Polaris Music Prize Long List Unveiled
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Today, during the Sled Island Festival at the National Music Centre in Calgary, AB, the Polaris Music Prize Long List was announced. In all, 189 titles made the first ballots of the 190 person jury, with the creators of 23 of the 40 Long List titles being first time nominees. Out of that batch, just four have been involved in previously nominated groups.
And your nominees are:
The Strumbellas
The Darcys
Arcade Fire – Reflektor
AroarA – In The Pines
Austra – Olympia
Philippe B – Ornithologie, la nuit
BADBADNOTGOOD – III
Basia Bulat – Tall Tall Shadow
Chromeo – White Women
Cousins – The Halls Of Wickwire
Cowboy Junkies / Various Artists – The Kennedy Suite
The Darcys – Warring
Dead Obies – Montréal $ud
Mac DeMarco – Salad Days
DIANA – Perpetual Surrender
Drake – Nothing Was The Same
Freedom Writers – NOW
Fresh Snow – I
Frog Eyes – Carey’s Cold Spring
Gorguts – Colored Sands
Tim Hecker – Virgins
Jimmy Hunt – Maladie d’amour
Jessy Lanza – Pull My Hair Back
Kalle Mattson – Someday, The Moon Will Be Gold
Moonface – Julia With Blue Jeans On
Mounties – Thrash Rock Legacy
Odonis Odonis – Hard Boiled Soft Boiled
Owen Pallett – In Conflict
Pink Mountaintops – Get Back
PUP – PUP
The Sadies – Internal Sounds
Shad – Flying Colours
Shooting Guns – Brotherhood Of The Ram
Solids – Blame Confusion
Rae Spoon – My Prairie Home
The Strumbellas – We Still Move On Dance Floors
Tanya Tagaq – Animism
Thus Owls – Turning Rocks
Timber Timbre – Hot Dreams
Chad VanGaalen – Shrink Dust
Bry Webb – Free Will
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN – UZU
The Short List will be revealed on Tuesday, July 15 at The Carlu in Toronto, with the Gala to be held on Monday, September 22 at the same venue. The winner of the Polaris Music Prize receives $30,000 for creating the “Canadian Album of the Year,” while the runner’s up from the Short List each receive $2,000 courtesy of Slaight Music.
The albums are judged solely by artistic merit, and must have been released between June 1, 2013 and May 31, 2014. An independent jury of music journalists, broadcasters, and bloggers from across Canada determine the Long and Short Lists. From there, 11 jury members are selected to serve on the Grand Jury and pick the year’s winner.
Godspeed You! Black Emper apprehensively took home last year’s top prize.
-Adam Grant
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