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#5: Mercury Prize judges help us ponder: What makes a truly great album? 0
Nov 11, 2015

Mercury Music Prize 2015 judges John Kennedy from Radio X and Kate Mossman from New Statesman/BBC Four, join DiS editor Sean Adams and podcast co-host Danielle Perry from Absolute Radio to discuss this year's Mercury nominees and what this year's 12 albums say about the current state of music plus we ponder what makes a truly great album?

The winner of this year's Mercury Prize will be revealed live on the BBC on Friday 20th Nov

The 2015 Mercury Prize ‘Albums of the Year’ in association with BBC Music were announced on Friday 16 October. The 2015 Albums of the Year are:

Aphex Twin 'Syro'
Benjamin Clementine 'At Least For Now'
C Duncan 'Architect'
Eska 'Eska'
Florence + The Machine 'How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful'
Gaz Coombes 'Matador'
Ghostpoet 'Shedding Skin'
Jamie xx 'In Colour'
Róisín Murphy 'Hairless Toys'
Slaves 'Are You Satisfied?'
SOAK 'Before We Forgot How To Dream' 
Wolf Alice 'My Love Is Cool'

#4: These Are A Few Of Our Favourite Songs Of 2015 0
Nov 10, 2015

In episode four, Drowned in Sound Review Show hosts Sean Adams and Danielle Perry discuss their favourite songs of the year.

Sean picked tunes from Charli XCX, Braids, White Hinterland, Chromatics, The Mynabirds and Marilyn Manson; whilst Danielle went for songs from Jamie xx, Foals, Bjork, Laura Marling, Duke Harwood and Wolf Alice.

You can hear the tracks in full by searching for Drowned in Sound on Spotify to find them all on a playlist with this commentary in-between. Alternatively look up @seaninsound on Twitter or visit DrownedinSound for the playlist link.

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