The Shortlist of Music Project has announced the 75 albums that make up the Long List. These will then be voted on to create the final top 10 which will obviously be the Short List. There are several great artists are nominated and a bunch of cool "Listmakers" like Blur's Damon Alborn, Beck, Albert n Nick from the Strokes, Paul Oakenfold and Sonic Youth's Kim Gorden. Sigur Ros won the prize last year.