Polaris Music Awards 2007
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Now that The Klaxons have won the Nationwide Mercury Prize, we can all turn our attention to the 2007 Polaris Music Prize!
"A $20,000 prize for a full-length Canadian album, judged solely on artistic merit, without regard to genre or record sales."You may remember that Final Fantasy (aka Owen Pallett) was the inaugural winner last year for his album "He Poos Clouds," which was recorded on a budget of $8000. He was up against higher profile acts like The New Pornographers, Metric and Broken Social Scene. I hear the award money was used to pay off his boyfriend's student loan. I heartily approve.This year's nominees were released between June 2006 and May 2007:Patrick Watson - Close to ParadiseChad VanGaalen - Skelliconnection(I would put money on one of those two, but what do I know?)Arcade Fire - Neon BibleFeist - The ReminderBesnard Lakes - Besnard LakesJunior Boys - So This is GoodbyeThe Dears - Gang of LosersJoel Plaskett Emergency - Ashtray RockMiracle Fortress - Five RosesJulie Doiron - Woke Myself UpIn the news: Arcade Fire were the lone hold-out when the nominee compilation CD was released this week. They have a "policy" of not releasing any of their songs on compilations. They say they would have made an exception but the comp CD had already gone for pressing.Meanwhile, you can hear songs from all of the nominated CDs (including Neon Bible) at the Polaris website: http://polarismusicprize.caor the CAN - Polaris 2007 radio station at Yahoo Canada music.The jury of 170 music types includes reps from Canadian radio stations, magazines (such as Chart and Exclaim), newspapers, TV (MuchMusic, MusiquePlus, The Hour) and a few freelancers and bloggers.The winner will be announced on September 24.I have already posted on Patrick Watson so here is Chad VanGaalen's "Sing Me to Sleep" - a break from his more electronic-inspired stuff. I dig the recorder solo!
"A $20,000 prize for a full-length Canadian album, judged solely on artistic merit, without regard to genre or record sales."You may remember that Final Fantasy (aka Owen Pallett) was the inaugural winner last year for his album "He Poos Clouds," which was recorded on a budget of $8000. He was up against higher profile acts like The New Pornographers, Metric and Broken Social Scene. I hear the award money was used to pay off his boyfriend's student loan. I heartily approve.This year's nominees were released between June 2006 and May 2007:Patrick Watson - Close to ParadiseChad VanGaalen - Skelliconnection(I would put money on one of those two, but what do I know?)Arcade Fire - Neon BibleFeist - The ReminderBesnard Lakes - Besnard LakesJunior Boys - So This is GoodbyeThe Dears - Gang of LosersJoel Plaskett Emergency - Ashtray RockMiracle Fortress - Five RosesJulie Doiron - Woke Myself UpIn the news: Arcade Fire were the lone hold-out when the nominee compilation CD was released this week. They have a "policy" of not releasing any of their songs on compilations. They say they would have made an exception but the comp CD had already gone for pressing.Meanwhile, you can hear songs from all of the nominated CDs (including Neon Bible) at the Polaris website: http://polarismusicprize.caor the CAN - Polaris 2007 radio station at Yahoo Canada music.The jury of 170 music types includes reps from Canadian radio stations, magazines (such as Chart and Exclaim), newspapers, TV (MuchMusic, MusiquePlus, The Hour) and a few freelancers and bloggers.The winner will be announced on September 24.I have already posted on Patrick Watson so here is Chad VanGaalen's "Sing Me to Sleep" - a break from his more electronic-inspired stuff. I dig the recorder solo!
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