Listening Project - Mercury Music Prize 2014
by mostlymor 
Been working my way through this year's list of nominations... and have reported my findings! This is in order of who I think will win, based on who the panel are this year and as objective a listening of the albums as I can manage - considering I feel the top two are stunning records!
- Chart updated: 02/28/2025 08:15
- (Created: 09/18/2014 22:53).
- Chart size: 12 albums.
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Amazing album! Like Public Enemy have hidden 'Exorcist'-like within the body of an unassuming looking young Englishwoman. Bile will be hitting the vicar. A new voice with a forceful vision - just the sort of thing to get the Mercury judges drooling! My prediction: Favourite to win!
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Another jazz chill out album!? Mmm...nice. Sounds very influenced by trendy Scandanavian avant-electronic jazzers like Nils Petter Molvaer and Jaga Jazzist. Sounds great moving through good speakers. (Upon playing this again, my initial reaction was a lttle non-committal. THIS IS A FANTASTIC RECORD! A passionate, imaginative, brilliant, virtuoso record!) Is that enough to win the Mercury prize? If I was on the jury I might even push for this over the Kate Tempest album, but I'm not! My prediction: Even less of a chance than GoGo Penguin. BOO!
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Great record! Just the judges cup of tea - very post-James Blake with vocals like Beth Gibbons of Portishead - oh, yes! The trendy judges will love this... My prediction: This stands a good chance of winning, but won't! Controversial stuff!
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Love this album - gloriously gloomy! Classic Damien Allbran! Of the judges the grand fromage Simon Frith will love this and be pushing for it's victory! My prediction: Back to University Simon - This won't win!
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Britain rocks again! At last! Searing debut from a band picking up a lot of media attention here at the moment. Could all help keep them in the running. My prediction: This jury all lived through grunge and has probably heard it all before. It will definitely have some support on the jury. Another extremely deserving nominee, but won't win.
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Extremely consistent for a debut album and sounds incredibly funky! Slithers like a grass snake. As much pure enjoyment in listening to this as anything else on the list, and reminded me a little of a great underrated group called Stepkids. My prediction: This would be a very deserving winner, but with one or two more groundbreaking and very cool albums also on the list - it won't win.
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Extremely pleasant album full of top pop toons. A commercially successful and critically lauded record here in the UK, but that is unlikely to sway a Mercury Prize jury hankering to appeal to Hoxton trendies. My prediction: This would be a deserving victor, but won't win!
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Takes me forever to get into jazz albums, I just don't know how to react to them until I've played them for about five years. Having said that this was a very... pleasant... and chilled out listen. Despite being nominated every year no jazz record has ever won the Mercury - Will this be the big one that finally cracks it? My prediction: Not a f****g chance of winning!
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Listening to this it strikes me that there is now a generation making music who were'nt born when "Blue Lines" was released! These are the children of Massive Attack and Tricky! And all the policeman look about twelve years old. The return of 'UK Rap'? The support of Ghostpoet on the jury should help them in the jury room. My prediction: Won't win.
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Bit of a cold record this, the last track was a stunner - the only thing I could personally connect with. This nomination was maybe in lieu of PJ Harvey not releasing a record this year. My prediction: This won't win!
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Listening Project - Mercury Music Prize 2014 composition
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| 2010 | 0 | 0% | |
| 2011 | 0 | 0% | |
| 2012 | 0 | 0% | |
| 2013 | 1 | 8% | |
| 2014 | 11 | 92% | |
| 2015 | 0 | 0% | |
| 2016 | 0 | 0% | |
| 2017 | 0 | 0% | |
| 2018 | 0 | 0% | |
| 2019 | 0 | 0% |
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| Anna Calvi | 1 | 8% | |
| Nick Mulvey | 1 | 8% | |
| Kae Tempest | 1 | 8% | |
| East India Youth | 1 | 8% | |
| Polar Bear (UK) | 1 | 8% | |
| FKA Twigs | 1 | 8% | |
| Damon Albarn | 1 | 8% | |
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Listening Project - Mercury Music Prize 2014 chart changes
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From Johnnyo 08/01/2019 06:46 | #240624
Nice idea. can't remember who won in the end. Should have been Anna Calvi
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