{"id":55156,"date":"2025-09-10T12:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/55156\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:43:07","slug":"cmat-and-fontaines-dc-among-artists-nominated-for-mercury-prize-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/55156\/","title":{"rendered":"CMAT and Fontaines DC among artists nominated for Mercury Prize \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish acts CMAT<\/a> and Fontaines DC<\/a> and are among the artists whose albums have been nominated for the 2025 Mercury Prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pulp<\/a>, Sam Fender<\/a>, Wolf Alice<\/a>, FKA Twigs<\/a>, PinkPantheress<\/a>, Pa Salieu, Emma-Jean Thackray, Jacob Alon, Joe Webb, and Martin Carthy complete the 12-artist shortlist, with the winner to be announced at the awards ceremony in Newcastle on October 16th.<\/p>\n

The prize, which has been running since 1992 when it was won by Primal Scream\u2019s<\/a> Screamadelica, aims to champion the album format as well as new music in the UK and Ireland across an eclectic range of genres.<\/p>\n

CMAT, whose real name is Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, has been nominated for her third LP Euro-Country<\/a>. She was previously nominated in 2024 for her album Crazymad, For Me<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Post-punks Fontaines DC have been nominated for 2024 album Romance<\/a>, having previously been nominated in 2019 for their debut album Dogre<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pulp, who won the prize in 1996 for their album Different Class, have been nominated for More<\/a>, their first album in more than 20 years. The group were also nominated in 1994 for His \u2018N\u2019 Hers, and in 1998 for This Is Hardcore.<\/p>\n

Fender, who is nominated for his third album People Watching<\/a>, was previously nominated for Seventeen Going Under in 2022.<\/p>\n

Indie rockers Wolf Alice are nominated for fourth album The Clearing<\/a>, released in August, having previously won with 2017\u2019s Visions Of A Life.<\/p>\n

Wolf Alice have been nominated for all of their studio albums, with debut My Love Is Cool missing out on the prize in 2015, and third LP Blue Weekend missing out in 2021.<\/p>\n

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Singer FKA Twigs, who was previously nominated for debut studio album LP1, received a nod for third album Eusexua<\/a>, while producer and singer PinkPantheress has received her first appearance on the shortlist for second mixtape Fancy That.<\/p>\n

Rapper Salieu, DJ Thackray, singer Alon, pianist Webb, and folk singer Carthy, who was a member of Steeleye Span in the 1970s, are also all receiving their first shortlist nomination for the prize.<\/p>\n

Carthy has been nominated for his latest album Transform Me Then Into A Fish, Webb has been nominated for Hamstrings And Hurricanes, Alon has been nominated for In Limerence, and Thackray has been nominated for Weirdo.<\/p>\n

The awards are this year judged by a panel that includes jazz star Jamie Cullum, DJ Jamz Supernova, and The Times pop and rock critic Will Hodgkinson, and is chaired by Radio 2 head of music Jeff Smith.<\/p>\n

The 2025 ceremony will be the first time the awards have been held outside of London at Newcastle\u2019s Utilita Arena, where it will feature live performances for a number of the nominees.<\/p>\n

Further details are to be announced in due course. \u2013 PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish acts CMAT and Fontaines DC and are among the artists whose albums have been nominated for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[14867,18,117,11817,34759,19,17,28755,34401,33792,26928,40066],"class_list":{"0":"post-55156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-cmat","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-fka-twigs","12":"tag-fontaines-dc","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-mercury-prize","16":"tag-pinkpantheress","17":"tag-pulp","18":"tag-sam-fender","19":"tag-wolf-alice"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}