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Polaris Music Prize '08
Scarychips:
Folks, I just got an e-mail announcing the Polaris Music Prize Shortlist of this year. For those of you who don't know what the hell I'm talking about, the Polaris music prize is an award given to the best Canadian album of the past year (June 1 2007 to May 31 2008) regardless of genres, records sales or label. For the first time this year, they announced the Longlist and the Shortlist.
Longlist (in alphabetical order):
The Acorn - Glory Hope Mountain
Attack In Black - Marriage
Black Mountain - In The Future
Born Ruffians - Red, Yellow and Blue
Buck 65 - Situation
Basia Bulat - Oh, My Darling
Cadence Weapon - Afterparty Babies
Cancer Bats - Hail Destroyer
Caribou - Andorra
City And Colour - Bring Me Your Love
Constantines - Kensington Heights
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams
Fred Eaglesmith - Tinderbox
Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers
Christine Fellows - Nevertheless
Gatineau - Gatineau
Hayden - In Field And Town
Veda Hille - This Riot Life
HILOTRONS - Happymatic
Holy Fuck - LP
Islands - Arm's Way
Karkwa - Le volume du vent
Corb Lund - Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier!
The New Pornographers - Challengers
Pas Chic Chic - Au Contraire
Sandro Perri - Tiny Mirrors
Plants And Animals - Parc Avenue
Ghislain Poirier - No Ground Under
Protest The Hero - Fortress
Justin Rutledge - Man Descending
Sadies - New Seasons
Shad - The Old Prince
Socalled - Ghetto Blaster
Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War
Tegan And Sara - The Con
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band – 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
Two Hours Traffic - Little Jabs
The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour
Wintersleep - Welcome To The Night Sky
And here is the Short List (also in alphabetical order) :
Black Mountain - In the Future
Basia Bulat - Oh, My Darling
Caribou - Andorra
Kathleen Edwards - Asking for Flowers
Holy Fuck - LP
Plants and Animals - Parc Avenue
Shad - The Old Prince
Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War
Two Hours Traffic - Little Jabs
The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour
Thoughts, predictions? Who shoud've been in the Shortlist? Who should've stayed in the Longlist?
michaelicious:
I would have liked to see Born Ruffians and the Acorn on the shortlist, but I hope Plants & Animals or Caribou win the prize.
Johnny C:
I think we coulda narrowed it down to this and the decision would have been much harder.
--- Quote from: Scarychips on 07 Jul 2008, 15:49 ---The Acorn - Glory Hope Mountain
Black Mountain - In The Future
Cadence Weapon - Afterparty Babies
Caribou - Andorra
HILOTRONS - Happymatic
Corb Lund - Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier!
Sadies - New Seasons
Socalled - Ghetto Blaster
Two Hours Traffic - Little Jabs
Wintersleep - Welcome To The Night Sky
--- End quote ---
It'll either go to Basia Bulat or Plants And Animals.
Tom:
Nothing I like is on the short list 'cept Holy Fuck
michaelicious:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 07 Jul 2008, 16:33 ---I think we coulda narrowed it down to this and the decision would have been much harder.
--- Quote from: Scarychips on 07 Jul 2008, 15:49 ---The Acorn - Glory Hope Mountain
Black Mountain - In The Future
Cadence Weapon - Afterparty Babies
Caribou - Andorra
HILOTRONS - Happymatic
Corb Lund - Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier!
Sadies - New Seasons
Socalled - Ghetto Blaster
Two Hours Traffic - Little Jabs
Wintersleep - Welcome To The Night Sky
--- End quote ---
It'll either go to Basia Bulat or Plants And Animals.
--- End quote ---
I can't make myself like that album. The songs sound good live, but the record seems to fall flat for me.
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