Polaris Long List Announced

06/15/09 11:21am

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

The Polaris Music Prize "Long List" of 40 albums has been revealed.

The 185 members of the Polaris Music Prize jury — which is comprised of Canadian journalists, broadcasters, bloggers and programmers — were asked to vote for their five favourite Canadian albums released from June 1, 2008 to May 31, 2009, and the 40 albums with the most votes made the Long List.

"In just one year the Long List has become another integral tool for the Polaris mission of exposing great records to Canadian music lovers," Steve Jordan, the Polaris Music Prize's founder and executive director says. "Certainly this year's list challenges the notion that quantity and quality are mutually exclusive."

The Long List will be further reduced to a Short List of 10 albums, which will be revealed on July 7 at Toronto's Drake Hotel at 11 a.m. EST. A grand jury will decide the winner at a Sept. 21 gala at a Toronto location that has yet to be announced.

Here is this year's Polaris Music Prize Long List:

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 (And Around In Your Heart And On Through Your Blood)
Japandroids — Post Nothing
Junior Boys — Begone Dull Care
K-OS — Yes!
K'Naan — Troubadour
La Patere Rose — La Patere Rose
Land Of Talk — Some Are Lakes
Lhasa — Lhasa
Malajube — Labyrinthes
Metric — Fantasies
One Hundred Dollars — 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
Patrick Watson — Wooden Arms
Wolf Parade — At Mount Zoomer
Women — Women
Woodpigeon — Treasury Library Canada C/W Houndstooth Europa