Mercury Prize Shortlist Announced

The shortlist for the UK's 2013 Barclaycard Mercury Prize has been announced. The nominated acts are:

• Rudimental - Home
• Foals - Holy Fire
• Jon Hopkins - Immunity

• Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg
• Laura Mvula - Sing To The Moon
• Villagers - Awayland
• David Bowie - The Next Day
• Savages - Silence Yourself
• Disclosure - Settle
• Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
• James Blake - Overgrown
• Arctic Monkeys - AM