Mercury Prize Nominees 2015 Are Named
The nominees for this
year’s Mercury Prize, the biggest award for British pop music, were unveiled on
Friday.
They are Aphex Twin for the album “Syro,”
Wolf Alice for “My Love Is
Cool,” Roisin Murphy for
“Hairless Toys,” C Duncan for
“Architect,” Eska for her
self-titled album, Florence
and the Machine for “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful,” Ghostpoet for “Shedding Skin,” Benjamin Clementine for “At
Least for Now,”Jamie xx for
“In Colour,” SOAK for
“Before We Forgot How to Dream,” Gaz
Coombes for “Matador” and Slaves for
“Are You Satisfied.”
The nominees were
announced throughout the morning and early afternoon on BBC Radio 6, the
broadcaster’s contemporary music channel.
Founded in 1992, the
Mercury Prize, which comes with a cash prize of 20,000 pounds, or about
$30,900, holds itself up as the “music equivalent to the Booker Prize for
literature and the Turner Prize for art.” It has projected the careers of
a number of emerging acts, like last year’s winners, Young Fathers, into the international
arena. But in other years, major names like P.J. Harvey and James
Blakehave been honored. This year’s winner will be announced at a ceremony
in London on Nov. 20.
Source The New York Times
