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  Alt-J Win 2012 Mercury Prize

  November 1, 2012 – Alt-J were awarded Britain's prestigious Barclaycard Mercury Prize Thursday (November 1) for their debut album, An Awesome Wave."We didn't expect to win because the competition was so high. …
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  Hear Jessie Ware's 'Night Light' Go Disco With Help From Hot Chip

  October 3, 2012 – Jessie Ware's elegantly propulsive combination of Sade quiet storm and Aaliyah R&B needs nothing added to it, as her excellent Devotion LP readily attests, which makes this vital remix of new single "Night Life" all the more surprising. Hot Chip co-founder Joe Goddard takes the original's subtlety and doses it with deeply grooved disco. …
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  Disclosure, U.K. House's Upstart Brothers, Turn the 'Latch'

  September 19, 2012 – A first encounter with the music of Disclosure is enough to make you wonder if it's 2000 all over again, given the way they sling bump-and-flex 2-step rhythms peppered with jewel-toned vocal snippets and diamond-tipped rimshots. There's a lot of old-school U.K. garage going around at the moment, but Disclosure often sound particularly, uncannily, like the second coming of MJ Cole or the Artful Dodger. …
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  Hear 2012's Mercury Prize Nominees: Jessie Ware, Django Django, 10 More

  September 13, 2012 – The shortlist for the 2012 Mercury Prize, which honors one British album each year, has been announced. Nominees for this year's Barclaycard Mercury Prize include SPIN Essentials honoree Jessie Ware, SPIN's September best new artists pick Django Django, perennially underrated brother act Field Music, and several more. …
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• Jessie Ware, 'Devotion' (PMR)

  September 7, 2012 – The first time most of us encountered Jessie Ware, she only stuck around for a couple minutes. The song was "Valentine," a lithe, far-too-short collaborative single with vocalist/producer Sampha, a fellow South Londoner with whom she'd appear again on the debut LP from post-dubstep mysterio SBTRKT. …
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  Hear Jessie Ware's Silken 'Sweet Talk'

  August 9, 2012 – In the wake of some staggering collaborative work with SBTRKT last year and a breathtaking string of singles in the past few months, Jessie Ware continues to prep for the release of Devotion, the nascent pop supernova (and former 5 Best New artists alum)'s full-length debut, due August 20 on PMR. …
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  Control Voltage's Friday Five

  March 2, 2012 – Welcome to the Friday Five — a semi-regular post in which I'll run down some of the tracks, records, and DJ sets that have me particularly excited about the state of electronic dance music right now. One thing readers often told me they liked about my personal blog — back in the low-key days of Web 1.0, when I still maintained it — was my recommendations and Top 10 lists. …
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  5 Best New Artists for March '12

  March 1, 2012 –  …
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