Doves and Little Boots are leading bookies' predictions as the Mercury Music Prize winners.
Bookmakers are favouring indie veterans Doves and pop starlet Little Boots to scoop awards at this year's Mercury Music Prize.
Both acts have been given 5-1 odds of walking away with the award's prestigious accolade for the UK's best album, with Doves stepping up the plate with fourth record Kingdom of Rust and Little Boots representing with debut Hands.
Other contenders for the honour are Bat for Lashes' second album Two Suns with 6-1 odds, while bookies are also tipping a nod at newcomers such as Florence and The Machine and La Roux.
Lily Allen's sophomore effort It's Not Me, It's You and Glasvegas' self-titled debut have both been given a 12-1 chance, while Friendly Fires are 20-1.
However, longer shots at 50-1 were named as recent works by Gallows and Manic Street Preachers, with Oasis' Dig Out Your Soul given just a 100-1 chance.
Earlier this year, Doves lead singer Jimi Goodwin said that making Kingdom of Rust was almost a form of "therapy" for the band.
He told the news provider: "Going to work was helpful and therapy sometimes to get through some not so good times in some of our lives."
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