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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
"Pundits Pick a Pack of Polaris Prize People Pleasers" @ 3:46 AM
With exactly a week to go until the Polaris Prize shortlist is announced, we thought we'd take a little look at the 40 longlisters and make our call on who should and shouldn't make the cut. Join us this week as we separate the wheat from the chaff. Hopefully that's literal.
* Arkells, Jackson Square
* Jill Barber, Chances
* Beast, Beast
* Bell Orchestre, As Seen Through Windows
* Bison B.C., Quiet Earth
* Bruce Peninsula, A Mountain Is a Mouth
* Coeur de pirate, Coeur de pirate
* Leonard Cohen, Live in London
* D-Sisive, Let the Children Die
* Elephant Stone, The Seven Seas
* Elliott Brood, Mountain Meadows
* Fucked Up, The Chemistry of Common Life
* Great Lake Swimmers, Lost Channels
* Handsome Furs, Face Control
* Tim Hecker, An Imaginary Country
* Hey Rosetta!, Into Your Lungs
* Japandroids, Post-Nothing
* Junior Boys, Begone Dull Care
* K'naan, Troubadour
* k-os, Yes!
* La patère rose, La patère rose
* Land of Talk, Some Are Lakes
* Lhasa, Lhasa
* Malajube, Labyrinthes
* Metric, Fantasies
* $100, Forest of Tears
* Pink Mountaintops, Outside Love
* Joel Plaskett, Three
* Snailhouse, Lies on the Prize
* Charles Spearin, The Happiness Project
* Rae Spoon, superioryouareinferior
* The Stills, Oceans Will Rise
* Think About Life, Family
* Timber Timbre, Timber Timbre
* Chad VanGaalen, Soft Airplane
* Martha Wainwright, I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too
* Patrick Watson, Wooden Arms
* Wolf Parade, At Mount Zoomer
* Women, Women
* Woodpigeon, Treasury Library Canada
Srsly, if Beast wins I'll gouge my eyes out with a wooden spoon. My butt could make a better record than that with a butt tied behind its butt. Cheers to Women though. The band and the gender.
Labels: canada, indie, music, polaris prize
