Mercury Prize set to announce albums of the year shortlist
The Barclaycard Mercury Prize Albums of the Year 2013 shortlist will be announced at 5.30pm on Wednesday (11 September).
The annual "music Booker" panel select 12 of the best and most significant UK music releases, before judging a winner at a ceremony on Wednesday 30 October.
Previous winners have included Primal Scream, Suede, Elbow, PJ Harvey (the only artist to scoop the award twice) and last year, Alt-J for their debut album An Awesome Wave.
Among the favourites to be nominated for the 22nd annual award, are albums released in the last 12 months by London Grammar, Foals, Laura Marling, Disclosure and David Bowie for his comeback record, The Next Day.
Previous winners
1992 Primal Scream - Screamadelica
1993 Suede - Suede
1994 M People - Elegant Slumming
1995 Portishead - Dummy
1996 Pulp - Different Class
1997 Roni Size and Reprazent - New Forms
1998 Gomez - Bring It On
1999 Talvin Singh - OK
2000 Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
2001 PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
2002 Ms Dynamite - A Little Deeper
2003 Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
2004 Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
2005 Antony and The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
2006 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
2007 Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future
2008 Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
2009 Speech Debelle - Speech Therapy
2010 The xx - The xx
2011 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2012 Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
