UKNY For September 16: Mercury Prize
Six of the twelve Mercury Prize nominated albums for 2018 (collage by Laura Fedele, WFUV)
Tonight's UKNY at 11 is dedicated to all things 2018 Mercury Prize, looking at the twelve shortlisted artists and albums that might win the UK and Ireland's most prestigious music award which will be announced this Thursday, September 20, at a ceremony held at London's Eventim Apollo Hammersmith and broadcast on BBC 4 and via BBC 6 Music.
The nominees, chosen this year by an independent judging panel of peers and music industry figures that included Marcus Mumford and Lianne La Havas, offer up a panoply of very established (Florence and the Machine) and more emerging (Jorja Smith) artists in all genres, like the progressive alternative jazz of Sons of Kemet, grime poet Novelist, the melancholy, post-divorce pop of Lily Allen, and Nadine Shah and Everything Everything's take on a chaotic world.
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Songs played:
1. Nadine Shah, “Holiday Destination,” Holiday Destination
2. Sons of Kemet, “My Queen is Harriet Tubman,” Your Queen is a Reptile
3. Wolf Alice, “Sadboy,” Visions of a Life
4. Everything Everything, “Big Game,” A Fever Dream
5. Jorja Smith, “Blue Lights,” Lost & Found
6. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, “If Love Is the Law” Who Built the Moon?
7. Lily Allen, “Apples,” No Shame
8. Florence and the Machine, “South London Forever,” High As Hope
9. Novelist, “Better Way,” Novelist Guy
10. Arctic Monkeys, “One Point Perspective,” Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
11. Everything is Recorded feat. Syd and Sampha, “Show Love,” Everything is Recorded by Richard Russell
12. King Krule, “Logos,” The OOZ
