🎤 Mercury Prize - The best of the rest (2017) 🎤

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So Far:

2009 - The Horrors - Primary Colours
2011 - Metronomy - The English Riviera

Time for another year. In 2017 the 26th Mercury music prize for the best album by a British or Irish album was won by Sampha ~ Process.

But who deserves to win 2nd place?
You can vote for up to 3 albums

  • alt J - Relaxer
  • The Big moon - Love in the 4th Dimension
  • Blossoms - Blossoms
  • Loyle Carner - Yesterday’s gone
  • Dinosaur - Together, as one
  • Glass Animals - How to be a human being
  • J Hus - Common sense
  • Ed Sheeran - ÷
  • Stormzy - Gang signs & prayer
  • Kae Tempest - Let them eat chaos
  • The xx - I see you
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The Judging panel in 2017 were:

Phil Alexander – Editor-in-Chief, Mojo and Q
Clara Amfo – Broadcaster
Jamie Cullum – Musician and Broadcaster
Ella Eyre – Musician and Songwriter
Harriet Gibsone – Music News Editor, The Guardian
Lianne La Havas – Musician and Songwriter
Will Hodgkinson – Chief Rock & Pop Critic, The Times
MistaJam – DJ & Broadcaster
Marcus Mumford – Musician and Songwriter
Jeff Smith – Head of Music, 6 Music and Radio 2
Jessie Ware – Musician and Songwriter
Mike Walsh – Head of Music, Radio X

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I have never heard Blossoms outside the Rick Astley / smiths stuff. Should I investigate? Is this a good album to start with??

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:confused:

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Was pleasantly surprised by the Smiths stuff because in general they’re not very good

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that’s what I was afraid of!

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Did not like Kae Tempest at all at the time but the enthusiasm of a friend who is a big fan has rubbed off on me and I quite like Let Them Eat Chaos now.

Voted for that but not arsed about any of the rest. Should probably check out the Loyle Carner one though I presume?

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J Hus record is good

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Thats a whole list of :man_shrugging:

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also voting for Loyle Carner cos he seems like a lovely man

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Saw Kae Tempest do Let Them Eat Chaos at Primavera in the Apolo on the Wednesday night and it was ace. Then I saw them and a mate absolutely going for it during Aphex Twin.

I think Let Them Eat Chaos is my favourite album of theirs but I can completely understand why people don’t like it.

Still fascinated by how Glass Animals got so big they supported Yeasayer years ago and were shit.

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Didn’t much care for the last Glass Animals album but I thought that Mercury nominated album was very good

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Eh.

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J Hus record is absolutely vital. Rest of that list is just… meh. Amazing how uninspiring so many of these lists are.

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Is Dinosaur the token jazz band?

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The singer is a dead ringer for Miles Hunt of the Wonderstuff!

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That’s a shocking list

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Can’t call who will come out on top when it’s so mediocre.

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I don’t think I can bring myself to vote for any of them. Abstain