Uranus

Yesterday the nominations for the 2010 Mercury Music Prize were announced. If you took it at its word, as a list of the twelve best albums released by UK and Irish artists in the last 12 months, you’d be left of the opinion that our music scene is in a pretty depressing state. That our music scene is, pretty much an indie rock scene, made up of bands who’d be comfortable jamming inoffensively with Jools on the Jools Holland Show. All of which is news to me. To counterbalance this somewhat limited definition of “music” which the Mercury Music Prize ascribe to, myself, @mattpoacher and @HughesTLOBF went about putting together an “alternative” shortlist which hopefully better reflects some of the much more exciting albums which have been released in the past 12 months by UK and Irish artists. After a bit of a debate, in which some incredible releases fell by the wayside, we decided on a final twelve. We called it the Uranus, because that planet rotates on a different axis to all the others. What, you mean Uranus has an another meaning?

For the full list head over to The Line Of Best Fit. Watch that space for the winner, to be announced in September.

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