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London electronic artist takes home prize for Overgrown
James Blake has been announced as the winner of the 2013 Barclaycard Mercury Prize at tonight’s ceremony at the Roundhouse in London. Blake won the £20,000 prize for his second album Overgrown, fighting off competition from a 12-strong shortlist, which included records from David Bowie, Foals and Jon Hopkins.
You can watch the video for the album’s title track below:
Keep your eyes peeled for the winner of the Quietus Jovian Bow Shock Award, our nominations for that here.
As Grönland reissues his collaborative albums with Holger Czukay, David Sylvian writes for The Quietus as he remembers the spirit of experimentation that he discovered in the Can studio during the 1980s. Photos by Yuka Fujii.
As Nitzer Ebb gear up to play Helsinki's Flow Festival, Douglas McCarthy talks Luke Turner through his favourite music, from listening to classical while eating offal on Canvey Island through David Bowie, Killing Joke, Brian Eno, JJ Cale, Thelonious Monk and more
Steve Parry's latest album as Hwyl Nofio finds him exploring personal and collective histories in his home region of South Wales. He speaks with Kevin Mccaighy about the rise and fall of industry and wandering the valleys with a field recorder
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