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Sunday, July 12, 2009
"Polaris Shortlist" @ 3:51 AM
I was delayed in writing about the Polaris Shortlist announcement, primarily because of its unsurprising nature. Except of course for the snubbing of Women and the inclusion of Elliot Brood. Heresy. I remember being hella undawhelmed by Elliot Brood when they opened for Wilco in Edmonton. Someone said "yeah, but who else in Canada would be better at it?" Good point I guess, if you've never heard Blue Rodeo, Sarah Harmer, Great Lake Swimmers, Joel Plaskett, the Acorn, Luke Doucet, the Deep Dark Woods, Two Hours Traffic, Kathleen Edwards, the Weakerthans, Patrick Watson, Andy Shauf, Hey Rosetta, the Besnard Lakes, Julie Doiron, Sloan, Cuff the Duke, Sam Roberts, Arkells, the Tragically Hip, Wintersleep, Hayden, Jason Collett, the Meligrove Band, Ohbijou, Attack In Black, Corb Lund, the Stills, Paper Moon, Malajube, Stars.....sigh....and so on.
Metric did step up on Fantasies, but by no means deserves this. Their victory would be anti climatic to say the least. Hey Rosetta are growing on me like fungus, but are a little green to take it just yet. Realistically its down to Chad Vangaalen and Joel Plaskett. Soft Airplane is a brilliant record, but if you scroll down even at all you'll see which way I lean.
Also Patrick Watson totally deserves it again. Wooden Arms is incredible. But I don't want to live in a country where he wins two in three years (one of which edged out Neon fuggin' Bible), whilst Plaskett, arguably the country's best songwriter, misses out again. Anything else, despite its quality, would be a pretty big upset.
Labels: canada, chad vangaalen, elliot brood, hey rosetta, indie, joel plaskett, Metric, music, neon bible, patrick watson, polaris prize, women
