NEWS: Polaris Music Award Nominees

The Polaris Music Award has announced this year’s nominees. Steve Jordan, founder and director of the award said: “this years list deliciously illustrates the burgeoning sense of community in our jury. Almost half of the selections on this list were the direct result of passionate recommendations made by individual members to their peers. We hope the ultimate result of this dialogue will likewise inform the taste of adventurous music lovers from Canada and the world”.

Now in it’s seventh year, the Polaris Music Award awards $30,000 to what it considers to be the ‘Canadian Album of the Year’, where it doesn’t take into consideration album sales or genre and merely musical merit. Previous winners have included Arcade Fire and Fucked Up. The long list has been announced now and it will be short listed down to ten in a few days time with the winner announced in Toronto on September 24th. The panel consists of over 200 music journalists, broadcasters and bloggers from across Canada.

A Tribe Called Red- A Tribe Called Red
Marie- Pierre Arthur- Aux Alentours
Rich Aucoin- We’re All Dying To Love
Avec Pas D’Casque- Astronomie
Azari & III- Azari & III
Bahamas- Barchords
The Barr Brothers- The Barr Brothers
Blackie And The Rodeo Kings- Kings and Queens
Cadence Weapon- Hope In Dirt City
Kathryn Calder- Bright and Vivid
Cannon Bros- Firecracker/ Cloud glow
Coeur de Pirate- Blonde
Leonard Cohen- Old Ideas
Cold Specks- I Predict A Graceful Expulsion
Rose Cousins- We Have Made A Spark
Mark Davis- Eliminate The Toxins
Drake- Take Care
Kathleen Edwards- Voyageur
Feist- Metals
Fucked Up- David Comes To Life
Great Lake Swimmers- New Wild Everywhere
Grimes- Visions
Handsome Furs- Sound Kapital
Japandroids- Celebration Rock
Dan Mangan- Oh Fortune
Maces Of Thrace- The Pilgrimage
Ariane Moffatt- MA
Lindi Ortega- Little Red Boots
Parlovr- Kook Soul
Sandro Perri- Impossible Spaces
Joel Plaskett Emergency- Scrappy Happiness
PS I Love You- Death Dreams
John K. Samson- Provincial
Shooting Guns- Born To Deal In Magic: 1952-1976
The Slakadeliqs- The Other Side Of Tomorrow
Patrick Watson- Adventures In Your Own Backyard
Bry Wedd- Provider
The Weeknd- Echoes of Silence
Yamantake// Sonic Titan- YT// ST
Yukon Blonde- Tiger Talk