“Just go with me”
As we announced earlier today, David Bowie’s ★ album has made the shortlist of twelve 2016 Hyundai Mercury Prize ‘Albums of the Year’.
For the first time, an online vote will enable music fans to select the first of six 2016 finalists from the 12 ‘Albums of the Year’.
The online vote is open here now.
Voting for the Hyundai Mercury Prize is open to all residents of the UK. The voting closes at 11:59 p.m. GMT on Friday 12th August.
The 2016 Hyundai Mercury Prize ‘Albums of the Year’ are:
Anohni – ‘Hopelessness’
Bat For Lashes – ‘The Bride’
David Bowie – ‘Blackstar’
Jamie Woon – ‘Making Time’
Kano – ‘Made in the Manor’
Laura Mvula – ‘The Dreaming Room’
Michael Kiwanuka – ‘Love & Hate’
Radiohead – ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’
Savages – ‘Adore Life’
Skepta – ‘Konnichiwa’
The 1975 – ‘I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it’
The Comet Is Coming – ‘Channel the Spirits’
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