Charli XCX’s new ‘brat’ album has been named as one of many 12 Mercury Prize Albums of the Yr nominees.
Charli XCX’s new ‘brat’ album has been named as one of many 12 Mercury Prize Albums of the Yr nominees
The 31-year-old singer, who not too long ago made headlines for branding US Vice President runner Kamala Harris a “brat” as a praise – as she stated the time period means a fun-loving lady – is shortlisted for her sixth studio report.
Additionally within the operating are Irish nation singer CMAT, 28, breakout dance act Barry Can’t Swim and BBC Sound of 2024 winners The Final Dinner Celebration – together with Beth Gibbons, who’s nominated for her debut solo album ‘Perpetually Lives’.
It’s almost 30 years since Portishead singer, 59, received the Mercury Prize with the band.
The nominations have been introduced on Thursday (25.07.24) and the winner might be revealed in September.
However – for the primary time within the award’s 32-year historical past – there might be no public award ceremony.
The Prize’s broadcast accomplice BBC Music will present unique tv and radio protection if the occasion.
A press launch asserting the nominations stated: “This yr, different intensive promotional exercise will exchange the same old reside efficiency occasion aspect of the Mercury Prize – particulars to be introduced nearer to the time.”
Established in 1992, the prize was set as much as honour the very best British or Irish album of the final yr.
Returning nominees this yr embrace Corinne Bailey Rae, 45, singer-songwriter Berwyn and 39-year-old rapper Ghetts – all of whom use their information to probe racism and inequality.
In a report excessive for the award nominations, eight of the 12 shortlisted artists are girls or female-fronted bands.
Final yr, the Mercury Prize was received for the primary time by a jazz act, with Ezra Collective taking the gong for his or her second launch, ‘What I’m Meant to Be’.
Full 2024 Mercury Prize Albums of the Yr Nominations
Barry Can’t Swim – ‘When Will We Land?’
BERWYN – ‘Who Am I’
Beth Gibbons – ‘Lives Outgrown’
Cat Burns – ‘early twenties’
Charli xcx – ‘brat’
CMAT – ‘Crazymad, for Me’
Corinne Bailey Rae – ‘Black Rainbows’
corto.alto – ‘Dangerous with Names’
English Trainer – ‘This Might Be Texas’
Ghetts – ‘On Objective, With Objective’
Nia Archives – ‘Silence Is Loud’
The Final Dinner Celebration – ‘Prelude to Ecstasy’