Created: 2009-07-22 15:24:29

Mercury Prize is and award that aims to promote the best British and Irish albums of the last 12 months.

The shortlist of ten candidates to the 2009 Mercury Prize Album of the Year is already announced. The company in the top ten is very controversial this year - there are some well-known and influential names as well as young, but original, exciting and inventive artists.

Mercury Prize 2009 nominees are:

* Bat For Lashes – Two Suns

* Florence and the Machine – Lungs

* Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires

* Glasvegas – Glasvegas

* Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

* La Roux – La Roux

* Led Bib – Sensible Shoes

* Lisa Hannigan – Sea Sew

* Speech Debelle – Speech Therapy

* Sweet Billy Pilgrim – Twice Born Men

* The Horrors – Primary Colours

* The Invisible – The Invisible

After analyzing the list we think that Bat For Lashes and Florence And The Machine have the best odds. Do you agree? And, most importantly, who will be the winning act of Mercury Prize 2009?