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9:30 Coffee Break: Mercury Prize List

September 12, 2013

David Bowie - The Next Day
'The Next Day' by David Bowie was one of the nominees for the Mercury Prize.
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The shortlist for the Mercury Prize (pretty much the best UK released album of the year) was announced yesterday. The nominees for this year are: Arctic Monkeys - AM, David Bowie - The Next Day, Disclosure - Settle, Foals - Holy Fire, Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg, James Blake - Overgrown, Jon Hopkins - Immunity, Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle, Laura Mvula - Sing to the Moon, Rudimental - Home, Savages - Silence Yourself, Villagers - Awayland.

We're going to play songs from the Mercury Prize nominees for today's 9:30 Coffee Break. What songs from the above artists to you want to hear?

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