Mercury Prize Nominees: Full List

The List:

Alt-J - An Awesome Wave

Ben Howard - Every Kingdom

Django Django - Django Django

Field Music - Plumb

Jessie Ware - Devotion

Lianne La Havas - Is Your Love Big Enough?

Maccabees - Given to the Wild

Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again

Plan B - Ill Manors (pictured)

Richard Hawley - Standing at the Sky's Edge

Roller Trio - Roller Trio

Sam Lee - Ground Of Its Own

Lauren Laverne will host this year's Mercury Prize

It just gives a spotlight. The records do the talking, the talent's already there, the albums are already fantastic. It's just a little plinth where you can put them on and go, 'hey, look at this - it's amazing!'.

That's a really important thing to do, especially now there's less money in the music industry than there was. People can make fantastic records that are completely forgotten. This is a chance to show some of those off that could otherwise maybe slip through the net, and actually could go on to have massive crossover appeal.

Elbow are the classic Mercury success story. Their record sales just shot through the roof the day after they were nominated and then everything that followed, followed. It doesn't always work out like that, but it's not about that. It's just about letting people try new things and discover music that they might not otherwise experience. If every record on here doesn't go on to sell a million that's not a failure, that's not the point. They're all fantastic records.

Source: BBC

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