- “This May Be Texas”
- “Damaged Biscuits”
- “The World’s Largest Paving Slab”
- “Almost Daffodils”
The Mercury Prize is an annual award given to the “greatest album” launched within the U.Okay. or Eire. It has much less to do with business success or reputation; as a substitute, it is determined by a panel of musicians, music journalists, producers, broadcasters and different trade of us.
Previous winners have included Michael Kiwanuka, PJ Harvey and Arctic Monkeys. This yr, there have been some large names on the quick listing, however the Mercury Prize went to a comparatively little recognized band referred to as English Trainer and their debut album, This May Be Texas.
English Trainer shaped simply 4 years in the past, whereas the members have been finding out on the Leeds Conservatoire. They’re keyboardist Lily Fontaine, guitarist Lewis Whiting, bassist Nicholas Eden and drummer Douglas Frost, they usually visited WXPN in Philadelphia again in July of this yr to file a dwell set for WXPN’S Indie Rock Hit Parade. Get pleasure from.
This episode of World Cafe was produced by Eric Schuman and Will Loftus and produced for the online by Miguel Perez. Our senior producer is Kimberly Junod and our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson.
