Blake keeps Mercury rising

Electronic artist James Blake has won the £20,000 Mercury Music Prize. Blake beat stars including David Bowie, The Arctic Monkeys, Jake Bugg and Laura Mvula  to win the £20,000 prize for Overgrown, his second album. The judges described it as "Late night music for the digital age. An inventive, poignant and poetic record of great beauty." Speaking after the awards, NME's Kevin Perry described Overgrown as "one of the least commercial records on this year's relatively populist list". Prior to the awards. Prior to the awards, Rudimental's chart topping album 'Home' had enjoyed a sales spike of 29,000 units, Jake Bugg's eponymous 2012 debut album sold an additional 25,600 copies and Disclosure's debut Settle picked up 23,000 sales - with the Arctic Monkeys fifth album AM picking up most sales overall since nominations opened.