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Former One Direction singer Harry Styles, Self Esteem and Wet Leg are among the nominees for this year's Mercury Prize. The star-studded event is still expected to go ahead later this evening but no celebrities will walk the red carpet

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Isle of Wight alt-rock duo Wet Leg are one of the favourites to bag the Mercury Prize 2022 for their self-titled debut album, which features the hit single Chaise Longue

The Welsh artist is up for this year’s Mercury Prize with her resplendent Cornish-language album, ‘Tresor’. She speaks to Roisin O’Connor about wanting to ‘other’ herself in St Ives, her experience of pregnancy, and her view that most people are curious, not fearful, of other cultures

Harry Styles’s high-end lockdown album is surprisingly of a piece with other longlisted albums by artists as distinct as Joy Crookes and Gwenno

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The Leeds-formed band are up for this year’s Mercury Prize with their bristling first album, ‘The Overload’. Frontman James Smith and bassist Ryan Needham meet with Roisin O’Connor to talk about playing with northern stereotpyes, songwriting, and how they wrong-footed the music industry