Mercury prize 2010: A dozen of the best to satisfy the judges

Kitty Empire picks the albums she thinks should make the shortlistHow slowly a year passes. It seems like only, ooh, 12 months ago that rapper Speech Debelle was first spotted on the 2009 Mercury prize shortlist. She went on to clinch the prize last September. Before her win, all that customary teeth-sucking talk about the Mercury curse (where the winners' careers subsequently jump off a cliff) had even begun to subside a little, thanks to the warm, fuzzy "Elbow effect". Pop justice was seen to ...

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