The Polaris Music Prize 2010 AKA again with those canadians fucks? - General

So, Polaris Music Prize is on again. For those who do not know what is this, it's a Canadian music prize given to any Canadian artist who's put out an album between June 1st 2009 and May 31th 2010. It is "solely" based on artistic merit and not sales, genres or whatever. Past winners include Final Fantasy's He Poos Clouds in 2006 (<3), Patrick Watson's Closer to Paradise in 2007, Caribou's Andorra in 2008. Last year's winners were Fucked Up with The Chemistry of Common Life. Longlist has been announced, Shortlst will be revealed on July 6. -Apollo Ghosts - Mount Benson -Bahamas - Pink Strat -The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night -Blue Rodeo - The Things We Left Behind -Brasstronaut - Mt. Chimaera -Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record -Basia Bulat - Heart Of My Own -By Divine Right - Mutant Message -Caribou - Swim -Jason Collett - Rat A Tat Tat -Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II) -Amelia Curran - Hunter, Hunter -Fred Fortin - Plastrer La Lune -Frog Eyes - Paul’s Tomb: A Triumph -Hannah Georgas - This Is Good -Ghostkeeper - Ghostkeeper -Holy Fuck - Latin -Karkwa - Les Chemins De Verre -LeE HARVeY OsMOND - A Quiet Evil -Greg MacPherson - Mr. Invitation -Dan Mangan - Nice, Nice, Very Nice -Misteur Valaire - Golden Bombay -The New Pornographers - Together -Owen Pallett - Heartland -Plants And Animals - La La Land -Radio Radio - Belmundo Regal -Justin Rutledge - The Early Widows -The Sadies - Darker Circles -Shad - TSOL -Elizabeth Shepherd - Heavy Falls The Night -The Slew - 100% -Meaghan Smith - The Cricket’s Orchestra -South Rakkas Crew - The Stimulus Package -Tegan And Sara - Sainthood -The Wooden Sky - If I Don’t Come Home You’ll Know I’m Gone -Hawksley Workman - Meat -You Say Party! We Say Die! - XXXX -Young Galaxy - Invisible Republic -Yukon Blonde - Yukon Blonde -Zeus - Say Us Happy? Angry? Creaming your pants? Missing some things? Discuss! [editline]11:49AM[/editline] (Money on BSS winning)

I usually see myself as someone who knows a lot about music, but I have never heard about any of those bands.

Fucked Up won last years? Awesome.

Sounds like the ARIAS where any Australian band that got even remotely internationally famous gets a million awards no matter how bad they are.

I'm gonna have to go for either Broken Social Scene, Crystal Castles or Tegan and Sara.

There's a new Holy Fuck album? awesome

[QUOTE=Triumph Forks;22718632]There's a new Holy Fuck album? awesome[/QUOTE] yeah it's pretty great [editline]08:20PM[/editline] I think the best part about holy fuck is that when they announced that they were making a new album, they released the first single on chatroulette first.

Oh wow, that is pretty kickass I'll have to check it out sometime soon

No Deadmau5? awww

nah. He might have a better chance winning something in europe.

[QUOTE=Lambeth;22709363]. -Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II) -Holy Fuck - Latin -Tegan And Sara - Sainthood [editline]11:49AM[/editline] (Money on BSS winning)[/QUOTE] yesss

So, shortlist The Besnard Lakes -- ...Are the Roaring Night [img]http://inyourspeakers.com/files/imagecache/single_review/large/The%20Besnard%20Lakes%20-%20The%20Besnard%20Lakes%20Are%20the%20Roaring%20Night.jpg[/img] Broken Social Scene -- Forgiveness Rock Record [img]http://img.amazon.ca/images/I/613eEZ98QQL._SL500_AA300_.jpg[/img] Caribou -- Swim [img]http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq28/3rdeyepanopticon/caribou-swim-sleeve09-.jpg[/img] Karkwa -- Les Chemins de Verre [img]http://static.bandeapart.fm/img/critiques/31818-300c.jpg[/img] Dan Mangan -- Nice, Nice, Very Nice [img]http://base-art-visuel.bangbangblog.com/files/2009/08/DanMangan-297x300.jpg[/img] Owen Pallett -- Heartland [img]http://blogs.rsr.ch/la-plage/files/heartland.jpg[/img] Radio Radio- Bemundo Regal [img]http://static.bandeapart.fm/img/critiques/31173-300c.jpg[/img] The Sadies -- Darker Circles [img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Ah59TcsV2W4/S76kreaKNzI/AAAAAAAABFk/sRgR65pQ9mA/s1600/The+Sadies.jpg[/img] Shad -- TSOL [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/TSOL.jpg[/img] Teagan & Sara -- Sainthood [img]http://streetlightsdance.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/ts_sainthood300.jpg[/img]

i'm sad that radio radio is on that list :(

Shad better win. He raps about naps! What's not to like?

I tried listening to Radio Radio, but Acadian French is really irritating after a while. I gave Tegan and Sara a shot too, and was pretty nonplussed. Definitely not the best Canada has to offer. Owen Pallet seemed alright, though I would have preferred to see the award go to Holy Fuck (I bought their album and man it's one of the best so far this year) or Crystal Castles [editline]12:11AM[/editline] I kinda thought Radio Radio were a gimmick when I listened to them, to be honest, but that's just me

Karkwa is great though. totally non gimmicky french music

Checked them out, and I'm really taking to them. Nice videos, and good music with non-distracting French.

I've been relistening to that tegan and sara album and it honestly isn't that great. It has some excellent high points but it isn't anything to throw an award at.

Yeah, Tegan and Sara really don't seem like anything special, at all. Like, at all [editline]10:30PM[/editline] Owen Pallett's album is pretty good, as well

are we the only Canadians in the music sub-forum? [editline]10:00PM[/editline] I mean goddamn

I know there's Reaver but I think that beyond that it's pretty much just us [editline]02:15AM[/editline] You'd think there'd be some non-Canadians curious about this too =\

And the winner is... [img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_golToxABcDU/TFcrIdnDi4I/AAAAAAAAADk/TuvFjoV4rZc/s1600/karkwa-les-chemins-de-verre-420x420.jpg[/img] Karkwa

Yes fucking yes holy shit [editline]02:31AM[/editline] I was rooting for either Les Chemins De Verre or Heartland, but I would've been happy with anything that wasn't Radio Radio or Tegan and Sara

Shad should have won.