NOTE: Click here for the official shortlist and reaction!
July 16, 2013 will be a big day!
Come tomorrow will be the revealing of the shortlist nominees for Polaris Music Prize.
If only I was a jury member.
To make this fun, I will make two categories:
- Who I want in the shortlist
- Who will be in the shortlist
Whatever the outcome let’s hope they will make it.
While there has been grumblings on this year’s long list.
Who I want in the shortlist:
- A Tribe Called Red – Nation II Nation
- Daphni – JIAOLONG
- Mac DeMarco – 2
- Evening Hymns – Spectral Dusk
- The Luyas – Animator
- METZ – METZ
- Purity Ring – Shrines
- Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
- Suuns – Images du futur
- Young Galaxy – Ultramarine
Who will be in the shortlist:
- The Besnard Lakes – Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO
- Hayden – Us Alone
- Kid Koala – 12 bit Blues
- Kobo Town – Jumbie in the Jukebox
- Majical Cloudz – Impersonator
- Metric – Synthetica
- METZ – METZ
- Purity Ring – Shrines
- Rhye – Woman
- Tegan and Sara – Heartthrob
If you don’t agree with this, then make a comment on the bottom.
Also BRBR will be livestreaming the unveiling of this year’s Polaris Music Prize Shortlist.
Starts tomorrow at 11 a.m.!
More info click .
Here is a refresher on the long list:
- A Tribe Called Red – Nation II Nation
- Alaclair Ensemble – Les maigres blancs d’Amérique du Noir
- ANCIIENTS – Heart of Oak
- The Besnard Lakes – Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO
- Louis-Jean Cormier – Le Treizième Étage
- Daphni – JIAOLONG
- Mac DeMarco – 2
- Evening Hymns – Spectral Dusk
- Hannah Georgas – Hannah Georgas
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor – ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
- Chilly Gonzales – Solo Piano II
- Jim Guthrie – Takes Time
- Hayden – Us Alone
- Zaki Ibrahim – Every Opposite
- KEN mode – Entrench
- Kid Koala – 12 bit Blues
- Kobo Town – Jumbie in the Jukebox
- Pierre Lapointe – Punkt
- Lee Harvey Osmond – The Folk Sinner
- Les soeurs Boulay – Le poids des confettis
- Corb Lund – Cabin Fever
- The Luyas – Animator
- Majical Cloudz – Impersonator
- Metric – Synthetica
- METZ – METZ
- Danny Michel with the Garifuna Collective – Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me
- AC Newman – Shut Down The Streets
- Old Man Luedecke – Tender is The Night
- Lindi Ortega – Cigarettes & Truckstops
- Peter Peter – Une version améliorée de la tristesse
- Purity Ring – Shrines
- Rah Rah – The Poet’s Dead
- Rhye – Woman
- Daniel Romano – Come Cry With Me
- Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
- Suuns – Images du futur
- Tegan and Sara – Heartthrob
- Al Tuck – Stranger at the Wake
- Whitehorse – The Fate of the World Depends On This Kiss
- Young Galaxy – Ultramarine
