Its september and the awards season in music industry has just begun.Mercury Prize 2009 for the best album will be awarded the 8th september,this tuesday.The award is given out to celebrate the best music in the U.K(Britain and Ireland).This is a prestiogious event cause U.K music scene is one of the best in the world.The nominations for the Mercury Album of the year are
- Bat for Lashes-Two Suns
- Florence and the machine-Lungs
- Friendly Fires-Friendly Fires
- Glasvegas-Glasvegas
- Kasabian-West Ryder Pauper Lunatic asylum
- La Roux-La Roux
- Led Bib-Sensible Shoes
- Lisa Hannigan-Sea Sew
- Speech Debelle-Speech Therapy
- Sweet Billy Pilgrim- Twice Born Men
- The Horrors-Primary colours
- The invisible-The invisible
These were the twelve nominations.The list may be surprising to many coz the Doves-Kingdom of Rust is missing.Even Lilly Allen and the White lies didnot make it.Everyone has their own opinion and everyone makes their own list and the ones supporting other than the official nominnes are replacing Glasvegas with their favourite artist.So the official list is justified coz Glasvegas are one of the best band in the World right now and one cannot write them off.
On that night for the first time ever all the twelve atist nomnated will perform,its gonna be a great night.The front runners are Kasabian,Glasvegas,Bat for Lashes and Lisa hannigan.
Kasabian came out with some good music and deserves to be on that list and bag the prize.I focussed on Glasvegas in my last post and i will focus on Bat for Lashes in the next one,right now i will mention about Lisa Hannigan.
Lisa Hannigan is out with her debut record "Sea Sew."Untill the relase of this record she was known as an accompanist and backing vocalist for singer-songwriter Damien Rice.She is not new to Damien Rice fans.She has built a devoted fan following among musicians and critics.She has mesmerized everyone with her voice over the years.To the rest of the world she looks like an angel and has a angelic voice too.If someone is expecting her to be dancing around on stage like Britney or Maddona and bang guitars like Avril then you will be surely disapointed.This is a folk/indie album and for mature listeners who have different taste in music.
Lisa penned nine out of ten tracks,an entirely beautiful melodic album with exquisite vocals.Sea Sew is an outstanding album nad the nomination have been well earned.the album been already nominated for several other prizes in her native ireland as well as achieving great success in the U.S.
Best songs in the album are " Ocean and a Rock","i don't know" , " venn diagram" and the single Lille.Lille is an amazing song ,this is folk music at its best.I never listened or liked slow songs or jazz music,never liked Norah Jones but Lisa hannigan is just amazing.When i heard her for the first time in the song " Rootless tree(live from Abbey Road)" by damien rice i was stunned,coz two of the amazing talents singing their heart out to such an emotional song.
Mercury prize has surprised many over the years coz sometimes it went to outsiders who had very less chance of winning, but hopefully a worthy artist will take home the prestigious award this time.I will be happy if Glasvegas wins it.But i will be equally cheering for Lisa and Bat for lashes coz both of them are just great and my next post will be on Natasha whose satge name is Bat for Lashes.She is one artist making headlines with her album this year and also been nominated in the MTV video music awards.
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