Electro artist FKA Twigs and poet Kate Tempest lead the pack in the nominations for this year's Mercury Music Prize, an esoteric list featuring seven debuts and three jazz albums.
FKA Twigs, Tahliah Debrett Barnett from Gloucestershire, is 3-1 favourite to win with her debut LP1, along with London poet and winner of the Ted Hughes Prize Kate Tempest, who wowed the Kilkenny Arts Festival this summer.
Tempest is also 3-1 favourite to take the £25,000 prize money and the spike in sales for her album Everybody Down when the Mercury is awarded in a live televised broadcast in London on October 29.
The full list of nominees is:
Anna Calvi - One Breath
Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow
Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
East India Youth - Total Strife Forever
FKA twigs - LP1
Jungle - Jungle
Young Fathers - Dead
Kate Tempest - Everybody Down
GoGo Penguin - v2.0
Nick Mulvey - First Mind
Polar Bear - In Each and Every One
Royal Blood - Royal Blood
