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

[koganbot]

The only albums that I've heard in full that are or might be eligible (depending on release date) are:

M.I.A. Kala
Girls Aloud Tangled Up
Richard Thompson Sweet Warrior
Leona Lewis Spirit
Simian Mobile Disco Attack Decay Sustain Release

Probably like them in more or less that order, though was disappointed in all of them except the Thompson, which was a pleasant surprise. Of the nominated albs, would like to hear the Adele (realized after hearing a few more of her singles that her first was her worst) and the Estelle for sure, maybe some of the others.