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Mercury Prize Nominees: Adele, PJ Harvey, James Blake …

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The shortlist of nominees for this year’s Mercury Prize, the annual award given to the top British album of the year, has been announced. And the nominees are: Adele, 21, Anna Calvi, Anna Calvi, Elbow, Build a Rocket Boys!, Everything Everything, Man Alive, Ghostpoet, Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam, Gwilym Simcock, Good Days at Schloss Elmau, James Blake, James Blake, Katy B, On a Mission, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, Diamond Mine, Metronomy, The English Riviera, PJ Harvey, Let England Shake, and Tinie Tempah, Disc-Overy. So whose got a shot at taking Adele down? [Pitchfork]

Mercury Prize Nominees: Adele, PJ Harvey, James Blake …