Barry Can’t Swim: ‘When Will We Land?’
BERWYN: ‘Who Am I’
Beth Gibbons: ‘Lives Outgrown’
Cat Burns: ‘early twenties’
Charli xcx: ‘BRAT’
CMAT: ‘Crazymad, for Me’
Corinne Bailey Rae: ‘Black Rainbows’
corto.alto: ‘Bad with Names’
English Teacher: ‘This Could Be Texas’
Ghetts: ‘On Purpose, With Purpose’
Nia Archives: ‘Silence Is Loud’
The Last Dinner Party: ‘Prelude to Ecstasy’
I’m rooting for Corinne Bailey Rae.
What does The Afterword think?
I have heard none of them so cannot help.
Radio 5Live played a short compilation of them today. The only one I disliked was the drum and bass track – so not them!
You haven’t heard Beth Gibbons? You really should.
I will do tomorrow
The Last Dinner Party record is very listenable.
Haven’t Corinne Bailey Rae and Beth Gibbons been nominated before in some form?
CBR’s The Sea was nominated in 2011. She has also been a judge. Gibbons has won with Portishead.
Thank you.
Wot? No token folkies or jazzers?
corto.alto’s shtick falls into the jazz basket.
…and Gibbons in folk.
Ish.
Ish ish
What? As in ‘thecheshirecat likes her, so that makes it folk’? That’ll never get past the folk police in Sidmouth.
Well, that’s my go-to definition of folk. 😉
However, I was more thinking that the judges probably thought it has enough folk elements to obviate the need for a proper folk album.
No TV show tonight as no-one could be bothered to sponsor it
Not even Mercury?
Mercury disappeared over 25 years ago. Even their parent company, Cable & Wireless, are no more, having vanished over a decade ago.
It’s on BBC4.
200 guests tops
It’s not exactly an inspiring selection as far as I’m concerned. Different pricks for different kicks I guess.
English Teachers wins!
I didn’t see that coming. 😄
Me neither!
I saw part of their set at Roskilde this summer and was a little under-awed.
My pal and I agreed they were promising but no more.
I’m not objective. Guitar-based rock does not get me too excited.
Just to contradict myself…..On the same small stage a day earlier, I saw US indie guitar rockers Water from the Eyes. And loved them to death.
The bassist in ET is the son of an old friend from uni days. Aside from that, know next to nothing about them
Dreadfully humdrum name, but a lot of younger bands seem to go for prosaic IDs these days
These guys are now my listening for today – thanks @Kaisfatdad !
Brilliant! Glad to spread the word about them, atcf.
WFYE are excellent live.
Totally missed the hype train this year. Back in my magazine buying days there would have been full page ads with all the album covers for ages before the big night. I quite like about half the albums on the list, which is nae bad considering I’ve not heard four of them. I’ve never been that bothered about who wins, which is odd when I recall that Word used to do something similar at the end of the year (i.e. present about ten records without a clear favourite) and that used to piss me off no end.
I’m complicated, me.
I was hoping for TLDP, but knew that something more ‘worthy’ would probably win. I started to watch the programme, but could only take about ten minutes of the hosts’ (Huw Stephens and Annie Mac) pretentious and condescending drivel*.
*Condescending means ‘talking down to’.
Apart from Beth Gibbons, nowt to shout about. Pity, quite a lot of cutting edge folk this year. (Embarrassing moment: as I was typing, I got asked to sing a song, at Bromyard FF, not something I have in me. Thank Christ @thecheshirecat was nearby!!)
You did forewarn that it would be an inclusive festival. Was this not what you had in mind?
“Cutting edge folk” *raises one eyebrow, sips from a vodka martini and slips the latest disc from Nala Sinephro into a CD transport.*
Nice.
Corrine Bailey Rae’s record is fab but I haven’t heard any of the others including the winner, alas. But it seems the prize has lost its mojo – no sponsor, little hoopla, and diminished impact on sales. For all its faults and sometimes ridiculousness it would be a shame for it to go but maybe its a sign of the continuing reduction in interest in and value of the album as a thing.
Heard snippets of the winners today and thought it was pretentious, tuneless pants. No wonder they won.