Florence and the Machine, Noel Gallagher, and Arctic Monkeys are the frontrunners for this year’s Mercury Prize – which annually honors a single album from the U.K. and Ireland.
This year’s remaining shortlisters, in descending order of likelihood to win according to bookies William Hill, are Lily Allen, Jorja Smith, Wolf Alice, Everything Everything, King Krule, Everything is Recorded, Nadine Shah, Novelist, and Sons of Kemet.
The prize will be presented on Sept. 20 in London.
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