Mercury Nominations 2008

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Downloads might be killing off the album, but the Mercury dudes are carrying on regardless. This year's nominations are below, but do you poptimist folks actually listen to this sort of thing?

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Ones for the comments box:
- of the albums above that you haven't heard yet, which would you like to investigate further?
- do you think this is a fair representation of British Music in 2008?
- is this better or worse than last year's bunch?

Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

ALSO: I would like to see more "extreme" selections, please. There has been, for instance, lots of Brit Metal released this year and the God Fires Man (who are idk punk I suppose) album is v. good. If they wanted to be a bit more mainstream-ish then Gallows have received considerable critical acclaim, are a reasonably good laugh at least and would probably fulfil the 'ooh we're so edgy' quotient better than Neon Neon. Equally, there's a healthy amount of experimental electronica happening. Meanwhile nice though the Plant/Krauss album is, it's a bit dadpop innit. If they're going to pretend to be edgy and eschew the mainstream and just be "all about the music" then ...y'know, come on, this is the Times TV guideselection. Except they might well have put Fvck Buttons in.

There are so many things wrong with the Mercury it's hard to think where to start really but this list is even more Radio 2 than usual.

Edit: Not God Fires Man, they're from New York. I mean You Slvt! who are from Nottingham and I quite like.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

Gallows would've been a good call actually. I don't see a problem with Plant&Krauss, there's usually one old giffer in the selection...