Mercury Prize 2011 – The nominees and latest odds

1
Who:

Who: Adele
Album: ’21’
What We Said: “Light years ahead of the supermarket-brand hurt Adele bled all over ‘19’”
Odds: 6/1

2
Who:

Who: PJ Harvey
Album: ‘Let England Shake’
What We Said: “Francis Ford Coppola can lay claim to the war movie. Ernest Hemingway the war novel. Polly Jean Harvey, a 41-year-old from Dorset, has claimed the war album.”
Odds: 6/4

3
Who :

Who : Anna Calvi
Album : ‘Anna Calvi’
What We Said : “Calvi is a diva, no doubt, but instead of a speaker stack-humping, sparkly hotpant-wearing dervish, she treads a more reflective, refined path.”
Odds: 7/1

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4
Who :

Who : Elbow
Album: ‘Build A Rocket Boys!’
What We Said: “Specifically speaking, Elbow have retained their crowns as everyman kings.”
Odds: 33/1

5
Who:

Who: James Blake
Album: ‘James Blake’
What We Said: “The album generally works best where Blake is able to match his interest in traditional songwriting with a more textured approach.”
Odds: 5/1

6
Who:

Who: Katy B
Album: ‘On A Mission’
What We Said: “That’s ‘On A Mission’ all over: fuck-all pretension or focus-grouped attitudinising”
Odds: 20/1

7
Who:

Who: Metronomy
Album: ‘The English Riviera’
What We Said: “Had Metronomy stuck to the blueprint of ‘Nights Out’, he’d have throttled them dead. But remember, Joe Mount is not simple. And only an idiot would disagree.”
Odds: 7/1

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8
Who:

Who:

Who: Tinie Tempah
Album: ‘Disc-overy’
What We Said:”Sit(s) comfortably between fondness and ambition”
Odds: 40/1

9
Who:

Who:

Who: King Creosote and Jon Hopkins
Album: ‘Diamond Mine’
What We Said: “‘Diamond Mine’ should be taken as a whole, at night, in the dark, with some Scotch and a blanket.”
Odds: 10/1

10
Who:

Who:

Who: Ghostpoet
Album: ‘Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam’
Odds: 8/1

11
Who:

Who:

Who: Gwilyn Simock
Album: ‘Good Days at Schloss Elmau’
Odds: 50/1

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12
Who:

Who:

Who: Everything Everything
Album: ‘Man Alive’
What We Said: “If however, the thought of it as a brilliantly unsolvable puzzle appeals, then bow at the feet of pop’s new Picassos.”
Odds: 10/1

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