Shortlist Nominees Announced

The Shortlist nominees for 2007 have been announced. The Listmakers include Franz Ferdinand, KT Tunstall, Wayne Coyne, Panic! at the Disco, Regina Spektor and Last Year’s Shortlist Winner Sufjan Stevens.

Listmaker Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol calls this year's Long List "an incredible list that looks like my own iPod." Lightbody describes Regina Spektor's "Begin to Hope" as "a gorgeous record which is simple and devastating in equal measure." Also among Lightbody's favorites are the "sublime, blissed out elegance" of Band of Horses, the "sweeping swooning carnival" of Beirut, and the "twisted, warped pop" of Mates of State.