No thread (so far) this year?
CMAT: ‘EURO-COUNTRY’Emma-Jean Thackray: ‘Weirdo’FKA twigs: ‘EUSEXUA’Fontaines D.C.: ‘Romance’Jacob Alon: ‘In Limerence’Joe Webb: ‘Hamstrings & Hurricanes’Martin Carthy: ‘Transform Me Then Into A Fish’Pa Salieu: ‘Afrikan Alien’PinkPantheress: ‘Fancy That’Pulp: ‘More’Sam Fender: ‘People Watching’Wolf Alice: ‘The Clearing’
― Mark G, Thursday, 16 October 2025 18:27 (four months ago)
Would love Pulp to win again, but it should probably go to PinkPantheress.
Don't really get what the fuss is about with CMAT but I have friends that love her and think she is the favourite.
― sent a message through the Internet but it rejected (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 16 October 2025 18:44 (four months ago)
come back Gaz all is forgiven
― How We Choosed to Live (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 October 2025 21:10 (four months ago)
"Fancy That showcases Pink's signature vocals and genre-blurring sound that mixes UK garage with drum and bass, pop, electronic, and y2k-nostalgia"
A mix of garage, dnb and electronic!
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 16 October 2025 21:32 (four months ago)
Don't think I've ever actually heard Sam Fender.
― sent a message through the Internet but it rejected (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 16 October 2025 21:44 (four months ago)
Appalling choice jfc
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 16 October 2025 21:50 (four months ago)
pa salieu robbed
― ufo, Thursday, 16 October 2025 21:57 (four months ago)
Every song I've heard by Sam Fender sounds absolutely identical. I thought it was War On Drugs the first time I heard him on the radio.
― kitchen person, Friday, 17 October 2025 00:07 (four months ago)
I wonder if anyone ever hires Adam Granduciel and says "I don't want this to sound like your band." I'm not being facetious, that happened with Bob Dylan once where he complained "this sounds like the E Street Band!" and the engineer immediately thought "then why did you hire Steve Van Zandt and Roy Bittan?"
― birdistheword, Friday, 17 October 2025 00:43 (four months ago)
Saw Sam Fender live at a festival this summer, he turned the last fifteen minutes of the concert into a Free Palestine demo, so that was cool. Shame about the rest of it, but oh well.
He got airplay on the radio at the same timer Bruce Springsteen announced all those unreleased records, and for a long time I thought it probably was something from that. It sounded like something Bruce Springsteen made, but decided wasn't good enough.
― Frederik B, Friday, 17 October 2025 07:30 (four months ago)
I like Sam a lot but didn't think this was his strongest record by a long chalk - a lot of the best songs ended up as b-sides and they didn't really commit to the Granduciel production. Seems like an odd choice.
― Maggy Scraggle, Friday, 17 October 2025 08:28 (four months ago)
Prize ceremony was in Newcastle this year, so it does look a bit like they're giving it to the local act. But given he already has Brit Awards, it seems a rather redundant choice for the supposedly "alternative" Mercury.
― Composition 40b (Stew), Friday, 17 October 2025 10:03 (four months ago)
xpost I see there's a "special" version coming out for Christmas.
― Mark G, Saturday, 18 October 2025 16:37 (four months ago)