Polaris Music Prize Long List
2010 Polaris Music Prize Long List:
Apollo Ghosts – Mount Benson (Vancouver)
Bahamas – Pink Strat (Toronto)
The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night (Montréal)
Blue Rodeo – The Things We Left Behind (Toronto)
Brasstronaut – Mt. Chimaera (Vancouver)
Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record (Toronto)
Basia Bulat – Heart Of My Own (London)
By Divine Right – Mutant Message (Toronto)
Caribou – Swim (Dundas)
Jason Collett – Rat A Tat Tat (Toronto)
Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles (II) (Toronto)
Amelia Curran – Hunter Hunter (Halifax)
Fred Fortin – Plastrer La Lune (Montréal)
Frog Eyes – Paul’s Tomb: A Triumph (Victoria)
Hannah Georgas – This Is Good (Vancouver)
Ghostkeeper – Ghostkeeper (Calgary)
Holy Fuck – Latin (Toronto)
Karkwa – Les Chemins De Verre (Montréal)
LeE HARVeY OsMOND – A Quiet Evil (Hamilton)
Greg MacPherson – Mr. Invitation (Winnipeg)
Dan Mangan – Nice, Nice, Very Nice (Vancouver)
Misteur Valaire – Golden Bombay (Montréal)
The New Pornographers – Together (Vancouver)
Owen Pallett – Heartland (Toronto)
Plants And Animals – La La Land (Montréal)
Radio Radio – Belmundo Regal (Montréal)
Justin Rutledge – The Early Widows (Toronto)
The Sadies – Darker Circles (Toronto)
Shad – TSOL (London)
Elizabeth Shepherd – Heavy Falls The Night (Toronto)
The Slew – 100% (Montréal)
Meaghan Smith – The Cricket’s Orchestra (London)
South Rakkas Crew – The Stimulus Package (Toronto)
Tegan And Sara – Sainthood (Vancouver)
The Wooden Sky – If I Don’t Come Home You’ll Know I’m Gone (Toronto)
Hawksley Workman – Meat (Huntsville)
You Say Party! We Say Die! – XXXX (Vancouver)
Young Galaxy – Invisible Republic (Montréal)
Yukon Blonde – Yukon Blonde (Vancouver)
Zeus – Say Us (Toronto)
A couple of albums that we are surprised didn’t make it onto the list are Said The Whale‘s Islands Disappear (Vancouver) and Young Rival‘s self-titled LP (Hamilton), which are two albums we feel are definitely worthy of consideration. It’s obviously way to early to have any idea who will win this year but we think Hannah Georgas, Yukon Blonde, Brasstronaut and Holy Fuck all have a good chance. Or perhaps there will be a repeat winner for the first time in Polaris Prize history, with both Owen Pallett and Caribou in the running. Time will only tell. This list of 40 will be rounded down to a list of 10 on July 6th so stay tuned.
Now we’d like to hear from you. Who do you think has the best shot of taking this year’s prize home? Is there anyone you think should be on the list that isn’t?
