As of 1pm on 8th September, here’s the longlist based on this thread, the Mercury thread, and the album of the month top 10s - last call for anything that’s missing and anything you’ve spotted that isn’t eligible that has snuck in:
Neptune Prize 2025 - Longlist
102 Eligible Albums (July 13, 2024 - July 13, 2025)
A
- Abduction - Existentialismus
- Adventsong - Verdancy
- Adwaith - Solas
- Anna B Savage - You & I are Earth
- aya - hexed
B
- Barker - Stochastic Drift
- Benefits - Constant Noise
C
- C Duncan - It’s Only A Love Song
- Constant Little Ghost - The Yellow Knife
- Cwfen - Sorrows
D
- Dawnwalker - The Unknowing
- DITZ - Never Exhale
- Divorce - Drive to Goldenhammer
- Djrum - Under Tangled Silence
E
- Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo
- Ex-Vöid - In Love Again
F
- Fergus Jones - Ephemera
- Bryan Ferry & Amelia Barratt - Loose Talk
- Fightmilk - No Souvenirs
- FKA TWIGS - EUSEXUA
G
- Geordie Greep - The New Sound
- Gnod + MC Sissi - Inner Fucking Peace
- Greentea Peng - Tell Dem It’s Sunny
- Gwenno - Utopia
H
- Half Man Half Biscuit - All Asimov and No Fresh Air
- Hamish Hawk - A Firmer Hand
- Heartworms - Glutton for Punishment
- HENGE - JOURNEY TO VOLTUS B
- Honesty - U R HERE
J
- Jabu - A Soft and Gatherable Star
- Jamie xx - In Waves
- jasmine.4.t - You Are The Morning
- Jessica Winter - My First Album
- Jill Lorean - Peace Cult
- Johnny Foreigner - How To Be Hopeful
- Joshua Burnside - Teeth of Time
- Julia-Sophie - forgive too slow
- Junk Drawer - Days of Heaven
K
- KATHRYN JOSEPH - WE WERE MADE PREY.
- Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate
L
- Laura Marling - Patterns In Repeat
- Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver - Hinterland
- Los Campesinos! - All Hell
- Lowen - Do Not Go To War With The Demons Of Mazandaran
- Little Simz - Lotus
- lullahush - Ithaca
M
- Maria Somerville - Luster
- Mermaid Chunky - Slif Slaf Slof
- mclusky - the world is still here and so are we
- Michael J Blood - spaces in between
- Moin - You Never End
- Mountaintop Junk shop - Misadventureland
- Movement81 - If infinity
N
- Naima Bock - Below a Massive Dark Land
- New Ghost - A Dagger in Every Tide
- Nilufer Yanya - My Method Actor
- Nubya Garcia - Odyssey
O
- Overhead, The Albatross - I Leave You This
P
- Paddy Hanna - Oylegate
- Pale Blue Eyes - New Place
- Pit Pony - Dead Stars
- Poor Creature - All Smiles Tonight
- Pulp - More
Q
- Quade - The Foel Tower
R
- Rainy Miller - Joseph What Have You Done
- Real Lies - We Will Annihilate Our Enemies
- Rhins - The Burnout
- Richard Dawson - End of the Middle
- Romance - Love Is Colder Than Death
- Rose Gray - Louder Please
- Ruthven - Rough & Ready
S
- Sacred Paws - Jump Into Life
- Sam Binga - Presents Club Orthodontics
- Sam Fender - People Watching
- Sandwell District - End Beginnings
- Shanti Celeste - Romance
- Sherelle - With A Vengeance
- Sleep Token - Even in Arcadia
- Stereolab - Instant Holograms On Metal Film
- Surgeon - Shell Wave
T
- The Bug Club - Very Human Features
- The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
- The Murder Capital - Blindness
- The Tubs - Cotton Crown
- The WAEVE - City Lights
- Tristwch y Fenywod - Tristwch y Fenywod
- Trust Fund - Has It Been A While?
U
- UNIVERSITY - McCartney, It’ll Be Ok
V
- Vacous - In His Blood
W
- Wet Leg - Moisturizer
- Whatever The Weather - Whatever The Weather II
- W H Lung - Every Inch Of Earth Pulsates
- Al Wooton - Rhythm Archives
- Work, Money, Death - People of the Fast Flowing River
Y
- Yazz Ahmed - A Paradise In The Hold
- Young Knives - Landfill