We want your Mercury prize 2011 reviews

Listen to all the albums on the Mercury prize shortlist 2011 and when you're done, why not post a review?

Have you tried your hand at writing an album review for us yet? If not, here's the perfect excuse to get started, and if you have, well, why not do another? With the Mercury Music Prize ceremony less than a week away, we'd like to hear your thoughts on the contenders. Using the players below you can listen to each of the ten shortlisted albums, and, should you fancy it, submit a review on the album page simply click on the album's link and you'll be taken to a dedicated album page where you can post a review. We'll be keeping an eye on submissions, and the best reviews will be rounded up on the blog in the next few days. And what's more, we'll be awarding a Mercury-related prize for the very best review we see.

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Metronomy - The English Riviera

Joe Mount and co's third album is summery and melancholic in equal measure, and their most accessible to date.


Adele - 21

Adele has won plaudits for the maturity of this follow-up to 19, which spawned the massively successful Someone Like You.


Everything Everything - Man Alive

Manchester quartet throw everything and the kitchen sink at this confident, energetic debut.


Ghostpoet - Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam

Mike Skinner's favourite MC's bedroom-pr! oduced d ebut matches sharp lyrics with a deceptively sleepy delivery to promising effect.


Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi

Eno-approved singer-songwriter has produced what the Guardian described as "a fiery concoction of flamenco guitars, operatic vocals and gothic stylings".


Tinie Tempah - Disc-Overy

Scunthorpe-avoiding rapper's star is very much in the ascendant, but is Disc-Overy Mercury-winning material?


Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys!

2008 Mercury winners continue to win hearts and minds with their fifth album.


Gwilym Simcock - Good Days at Schloss Elmau

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Easily derided as this year's token jazz effort, classically trained Simcock is considered by those in the know to be an enormously gifted musician who, with this solo work, transcends genre and defies classification. So there.


James Blake - James Blake

Coffee table dubstep from the Deptford-based producer.

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

PJ tries to avoid going over old ground and succeeds wildly.


Katy B - On a Mission

Credible dance-pop debut from the BRIT school graduate it's OK to like.

King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine

Muc h-loved Domino artists collaborate on a seven years in the making "soundtrack to a romanticised version of a life lived in a Scottish coastal village".


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