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Ready Mercury? Wet Leg Nominated For Best Album Of The Year

The shortlist for this year's Mercury Prize has been announced — with the Isle of Wight's Wet Leg among 12 nominees for the best album of 2022.

The duo — Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers — face stiff competition from the likes of Sam Fender, Harry Styles and Little Simz.

The Mercury Prize is an annual music award for the best album released in the United Kingdom by a British or Irish act.

Wet Leg's eponymous LP reached number one in the UK album charts earlier this year.

We were the first to review the album — click here to find out what we thought!

They are the second Island band to receive a nomination since the inception of the Mercury Prize in 1992, with The Bees having made the shortlist in 2002, a year in which Ms Dynamite triumphed.


Clockwise from top left: Harry Styles, Little Simz, Wet Leg, Sam Fender. Pic: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP; Ian West/PA; Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP

Wet Leg are among several acts who have made this year's shortlist with debut albums, along with Yard Act, Kojey Radical and Joy Crookes.

Former One Direction Star Styles is in the running for his third solo record Harry's House, cementing his leap from 'boy-bander' to critically acclaimed artist.

Fender, who won praise for his set on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury in June, is nominated for his second album Seventeen Going Under.

The winner will be announced on Thursday September 8.

MERCURY PRIZE 2022 NOMINEES


Nova Twins. Pic: Federica Burelli/Mercury Prize 2022

  • Yard Act - The Overload
  • Wet Leg - Wet Leg
  • Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure
  • Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under
  • Nova Twins - Supernova
  • Kojey Radical - Reason To Smile
  • Joy Crookes - Skin
  • Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler - For All Our Days That Tear The Heart
  • Harry Styles - Harry's House
  • Gwenno - Tresor
  • Fergus McCreadie - Forest Floor
  • Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

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