The Xfm New Music Award 2010 Shortlist Revealed!
Here they are... the ten albums that are in the running for Xfm's Best British Debut Album of the last year...
Can it be twelve whole months since Xfm named Glasvegas's eponymous debut as the recipient of the second Xfm New Music Award? This mighty work joined The Enemy's 'We'll Live And Die In These Towns' in the esteemed pantheon of Best British Debut Albums... and now Xfm is picking the best debut of 2009!
You voted in your thousands and now the Xfm computer Betsy has been working overtime to calculate the ten most popular British Debut Albums.
The ten shortlisted albums are:
And So I Watch You From Afar – 'And So I Watch You From Afar' (Smalltown America)
Band of Skulls – 'Baby Darling Doll Face Honey' (You Are Here)
Bombay Bicycle Club – 'I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose' (Island)
Florence & The Machine – 'Lungs' (Island)
Kill It Kid – 'Kill It Kid' (One Little Indian)
La Roux – 'La Roux' (Polydor)
Little Boots – 'Hands' (Atlantic)
Mumford & Sons – 'Sigh No More' (Island)
White Lies – 'To Lose My Life' (Fiction)
The xx - 'xx' (Rough Trade)
Click here for more on each album
The final shortlist will now go before our esteemed panel of judges who are...
Carl Barat, Dirty Pretty Things/The Libertines
Dave Berry, Xfm
Clint Boon, Xfm
Tim Burgess, The Charlatans
Ben Cardew, Music Week
Tom Clarke, The Enemy
Peter Hook, Joy Division/New Order
John Kennedy, Xfm
John Leckie, Radiohead/Stone Roses producer
David Morgendorff, MTV Digital Media Director
Gordon Smart, The Sun
Tom Smith, Editors
Xfm voter (TBA)
...and the panel will be chaired by Xfm's Head Of Music, Mike Walsh.
The judging will be held at the XO restaurant in Belsize Park on Monday, February 1, with the winner announced in the Breakfast Show on Xfm on Tuesday February 2.
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