Just kicking off the Uncut Music Award 2011 blog with a reminder of our shortlist this year, as the day when our judges reveal the winner gets closer.

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Here’s the shortlist:

Bill Callahan – ‘Apocalypse’

Fleet Foxes – ‘Helplessness Blues’

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PJ Harvey – ‘Let England Shake’

Bon Iver – ‘Bon Iver’

Josh T Pearson – ‘Last Of The Country Gentlemen’

Radiohead – ‘The King Of Limbs’

Paul Simon – ‘So Beautiful Or So What’

Gillian Welch – ‘The Harrow & The Harvest’

The winner of the award will be announced in the new issue of

Uncut, which is on UK newsstands on November 27 or available digitally. The full transcript of the judging panel’s discussions about the album will be published here in early December.