 | Nationwide Mercury Music Prize 2007 by Various Artists
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.49 This is the sampler, with a track from each nominated album. Makes strange listening, because it jumps between different styles and genres.
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 | Basquiat Strings with Seb Rochford by Basquiat Strings
Buy new: £7.44 A stand-out jazz offering. Probably there as a token gesture, but I'd like to think it could win because it's one of the few that deserve it.
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 | Back To Black by Amy Winehouse
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £4.99 Press interest about her gets boring, and I've always thought she sounds like Eric Cartman from South Park.
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 | Favourite Worst Nightmare by Arctic Monkeys
Buy new: £7.21 / Used from: £4.44 More of the same. While a definite cut above the bog-stnadard indie band tat, I see no reason for this to be on the list, and even less reason for it to win.
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 | Fantastic Playroom by New Young Pony Club
Buy new: £4.35 / Used from: £3.95 Putting aside that their song advertises Intel processors, this lot are good, worth being on the shortlist, but I can't see it winning.
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 | Fur And Gold by Bat For Lashes
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.49 A true stand-out that deserves to win. Throwing together Portishead, Kate Bush, Goldfrapp and baroque era-choral music is so inspired it deserves recognition.
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![Hats Off To The Buskers [Limited Edition]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rNF0JHJAL._SL75_.jpg) | Hats Off To The Buskers [Limited Edition] by The View
Buy new: £5.27 / Used from: £2.17 I really can't work out what this run-of-the-mill, decent enough, pedestrian album is doing on a list of 'albums of the year'.
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 | We Can Create by Maps
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £5.00 See 'The View'
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 | Myths Of The Near Future by Klaxons
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.91 Klaxons definitely have some good tunes, and a funky sound, but they haven't stretched that talent to a full album, with some definite filler in this one.
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 | Panic Prevention by Jamie T
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.93 Another token gesture, to include the emerging ska/londonbeat/white-young-rap movement.
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 | Voices of Animals and Men by Young Knives
Buy new: £4.63 / Used from: £3.75 Another stand-out for me, and while I can't see it winning, I'd really like it to.
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 | The End of History by Fionn Regan
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £6.49 A decent listen, but probably only there to represent the folk quarter.
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 | Maths and English by Dizzee Rascal
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.99 Apart from 'Fix-up Look Sharp', I've never had interest in his music, but understand others do. He's not doing anything new, emphasising that this year's list is poor and weak.
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