This year’s shortlist has been announced, causing the annual cries of ‘I can’t believe they left out…‘ and ‘who the hell are…‘ Guess List reckons it’s not a bad list (better than last year anyhow).
And the nominees are:
- Adele – “19″
- British Sea Power – “Do You Like Rock Music?”
- Burial – “Untrue”
- Elbow – “The Seldom Seen Kid”
- Estelle – “Shine”
- The Last Shadow Puppets – “The Age Of The Understatement”
- Laura Marling – “Alas I Cannot Swim”
- Neon Neon – “Stainless Style”
- Portico Quartet – “Knee-Deep In The North Sea”
- Robert Plant And Alison Krauss – “Raising Sand”
- Radiohead – “In Rainbows”
- Rachel Unthank And The Winterset – “The Bairns”
We’d like to see it go to Radiohead; they’ve previously been nominated 3 times (for Ok Computer, Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief, as well as Thom’s ‘The Eraser’ last year) and have never won it. It’s only fair!
Suprisingly overlooked this year:
Portishead, Foals, M.I.A, PJ Harvey, Los Campesinos!, Hot Chip, Spiritualized, and Jamie Lidell.
Unrealistic hopes that should’ve got nominations:
Nalle, Dans Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Johnny Flynn and our very own Jape!
