James Blake has been announced winner of the 2013 Barclaycard Mercury Prize for his album, ‘Overgrown’.
Read our 2011 interview with the Clash cover star here.
This was the second Mercury nomination for Blake, whose debut self titled album was nominated in 2011.
The full list of this year's nominees were:
Arctic Monkeys – AM
David Bowie – The Next Day
Disclosure – Settle
Foals – Holy Fire
Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg
James Blake – Overgrown
Jon Hopkins – Immunity
Laura Marling – Once I Was An Eagle
Laura Mvula – Sing to the Moon
Rudimental – Home
Savages – Silence Yourself
Villagers – Awayland
Previous winners of the prize include Alt J, for their album 'An Awesome Wave', in 2012 and Primal Scream, for 'Screamadelica', at the inaugural 1992 awards.
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