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Mercury Prize 2014

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  • charlton_hero
    charlton_hero Posts: 4,668
    edited September 2014
    Reckon Jungle will win it, but I'd like to see it go to Anna Calvi.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,759
    edited September 2014
    Jungle for me. Love this tune

    http://youtu.be/BcsfftwLUf0
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,787
    edited October 2014
    Young Fathers win with an album that has sold just 2,386 copies since release in February.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,759
    Just listened to a couple of tracks from Young Fathers. Utter tripe.
  • colthe3rd
    colthe3rd Posts: 8,486
    Callumcafc said:

    Young Fathers win with an album that has sold just 2,386 copies since release in February.

    Surprised it has sold that few, thought they were quite popular.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,357
    Bedsaddick said:

    Jungle for me. Love this tune

    http://youtu.be/BcsfftwLUf0

    Very good .. very retro, late Tamla/Philly Sound, takes me back to the 60s/70s
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    Saw them supporting Chvrches about 2 years ago at Village Underground, they were truly awful, as bad as that Speech Debelle was.
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,056
    Lincsaddick said:

    Bedsaddick said:

    Jungle for me. Love this tune

    http://youtu.be/BcsfftwLUf0

    Very good .. very retro, late Tamla/Philly Sound, takes me back to the 60s/70s
    Seeing them tonight at Shepherds Bush. Great live as well :)
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,535
    When I heard the result last night, I thought the winners were Young Farmers. Whoops.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,833
    Jungle is mass eef

    Only heard of Damon Albran, and he can't sing. I'll have a listen to the links Callum, cheers

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  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,833
    Listened to the first half dozen, never realised that 'easy listening' was the theme these days.

    Nothing there to challenge Let Loose imo
  • colthe3rd
    colthe3rd Posts: 8,486
    RedArmySE7 said:

    Saw them supporting Chvrches about 2 years ago at Village Underground, they were truly awful, as bad as that Speech Debelle was.

    But what about Jungle?
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,357
    Just listened - albeit very briefly - to Young Fathers .. nothing that wasn't being done by US Rap artists 25 years ago .. my opinion ? .. derivative and tuneless rubbish
  • colthe3rd
    colthe3rd Posts: 8,486
    I don't think you can just pigeonhole them like that. Of course they draw on hip hop but there's an awful lot of other influences as well. It's quite an experimental album. Hip hop in general is also going through quite a change at the moment, there are a lot of acts who haven't broken through to the mainstream and it's quite a healthy scene, thankfully it has moved away from the bling and courvoisier days of about 10 years ago.
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    imho a weak list has resulted in a weak winner, perhaps they went for the least tedious option, although on that basis I'd have gone for KT or AC, in fact would have been a good time to award it to the token Jazz band.
    Judges must have needed a lot of coffee to keep them going.
    I quite like Damon Albarn's album but it is easy going stuff.
  • colthe3rd
    colthe3rd Posts: 8,486
    Lincs, what was funny about my comment?
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,197
    I thought 'bling and courvoisier' was funny.
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    colthe3rd said:

    RedArmySE7 said:

    Saw them supporting Chvrches about 2 years ago at Village Underground, they were truly awful, as bad as that Speech Debelle was.

    But what about Jungle?
    Jungle, Chvches, Speech Debelle, all utter shite.
  • colthe3rd
    colthe3rd Posts: 8,486
    RedArmySE7 said:

    colthe3rd said:

    RedArmySE7 said:

    Saw them supporting Chvrches about 2 years ago at Village Underground, they were truly awful, as bad as that Speech Debelle was.

    But what about Jungle?
    Jungle, Chvches, Speech Debelle, all utter shite.
    Jungle are decent imo. The other two I agree.
    JiMMy 85 said:

    I thought 'bling and courvoisier' was funny.

    Ah fair enough, I was being genuine though.

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