Mercury Prize set to announce albums of the year shortlist

Matthew Vizard
Authored by Matthew Vizard
Posted: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - 09:27

The Barclaycard Mercury Prize Albums of the Year 2013 shortlist will be announced at 5.30pm on Wednesday (11 September).

The annual "music Booker" panel select 12 of the best and most significant UK music releases, before judging a winner at a ceremony on Wednesday 30 October.

Previous winners have included Primal Scream, Suede, Elbow, PJ Harvey (the only artist to scoop the award twice) and last year, Alt-J for their debut album An Awesome Wave.

Among the favourites to be nominated for the 22nd annual award, are albums released in the last 12 months by London Grammar, Foals, Laura Marling, Disclosure and David Bowie for his comeback record, The Next Day.

Previous winners

1992 Primal Scream - Screamadelica

1993 Suede - Suede

1994 M People - Elegant Slumming

1995 Portishead - Dummy

1996 Pulp - Different Class

1997 Roni Size and Reprazent - New Forms

1998 Gomez - Bring It On

1999 Talvin Singh - OK

2000 Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

2001 PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

2002 Ms Dynamite - A Little Deeper

2003 Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner

2004 Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

2005 Antony and The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now

2006 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

2007 Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future

2008 Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid

2009 Speech Debelle - Speech Therapy

2010 The xx - The xx

2011 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

2012 Alt-J - An Awesome Wave

www.mercuryprize.com

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