Mercury Nominations 2008

Nominees for what we should now call the Nationwide Mercurys 2008 are in, and are:

– Elbow: The Seldom Seen Kid
– Laura Marling: Alas I Cannot Swim
– Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Raising Sand
– Adele: 19
– The Last Shadow Puppets: The Age Of The Understatement
– Portico Quartet: Knee-Deep In The North Sea
– Burial: Untrue
– Neon Neon: Stainless Style
– Estelle: Shine
– British Sea Power: Do You Like Rock Music?
– Rachel Unthank & The Winterset: The Bairns
– Radiohead: In Rainbows

No Portishead then.

No Duffy either.

Have they got it right?