Mark, My Words on Mercury Prize shortlist: It looks like it actually knows what’s happening, while it’s happening

"The rap, grime and future R&B (Nao, slowthai, Little Simz, Dave) represented the most incisive rising British talent, the guitar rock (Idles, Fontaines D.C., Black Midi) was suitably disjointed, angular and innovative, the poised and/or melodramatic art-pop (Anna Calvi, Cate le Bon) bore not the faintest trace of Paloma or Florence, the bigger names (The 1975, Foals) had come out with genre-challenging event records" - Mark, My Words doesn't, for a first time in an age, hate Mercury Prize shortlist.