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Irish singer CMAT among nominees for 2024 Mercury Prize Album of the Year award

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The Dublin pop singer’s album, Crazymad, for Me, was announced as being on the shortlist on Thursday by radio presenter Tom Ravenscroft, standing in for Mary Anne Hobbs, on BBC ­Radio 6 Music.

Described as “an abstract break-up album” by the singer, Crazymad, for Me is CMAT’s second studio album and was released in 2023.

Since her first album was released in 2022, CMAT has been nominated for a total of seven awards and won the Choice Music Prize in 2022.

CMAT has previously headlined at the 3Olympia Theatre and Fairview Park.

Other nominees for the award include Charli XCX and The Last Dinner Party.

Boys singer Charli XCX, who was nominated for the prize in 2020 with her record How I’m Feeling Now, has made the list with her sixth studio album, Brat, which peaked at number two in the UK charts following its release last month, and reached number three in the Irish charts.

Three of her songs from the album, including Von Dutch and 360, have entered the UK’s top 40 singles chart.

Indie outfit The Last Dinner ­Party, comprising Abigail Morris, Lizzie Mayland, Emily Roberts, Georgia Davies and Aurora Nishevci, have also been nominated for their debut offering Prelude To Ecstasy, which topped the charts following its release in February.

The group were named the winner of BBC Radio 1’s Sound of 2024 in January and have played a number of festivals this summer, including Glastonbury and TRNSMT.

Among the other acts in the running for the prize are Corinne Bailey Rae, who returned with the album Black Rainbows; singer Cat Burns for Early Twenties; and jungle artist Nia Archives for Silence Is Loud.

Mobo award-winner Ghetts, who stars in Netflix series Supacell, has also been shortlisted for the record On Purpose, With Purpose.

Elsewhere When Will We Land? by Scottish DJ Barry Can’t Swim has been nominated, alongside the record Who Am I by rapper Berwyn.

Corto.alto’s Bad With Names is also nominated, alongside English Teacher’s This Could Be Texas and Lives Outgrown by Portishead singer Beth Gibbons.

An independent judging panel that included jazz pianist Jamie Cullum and DJ Mistajam chose the shortlist.

The overall winner of the 2024 Mercury Prize will be revealed in September.

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