- “This May Be Texas”
- “Damaged Biscuits”
- “The World’s Greatest Paving Slab”
- “Almost Daffodils”
The Mercury Prize is an annual award given to the “finest album” launched within the U.Ok. 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 people.
Previous winners have included Michael Kiwanuka, PJ Harvey and Arctic Monkeys. This yr, there have been some large names on the brief checklist, however the Mercury Prize went to a comparatively little identified band referred to as English Instructor and their debut album, This May Be Texas.
English Instructor shaped simply 4 years in the past, whereas the members have been learning on the Leeds Conservatoire. They’re keyboardist Lily Fontaine, guitarist Lewis Whiting, bassist Nicholas Eden and drummer Douglas Frost, and so they visited WXPN in Philadelphia again in July of this yr to file a reside 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 net by Miguel Perez. Our senior producer is Kimberly Junod and our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson.
