Mercury Prize 2024

[Ben7amin_]

Barry Can’t Swim – When Will We Land?

Berwyn – Who Am I

Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown

Cat Burns – Early Twenties

Charli xcx – Brat

CMAT – Crazymad, for Me

Corinne Bailey Rae – Black Rainbows

corto.alto – Bad With Names

English Teacher – This Could Be Texas

Ghetts – On Purpose, With Purpose

Nia Archives – Silence Is Loud

The Last Dinner Party – Prelude to Ecstasy

[brendan84]

English teacher for me from those albums.

[balti-pie]

Corinne Bailey Rae's album is an absolute banger, which i absolutely never thought id say 😄 probs Nia Archives for me but either of those two winning would be great 

[TiZuff]

Brat should win

 

TLDP will probably be chosen

[Ben7amin_]

It tough but I also think English Teacher 

[Ben7amin_]

4 minutes ago, TiZuff said:

Brat should win

 

TLDP will probably be chosen

 I really hope not I think they fall into the same musical style as English Teacher and I think the ET album is so much better than TLDP (IMO) it should rule them out from winning. 

Edited July 25 by Ben7amin_

[nikkic]

19 minutes ago, Ben7amin_ said:

Barry Can’t Swim – When Will We Land?

Berwyn – Who Am I

Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown

Cat Burns – Early Twenties

Charli xcx – Brat

CMAT – Crazymad, for Me

Corinne Bailey Rae – Black Rainbows

corto.alto – Bad With Names

English Teacher – This Could Be Texas

Ghetts – On Purpose, With Purpose

Nia Archives – Silence Is Loud

The Last Dinner Party – Prelude to Ecstasy

Give it to our Bazza 

[CaledonianGonzo]

12 minutes ago, TiZuff said:

Brat should win

 

TLDP will probably be chosen

 

Brat has it in the bag imho

[Ben7amin_]

10 minutes ago, nikkic said:

Give it to our Bazza 

Pay for some swimming lessons 

[Iphigenia]

English Teacher gets my vote

[cdm22]

TLDP still dining out on their one song then? Impressive 😄

[Spindles]

Surely Charli has this in the bag.  The new record has had lots of attention and praise, feels like a breakthrough moment for her.

 

I think it's a bit harsh to paint TLDP as a one hit wonder, they've got half an album's worth of decent material and if they deliver on their promise they might have a full set of bangers in an album or two's time.

[CaledonianGonzo]

1 minute ago, Spindles said:

Surely Charli has this in the bag.  The new record has had lots of attention and praise, feels like a breakthrough moment for her.

 

Mercurys have form for overlooking the obvious choice. But it is the obvious choice.

[sadimmock]

Very happy with this year’s shortlist. There is a lot on here that I have enjoyed this year. I also can’t see past Charli, but would be very happy with CMAT, Nia Archives, TLDP or Beth Gibbons. Some good choices! 

[steviewevie]

Beth Gibbons because it's the only one I know.

[Ben7amin_]

52 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Beth Gibbons because it's the only one I know.

 

Plenty of time to listen to the others before the winner is announced, No reason not to anyway

Edited July 25 by Ben7amin_

[Talcroft]

English Teacher or Charli for me. 

 

Don't think Charli will win though... The 'obvious' ones never do 

Edited July 25 by Talcroft
Undoing autocorrected Charlie!

[steviewevie]

36 minutes ago, Ben7amin_ said:

 

Plenty of time to listen to the others before the winner is announced, No reason not to anyway

probably heard most of the Charli XCX one as its getting played everywhere

[internetjef]

I need to go back to this English teacher album. Remember feeling a bit meh on release as I felt all the advance releases were massive standouts and the rest of the album didn’t do as much for me after high expectations.

 

got a ticket to see them later in year but hadn’t really persisted with more listens . Will revisit 

 

[Ben7amin_]

19 minutes ago, internetjef said:

I need to go back to this English teacher album. Remember feeling a bit meh on release as I felt all the advance releases were massive standouts and the rest of the album didn’t do as much for me after high expectations.

 

got a ticket to see them later in year but hadn’t really persisted with more listens . Will revisit 

 

Definitely a grower not a shower 

[Ben7amin_]

1 hour ago, steviewevie said:

probably heard most of the Charli XCX one as its getting played everywhere

 

I mean we live in a streaming era - you can probably listen to any of them pretty easily 

[Crazyfool01]

 

[Suprefan]

5 hours ago, steviewevie said:

Beth Gibbons because it's the only one I know.

Not from London so automatically out

[Suprefan]

2 hours ago, Ben7amin_ said:

 

I mean we live in a streaming era - you can probably listen to any of them pretty easily 

They dont know what streaming is. Theyre just on Radio 1.

[steviewevie]

2 hours ago, Ben7amin_ said:

 

I mean we live in a streaming era - you can probably listen to any of them pretty easily 

Yes, but also in an era where listening to a whole album in one go just doesn't happen.