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Who will be nominated for this year's Mercury Prize? La Roux Tickets

Barclaycard Mercury Prize shortlist due to be announced tomorrow (July 21)

The Barclaycard Mercury Prize 2009's shortlist is due to be announced in London tomorrow (July 21), with the likes of La Roux, Doves and Bat For Lashes all tipped by bookmakers to be in with a chance of being selected.

To read NME.COM's thoughts on who we think will be nominated, scroll down now. In 2008, Elbow scooped the £20,000 prize for their album 'The Seldom Seen Kid'.

Keep checking NME.COM from 11am (BST) tomorrow for all the latest news on who officially does get nominated. This year's Barclaycard Mercury Prize winner will be announced at a ceremony in London on September 8.

Below is NME.COM's list of the albums from the past year we think stand a good chance of being nominated at tomorrow's launch party, but who do you think will make the shortlist? Log in to MyNME below and have your say.

Here are NME.COM's 35 contenders - not counting the traditional folk, classical and jazz entries:

Bat For Lashes – 'Two Suns'
Bombay Bicycle Club – 'I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose'
Camera Obscura – 'My Maudlin Career'
David Holmes – 'The Holy Pictures'
Doves – 'Kingdom Of Rust'
Florence And The Machine – 'Lungs'
Friendly Fires – 'Friendly Fires'
Gallows – 'Grey Britain'
Glasvegas – 'Glasvegas'
Graham Coxon – 'The Spinning Top'
Jack Penate – 'Everything Is New'
James Yorkston – 'When The Haar Rolls In'
Jarvis Cocker – '"Further Complications"'
Kasabian – 'West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum'
La Roux – 'La Roux'
Late Of The Pier – 'Fantasy Black Channel'
Lily Allen – 'It's Not Me, It's You'
Little Boots – 'Hands'
Manic Street Preachers – 'Journal for Plague Lovers'
Maximo Park – 'Quicken The Heart'
Micachu – 'Jewellery'
Monkey – 'Journey To The West'
Nitin Sawhney – 'London Undersound'
Oasis – 'Dig Out Your Soul'
Peter Doherty – 'Grace/Wastelands'
Robert Mitchell 3iO - The Greater Good
Roots Manuva – 'Slime And Reason'
Stuart Murdoch – 'God Help the Girl'
Take That – 'The Circus'
The Horrors – 'Primary Colours'
The Hours – 'See The Light'
The Phantom Band – 'Checkmate Savage'
The Week That Was – 'The Week That Was'
White Lies – 'To Lose My Life…'
Wiley – 'Grime Wave'

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jack205 

Jul 20, 2009

'When the Heart Rolls In'... God! At least get the album titles right. I'll say James Yorkston, Emmy the Great and Blue Roses all deserve a place there, maybe Alessi's Ark - but I doubt they'll be that folky, or that good. If White Lies, Glasvegas, La Roux and Oasis represent the best of British music then we're in trouble, really.I think it will look like: Bat For Lashes, Blue Roses, Doves, Florence and the Machine, Glasvegas, The Horrors, James Yorkston, Led Bib, Little Boots, Manic Street Preachers, The Phantom Band and Speech Debelle.

mr_mattie 

Jul 20, 2009

Doves deserved to win it with Lost Souls and/or The Last Broadcast. I'd love to see them win it this time around but given the fact that Elbow won it last year after a long time of missing out, I think Doves might miss out again this year. The judges don't like to repeat themselves!I have a sneaky feeling it'll be a woman winning it this year though - La Roux, Little Boots, Florence, Micachu anyone?

nickjcray 

Jul 20, 2009

How the fuck can LaRoux be in this list? "I'm in it for the kill, I'm doing it for the thrill"? Must have been up all chuffing night thinking of that lyric. Jesus! music has certainly taken a nose dive if this is the sort of shit being nominated.

ronsonol 

Jul 20, 2009

wasn't the week that was released aaages ago?!

darko189 

Jul 21, 2009

The Horrors should win. On Primary Colours they proved they had more substance than style, and much more substance than a lot of people thought possible. Oasis can piss off. All they ever do is release a dozen humdrum songs every few years.

Museician 

Jul 21, 2009

Pleaae let it be doves :D Them and Elbow are probably the only bands from Manchester I really like.

markiechops 

Jul 21, 2009

What a dreadful selection. There's more fresh talent coming out of Brooklyn every month at the moment than there is out of our entire country in a year. As much as I admire them, Doves and The Manics are merely treading water, and of the established artists it's only David Holmes and Stuart Murdoch that are trying to cover new ground; they both have something genuine and compelling to say on "The Holy Pictures" and "God Help The Girl", even though their albums were passed over by almost everyone. Glasvegas are as musically flat-footed and cartoonish as every other Alan McGee "great white hope" since Oasis, meaing that the only other pop/rock acts with even a whiff of ambition and adventure on this list are Bat For Lashes, The Horrors and the brilliant The Week That Was.

billytheshroom 

Jul 21, 2009

The NME only want the Horrors nominated so they can be proved right in their over-hyping. Yeah so they sound like My Bloody Valentine and Jesus and Mary Chain, two of the most overrated, boring, uninspiring 'cool' bands wanked about by the music press and 'trendy' bands at the moment.

overnightmagicbullet 

Jul 21, 2009

i think White Lies, Friendly Fires, Florence and the Machine or La Roux all are as good as each other although jack penate isnt bad

KidAA 

Jul 21, 2009

Just finished givin' Passion Pit's fanastic; Manners a joyful listen to.... That should be a big contender..in my view!!

Fozzel 

Jul 21, 2009

The Horrors - Primary Colours definatly deserves to be nominated. They are an amazing band who have come so far and that album is the record of the year (:

gazbarker 

Jul 21, 2009

what a shit year for music then^ only about three good records in there

TheWhiteStripes 

Jul 21, 2009

Manic.Street.Preachers.

binstig 

Jul 21, 2009

The Horrors and Manic Street Preachers deserve nominations this year. I don't see why people are attacking La Roux.. They make great pop that people obviously dont really because they're only used to hearing In For The Kill.

BabyLemonade1 

Jul 21, 2009

Why no mention of Run Run Sleep by Maupa? Does NME have amnesia after giving ita storming review?

miniospina 

Jul 21, 2009

It'd be nice to see Dig Out Your Soul get the recognition it deserves. Great record by a "rejuvenated" band.

thick_as_thieves 

Jul 21, 2009

kasabian, or bombay bicycle club for me

Stuntman Mike 

Jul 21, 2009

VOTE MANICS!.....................or White Lies!

IndieWriter 

Jul 21, 2009

i think you've just listed every indie album that came out last year, NME. As great as they are (and they fucking are), when are Oasis ever gonna get a mercury prize? But if La Roux gets nominated it makes it easier, because it would make the prize completely worthless and we could all stop worrying about it

tonns12  

Jul 21, 2009

Bunch of balls all of 'em. Music Died in 1998. There were 1 or 2 bands that tried to do something post 1998 but no one gave a shit about them, instead the population bought into the likes of Kasabian, Coldplay (or Oldgay feat Piss Martin as I like to call 'em) and Razorshite. Makes me want to listen to obscure Folk-Jazz-Electro-Rap.

vibedoctor 

Jul 21, 2009

Madness: The Liberty Of Norton Folgate. Anyone who thinks that album is not innovitive is listening to it without hearing it. Suggs' sleeve notes are better than most of the albums out in the last year! Somehow I doubt they'll even get nominated. Depressingly enough, I reckon the winner will be in that NME list.

piyaface 

Jul 21, 2009

My vote goes to Freddie Foreskin And The Pullbacks. Top album.

Psycho_Mafia 

Jul 21, 2009

yeah, it physically hurts listening to La Roux, pop standard hook laden shite with a voice that makes me wanna stab myself in the ear with a pencil when i hear it, its erasure meets girls aloud! my vote goes to manics, its for songwriting after all, it would be a happy, if cringeworthy, ending for them

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