
XFM - New Music Award - nominations announced - vote for your fave new album
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XFM has just announced the shortlist (actually, it's quite a long list) for it's "New Music Award" - and award which celebrates the albums produced by artists new to the music scene.
Making the list are thirty two albums and artists, including Dartz!, Frank Turner, Jack Penate, Mumm Ra, Tiny Dancers, Jamie T, Enter Shikari, The Wombats and well, another twenty four dudes and their albums - see below.
Votes are cast by you, the general public up until 21st November on XFM's "New Music Award" page (www.xfm.co.uk/newmusicaward). The final ten are announced on the 21st, with the winners announced at Koko in Camden on 16th January 2008.
The contenders:
- Air Traffic- Fractured Life
- Calvin Harris- I Created Disco
- Cherry Ghost- Thirst For Romance
- Dartz!- This Is My Ship
- The Dykeenies- Nothing Means Everything
- The Enemy- We'll Live And Die In These Towns
- Enter Shikari - Take To The Skies
- The Flies - All Too Human
- Frank Turner - Sleep Is For The Week
- Good Shoes - Think Before You Speak
- The Horrors - Strange House
- The Hours
- Jack Peñate - Matinee
- Jamie T - Panic Prevention
- Kate Nash - Made Of Bricks
- Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future
- New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom
- The Maccabees - Colour It In
- Maps - We Can Create
- Mumm-Ra - These Things Move In Threes
- Multi Purpose Chemical- And Four More Ways To Fight
- Pigeon Detectives- Wait For Me
- Reverend And The Makers
- Rose Kemp- A Hand Full Of Hurricanes
- Rumblestrips- Girls And Weather
- Schwab- Family System
- Scouting For Girls- Scouting For Girls
- Some Velvet Morning- Silence Will Kill You
- Tiny Dancers- Free School Milk
- The Twang- Love It When It Feels Like This
- The View- Hats Off To The Buskers
- The Wombats- A Guide To Love, Loss And Desperation
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