šŸŽ¤ Mercury Prize - Best of the rest (2019) šŸŽ¤

Previous winners from these threads:

1992 - Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha
1993 - PJ Harvey - Rid of me
1994 - Pulp - His ā€˜n’ Hers
1995 - Tricky - Maxinquaye
1997 - Radiohead - OK Computer
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
2016 - David Bowie - Blackstar
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

Same format as normal. We take a year from Mercury history and pick our runner up. This time it is 2019 when Dave - Psychodrama won.
You have up to 3 votes!

  • Anna Calvi - Hunter
  • Black Midi - Schlagenheim
  • Cate Le Bon - Reward
  • Foals - Everything not saved will be lost - Part 1
  • Fontaines D.C - Dogrel
  • Idles - Joy as an act of resistance
  • Little Simz - Grey area
  • Nao - Saturn
  • SEED Ensemble - Driftglass
  • Slowthai - Nothing great about Britain
  • The 1975 - A brief inquiry into online relationships
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Just voting Cate

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the Little Simz album is better than the one she won with, so I have to vote for that. Anna Calvi in runner up position

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Cate Le Bon, Anna Calvi, Little Simz for me, in that order.

Cate Le Bon. That was easy.

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Absolutely nothing.

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Little Simz takes it!

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