Move Over Mercury! Neptune Prize Goes To Late Of The Pier

Drowned In Sound ran their own 'Neptune Music Prize' for exceptionally brilliant British albums released in the past year that weren't short-listed by the more well known Mercury Music Prize.

Late Of The Pier won with their debut album 'Fantasy Black Channel' which is a preposterously glorious (or gloriously preposterous) mixture of prog, dance and punk. The two runners up were Rolo Tomassi and Grammatics who also make very good music you should check out.

If there was an American version who would win? Black Eyed Peas? Wavves?

www.myspace.com/lateofthepier
http://www.lateofthepier.com/

Lee, x.