The List:Alt-J - An Awesome WaveBen Howard - Every KingdomDjango Django - Django DjangoField Music - PlumbJessie Ware - Devotion Lianne La Havas - Is Your Love Big Enough?Maccabees - Given to the WildMichael Kiwanuka - Home AgainPlan B - Ill Manors (pictured)Richard Hawley - Standing at the Sky's EdgeRoller Trio - Roller TrioSam Lee - Ground Of Its Own
Lauren Lavernewill host this year's Mercury PrizeIt just gives aspotlight. The records do the talking, the talent's already there, the albumsare already fantastic. It's just a little plinth where you can put them on andgo, 'hey, look at this - it's amazing!'.
That's a reallyimportant thing to do, especially now there's less money in the music industrythan there was. People can make fantastic records that are completelyforgotten. This is a chance to show some of those off that could otherwisemaybe slip through the net, and actually could go on to have massive crossoverappeal.
Elbow are theclassic Mercury success story. Their record sales just shot through the roofthe day after they were nominated and then everything that followed, followed.It doesn't always work out like that, but it's not about that. It's just aboutletting people try new things and discover music that they might not otherwiseexperience. If every record on here doesn't go on to sell a million that's nota failure, that's not the point. They're all fantastic records.
Source:BBC
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