Oops. Polaris Long List Receives a Correction.
It turns out that there was a glitch in the online voting system for this year’s Polaris Music Prize and that Greg MacPherson’s album Fireball should have made it. Another organization might have swept this under the rug because, really, who would know?
Not Polaris, though. It wouldn’t be right.
Steve Jordan, Director and Founder of the Polaris Music Prize, announced the addition of Greg MacPherson’s album Fireball to the 2014 Long List. Due to an incorrect reference in the prize’s new web-based voting system, there was a miscalculation of votes. The error was discovered and corrected, resulting in the addition of MacPherson’s album to the list. One title that would have been pushed out with MacPherson’s inclusion will also remain on the Long List.“We pride ourselves in triple checking to ensure every ballot is counted correctly so obviously this is quite an embarrassment for us. The developers have assured us all is working properly moving into our Short List vote. The bonus for music lovers is that yet another deserving album gets Polaris recognition,” said Steve Jordan on the error.
So this year’s Long List has 41 entries instead of the usual 40. Nice.
2014 Polaris Music Prize Long List:
- 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
- Greg MacPherson – Fireball
- 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 announced on Tuesday, July 15th at The Carlu in Toronto. The Polaris Gala will be held on Monday, September 22nd at The Carlu, and webcast live on Aux.tv.
