Looky, it’s the Choice Music Prize shortlist, and frankly, that’s often the best bit of the Choice race. After that it’s all horse-trading and faux controversy (ooh! who got up the wrong side of the bed this morning?). Anyway, below I have kindly assmbled a YouTube for each artist, so we can all make our own minds up. Amn’t I generous? So, Ladies, Gentlemen, and readers of this blog, I present to you, the Choice Music Prize for Irish Album of the Year 2009 shortlistees:

And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar

Bell X1 Blue Lights on the Runway

 Codes Trees Dream in Algebra

 Adrian Crowley Season of the Sparks

 Dark Room Notes We Love You Dark Matter

 The Duckworth Lewis Method The Duckworth Lewis Method

Julie Feeney Pages

Valerie Francis Slow Dynamo

Laura Izibor Let The Truth Be Told

The Swell Season Strict Joy