Mercury Prize Shortlist Announced
by Staff | 07.22.2008

A dozen albums were announced as finalists for this year's Nationwide Mercury Prize (best album by a British or Irish artist from the previous year).  With last year's prize going to Klaxon's Myths of The Near Future, this year is anyone's game.  See how many albums you recognize below.

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

The winners will be announced with a London ceremony on September 9th.