I fully expected Benjamin Clementine to win the Mercury Prize with At Least For Now, his bleak yet bewitching, beautiful debut album first released on the Barclay label in France at the tail end of last year. After all, he’d already won a prestigious award in France, a Victoire De La Musique, for “breakthrough live performer”, back in February.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/benjamin-clementine-mercury-prize-winner-is-the-latest-british-performer-the-french-have-taken-to-a6744211.html
