Arcade Fire, Feist And Stars Nominated For Shortlist Music Prize

Canadian acts comprise about six per cent of the Shortlist Music Prize's long list of nominees, as Arcade Fire's Neon Bible, Feist's The Reminder and Stars' In Our Bedroom After The War are in the running against 51 other albums.

To be eligible for consideration, a record must have been released in the U.S. from January through November of last year and not been certified gold for domestic sales of 500,000 units.

One-third of the albums are from previous Shortlist nominees. Nine countries and 48 record labels are represented.

The nominees were chosen by Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody, The Killers' Ronnie Vannucci, CMJ's Rev. Moose, KCRW DJ Chris Douridas and the hosts of Hunnypot Internet Radio. The 10 finalists and the winner will be announced at a still unspecified date.

The six previous Shortlist winners are Sigur Ros, N*E*R*D, Damien Rice, TV On The Radio, Sufjan Stevens and Cat Power.

Here are the albums on the long list for the seventh annual Shortlist Music Prize:
A Fine Frenzy — One Cell In The Sea
Against Me! — New Wave
Animal Collective — Strawberry Jam
Arcade Fire — Neon Bible
Bad Religion — New Maps Of Hell
Biffy Clyro — Puzzle
Bjork — Volta
Blonde Redhead — 23
BrakesBrakesBrakes — The Beatific Visions
Burial — Untrue
Calvin Harris — I Created Disco
Dead Heart Bloom — Chelsea Diaries
Digitalism — Idealism
Dollyrots — Because I'm Awesome
Eddie Vedder — Into The Wild Soundtrack
Feist — The Reminder
Fionn Regan — The End Of History
Future Of The Left — Curses
Gogol Bordello — Super Taranta
Grinderman — Grinderman
Gui Boratto — Chromaphobia
Iron & Wine — The Shepherd's Dog
Jesca Hoop — Kismet
Josh Ritter — The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter
Juliette And The Licks — Four On The Floor
Justice — †
Keren Ann — Keren Ann
Kings Of Leon — Because Of The Times
Klaxons — Myths Of The Near Future
LCD Soundsystem — Sound Of Silver
Le Loup — The Throne Of The Third Heaven
Les Savy Fav — Let's Stay Friends
M.I.A. — Kala
Maps — We Can Create
O'Death — Head Home
Of Montreal — Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
Parts And Labor — Mapmaker
Peter Bjorn And John — Writers Block
PJ Harvey — White Chalk
Puscifer — V Is For Vagina
Robert Francis — One By One
Robert Pollard — Standard Gargoyle Decisions
Scout Niblett — This Fool Can Die Now
Serj Tankian — Elect The Dead
Spoon — Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Stars — In Our Bedroom After The War
Swizz Beatz — One Man Band Man
The Bird And The Bee — The Bird And The Bee
The Hives — Black And White Album
The Thrills — Teenager
Underworld — Oblivion With Bells
Wheat — Everyday I Said A Prayer
Wilco — Sky Blue Sky
Working For A Nuclear Free City — Businessmen And Ghosts