Wolf Alice, Arlo Parks and Ghetts among Mercury Prize nominees

LONDON: Singer-songwriters Arlo Parks and Celeste, rapper Ghetts and past winner Wolf Alice are among the 12 acts in the running for this year's Mercury Prize, organizers of the British music award said on Thursday.

First handed out to rockers Primal Scream in 1992, the annual 25,000-pound ($34,385) prize shortlists 12 albums released by British and Irish acts in the United Kingdom in the past year. Considered less mainstream than the annual BRIT Awards, it is open to all music genres. In the running for album of the year are Parks' debut "Collapsed in Sunbeams", composer Hannah Peel's "Fir Wave", and "Promises", electronic music artist Floating Points' collaboration with Pharoah Sanders and The London Symphony Orchestra.