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Arcade Fire, Justice, Feist, LCD Soundsystem, Burial, Spoon and M.I.A. Among the Fifty-Four Nominees on the Long List

December 21, 2007, Los Angeles: The Shortlist Organization announced today the Long List of nominees for the seventh annual Shortlist Music Prize, a peer-selected award that recognizes the most creative and adventurous albums of the year. The 54 nominees were selected by a panel of five Listmakers: recording artists Gary Lightbody (Snow Patrol) and Ronnie Vannucci (the Killers), journalist Rev. Moose (CMJ), radio DJ Chris Douridas (KCRW) and the hosts of Hunnypot Internet Radio.

Nomination to the Long List is the first step towards the Shortlist Music Prize. Any album released in the US from January through November, 2007 was eligible for nomination, so long as it had not been certified gold for domestic sales of 500,000 units. Announcements of the ten Finalists and the Shortlist Music Prize winner will be made in early 2007.

Nominees range from female solo artists Feist, M.I.A. and Keren Ann to electronic artists Justice, Burial and LCD Soundsystem. Eighteen of this year's nominated albums were created by artists who have been previously nominated for the Shortlist Prize, including Bjork, PJ Harvey, Wilco, Kings of Leon, Spoon and Iron and Wine.

In all, artists from nine countries were nominated, including Peter Bjorn and John and the Hives from Sweden, Digitalism from German, Feist, Stars and Arcade Fire from Canada, and Brazilian DJ Gui Burrato. The 54 albums on the Long List were released by 48 different record labels. In chronological order, the six previous Shortlist winners are Sigur Ros, N*E*R*D, Damien Rice, TV on the Radio, Sufjan Stevens and Cat Power.
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Long List of Nominations for Seventh Annual Shortlist Music Prize:

A Fine Frenzy - One Cell in the Sea
Against Me! - New Wave
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell
Biffy Clyro - Puzzle
Bjork - Volta
Blonde Redhead - 23
BrakesBrakesBrakes - The Beatific Visions
Burial - Untrue
Calvin Harris - I Created Disco
Dead Heart Bloom - Chelsea Diaries
Digitalism - Idealism
Dollyrots - Because I'm Awesome
Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild Soundtrack
Feist - The Reminder
Fionn Regan - The End of History
Future of the Left - Curses
Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta
Grinderman - Grinderman
Gui Boratto - Chromaphobia
Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
Jesca Hoop - Kismet
Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
Juliette and the Licks - Four on the Floor
Justice - Cross
Keren Ann - Keren Ann
Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Le Loup - The Throne of the Third Heaven
Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
M.I.A. - Kala
Maps - We can Create
o'Death - Head Home
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Parts and Labor - Mapmaker
Peter Bjorn and John - Writers Block
PJ Harvey - White Chalk
Puscifer - V is for Vagina
Robert Francis - One by One
Robert Pollard - Standard Gargoyle Decisions
Scout Niblett - This Fool Can Die Now
Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War
Swizz Beatz - One Man Band Man
The Bird and The Bee - The Bird and The Bee
The Hives - Black and White Album
The Thrills - Teenager
Underworld - Oblivion with Bells
Wheat - Everyday I Said a Prayer
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Working for a Nuclear Free City - Businessmen and Ghosts

The wonderful Chris & Thomas, Priscilla Ahn and Alison Sudol (+ Stephen LeBlanc) who all pitched in like superheroes and charmed the night sky with their gift of music, helping to keep the perfect little Oak Glen nursery school afloat. They all know how grateful I am...

And believe it or not she's better looking than she appears in this photo with her justifiably proud big bruv...



Very cool stuff... LB

I'm sure he gets a bit cheesed off talking about Eno and the ambient records - but it's hard not to be blown away when someone who's really been it and done it lays it out there in such a simple and compelling form. Incidentally I may go down in flames following this philosophy and since he lives just round the corner I may pitch up on his doorstep with the family if the bailiffs move in: From John Payne's interview with Daniel Lanois in this week's LA Weekly (Oct 21-27, p.117): LA-W: What did you learn working with Eno? DL: At the time I thought it was all eccentric and completely out of step with anything commercial - and I still feel that way. [Laughs.] But funnily enough, they are the records that people will keep talking about. It's what got me the gig with Peter Gabriel. It's kind of interesting: When you do things without a commercial thought, but it just reaches somebody's heart somewhere, that may ultimately lead to commerciality. Having that kind of naive intention, where you're just trying to do the best thing you can with what you have - those kind of pure forms speak of honesty, and people respond to honesty. And as obscure as those ambient records with Eno were, we were really dedicated to the thing, we were living it, and it was a great time of revelation, because at that moment I thought: I will never again do something that I don't want to do.