)
LUMP
Dream Wife
Florence + The Machine
Jorja Smith
Personal wishlist: Bicep, Gwenno, Willie J Healey, Django Django, Robert Plant, Everything Everything, Gaz Coombes, Hookworms, King Krule, Superorganism, Boy Azooga, Years & Years, Phil Selway's Let Me Go (if a soundtrack album gets nominated like with Plan B's ill manors in 2012)
I REALLY want Bicep to be there. Genuinely the best dance album over the past year.
Let's Eat Grandma and Superorganism absolutely have to be on there!
Everything Everything deserve a spot by default after that fucking TRAVESTY of Get To Heaven being snubbed (i'm guessing it's unlikely though). another personal wish would be Cosmo Sheldrake's album but that's a bit too left field probably
Ideal wishlist:
Parquet Courts
Young Fathers
George Fitzgerald
Jon Hopkins
Superorganism
Let's Eat Grandma
Bodega
Nilufer Yanya
Snail Mail
Everything Everything
Unfortunately I can't see any of them winning, aside from MAYBE Jon Hopkins?
I'd love to see LG be nominated, it would be well deserved after his successful comeback!
I really hope Arctic Monkeys DON’T get nominated - so much more deserving records. Fingers crossed for Superorganism, Everything Everything, Jorja Smith, and George Ezra.
Lily Allen: No Shame
Arctic Monkeys: Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino
Everything Everything: A Fever Dream
Everything Is Recorded: Everything Is Recorded
Florence + the Machine: High as Hope
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds: Who Built the Moon?
King Krule: The Ooz
Novelist: Novelist Guy
Nadine Shah: Holiday Destination
Jorja Smith: Lost and Found
Sons of Kemet: Your Queen is a Reptile
Wolf Alice: Visions of a Life
thoughts?
YAY for Arctic Monkeys, Everything Everything and King Krule!
No Bicep?
I am shocked at what has to be the most mainstream list in years?
Arctic Monkeys 100% deserve to win.
If not them, I'd be happy with Everything Everything or Noel winning.
oh wow they actually nominated Everything Everything! <3 that alone should make this worthwhile (but the lack of Superorganism and Let's Eat Grandma is a total farce so this thing is still cancelled)
Sons of Kemet album is really good so I'd be down with the 'jazz pick' somehow winning this time
I think it's a pretty awful list, especially when there are plenty of obvious omissions. Hookworms, SOPHIE, Let's Eat Grandma, Jon Hopkins, Young Fathers...
Nothing is quite as bad as Ed Sheeran making it last year though.
Could a poll be added to this thread?
worst list ever, almost reads like a joke made-up list
Ben Howard should have been in that list
but they chose joke acts like Noel, best album ever, especially his cover of Ricky Martin-She Bangs :/
rather they give it to Jorja Smith, I'm a fan of Flo and AM but their albums are disappointing
this is like "List made by the NME" with the weekly payola from Noel and AM :/
should be renamed the Joke Prize
Shocked at no Young Fathers or SOPHIE nomination.
Really glad ‘No Shame’ is up there though, actually wasn’t expecting that.
Lily is the only one who deserves my vote
Feels such a dull list, all names that one can expect and have been relatively prominent even in just indie circles and no real risks at all apart from ofc. the token jazz nomination. I've always thought this to be the award that recognise under-the-radar genres and award music that isn't perhaps being as recognised as it should, but this list doesn't rlly reflect what likely any other award would so I'm wondering what the point is.
What a shocking list. Everything Everything to win, please.
No Father John Misty?
Wolf Alice for me!
Out of that list I’d like to see Wolf Alice win!
Was Isaac Gracie not eligible?
Also given some of those nominations, Snow Patrol have been robbed.
I think out of those (quite disappointing if I'm honest) nominations, I think that King Krule would be my favourite - and I hope he wins. “Dum Surfer” is a bloody TUNE.
Heard + love: Everything Everything, Florence and the Machine, Jorja Smith, Lily Allen, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Wolf Alice
Heard: Arctic Monkeys, Everything is Recorded, Novelist
Not heard: King Krule, Nadine Shah (in fact, I'd never even heard of her), Sons of Kemet (again, hadn't heard of them)
Hoping for Everything Everything or Lily Allen to win, though at the end of the day just being nominated is the achievement (though sad times for George Ezra, Liam Gallagher, Jon Hopkins, and Tom Misch).
While we're waiting for the award ceremony tomorrow, how about I give my ranking of the winners of the prize from 1992(first prize)-2017:
My top 3 would be
1. Everything Everything "A Fever Dream"
2. Sons Of Kemet "My Queen Is A Reptile"
3. King Krule "The Ooz"
Although I doubt any of those three will come anywhere near the top.
My top 3:
1. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino
2. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Who Built The Moon
3. Everything Everything - A Fever Dream
only semi-like the Florence album and even that is maybe a 5/10 :/
very poor choices in there especially Arctics and Noel
wouldn't be surprised if they give it to the Arctics
Winner announced: http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/wolf-alice-win-mercury-prize-2018-for-visions-of-a-life__24116/
Wow... Amazing for Wolf Alice never expected for them to win it
After Sampha won last year, his single got to #92. Could Wolf Alice get their first ever charting single?
A quite inspired choice compared to the acts there I guess, good for them, Don't Delete the Kisses is a great song.
In the back of my mind something was telling me Lily Allen would nab it, but good for Wolf Alice! I had placed a bet on Everything Everything to win - that performance of "Night of the Long Knives" was just fantastic.
That WOLfalice album is fantastic!
boo, for me it's almost like a worst album of the year prize :/
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