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Post by beth on Aug 4, 2016 13:36:05 GMT -5
David Bowie Gets Posthumous 2016 Mercury Prize Nomination
Britain's Mercury Prize, the coveted award for the best British album of the last year, has announced its 2016 short list, and it's got some surprises. David Bowie's Blackstar, released days before his death, has received a posthumous nomination. (He was previously nominated in 2002 and 2013.) Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool has also been short-listed, now giving the band a record five nominations — though it's never won. Radiohead passes PJ Harvey, whose latest, The Hope Six Demolition Project, was curiously not nominated this year despite the singer having previously won the Mercury Prize twice.
Other notable snubs this year: Adele's 25 (her last two albums were both nominated), 2013 winner James Blake's The Colour in Everything, and Coldplay's best seller A Head Full of Dreams. Instead, among this year's diverse class is first-time nominee Skepta's Konnichiwa, Bat for Lashes' The Bride, and ANOHNI's Hopelessness (she previously won the prize in 2005, with Antony and the Johnsons). A panel of British critics and industry insiders — plus, a newly introduced fan vote — will decide this year's winner, announced on September 15.
www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/david-bowie-gets-posthumous-2016-mercury-prize-nomination-radiohead-also-makes-the-list/ar-BBvfJeF?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp
Britain's Mercury Prize, the coveted award for the best British album of the last year, has announced its 2016 short list, and it's got some surprises. David Bowie's Blackstar, released days before his death, has received a posthumous nomination. (He was previously nominated in 2002 and 2013.) Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool has also been short-listed, now giving the band a record five nominations — though it's never won. Radiohead passes PJ Harvey, whose latest, The Hope Six Demolition Project, was curiously not nominated this year despite the singer having previously won the Mercury Prize twice.
Other notable snubs this year: Adele's 25 (her last two albums were both nominated), 2013 winner James Blake's The Colour in Everything, and Coldplay's best seller A Head Full of Dreams. Instead, among this year's diverse class is first-time nominee Skepta's Konnichiwa, Bat for Lashes' The Bride, and ANOHNI's Hopelessness (she previously won the prize in 2005, with Antony and the Johnsons). A panel of British critics and industry insiders — plus, a newly introduced fan vote — will decide this year's winner, announced on September 15.
www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/david-bowie-gets-posthumous-2016-mercury-prize-nomination-radiohead-also-makes-the-list/ar-BBvfJeF?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp