XFM have announced the shortlist for their New Music Award, designed to recognise the best UK debut album of 2007. Listeners have been voting for their choices recently, and the shortlist is:

Air Traffic 'Fractured Life'
The Enemy 'We'll Live and Die In These Towns'
Frank Turner 'Sleep Is For The Week'
Kate Nash 'Made Of Bricks'
Klaxons 'Myths Of The Near Future'
The Maccabees 'Colour It In'
The Pigeon Detectives 'Wait For Me'
The Twang 'Love It When I Feel Like This'
The View 'Hats Off To The Buskers'
The Wombats 'Proudly Present.. A Guide To Love, Loss and Desperation'

Weird to see Klaxons on a list of "new" albums - feels like they've been around forever already, doesn't it? Anyway, if you shuddered at the mention of Kate Nash's name, or vomited at the thought of The Pigeon Detectives receiving an award, there may be something you can do.

No, XFM aren't going to let the public decide the actual winner. Let the people decide?! That would be lunacy. However, there is one place on the voting panel which they're deigning to give to you, the mucky masses. How can you get on there? Here's how!

Go here and review you favourite single of all time. Simple. You have until the 1st January. The winner will be invited to sit on the panel at the awards ceremony which will be held at London's KOKO on January 16th. Some of the nominated bands will be playing, though I'd be surprised if Klaxons showed up - they're too big-time now, surely...?

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