Polaris Music Prize (liveblogging and linking to song samples as I go! :D)

[meresy]

So, check it out, The Polaris Music Prize is an award for the best Canadian independent album of the year, based entirely on artistic merit. It's $30,000 for the winner, and all the kudos. It's become bigger and bigger since its founding in 2006 and I heart it, because the Long and Short List nominations include so much of the music I love. I ♥

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[lamentables]

Oh. *sadface* I am also disappoint.

Timber Timbre are my favourites, but I thought maybe Hey Rosetta would get the prize and that would have been good.

I am so old that curmudgeonliness is expected of me: I think The Suburbs is their least-great album.

[meresy]

If Hey Rosetta! had won you would have heard my squee from across the ocean.

I think I liked other AF albums better too... but obviously The Suburbs has something all the awards committees like because daaaaamn are they ever on a streak with that. WIN ALL THE THINGS.

[brigantine]

Hearing really solid rock sung in friggin' French kind of made my brain go O_o??? but after all I think I am okay with that. \galaxie/

I'm sorry your boy Tom didn't win, Meres! /o\

[meresy]

I have their whole (third) album if you would like...? :D They are pretty great.

Quebecois music is AWESOME and runs the gamut from folk to rap and back because of course Quebec is the second largest producer of French music in the world and kind of have to do for themselves, surrounded by les anglais as they are. *g*

I love that CBC 3 exposes me to it, since almost no radio stations in this vicinity play French music (and not much independent Canadian stuff in any language, for that matter. It pains me that when most people think of recent Canadian rock, they arrive at, like, Nickelback. Augh.) But I also feel sad when I figure I must be missing so much awesome music from all around just because it's not English and not played here. But, alas, I can't hear everything.

[brigantine]

I have their whole (third) album if you would like...? :D They are pretty great.

Oooo, shiny! \o/ I currently have a Mac. Will that work out okay?

I looked Galaxie up on Amazon (US) and they seem to have been indexed in with Galaxie 500. Sheesh. The album I found is "Tigre et Diesel." Alas, it did not come with samples of songs to play with.

[meresy]

It will totally work. MP3s are MP3s. :D

And Tigre et Diesel is the album of which I speak. It's pretty overall cool! Were you thinking of purchasing it, or shall I still upload for you? :)