Mercury Prize 2022 shortlist revealed
This 12 months’s Mercury Prize shortlist for 2022 Album Of The Yr has been revealed.
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At 11am at present (July 26), the Mercury Prize – in partnership with mobility app FREE NOW – confirmed that the 12 albums which were shortlisted for the Album Of The Yr award embrace Harry Types’ ‘Harry’s Home’, Little Simz’s ‘Typically I Is likely to be Introvert’, Sam Fender’s ‘Seventeen Going Underneath’, Moist Leg’s self-titled album and Yard Act’s ‘The Overload’.
You’ll find the whole checklist of albums shortlisted for the coveted award under.
The shortlist for the 2022 Mercury Prize with FREE NOW Albums Of The Yr are:
The awards present for the occasion will happen on September 8 at London’s Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith. Tickets for the occasion are actually out there for buy here.
It was introduced yesterday (July 25) {that a} handful of musicians together with Anna Calvi, Lanterns On The Lake’s Hazel Wilde, Loyle Carner and Jamie Cullum helped choose this 12 months’s prize, alongside a spread of broadcasters and critics.
The Mercury’s official website has additionally famous that the 12 nominated artists will “obtain a specifically commissioned ‘Album Of The Yr’ trophy, with the general winner additionally receiving a winner trophy and a money prize of £25,000”.
This 12 months’s Mercury Prize has additionally introduced that it’s new headline sponsor is the FREE NOW mobility app as a part of a “multi-year dedication from FREE NOW to help British music”.
Final 12 months, Arlo Parks walked away with the 2021 Mercury Prize for her album ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams’. Following her win, Parks carried out album reduce ‘Too Good’ to a standing ovation.