🎤 Mercury Prize - Best of the rest (2016) 🎤

Previous Winners from these threads:

1992 - Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha
1993 - PJ Harvey - Rid of me
1994 - Pulp - His ‘n’ Hers
1995 - Tricky - Maxinquaye
1999 - Blur - 13
2001 - Radiohead - Amnesiac
2002 - The Streets - Original Pirate Material
2003 - Radiohead - Hail to the thief
2005 - Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
2006 - Hot Chip - The Warning
2008 - Radiohead - In Rainbows
2009 - The Horrors - Primary Colours
2010 - Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
2011 - Metronomy - The English Riviera
2013 - Jon Hopkins - Immunity
2015 - Aphex Twin - Syro
2017 - The xx - I see you
2020 - Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
2021 - Sault - Untitled (rise) / Mogwai - As the love continues
2023 - Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy

As per normal we revisit a particular year in mercury history and pick our runner up. This time it’s 2016 when the winning album was Skepta - Konnichiwa. Choose up to 3 albums from this list…

  • Anohi - Hopelessness
  • Bat for lashes - The Bride
  • David Bowie - Blackstar
  • The Comet is coming - Channel the spirits
  • Kano - Made in the manor
  • Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
  • Laura Mvula - The Dreaming room
  • The 1975 - I like it when you sleep…
  • Radiohead - A moon shaped pool
  • Savages - Adore life
  • Jamie Woon - Making time
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I still can’t believe that a moon shaped pool got nominated for a mercury but the king of limbs didn’t. :sob:

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Bowie, Kiwanuka and Radiohead for me. Probably in that order, too.

Bowie, Savages and Radiohead in that order for me.
Think Blackstar is in my top 3 Bowie tbh.

Savages and….just Savages

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