From the Archive: Mercury Prize judges help us ponder: What makes a truly great album?

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<p>Mercury Music Prize 2015 judges John Kennedy from Radio X and Kate Mossman from New Statesman/BBC Four, join DiS editor Sean Adams and podcast co-host Danielle Perry from Absolute Radio to discuss this year's Mercury nominees and what this year's 12 albums say about the current state of music plus we ponder what makes a truly great album?</p> <p>The winner of this year's Mercury Prize will be revealed live on the BBC on <span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_2097020205"><span class="aQJ">Friday 20th Nov</span></span></p> <p>The 2015 Mercury Prize ‘Albums of the Year’ in association with BBC Music were announced on Friday 16 October. The 2015 Albums of the Year are:<br /><br />Aphex Twin 'Syro'<br />Benjamin Clementine 'At Least For Now'<br />C Duncan 'Architect'<br />Eska 'Eska'<br />Florence + The Machine 'How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful'<br />Gaz Coombes 'Matador' <br />Ghostpoet 'Shedding Skin'<br />Jamie xx 'In Colour'<br />Róisín Murphy 'Hairless Toys'<br />Slaves 'Are You Satisfied?'<br />SOAK 'Before We Forgot How To Dream' <br />Wolf Alice 'My Love Is Cool'</p>