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How about an alternative Mercury Prize shortlist
Taking the format of year-end accumulators here, name 12 (or 6) eligible albums and at the end we can add them up. Since order isn't important, I suggest scoring should be 1 for each nomination, though if this is flawed please say.
IMPORTANT: 12 is a quite a lot of albums, if you'd rather select 6, do so, but no other numbers please.