Here is the Mercury Music Prize 2016 nominations & a Spotify playlist of all the albums

No nominations for PJ Harvey, Bibio and James Blake but grime features in Skepta and Kano, Radiohead might win their first Mercury music prize and David Bowie received a post-humous nomination. Here are the albums in full that are up for the shortlist.

The process has changed by the introduction of a a new finalists phase. The 12 albums will be whitled down to 6 on September 15th with the first album on the list voted for via online poll.

Those remaining six will be up for the accolade and the £25,000 prize in September.

Out of this lot, I’d go for, in order: Ahohni, Bowie, Skepta, Radiohead.

Mercury Music Prize nominations

Ahohni – Hopelessness
Bat For Lashes – The Bride
David Bowie – Blackstar
Kano – Made In The Manor
Michael Kiwanuka – Love & Hate
Laura Mvula – The Dreaming Room
Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
Savages – Adore Life
Skepta – Konnichiwa
The Comet Is Coming – Channel The Spirits
The 1975 – I like it when you sleep…
Jamie Woon – Making Time

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