Picky Bastards Episode 91

About this episode

The hosts discuss the Mercury Music Prize and the 12 shortlisted albums for 2025 with guest Tom Burrows.

On Episode 91 of Picky Bastards we are back talking about our favourite music award the Mercury Music Prize. This month the regular bastards are joined by Tom Burrows to discuss all 12 of this year's Mercury shortlisted albums. We discuss who we think should win and who would be the worst possible winner of the Mercury Prize 2025. The list includes: CMAT: ‘EURO-COUNTRY’ Emma-Jean Thackray: ‘Weirdo’ FKA twigs: ‘EUSEXUA’ Fontaines D.C.: ‘Romance’ Jacob Alon: ‘In Limerence’ Joe Webb: ‘Hamstrings & Hurricanes’ Martin Carthy: ‘Transform Me Then Into A Fish’ Pa Salieu: ‘Afrikan Alien’ PinkPantheress: ‘Fancy That’ Pulp: ‘More’ Sam Fender: ‘People Watching’ Wolf Alice: ‘The Clearing’ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Guest: Tom Burrows

Topics covered

• Mercury Music Prize
• music awards
• album discussion

Keywords

• CMAT
• Emma-Jean Thackray
• FKA twigs
• Fontaines D.C.
• Jacob Alon
• Joe Webb
• Martin Carthy
• Pa Salieu
• PinkPantheress
• Pulp
• Sam Fender
• Wolf Alice

Mentioned in this episode

Products: EURO-COUNTRY, Weirdo, EUSEXUA, Romance, In Limerence, Hamstrings & Hurricanes, Transform Me Then Into A Fish, Afrikan Alien, Fancy That, More

Books & works: Picky Bastards, the Mercury Music Prize, the Mercury Prize 2025, EURO-COUNTRY, EUSEXUA, In Limerence, Hamstrings & Hurricanes, Transform Me Then, Afrikan Alien, Fancy That

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