Nominees for what we should now call the Nationwide Mercurys 2008 are in, and are:
- Elbow: The Seldom Seen Kid
- Laura Marling: Alas I Could Not Swim
- Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Raising Sand
- Adele: 19
- The Last Shadow Puppets: The Age Of The Understatement
- Portico Quartet: Knee-Deep In The North Sea
- Burial: Untrue
- Neon Neon: Stainless Style
- Estelle: Shine
- British Sea Power: Do You Like Rock Music?
- Rachel Unthank & The Winterset: The Bairns
- Radiohead: In Rainbows
No Portishead then.
No Duffy either.
Have they got it right?
