Oh, Canada
Arcade Fire, Mac DeMarco nominated for Polaris Music Prize 2014
A newly announced longlist features Solids, Pup, Owen Pallett and loads more.
Canada’s most prestigious music award the Polaris Music Prize has announced its longlist for the Canadian Album of the Year. Eventually this’ll be whittled down to a shortlist and a winner, with last year’s victor Godspeed! You Black Emperor reacting in slightly controversial circumstances by damning the whole concept of prizes and competitions for musicians. They called the ceremony “tone deaf” after being handed the prize.
Albums released between 1st June 2013 and 31st May 2014 are eligible for the prize, and this year’s list includes big guns like Arcade Fire’s ‘Reflektor’ (pictured), as well as lesser known gems like PUP’s self-titled debut and Cousins’ ‘The Halls of Wickwire’.
Other highlights include Tim Hecker’s ‘Virgins’ and Solids’ ‘Blame Confusion’, with Owen Pallett and Mac DeMarco likely to make the eventual shortlist, which is announced on 15th July.
The winner is announced at a 22nd September Gala.
Polaris Music Prize longlist:
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
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
Mac DeMarco – Salad Days
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
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