David Bowie, Arctic Monkeys and Jon Hopkins are among the acts shortlisted for this year’s Mercury Music Prize.
Bowie and the Sheffield rockers are thought to be favourites to win the prize with their The Next Day and AM albums respectively.
Other artists unveiled by Lauren Laverne at the Hospital Club in London’s Covent Garden include Rudimental with their album Home, Laura Mvula’s Sing To The Moon and Disclosure’s Settle.
Winners of the prize will be unveiled at a ceremony at London’s Roundhouse on 30 October.
Simon Frith, chair of the judging panel, said: ‘This year’s Barclaycard Mercury Prize shortlist celebrates a fascinating year for British and Irish music, marked by a wonderful range of musical voices - urgent, reflective, upbeat and tender, acoustic and electronic, and all with something intriguing to say.’
In a statement, the Arctic Monkeys said: ‘We are delighted and hugely flattered to be nominated for such a prestigious award in the same week we celebrate the release of our new album.’
Previous winners include Alt-J with An Awesome Wave and PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake.
The full list of nominees for this year’s prize is below:
Arctic Monkeys - AM
David Bowie - The Next Day
Disclosure - Settle
Foals - Holy Fire
Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg
James Blake - Overgrown
Jon Hopkins - Immunity
Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
Laura Mvula - Sing To The Moon
Rudimental - Home
Savages - Silence Yourself
Villagers - Awayland
Bowie and the Sheffield rockers are thought to be favourites to win the prize with their The Next Day and AM albums respectively.
Other artists unveiled by Lauren Laverne at the Hospital Club in London’s Covent Garden include Rudimental with their album Home, Laura Mvula’s Sing To The Moon and Disclosure’s Settle.
Winners of the prize will be unveiled at a ceremony at London’s Roundhouse on 30 October.
Simon Frith, chair of the judging panel, said: ‘This year’s Barclaycard Mercury Prize shortlist celebrates a fascinating year for British and Irish music, marked by a wonderful range of musical voices - urgent, reflective, upbeat and tender, acoustic and electronic, and all with something intriguing to say.’
In a statement, the Arctic Monkeys said: ‘We are delighted and hugely flattered to be nominated for such a prestigious award in the same week we celebrate the release of our new album.’
Previous winners include Alt-J with An Awesome Wave and PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake.
The full list of nominees for this year’s prize is below:
Arctic Monkeys - AM
David Bowie - The Next Day
Disclosure - Settle
Foals - Holy Fire
Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg
James Blake - Overgrown
Jon Hopkins - Immunity
Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
Laura Mvula - Sing To The Moon
Rudimental - Home
Savages - Silence Yourself
Villagers - Awayland
