Alt-J Win the Mercury Prize
2012-11-02 by iGuter | 13 Replies | 920 Views

Alt-J have won the Barclaycard Mercury Prize, an award that honors Best British album of the past year, for their debut album An Awesome Wave.

http://pitchfork.com/news/48435-alt-j-win-the-mercury-prize/

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iSkane
November 2nd 2012

744 Comments


Nice, An Awesome Wave was dope.

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iGuter
November 2nd 2012

288 Comments


Django Django was a nice surprise for being nominated; they did a fantastic job.

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Uranium
November 2nd 2012

5198 Comments


I only heard half of this cd thanks to my main man Fantano but I think it was pretty interesting at some points

Pentagon
November 2nd 2012

1963 Comments


good for them

Ethics
November 2nd 2012

4112 Comments


lol

MisterTornado
Contributing Reviewer
November 2nd 2012

2388 Comments


triangle takes the square

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SleepyJack
November 2nd 2012

195 Comments


Fair play, it's a good album.

Cygnatti
November 2nd 2012

8931 Comments


cool, band's pretty cool

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AliW1993
Contributing Reviewer
November 2nd 2012

6571 Comments


Good call imo. There have been a few British albums I've preferred over the past year but this was the strongest of those nominated.

808muzik
November 2nd 2012

760 Comments


nice.

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iGuter
November 3rd 2012

288 Comments


Shockingly, Pitchfork hated them. And they're the king of loving pretentious, non -sensical indie pop. haha

NationalRadio
November 3rd 2012

193 Comments


Better than all the other nominees, dug The Maccabees release earlier this year but it got old pretty quick

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SleepyJack
November 3rd 2012

195 Comments


Ben Howard's is at least as good



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