Finalister til Mercury Music Prize fundet

Årets finalister til den prestigefyldte engelske musikpris Mercury Music Prize er fundet. Et panel af folk fra musikindustrien kårer vinderen, der skal være britisk og have udsendt album inden for det seneste år, den 9. september.

Den fulde liste over de nominerede ordnet efter de uofficielle engelske odds ser således ud:

4/1:
Coldplay "A Rush Of Blood To The Head"
Radiohead "Hail To The Thief"
6/1:
The Darkness "Permission To Land"
Dizzee Rascal "Boy In Da Corner"
The Thrills "So Much For The City"
8/1:
The Athlete "Vehicles & Animals"
Terri Walker "Untitled"
10/1:
Floetry "Floetic"
Soweto Kinch "Conversations With The Unseen"
12/1:
Martina Topley-Bird "Quixotic"
Eliza Carthy "Angelicana"
Lemon Jelly "Lost Horizons" (billedet)

De forrige elleve års vinder album ser således ud:
2002 Ms Dynamite "A Little Deeper"
2001 PJ Harvey "Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea"
2000 Badly Drawn Boy "The Hour Of Bewilderbeast"
1999 Talvin Singh "OK"
1998 Gomez "Bring It On"
1997 Roni Size "New Forms"
1996 Pulp "Different Class"
1995 Portishead "Dummy"
1994 M People "Elegant Slumming"
1993 Suede "Suede"
1992 Primal Scream "Screamadelica"