Pulp are up for best group, recognising the success of More, their first album in 25 years.
It’s one of the year’s most hotly-contested categories – with other nominees including Wolf Alice, The Last Dinner Party, Wet Leg and the mysteriously masked rock band Sleep Token.
Olivia Dean is the likely front-runner for best artist and best album, after the chart-topping success of her sumptuously singable soul album, The Art of Loving.
“It feels crazy to be nominated for five Brit Awards,” she said. “Just even one would be crazy.”
“Having been at the Brit school and now having this full-circle moment 10 years later is going to feel very emotional.”
But the best album category will be hotly contested, after a bountiful year for British music.
Dean is pitted against Lily Allen’s vituperative break-up album West End Girl, Wolf Alice’s soft rock detour on The Clearing, and Dave’s pensive The Boy Who Played The Harp.
And there’s also Sam Fender’s fourth album, People Watching, to consider.
An incisive, political record about working class deprivation, its stadium-filling anthems made it the best-selling new release by a British artist last year.
If he wins, the North Shields singer will be only the third person to collect best album at both the Brits and the Mercury Prize – joining Arctic Monkeys and Dave.
