🎤 Mercury Prize - Best of the rest (2014) 🎤

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Today we look back to 2014 which is the final year in this series!
In 2014 the mercury prize was won by Young Fathers - Dead

Previous winners from these threads…

1992 - Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha
1993 - PJ Harvey - Rid of me
1994 - Pulp - His ‘n’ Hers
1995 - Tricky - Maxinquaye
1996 - Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
1997 - Radiohead - OK Computer
1998 - Massive Attack - Mezzanine
1999 - Blur - 13
2000 - Doves - Lost souls
2001 - Radiohead - Amnesiac
2002 - The Streets - Original Pirate Material
2003 - Radiohead - Hail to the thief
2004 - The Streets - A grand don’t come for free
2005 - Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
2006 - Hot Chip - The Warning
2007 - Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
2008 - Radiohead - In Rainbows
2009 - The Horrors - Primary Colours
2010 - Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
2011 - Metronomy - The English Riviera
2012 - Field Music - Plumb
2013 - Jon Hopkins - Immunity
2015 - Aphex Twin - Syro
2016 - David Bowie - Blackstar
2017 - The xx - I see you
2018 - Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
2019 - Little Simz - Grey Area
2020 - Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
2021 - Sault - Untitled (rise) / Mogwai - As the love continues
2022 - Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure
2023 - Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy

As per normal you pick your favourites from the list of runners up. Up to three votes…

  • Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
  • Bombay Bicycle Club - So long, See you tomorrow
  • Anna Calvi - One Breath
  • East India Youth - Total Strife Forever
  • FKA twigs - LP1
  • GoGo Penguin - V2.0
  • Jungle - Jungle
  • Nick Mulvey - First Mind
  • Polar Bear - In each and every one
  • Royal Blood - Royal Blood
  • Kate Tempest - Everybody Down
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Coming next week…

:microphone: THE WORLD CUP OF MERCURY PRIZE RUNNERS UP :microphone: (as voted for by the DiS community).

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I only voted for two on this list. Jungle and East India Youth.

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East India Youth album is decent

Didn’t like Tempest initially but don’t mind that album now so gave those both a vote

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Don’t think I know a single album on that list

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Twigs and Polar Bear

LP1 is a decade old this year, oh no

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Tempest, Twigs, Calvi

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Twigs by default

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Twigs

LP1 should have won the overall award (not a fan of Dead or Young Fathers in general)

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GoGo Penguin for me, Clive

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Penguins, Bears, Calvi.

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Thanks for running this series.

Looking forward to this!

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Twigs is miles ahead of the rest

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Twigs absolutely stomped over everything else that year, utter travesty she didn’t win. Time to fix that error.

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Amazing how many mediocre records there are on these lists.

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Young Fathers were deserving winners that year, that shortlist is definitely one of the weaker ones (I much prefer Magdalene to LP1)

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Voting closes tomorrow at Midday

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FKA Twigs is into the World Cup of Mercury Prize runners up…
Coming soon!

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