Below is the list of the albums that have made the cut for nomination in the UK’s Mercury Prize for 2008.
Adele : 19
British Sea Power : Do You Like Rock Music?
Burial : Untrue
Elbow : The Seldom Seen Kid
Estelle : Shine
Laura Marling : Alas, I Cannot Swim
Neon Neon : Stainless Style
Portico Quartet : Knee Deep In The North Sea
Rachel Unthank : The Bairns
Radiohead : In Rainbows
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss : Raising Sand
The Last Shadow Puppets : The Age Of The Understatement
Just one question… Where are the Spice Girls!? Where’s Girls Aloud!? What about Goldfrapp!!!? Roisin Murphy!? (okay that’s four questions…) Even Take That didn’t get a nod in these awards, so they’re pretty much a non-entity in the pOp world…
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