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Following on from yesterday's post about Tinariwen, here's a transcript of the Uncut Music Award judges discussing Animal Collective's "Merriweather Post Pavilion".

Over the next few days, we'll be running full transcripts of the judges' meeting to decide the winner of 2009's Uncut Music Award. Today we begin with their thouhts on the winner, Tinariwen's "Imidiwan: Companions".

Touareg bluesmen triumph over Grizzly Bear and The Low Anthem

Uncut is excited to reveal which eight artists have made it through to this year's Uncut Music Award shortlist!

See which eight albums are up for the annual prize!

The second annual Uncut Music Award launches today (September 23) as we reveal our longlist of albums in the running for the prize to reward the "most inspiring and rewarding musical experience" of the past year.

See the longlist in contention to grab the prize Fleet Foxes scooped last year

The wild life of Jesco White, Virginia's 'dancing outlaw'

Mick Jones and Topper Headon reunite in studio after 27 years

There’s an interesting snippet in the next issue of Uncut, when the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne talks about Portishead’s “Third”. “It got under my skin,” he says. “From the standpoint of being in a band, they do some fun production things, it’s pretty inspiring. I liked how they embraced more stranger elements of prog-rock, and Silver Apples-influenced drum loops and things like that.”