Awards

Canada reveals Polaris longlist

By | Published on Monday 18 June 2012

Polaris Music Prize

The preliminary list of nominees for this year’s Polaris Music Prize – ie the Canadian version of our much-loved (you all love it, right?) Mercury – have been announced, and it’s all very, very exciting. And (for once) I’m not being sarcastic, Canada being something of a hotbed for diverse and internationally-renowned music at the moment.

Like a number of Mercury clones around the world, the Polaris has a long list as well as a short list, and that’s what’s been announced, as selected by a jury of 200 Canadian music media types. This done, the same panel will now vote to narrow things down to a shortlist of ten LPs, with the overall winner crowned (and given $30,000) at the climax of a gala ceremony on 24 Sep.

Past Polaris victors have included Arcade Fire, Caribou, Fucked Up and Patrick Watson, the latter two of whom are also nominated this year.

If you’d like to see the list er… listed in alphabetical order, look at this:

A Tribe Called Red – A Tribe Called Red
Ariane Moffatt – MA
Avec pas d’casque – Astronomie
Azari & III – Azari & III
Bahamas – Barchords
Blackie And The Rodeo Kings – Kings And Queens
Bry Webb – Provider
Cadence Weapon – Hope In Dirt City
Cannon Bros – Firecracker / Cloudglow
Coeur de pirate – Blonde
Cold Specks – I Predict A Graceful Expulsion
Dan Mangan – Oh Fortune
Drake – Take Care
Feist – Metals
Fucked Up – David Comes To Life
Great Lake Swimmers – New Wild Everywhere
Grimes – Visions
Handsome Furs – Sound Kapital
Japandroids – Celebration Rock
Joel Plaskett Emergency – Scrappy Happiness
John K Samson – Provincial
Kathleen Edwards – Voyageur
Kathryn Calder – Bright And Vivid
Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas
Lindi Ortega – Little Red Boots
Mares Of Thrace – The Pilgrimage
Marie-Pierre Arthur – Aux alentours
Mark Davis – Eliminate The Toxins
Parlovr – Kook Soul
Patrick Watson – Adventures In Your Own Backyard
PS I Love You – Death Dreams
Rich Aucoin – We’re All Dying To Live
Rose Cousins – We Have Made A Spark
Sandro Perri – Impossible Spaces
Shooting Guns – Born To Deal In Magic: 1952-1976
The Barr Brothers – The Barr Brothers
The Slakadeliqs – The Other Side of Tomorrow
The Weeknd – Echoes of Silence
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan – YT//ST
Yukon Blonde – Tiger Talk



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