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From BBC News

Sheffield band the Arctic Monkeys have been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, a year after picking up the prestigious award.
Their album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, is up against Amy Winehouse's Back to Black and Jamie T's Panic Prevention.

Rapper Dizzee Rascal, who won the prize in 2003, has once again been nominated.

A shortlist of 12 albums from eclectic genres has been picked by a panel of experts. The winner will be announced on 4 September.

The winner of the award, which is open to British and Irish acts which have released an album in the past year, will collect £20,000.

William Hill bookmakers immediately installed Arctic Monkeys and Winehouse as joint favourites to pick up the prize with odds of 4/1.

Klaxons, The View, New Young Pony Club and The Young Knives have also made the shortlist with their critically-acclaimed albums.

Other nominees include Bat for Lashes, otherwise known as Natasha Khan, for her album Fur and Gold, and Maps - musician James Chapman - for We can Create, his debut album which he produced in his bedroom in Northampton.

Irish singer-songwriter Fionn Regan's shortlisted album The End of History has brought him comparisons with both Damien Rice and Bob Dylan.

Classically-trained quintet Basquiat Strings have also been nominated for their eponymous album which saw them team up with Seb Rochford of the band Polar Bear, who were nominated for the Mercury in 2005.

HMV's Gennaro Castaldo said: "It will be interesting to see if the judges are prepared to open themselves to potential accusations that they are going too mainstream by voting for the Arctics for a second year in a row or by selecting Amy Winehouse."

He said both acts had enjoyed "massive commercial success" and that he was keen to see if the judges would "deliberately go for a less obvious choice in order to show that they remain unpredictable and independently minded".

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