Mercury Prize Pocket Guides: Part 3
Matt Everitt profiles Mercury Prize nominees: Sam Fender, Self Esteem, Wet Leg & Yard Act.
In the final part of three pocket guides, Matt Everitt profiles four of this year鈥檚 Mercury Award nominated albums, with archive interviews and deep cuts.
The first album he covers is by North Shields indie rock musician Sam Fender. Seventeen Going Under is his second album and explores his upbringing and how it鈥檚 affected his life today.
Self Esteem is the pseudonym of Sheffield musician Rebecca Taylor. Prioritise Pleasure is an unabashed pop album that looks at how women have to navigate through society, with wit and a wry smile.
Isle of Wight鈥檚 Wet Leg shot to fame with their debut single Chaise Longue. Their breezy self-titled debut album covers subjects as broad as doomscrolling, supermarkets and party fatigue.
The last album Matt covers is The Overload by art punkers Yard Act. The Leeds group paints a portrait of Britain that鈥檚 inhabited by a cast of unlikable characters, described fastidiously to a Fall-esque backbeat.
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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:02Sam Fender
Seventeen Going Under
- Seventeen Going Under.
- Polydor.
- 1.
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00:05Sam Fender
Spit Of You
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00:10Sam Fender
Get You Down
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00:18Self Esteem
I'm Fine
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00:23Self Esteem
The 345
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00:30Self Esteem
Just Kids
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00:32Wet Leg
Being In Love
- Domino.
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00:37Wet Leg
Wet Dream
- Domino.
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00:40Wet Leg
Chaise Longue
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00:44Yard Act
The Overload
- Zen F.C..
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00:49Yard Act
Pour Another
- Zen F.C. / Island.
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00:53Yard Act
Fixer Upper
- Zen F.C..
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00:56Yard Act
100% Endurance
- Island.
Broadcasts
- Tue 6 Sep 2022 02:00麻豆社 Radio 6 Music
- Tue 18 Oct 2022 02:00麻豆社 Radio 6 Music