🎤 Mercury Prize - Best of the rest (2022) 🎤

Music
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As per normal pick you favourite albums from the list of finalists.
This time it is 2022.
In 2022 Little Simz won with sometimes I might be introvert. You have up to 3 votes from this list…

  • Fergus McCreadie - Forest Floor
  • Gwenno - Tresor
  • Harry Styles - Harry’s House
  • Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler - For all our days…
  • Joy Crookes - Skin
  • Korey Radical - Reason to smile
  • Nova Twins - Supernova
  • Sam Fender - Seventeen going under
  • Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure
  • Wet Leg
  • Yard Act - The Overload
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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
2023 - Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy

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Self Esteem as I was sure she was gonna win and tbh think she should have - felt like she was having a cultural moment, and would have broken that whole London streak we keep seeing …

Gwenno for being great even though thought Le Kov was quite a lot better. Would have been very happy for LK to win in 2018

Wet Leg for being the best damn fun you could have all year

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Definitely the right winner here. Fergus, Joy and Kojey my next favourites. Wanted to like the Self Esteem album as the previous is one of my favourites, but it didn’t do anything for me.

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I’m going Gwenno, Self Esteem & Sam Fender. Despite it being Self Esteem’s second best album it still deserves a vote.

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Self Esteem is the only album I love there. But I did enjoy Yard Act and Nova Twins.

Gone right off Wet Leg. Gwenno was OK.

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Nova Twins for me, the only act on that list I’ve enjoyed seeing live

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Wet Leg.

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Styles
Pleasure
Leg

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Kojey Radical, Gwenno, Yard Act.

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Congratulations self esteem!

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