Here are the big 40, revealed lovingly today at 1:30 via @polarisprize on the Twitter. And at The Drake Sky Yard by Grant Lawrence, with assists to Jill Barber, D-Sisive, Elliott BROOD and Damian from 2009 winners Fucked Up. They will be narrowed to 10 and announced July 6, time TBA. <\/p>\n
Now listen!<\/p>\n
Apollo Ghosts – Mount Benson (Vancouver)<\/p>\n
Bahamas – Pink Strat (Toronto)<\/p>\n
The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night (Montréal)<\/p>\n
Blue Rodeo – The Things We Left Behind (Toronto)<\/p>\n
Brasstronaut – Mt. Chimaera (Vancouver)<\/p>\n
Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record (Toronto)<\/p>\n
Basia Bulat – Heart Of My Own (London)<\/p>\n
By Divine Right – Mutant Message (Toronto)<\/p>\n
Caribou – Swim (Dundas)<\/p>\n
Jason Collett – Rat A Tat Tat (Toronto)<\/p>\n
Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles (II) (Toronto)<\/p>\n
Amelia Curran – Hunter Hunter (Halifax)<\/p>\n
Fred Fortin – Plastrer La Lune (Montréal)<\/p>\n
Frog Eyes – Paul’s Tomb: A Triumph (Victoria)<\/p>\n
Hannah Georgas – This Is Good (Vancouver)<\/p>\n
Ghostkeeper – Ghostkeeper (Calgary)<\/p>\n
Holy Fuck – Latin (Toronto)<\/p>\n
Karkwa – Les Chemins De Verre (Montréal)<\/p>\n
LeE HARVeY OsMOND – A Quiet Evil (Hamilton)<\/p>\n
Greg MacPherson – Mr. Invitation\t(Winnipeg)<\/p>\n
Dan Mangan – Nice, Nice, Very Nice (Vancouver)<\/p>\n
Misteur Valaire – Golden Bombay (Montréal)<\/p>\n
The New Pornographers – Together (Vancouver)<\/p>\n
Owen Pallett – Heartland (Toronto)<\/p>\n
Plants And Animals – La La Land (Montréal)<\/p>\n
Radio Radio – Belmundo Regal (Montréal)<\/p>\n
Justin Rutledge – The Early Widows (Toronto)<\/p>\n
The Sadies – Darker Circles (Toronto)<\/p>\n
Shad – TSOL\t(London)<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Shepherd – Heavy Falls The Night (Toronto)<\/p>\n
The Slew – 100% (Montréal)<\/p>\n
Meaghan Smith – The Cricket’s Orchestra (London)<\/p>\n
South Rakkas Crew – The Stimulus Package (Toronto)<\/p>\n
Tegan And Sara – Sainthood (Vancouver)<\/p>\n
The Wooden Sky – If I Don’t Come Home You’ll Know I’m Gone (Toronto)<\/p>\n
Hawksley Workman – Meat (Huntsville)<\/p>\n
You Say Party! We Say Die! – XXXX (Vancouver)<\/p>\n
Young Galaxy – Invisible Republic (Montréal)<\/p>\n
Yukon Blonde – Yukon Blonde (Vancouver)<\/p>\n
Zeus – Say Us (Toronto)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here are the big 40, revealed lovingly today at 1:30 via @polarisprize on the Twitter. And at The Drake Sky Yard by Grant Lawrence, with assists to Jill Barber, D-Sisive, Elliott BROOD and Damian from 2009 winners Fucked Up. They will be narrowed to 10 and announced July 6, time TBA. <\/p>\n
Now listen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polaris-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"