2024 Mercury Prize Nominees

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2024 Mercury Prize Nominees

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The 2024 Mercury Prize 12 ‘Albums of the Year’ were announced on Thursday 25 July on BBC Radio 6 Music from 11am by Tom Ravenscroft (standing in for Mary Anne Hobbs).
The 2024 Mercury Prize 12 ‘Albums of the Year’ are:

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’

Very underwhelming lot :smt009
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Other than the Beth Gibbons I agree with the above
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Last Dinner Party get my vote.
I heard Cat Burns at a cricket 100 match last week. Not bad.
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