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Monday 15 June 2009

2009 Polaris Prize Long List revealed

Last week I was going to post about my predictions for what will end up on the Polaris Music Prize Long List this year, and I’m glad I didn’t. With hindsight, after seeing the long list, I realized that there’s a lot I couldn’t possibly account for when 190 judges are having their say, and only a handful regularly contribute to the online discussion group set up for us. It’s a pretty diverse list, more so than last year’s, which should make choosing the 10 that will end up on the short list that much more difficult. Only one of my top five choices didn’t make the long list, so I’ll have to do some re-jigging, which is well and good as I also have to do a lot of listening to catch up on the album’s on the list I don’t know so well (or at all). But enough of my rambling, you want to know what the records are, don’t you?

Arkells Jackson Square		Jill Barber Chances		Beast Beast		Bell Orchestre As Seen Through Windows

Bison BC Quiet Earth		Bruce Peninsula A Mountain is a Mouth		Coeur De Pirate Coeur De Pirate		Leonard Cohen Live in London

D-Sisive Let the Children Die		Elephant Stone The Seven Seas		Elliott Brood Mountain Meadows		Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life

Great Lake Swimmers Lost Channels		Handsome Furs Face Control		Tim Hecker An Imaginary Country		Hey Rosetta! Into Your Lungs…

Japandroids Post-Nothing		Junior Boys Begone Dull Care		K’naan Troubadour		K-Os Yes

La Patére Rose La Patére Rose		Land of Talk Some Are Lakes		Lhasa Lhasa		Malajube Labyrinthes

Metric Fantasies		One Hundred Dollars Forest of Tears		Patrick Watson Wooden Arms		Pink Mountaintops Outside Love

Joel Plaskett Three		Snailhouse Lies on the Prize		Charles Spearin The Happiness Project		Rae Spoon Superioryouareinferior

The Stills Oceans Will Rise		Think About Life Family		Timber Timbre Timber Timbre		Chad VanGaalen Soft Airplane

Martha Wainwright I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too		Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer		Women Women		Woodpigeon Treasury Library Canada C/W Houndstooth Europa

MP3: One Hundred Dollars “Forest of Tears”

MP3: Bruce Peninsula “Crabapples”

MP3: Pink Mountaintops “Vampire”

MP3: Handsome Furs “I’m Confused”

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