And The Nominees Are...

The 2016 nominees for the Mercury Music Prize were revealed.
Although I think that most of this kind of prizes are about publicity and managers, this is probably the most relevant music award.

The nominees are: 

• Anohni – Hopelessness
• Bat for Lashes – The Bride
• David Bowie – Blackstar
• Jamie Woon – Making Time
• Kano – Made in the Manor
• Laura Mvula – The Dreaming Room
• Michael Kiwanuka – Love & Hate
• Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
• Savages – Adore Life
• Skepta – Konnichiwa
• The 1975 – I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
• The Comet Is Coming – Channel the Spirit

Some familiar faces there, Radiohead heading to their 5th try, and they never won. Savages also to go for their second final, and Bat for Lashes to their third. Both Laura Mvula and Michael Kiwanuka were also one time close to win before.

Some people are appointing the 1975 as the winner or, obviously, David Bowie,

Hopefully, David Bowie will win. It is is 3rd time in the finals of the Mercury and, above all of the artists, he really deserves to him because Blackstar is not only a fantastic album, but also a fantastic and brutal experience.

Big disappointment to see that Suede with Night Thoughts didn't make the last round...

New Unreleased David Bowie Album On The Way

David Bowie, the legendary musician that passed away earlier this year, will release a new boxset.
The compilation will be called "Who Can I Be Now" and it is the natural continuation of the previous boxset "Five Years".
It will include mainly things between Aladdin Sane era and the Berlin years.
You can spot not only the 3 studio albums Young Americans, Diamong Dogs and Station to Station (the alst two have two versions each) but also the classic David Live, Live Nassau Coliseum '76, and b-sides and  single versions album Re:Call 2.
But, most important of all, there will be a new album called The Gouster. This album is something like a sketch or an experiment to what became Young Americans.

Quoting Bowie's long-term producer Tony Visconti  "Gouster was a word unfamiliar to me, but David knew it as a type of dress code worn by African-American teens in the Sixties in Chicago," Visconti explains in the excerpt. "But in the context of the album its meaning was attitude, an attitude of pride and hipness. Of all the songs we cut, we were enamored of the ones we chose for the album that portrayed this attitude."
Visconti goes on to discuss his and Bowie's love of soul and says that with The Gouster they "sure as hell wanted to make a killer soul album." This led to a fresh take for "John, I'm Only Dancing (Again)," which was recorded in 1974 and was supposed to be the lead song on the album's original track list. It was later released in 1979. Visconti describes the song as an "outrageous brand new, funkafied version of David's classic."