Read what we said about this year’s 12 Hyundai Mercury prize-shortlisted albums – from Anonhi to Bowie to the 1975 – and listen to them in full. And let us know what the judges have missed …
What we said: “Anohni, who previously preferred to record against soft piano with the occasional instrumental flourish, has changed tack for Hopelessness, teaming up with the avant-electronica producers Hudson Mohawke and Oneohtrix Point Never. The results are astonishing, treading a line between underground electronica and the most cutting-edge pop and R&B productions: fizzing synths, beats that skitter along or thud like heartbeats. I Don’t Love You Anymore – with its organs and gunshot cracks – sounds like a church service during the breakout of apocalypse.”
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