Arctic Monkeys lead singer Alex Turner. (AP file photo)

The Arctic Monkeys, Editors and Radiohead's Thom Yorke are among the nominees vying for this year's Mercury Prize, the BBC reports.

Other nominees for the British music award, styled after literature's Pulitzer Prize, include Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, Guillemots, Richard Hawley, Hot Chip, Muse, Zoe Rahman, Lou Rhodes, Scritti Politti and Sway.

The prize honours the best album by a U.K. or Irish artist over the last year.

The winner will be announced on September 5.

Antony and the Johnsons took home the award last year for their second full-length album, "I Am a Bird Now."

Here's the full list of nominees:

Arctic Monkeys -- "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not"
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan -- "Ballad Of The Broken Seas"
Editors -- "The Back Room"
Guillemots -- "Through The Windowpane"
Richard Hawley -- "Coles Corner"
Hot Chip -- "The Warning"
Muse -- "Black Holes And Revelations"
Zoe Rahman -- "Melting Pot"
Lou Rhodes -- "Beloved One"
Scritti Politti -- "White Bread, Black Beer"
Sway -- "This Is My Demo"
Thom Yorke -- "The Eraser"

Here is a list of previous Mercury Prize winners:

1992 Primal Scream
1993 Suede
1994 M People
1995 Portishead
1996 Pulp
1997 Roni Size & Reprazent
1998 Gomez
1999 Talvin Singh
2000 Badly Drawn Boy
2001 PJ Harvey
2002 Ms. Dynamite
2003 Dizzee Rascal
2004 Franz Ferdinand
2005 Antony and the Johnsons