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Article: Mercury Prize hopefuls named
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- July 23, 2008
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Albums by Radiohead, Estelle, Last Shadow Puppets and Adele have
all been nominated for this year's Nationwide Mercury Prize.
Also up for the gong are Elbow, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss,
and Neon Neon, the alter ego of Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff
Rhys.
The Last Shadow Puppets' debut album, The Age of Understatement,
is described on the band's website as containing "12 full-blooded
songs, bold and brassy". It is a collaboration between Arctic Monkey
Alex Turner and Miles Kane, frontman of Wirral-based The Rascals.
They became good friends after Arctic Monkeys toured with Kane's
previous group, The Little Flames, and their influences include
Scott Walker, early David Bowie and David ...