Doing the usual 'predictions' for the Mercury this week, and I've assembled a longlist of contenders. Are there albums missing from this lot that I should be including? YOUR HELP, APPRECIATED, as believe it or not some things fly beneath my radar.

Nb 'catchment' period is July 12, 2011 (so no SBTRKT) to Sept 10, 2012 (which qualifies Pet Shop Boys, Mala and The xx).

Blood Orange – Coastal Grooves
Toddla T – Watch Me Dance
Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know
June Tabor & Oysterband – Ragged Kingdom
Emika – Emika
Rustie – Glass Swords
Kuedo – Severant
Kate Bush – 50 Words For Snow
Luke Haines – Nine and a Half…
Django Django – Django Django
The 2 Bears – Be Strong
The Maccabees – Given to the Wild
Portico Quartet – Portico Quartet
Gang Colours – The Keychain Collection
Field Music – Plumb
Paul Weller – Sonik Kicks
Actress – R.I.P.
Kindness – World, You Need a Change of Mind
Orbital – Wonky
Sweet Billy Pilgrim – Crown and Treaty
Alt-J – An Awesome Wave
Paul Buchanan – Mid Air
TrioVD – Maze
The Invisible – Rispah
Neneh Cherry & The Thing – The Cherry Thing
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Trouble
Plan B – ill Manors
Cooly G – Playin’ Me
Roller Trio – Roller Trio
Bill Fay – Life Is People
Jessie Ware – Devotion
Karine Polwart – Traces
Holy Other – Held
Two Door Cinema Club – Beacon
The xx – Coexist
Pet Shop Boys – Elysium
Mala – Mala in Cuba