Mercury Prize Nominations
Posted by: nicnaim on 18 July 2006
The full list of nominations is:
Arctic Monkeys ‘Whatever People Say I Am, Thats What I'm Not’ (5/1, Joint Favourites)
Thom Yorke ‘The Eraser’ (5/1, Joint Favourites)
Muse 'Black Holes And Revelations' (6/1)
Editors 'The Back Room' (6/1)
Guillemots 'Through The Window Pane' (6/1)
Hot Chip 'The Warning' (8/1)
Sway 'This Is My Demo' (8/1)
Richard Hawley 'Coles Corner' (8/1)
Isobelle Campbell & Mark Lanegan 'Ballad Of The Broken Seas' (10/1)
Scritti Politti 'White Bread Black Beer' (10/1)
Lou Rhodes 'Beloved One' (10/1)
Zoe Rahman 'Melting Pot' (10/1)
Something for everyone, or a quirky selection with some notable absentees?
Nic
Arctic Monkeys ‘Whatever People Say I Am, Thats What I'm Not’ (5/1, Joint Favourites)
Thom Yorke ‘The Eraser’ (5/1, Joint Favourites)
Muse 'Black Holes And Revelations' (6/1)
Editors 'The Back Room' (6/1)
Guillemots 'Through The Window Pane' (6/1)
Hot Chip 'The Warning' (8/1)
Sway 'This Is My Demo' (8/1)
Richard Hawley 'Coles Corner' (8/1)
Isobelle Campbell & Mark Lanegan 'Ballad Of The Broken Seas' (10/1)
Scritti Politti 'White Bread Black Beer' (10/1)
Lou Rhodes 'Beloved One' (10/1)
Zoe Rahman 'Melting Pot' (10/1)
Something for everyone, or a quirky selection with some notable absentees?
Nic
There is good stuff with the music I am familiar with on the list. I also feel slightly smug with my fairly overlooked Guillimots and Hot Chip recommendations. Man I must be surfing the zeitgeist 
The arctic monkeys is a very confident and engaging record which hits the right spot after a few listens.
The guillimots is like a British Flaming Lips - dense and eccentric songs which somehow aim for the heart.
Hot Chip - really fun live - mixed quality album but with enough standouts to stand up to scrutiny.
Zoe Rahman - I know Zoe, she is a really sweet person and it is a great pleasure to see her on the list. Her piano playing abilities are fantastic.
Can people educate me on any others from the list which are must haves?
The arctic monkeys is a very confident and engaging record which hits the right spot after a few listens.
The guillimots is like a British Flaming Lips - dense and eccentric songs which somehow aim for the heart.
Hot Chip - really fun live - mixed quality album but with enough standouts to stand up to scrutiny.
Zoe Rahman - I know Zoe, she is a really sweet person and it is a great pleasure to see her on the list. Her piano playing abilities are fantastic.
Can people educate me on any others from the list which are must haves?
but no Kate Bush 
That's it, i've ordered Coles Corner. I've been thinking about it for ages and now i've gone and done it. It sounds like i won't be disapointed.
Lush
Nice weather were having for the time of year
diccus
Lush
Nice weather were having for the time of year
diccus
quote:Originally posted by Malky:
Post back yout thoughts on Coles Corner, lads.
Just got it yesterday and had it on a couple of times. Early impressions are - excellent confident american/english country music quite johnny Cash like in places. Grand stuff.
Diccus
quote:Just got it yesterday and had it on a couple of times. Early impressions are - excellent confident american/english country music quite johnny Cash like in places. Grand stuff.
Diccus
Interesting. What other people thought:
If David Lynch made movies in England, Richard Hawley would likely provide the soundtracks. The British singer/songwriter worked as a guitarist for Pulp and others before emerging as a distinctive solo artist, but the series of albums that began with his 2001 debut full-length, LATE NIGHT FINAL, have proven Hawley to be a truly singular artistic figure. With a smooth, deep croon that suggests Ricky Nelson giving Mark Lanegan voice lessons, Hawley turns out a hushed, lonesome sound that pays homage to elegant '60s pop/rock a la Roy Orbison and Johnny Rivers. COLES CORNER is as fine an exemplar of Hawley's approach as one could want, as twangy, reverb-heavy guitar lines dance around sparse orchestrations and gentle compositions full of satin-bedecked loneliness. Pitched perfectly in a sonic spot triangulated by Chet Baker's vocal albums, Sinatra's ONLY THE LONELY, and the bachelor-pad pop of the Burt Bacharach/Jimmy Webb school, the wee-hours sound of COLES CORNER suggests that, in the right hands, melancholy can be downright fun. © Muze/MTS Inc.
I'd nail the album in the Sinatra wee small hours area with a bit of Roy Orbisson thrown in.
Steve
quote:Originally posted by SteveGa:quote:Just got it yesterday and had it on a couple of times. Early impressions are - excellent confident american/english country music quite johnny Cash like in places. Grand stuff.
Diccus
Interesting. What other people thought:
If David Lynch made movies in England, Richard Hawley would likely provide the soundtracks. The British singer/songwriter worked as a guitarist for Pulp and others before emerging as a distinctive solo artist, but the series of albums that began with his 2001 debut full-length, LATE NIGHT FINAL, have proven Hawley to be a truly singular artistic figure. With a smooth, deep croon that suggests Ricky Nelson giving Mark Lanegan voice lessons, Hawley turns out a hushed, lonesome sound that pays homage to elegant '60s pop/rock a la Roy Orbison and Johnny Rivers. COLES CORNER is as fine an exemplar of Hawley's approach as one could want, as twangy, reverb-heavy guitar lines dance around sparse orchestrations and gentle compositions full of satin-bedecked loneliness. Pitched perfectly in a sonic spot triangulated by Chet Baker's vocal albums, Sinatra's ONLY THE LONELY, and the bachelor-pad pop of the Burt Bacharach/Jimmy Webb school, the wee-hours sound of COLES CORNER suggests that, in the right hands, melancholy can be downright fun. © Muze/MTS Inc.
I'd nail the album in the Sinatra wee small hours area with a bit of Roy Orbisson thrown in.
Steve
Steve
I think that's spot on too.
Diccus