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Awards
Polaris long list out
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 18 June 2010
The long list is out for this year’s Polaris Award, which is Canada’s sort of equivalent to the Mercury Music Prize. Polaris judges will cut this down to a short list of ten on 6 Jul, with the overall winner being announced on 20 Sep. Here’s the long list.
Apollo Ghosts – Mount Benson
Bahamas – Pink Strat
The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night
Blue Rodeo – The Things We Left Behind
Brasstronaut – Mt Chimaera
Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
Basia Bulat – Heart Of My Own
By Divine Right – Mutant Message
Caribou – Swim
Jason Collett – Rat A Tat Tat
Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles
Amelia Curran – Hunter Hunter
Fred Fortin – Plastrer La Lune
Frog Eyes – Paul’s Tomb: A Triumph
Hannah Georgas – This Is Good
Ghostkeeper – Ghostkeeper
Holy Fuck – Latin
Karkwa – Les Chemins De Verre
Greg MacPherson – Mr Invitation
Dan Mangan – Nice, Nice, Very Nice
Misteur Valaire – Golden Bombay
The New Pornographers – Together
Owen Pallett – Heartland
Plants And Animals – La La Land
Radio Radio – Belmundo Regal
Justin Rutledge – The Early Widows
The Sadies – Darker Circles
Shad – TSOL
Elizabeth Shepherd – Heavy Falls The Night
The Slew – 100%
Meaghan Smith – The Cricket’s Orchestra
South Rakkas Crew – The Stimulus Package
Tegan And Sara – Sainthood
The Wooden Sky – If I Don’t Come Home You’ll Know I’m Gone
Hawksley Workman – Meat
You Say Party! We Say Die! – XXXX
Young Galaxy – Invisible Republic
Yukon Blonde – Yukon Blonde
Zeus – Say Us
