English teacher have won Mercury Prizehonoring the best British or Irish album of the year, no This could be Texas. The leaders won Charli XCX, Beth Gibbons, Nia archive, Berwyn, the last supperbarry can’t swim Corinne Bailey RayCat Burns, CMAT, Ghetts and Corto.Alto. For the first time in the award’s 32-year history, there was no public ceremony due to a lack of sponsorship, but the judges praised the album’s surrealism, social observation and subtle inventive composition. The group took home a prize of £25,000 – approximately $33,000.
Last year Mercury Prize Winners Ezra Collective was the first jazz artist to win the award.