Mercury 2018 Awards: Noel Gallagher, Florence and Arctic Monkeys Shortlisted | The music

The sixth album of Arctic Monkeys, Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino, was named among the nominees for this year's Mercury Award. The nod is the second most nominated act in the history of the award: Sheffield's group and PJ Harvey have both received four nominations since its inception in 1992, while Radiohead has five.

The list presents a handful of other groups: Everything Everything gets its second Mercury nomination for A Fever Dream, just like Wolf Alice for Visions of a Life. The London group tweeted: "We are really proud of our baby Visions of a Life and we had such a weird and wonderful time to record it, it is extremely nice to be nominated for the @MercuryPrize. Thank you! We are absolutely buzzing! Lagers on us tonight. "

Filling the notorious Mercury award-winning jazz spot are the London band Sons of Kemet for your queen is a reptile, their first appointment. "It's great to know that our music and ideas will have the chance to reach as wide an audience as the Mercury nominations allow," said Shabaka Hutchings, the leader of Sons of Kemet. "Our goal is to merge the music and perceptions badociated with stories of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora with the developments that are happening on the London music scene and propel the results to the world as a force for good."

It's a good year for the nominees for the first time: King Krule's experimental opus The Ooz, Nadine Shah's Holiday Post's political post-punk statement and Lily Allen's No Shame. "BOOM So bading happy !!!!" Allen tweeted, while Shah said that she was "still in shock" with the news. Two debuts made the list: novelist Novelist Guy, and the Lost and Found of the star of the R & B, Jorja Smith.

Noel Gallagher (and his High Flying Birds) receives his first solo nomination for Who Built the Moon ?, But his story with the award dates back to the mid-1990s when Oasis was nominated for their debut album Definitely Maybe in 1995 and follow up (What is the story) Morning Glory? in 1996.

The disc of all Richard Russell's All Is Recorded album is also his first nomination – however, the album presents Sampha, who won last year for his first film , and Damon Albarn, nominated with Blur, Gorillaz (who rejected the nomination for their first self-titled album in 2001) and solo

There is little cross between the short list and the artists put forward by the bookmakers before the unveiling of the nominees. Paddy Power, Coral and Ladbrokes took first place in London's Southern group Shame in 3/1 and then in the experimental duo Let's Eat Grandma at 5: 1. Arctic Monkeys had a rating of 8/1, with a 12/1 pop alternative pop and a 16/1 Sophie producer. Albums acclaimed by the psychedelic band Leeds Hookworms, the Welsh electronic Gwenno and the iconoclast pop Charli XCX were also marked by their omission.

The judges of the Mercury Award are Phil Alexander publisher, Clara Amfo of BBC Radio 1, Danielle Perry, jazz musician Jamie Cullum, pop artist Ella Eyre, deputy editor of the Guardian Guide Harriet Gibsone, musician Lianne La Havas, Times Will Hodgkinson reviewer, DJ MistaJam, Marcus Mumford of Mumford and Sons, Jeff Smith of BBC Music, Jessie Ware and Radio X Head of Music Mike Walsh. The jury is chaired by Jeff Smith

The winner of the Mercury Award 2018 will be announced at a ceremony at the London Apollo Eventim on September 20th.

The complete list of the Mercury 2018 Award