Friday, 8 August 2008

Radiohead, Robert Plant in Mercury shortlist

London (ANI): English alternate rock set Radiohead and Led Zeppelin frontman, Robert Plant receive been nominated for this year's Nationwide Mercury Music Prize.

While Radiohead has been nominative for In Rainbows, Plant and bluegrass singer Alison Krauss ar nominated for Raising Sand, the album on which they collaborated last twelvemonth. Music critic Neil McCormick gave his verdict on the Mercury shortlist.

"It marked a change of direction for Plant and was described by The Daily Telegraph as 'a haunted, vibration, otherworldly collection' of country-flavoured darkness," Daily Telegraph quoted McCormick as saying.



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