🎤 Mercury Prize - Best of the rest (2023) 🎤

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Previous winners from these threads:

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
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

This time it’s this year! 2023 when Ezra Collective won the mercury prize. But if you could pick a runner up, who would it be?

As always you have up to 3 votes!

  • Arctic Monkeys - The Car
  • Fred Again… - Actual Life 3 (January 1 - Sept 9 2022)
  • J Hus - Beautiful and Brutal yard
  • Jessie Ware - That! Feels good!
  • Jockstrap - I love you Jennifer B
  • Lankum - False Lankum
  • Loyle Carter - Hugo
  • Olivia Dean - Messy
  • Raye - My 21st Century Blues
  • Shygirl - Nymph
  • Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy
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Don’t think I appreciated at the time how few of these I actually know properly, there’s quite a few of the previous years with these threads where I’ve known way more.

Feels like a decent balance with no obvious howlers (I don’t mind Fred Again), without there being any real knockout contenders. Even the Young Fathers one that will win this is decent rather than brilliant imo.

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Of the ones that I know, only Shygirl clicked with me (though it really clicked, was one of my favourites of the year). I expect Lankum and Young Fathers to do well here though.

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Not a fan of any of these really srrynotsrry

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Jockstrap for the win

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It’s Lankum and two others (and those two are Young Fathers and Jockstrap)

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This might be the only year in history where the Mercury judges got it right

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Actually a fairly good year for nominations

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Dizzee in 2003 is the only time I feel they’ve really nailed it (maybe SIMBI too idk)

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How I feel any time I open one of these threads. I’m lucky if I know an single album in the polls.

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Listened to that Ezra Collective album recently and it was so dull. Lankum and Shygirl for me.

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I personally love that Ezra collective album. So much colour and energy. Certainly not dull imo

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Well done young fathers

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Damn, missed it. Well, Ezra winning was the right call, so probably wouldn’t have voted anyway.

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