Polaris Music Prize Long List Announced
Stage two of the year-long journey towards naming the best album in Canada happened today with the winnowing of all the suggested albums–some 200-ish, all from many, many, many music writers and critics from across the country (stage one)–down to the forty semifinalists on the Long List. The announcement was made in Halifax today (June 16).
The Long List is as follows. NOTE: You can stream every one of these albums in their entirety here.
- Absolutely Free – Absolutely Free
- The Acorn – Vieux Loup
- Lydia Ainsworth – Right From Real
- Alvvays – Alvvays
- Arkells – High Noon
- Rich Aucoin – Ephemeral
- BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah – Sour Soul
- Bahamas – Bahamas Is Afie
- The Barr Brothers – Sleeping Operator
- Braids – Deep In The Iris
- Steph Cameron – Sad-Eyed Lonesome Lady
- Caribou – Our Love
- Jazz Cartier – Marauding In Paradise
- Jennifer Castle – Pink City
- Cold Specks – Neuroplasticity
- Louis-Jean Cormier – Les grandes artères
- Death From Above 1979 – The Physical World
- Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
- Frazey Ford – Indian Ocean
- Tobias Jesso Jr. – Goon
- B.A. Johnston – Shit Sucks
- Pierre Kwenders – Le dernier empereur Bantou
- Lee Harvey Osmond – Beautiful Scars
- Jean Leloup – À Paradis City
- METZ – II
- Milk & Bone – Little Mourning
- Tre Mission – Stigmata
- The New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers
- Joel Plaskett – The Park Avenue Sobriety Test
- Buffy Sainte-Marie – Power In The Blood
- Elizabeth Shepherd – The Signal
- Siskiyou – Nervous
- Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld – Never were the way she was
- Various Artists – Native North America (Vol. 1): Aboriginal Folk, Rock and Country, 1966-1985
- Viet Cong – Viet Cong
- Patrick Watson – Love Songs For Robots
- The Weather Station – Loyalty
- White Lung – Deep Fantasy
- Whitehorse – Leave No Bridge Unburned
- Young Guv – Ripe 4 Luv
The Long List will be reduced to the ten finalists of the Short List July 16 (that’s stage three) with the with winner being declared at the annual gala in Toronto on September 22 (stage four, natch).
