Lex 20p Indie Prize: yes, again and yes, late again

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I refuse to join the rest of you stinkin' hippies over at Dreamwidth (not until I've consistently used Tumblr, anyway) so someone can x-post if they like. Or you could have a 2p Young Person's God Help Us If There's A War Prize. Whatever.

It is time for nominations to this year's highly-sought-after Lex 20p Indie Prize.

1. Frankly, no one knows how serious we're being about which (if any) of the parts of this. POP FACT: no one ever has. It is roughly true that if anyone ever creates a metric, it will stop being at all fun.
2. Acts nominated should be British and indie and have released something in the last year. If you could nominate a recent work by them (Eg: The Emo One Out Of Busted- My First Emo EP) then that would be quite useful.
3. We used to play the winner at Poptimism but we don't have a club night anymore and I don't know if Mason and Taylor will stand for This Sort Of Thing. However, we will make sure that we post them 20p with a commemorative certificate and err, maybe we'll all liveblog listening to it on Spotify or something? We'll work a thing out.

[Poll #1766864]

We can also discuss the fact there seem to be literally three or four listenable things on the Mercury shortlist if you would rather.

Edit: younger readers who do not know Lex may be unaware of his work; not only is he our longstanding chum alexmacpherson but also a real actual music journalist, a few of his recent pieces for the Graun covered homophobia in hip hop, Cher Lloyd's ambitions and Liechtenstein's disco scene.

Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

A note of personal tragedy: along with always being ineligible in any way, shape or form Mastodon have not brought this obviously brilliant album with a geometric cow on the front out in time. (http://www.mastodonrocks.com/splash/)

James Blake feels suspiciously like a natural winner of this to me, or PJ Harvey (of course also both nommed in the "official" prize) but I know how much you lot love Metronomy so who knows eh? The Emo One Out Of Busted really does have an EP out- I might torment myself with some of it later.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"Augmented reality experience that will contain exclusive content only available to this package" = their MUM comes round to your HOUSE and PUNCHES YOU IN THE EAR

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I AM SO EXCITED RIGHT NOW

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Wow a lot of people listed "30%."

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

I can never remember from one year to the next my voting process. This year I've voted for a band of undiluted indieness in the sense I grew up on. But there's also clearly a case to be made for The Vaccines, who in their staggering horribleness represent a possible end point for a once significant guitar pop sub-genre.