James Blake has been awarded this year’s Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize tonight at a ceremony in London.
The singer beat the likes of David Bowie, Arctic Monkeys, Foals, Disclosure and more to claim the trophy, picking it up for recent effort Overgrown.
The Mercury Prize annually heralds the best album produced over the past 12 months by a UK or Irish-born band or artist, with last year’s accolade going to Alt-J for An Awesome Wave.
You can find the full list of acts that Blake pipped to the post below:
Laura Mvula – Sing To The Moon
Savages – Silence Yourself
Disclosure – Settle
Rudimental – Home
Jon Hopkins – Immunity
Foals – Holy Fire
Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg
Arctic Monkeys – AM
Villagers – Awayland
Laura Marling – Once I was An Eagle
David Bowie – The Next Day
James Blake – Overgrown
Read our own picks of who we think should have been nominated for this year’s Mercury Prize here.
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