Mercury prize 2012: the shortlist that might have been

This week's Mercury prize nominations were widely judged to be straight and safe. Here our critics suggest 12 records that should have made the listPlayin' Me Cooly G (Hyperdub)It sells itself as qualitative judgment and always arrives wreathed in a lot of specious guff about how "the music on the album is the only thing that matters", but if the Mercury prize has any real purpose for existing, it should probably be to alert a wider audience to a great album they haven't heard, but might conceiv...

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