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Antony and the Johnson - I Am A Bird Now

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

Coldplay - X&Y

The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike

Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV

KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope

Kaiser Chiefs - Employment

The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers

Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger

M.I.A. - Arular

Polar Bear - Held on the Tips of Fingers

Seth Lakeman - Kitty Jay

I wonder who will be cursed this year...

Not the shortlist I would have chosen... but its not as if winning the prize gives you much more than a bit of dosh anyway.

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike

i think the coldplay record sounds like coldplay.
more and more of the same.
http://people.freenet.de/crossroads/joh ... replay.mp3
just listen to that.. (if you have stereo..)

M.I.A. is funny for 2 - 3 songs, but the whole album is kinda boring..

Personally I would choose the Magic Numbers, although I've heard some pretty good stuff about The Go! Team...

I reckon the Kaiser Chiefs are gonna nab it though.

I'd be very,very surprised if the Kaiser Chiefs didn't win it.

I wouldnt mind if either the Magic Numbers, Kaiserchiefs or Bloc Party won it as such but I think Silent Alarm has slightly more edge than Employment.

buh. never been a fan of coldplay, but especially don't like the new album. seemed like same old but more annoying. altho that was maybe partly 'cos i was jammed uncomfortably in the back of a small car with a bad back and a bit of a comedown on the way home from glastonbury...

i'm sure somebody had played me some kt tunstall a while ago and i wasn't impressed, but i heard a lot of her glasto set from my tent and quite enjoyed it.

the rest of them i don't know. finger on the pulse, me.