English Teacher have received the Mercury Prize, honoring the most effective British or Irish album of the 12 months, for This Could Be Texas. The leads band beat out Charli XCX, Beth Gibbons, Nia Archives, Berwyn, the Last Dinner Party, Barry Can’t Swim, Corinne Bailey Rae, Cat Burns, CMAT, Ghetts, and Corto.Alto. For the primary time within the award’s 32-year historical past, there was no public ceremony as a consequence of an absence of sponsorship, however judges praised the album’s surrealism, social statement, and subtly creative composition. The band took dwelling a prize of £25,000—roughly $33,000.
Final 12 months’s Mercury Prize winners had been Ezra Collective, the primary jazz artist to win the award.
