Mercury Prize nominations

The Mercury Music Prize is a big-deal alternative music award given to the best British album of the year that British people care about but often say they don’t care about.

2011’s nominated albums are:

• Anna Calvi ‘Anna Calvi’
• Elbow ‘Build A Rocket Boys!’
• James Blake ‘James Blake’
• Katy B ‘On A Mission’
• Metronomy ‘English Riviera’
• PJ Harvey ‘Let England Shake’
• Gwilym Simcock ‘Good Days At Schloss Ellmau’
• Ghostpoet ‘Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam’
• Tinie Tempah ‘Disc-Overy’
• Everything Everything ‘Man Alive’
• King Cresote & Jon Hopkins ‘Diamond Mine’
• Adele ‘21’

It’s a fairly safe list. The winner will be announced in September, and will probably be PJ Harvey.