SPILL NEWS: POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE ANNOUNCES 2017 LONG LIST

POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE ANNOUNCES 2017 LONG LIST

SHORT LIST WILL BE ANNOUNCED JULY 13

2017 POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT GALA TO BE HELD SEPTEMBER 18

The Polaris Music Prize has just announced the list of 40 albums that have just been nominated to the 2017 Polaris Music Prize Long List. Congratulations to this year’s nominees! Here they are listed in alphabetical order:

2017 Polaris Music Prize Long List

A Tribe Called Red, We Are the Halluci Nation
Alaclair Ensemble, Les Frères Cueilleurs
Anciients, Voice of the Void
Arkells, Morning Report
Philippe B, La grande nuit vidéo
BadBadNotGood, IV
Louise Burns, Young Mopes
Chocolat, Rencontrer Looloo
Clairmont the Second, Quest For Milk and Honey
Leonard Cohen, You Want it Darker
Antoine Corriveau, Cette chose qui cognait au creux de sa poitrine sans vouloir s’arrêter
Le Couleur, P.O.P.
Marie Davidson, Adieux Au Dancefloor
Mac Demarco, This Old Dog
Gord Downie, Secret Path
Drake, More Life
Feist, Pleasure
Figure Walking, The Big Other
Fiver, Audible Songs From Rockwood
Geoffroy, Coastline
Hannah Georgas, For Evelyn
Japandroids, Near to the Wild Heart of Life
Carly Rae Jepsen, E.MO.TION Side B
B.A. Johnston, Gremlins III
Lisa LeBlanc, Why You Wanna Leave, Runaway Queen?
The New Pornographers, Whiteout Conditions
Klô Pelgag, L’Étoile thoracique
Peter Peter, Noir Éden
Lido Pimienta, La Papessa
Jessie Reyez, Kiddo
Daniel Romano, Modern Pressure
The Sadies, Northern Passages
John K. Samson, Winter Wheat
Tanya Tagaq, Retribution
The Tragically Hip, Man Machine Poem
TUNS, TUNS
Leif Vollebekk, Twin Solitude
Weaves, Weaves
The Weeknd, Starboy
Charlotte Day Wilson, CDW

For an album to qualify for the 2017 Polaris Music Prize, it must have been FULLY released between June 1, 2016 and May 31, 2017.    An independent jury of music journalists, broadcasters, and music bloggers from across Canada, determines the Long List and Short List. Eleven people are selected from the larger jury pool to serve on the Grand Jury and they will convene the weekend of the gala to select the Polaris Music Prize winner for the year.

The Polaris Music Prize will award $50,000 to the artist who creates the Canadian Album of the Year. Each of the nine other short listed artists will receive $3,000 courtesy of Slaight Music. Judged solely on artistic merit, without consideration of genre or record sales, the prize’s past winners are Kaytranada (2016), Buffy Sainte-Marie (2015), Tanya Tagaq (2014), Godspeed You! Black Emperor (2013), Feist (2012), Arcade Fire (2011), Karkwa (2010), Fucked Up (2009), Caribou (2008), Patrick Watson (2007), and Final Fantasy / Owen Pallett (2006).

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