So, Polaris Music Prize is on again. For those who do not know what is this, it's a Canadian music prize given to any Canadian artist who's put out an album between June 1st 2009 and May 31th 2010. It is "solely" based on artistic merit and not sales, genres or whatever. Past winners include Final Fantasy's He Poos Clouds in 2006 (<3), Patrick Watson's Closer to Paradise in 2007, Caribou's Andorra in 2008. Last year's winners were Fucked Up with The Chemistry of Common Life.
The titles that are in bold are part of the shortlist.
-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 (II)
-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
-LeE HARVeY OsMOND - A Quiet Evil
-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
Happy? Angry? Creaming your pants? Missing some things? Discuss!