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

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Instinctively, I prefer this list to last year's list (no. actually heard = about the same, viz not many). I agree it's more Radio 2 than usual, and that may be the reason why I prefer it. It's certainly not representative of what's good in British music, but no list of LPs ever could be.

I'd like to hear the Unthank and Marling albums. Heard enough of Krauss & Plant and Elbow (both on R2 natch) to know that they're probably likeable but not something I will ever get that excited about. I disagree 100% with Frank about Adele; "Hometown Glory" is just... agh where do you start?