The Mercury Prize shortlist for Album of The Year is out and it’s a goodun’! Personally, we’re rooting for Tinie Tempah, Anna Calvi and King Creosote & Jon Hopkins.

Here are the big contenders:

2011 Nominees:

Adele – 21
Anna Calvi – Anna Calvi
Elbow – Build A Rocket Boys!
Everything Everything – Man Alive
Ghostpoet – Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam
Gwilym Simcock – Good Days At Schloss Elmau
James Blake – James Blake
Katy B – On A Mission
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine
Metronomy – The English Riviera
PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
Tinie Tempah – Disc-Overy

Purchase the nominated albums now on iTunes:

Disc-Overy – Tinie Tempah
Anna Calvi – Anna Calvi
Diamond Mine – King Creosote & Jon Hopkins