Mercury Prize 2010

paolo

Mechanical phantoms
No Actress? :(

Apart from Splazsh, it's been a while since I've really enjoyed an album by a UK act. Blake's was pretty good, as were North and Crooks and Lovers, but they weren't amazing

Edit - Return II Space was amazing. How could I have forgotten that?
 
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SecondLine

Well-known member
a dance music album is never gonna get a look in though is it?

apart from the token jazz outfit (which draws on the same tiny pool of musicians from a scene even smaller than ours every year), it's all sunday supplement stuff int it. To their credit, I think the 'urban' entry used to be token as well, but they're reflecting the times a bit more these days on that front.

sort of a shame that the supposedly 'credible' alternative to most UK music awards follows such a rigid formula
 
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