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22 Oct 2014:
Tempest has awards for her poetry but with hip-hop album Everybody Down she has moved towards the mainstream – and the Mercury judges love a female MC …
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21 Oct 2014: The buzzy electro-pop collective have emerged from the shadows to claim their place on the Mercury shortlist
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20 Oct 2014:
Outsiders to win the Mercury prize, this Manchester jazz trio can cite Jools Holland and Jamie Cullum among their cultish fanbase
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17 Oct 2014: The bookies’ favourite to win the Mercury music prize, FKA twigs is an artist whose hymnal electronica defies easy classification
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14 Oct 2014: In the second of our Mercury fact files, released each day until the ceremony on 30 October, here’s the London group whose popularity has grown steadily, subtly, for nearly a decade
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13 Oct 2014:
In the runup to this year’s Mercury prize, we’ll be providing a fact file on each nominee every day until the ceremony on 30 October – starting with Anna Calvi, the previously shortlisted, softly spoken guitar virtuoso
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10 Sep 2014:
Alexis Petridis: The Mercury prize always feels most worthwhile when it shines a light on an artist that could benefit from the exposure
