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So it's mercury week again, showcasing ‘the best of British’ as it were. But maybe they are lacking a little something this year?
I think it would be naive to write of the mercuries as a load of old industry hype, especially since near enough all winners have seen an increase in sales and gone onto great success. Least we forget Primal scream, Suede, Pulp, Arctic Monkeys and Dizzee Rascal to name but a few. Then again the judges have been known to drop the occasional clanger, but even so it's still a great merit to win and even to be nominated.
Regardless, here are 5 albums I'm surprised that weren't/feel that should of been nominated.
1. Wildbeasts - Smother
2. Bill Wells & Aiden Moffat - Everything Is Getting Older
3. Friendly Fires - Pala
4. Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
5. Radiohead - King of Limbs
If you haven't heard any of those albums, they are not only great British albums but just flat out amazing albums. When you consider all the things the mercuries stand for its hard to believe that they over looked any of these. Radiohead have been nominated 4 times in the past and this is probably the best album they've made since Amnesiac. Where as Wildbeasts and Wells/Moffat have truly pushed what they are capable of to whole new levels. Friendly Fires showing that they can use the same formula that got them nominated the first time, but still move things forward and the Joy Formidable have produced an album that isn't a genre greatly represented by the mercuries which possible means they deserve it all the more.
We’ll have to wait until Tuesday (6th Sept)) to find out, but in the mean time good luck to all the artists nominated.
Phill
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