Caribou's Andorra wins Polaris 2008
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Any awards show that honours a band named Holy Fuck, and then allows a broadcast to go out across the (Internet radio) airwaves where the words "Holy Fuck" are constantly repeated is going to be a-okay in my books. It's a different experience listening to an awards show, but when the honourees are musicians, the visual experience would only ever be secondary. So it was that I sat down to listen to the live broadcast of last night's Polaris Music Prize from the Phoenix Concert Theatre in lovely downtown Toronto. In my mind's eye I imagined what the proceedings must have looked liked, and in truth, it didn't look like much more than your average rock concert. What it sounded like though was a true celebration of some of this country's best music from the last year, and by all accounts those who were there loved the ear-shredding performance of Black Mountain, Shad's urban poetry, and the psychedelic dance rock of the aforementioned Holy Fuck.
But the real reason they were there was to see who of the 10 shortlisted nominees would be crowned this year's winner. If you're a loyal QBiM reader (and there are such people out there), then you'd know how I handicapped this year's royal rumble of records. In the end, we'll never know exactly what went down in that jury room, but we do know what happened when they came out of it: Caribou's Andorra took the tops honours, just as yours truly called it back on Saturday. Dan Snaith was very humbled by the award and honoured his fellow nominees and those who were also on the long list. He mentioned the fact that an award like the Polaris brings music that doesn't always get heard by some people to a larger audience, and that it really is becoming a great celebration of Canadian music. I think that many people felt that any one of this year's nominees could deservedly win the prize, and choosing just one would be a difficult task. In the end, it doesn't really matter who walks away with the check, because the real winners are the Canadian music fans who get blessed with a bumper crop of great music, and a whole lot of patriotic pride. Good on us, eh?MP3: Caribou "Melody Day"
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