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YNWaN
29-10-2014, 12:02
Tonight it is the Mercury Music Prize. This year the artists and albums up for consideration are:

http://www.mercuryprize.com/aoty/shortlist.php

1/ Anna Calvi - One Breath
2/ Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow
3/ Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
4/ East India Youth - Total Strife Forever
5/ FKA twigs - LP1
6/ GoGo Penguin - v2.0
7/ Jungle - Jungle
8/ Kate Tempest - Everybody Down
9/ Nick Mulvey - First Mind
10/ Polar Bear - In Each and Every One
11/ Royal Blood - Royal Blood
12/ Young Fathers - Dead

The bookies front runner is currently FKA twigs - personaly I would go for Royal Blood.

As a bit of fun, who (from those nominated) do you think should win?

struth
29-10-2014, 14:03
Must be getting old ffs. I aint heard of any of them!:doh: I like the name Kate Tempest though so will pick her/them/him?;)

WAD62
29-10-2014, 15:13
Personally I'd go for Polar Bear, but didn't they already win the Jazz category about 5 albums ago? :scratch:

So it won't be them...;)

johnB
29-10-2014, 15:15
My money is on the Kate Tempest LP...very good, a bit reminiscent of Mike Skinner (The Streets)

YNWaN
29-10-2014, 15:20
I only knew four of them - Damon Albarn is the most famous because he was the lead singer of Blur. Royal Blood, Bobay Bicycle Club and FKA twigs are quite prominent in the charts at the moment (I even have the Royal Blood record).

If you click on the link in my first post you can beer a snippet of each artist - Kate Tempest probably isn't what you may imagine - sort of beat poet rap and not my thing at all.
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Yeah, Kate Tempest is like The Streets - but not as good IMO (and I'm not a Streets fan)

Polar Bear is proper free form noodle Jazz :(.

johnB
29-10-2014, 15:27
No...not a Jazz revival.....smooth.

WAD62
29-10-2014, 15:39
No...not a Jazz revival.....smooth.

You've obviously not heard Polar Bear then...

Macca
29-10-2014, 16:03
I've only heard of Damon Albarn. I'm either too old or too out of touch. Or both.

Is it just me but in the Sixities, Seventies and even the Eighties there was a torrent of good music and now it seems to be at best a trickle. if I think of all the really good albums released in the twenty years 1970 to 1990 there are hundreds but 1990 to 2014 there are barely a handful.

synsei
29-10-2014, 17:49
Having listened to three or four tracks from each album my preference is My Mind from Nick Mulvey, it is an excellent album which I have now heard in its entirety. LP1 from FKA Twigs is bloody good too, there are definitely Massive Attack influences in play here :)

johnB
29-10-2014, 18:58
I've only heard of Damon Albarn. I'm either too old or too out of touch. Or both.

Is it just me but in the Sixities, Seventies and even the Eighties there was a torrent of good music and now it seems to be at best a trickle. if I think of all the really good albums released in the twenty years 1970 to 1990 there are hundreds but 1990 to 2014 there are barely a handful.

I suspect it is an age related perception, and also that Music has been too cheap and too easily accessible for the last 15 years. When I bought an LP in 70s or 80s I'd play it to death, know all the words, and give it time to grow. Nowadays if it doesn't grab me after one or two plays I just move on. I think that there's as much talent and more innovation in music nowadays than there was in 70s/80s, but age, more money and perhaps less time makes it challenging to find.
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sq225917
29-10-2014, 19:04
My money would be on Kate Tempest, they have a habit of going for no mark urban(e) females.

YNWaN
29-10-2014, 22:39
Well, I didn't see that coming :).

Winner = Young Fathers - Dead

Spectral Morn
29-10-2014, 23:40
shame Twigs is very good.

Bought Polar Bears first album, quiet awhile ago and didn't like it.


Regards Neil