LONDON (Reuters) -Bands Pulp and Wolf Alice as well as singers FKA Twigs, CMAT and Sam Fender are among the nominees for the 2025 Mercury Prize, a British music award, organisers said on Wednesday.
First handed out to rockers Primal Scream in 1992, the annual 25,000 pounds ($34,000) prize shortlists 12 albums released by British and Irish acts in the United Kingdom in the past year.
Considered less mainstream than Britain’s pop music honours the BRIT Awards, the Mercury Prize is open to all music genres.
Rock band Wolf Alice, who previously won the award in 2018, secured a nod for “The Clearing”, becoming the first act to be nominated for all of their first four albums.
Fellow past winners Pulp were nominated for “More”, their first album in 21 years.
Joining the list are Irish post-p