polaris prize shortlist 2020

Klô Pelgag seems to have achieved some cross-linguistic success, and her latest album happens to be quite good.

― pomenitul, donderdag 16 juli 2020 2:10 (fifteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Picked up on this due to your French Vocalists (?) thread revive, it's really good!

I arranged tracks 4, 5 and 7 :) glad you like it, love that album

I hear they're gonna rename it the poolaris prize in honor of fgti

:)

Haha. Well arranged, OP! :) It's a beautiful 'little' album.

I love 'À l'ombre des cyprès' in particular, so big-up fgti.

^^^this was the track when I listened earlier

That one and the one prior to it, 'J'aurai les cheveux longs', are the brace of the album for me.

I think it's pretty clear who'll win the Polaris 2021 now :)

Kaytranada

the Polaris shortlist release is one of my favorite events of the year because I know I'm always about to be exposed to so much dope music I'm not plugged into yet

going to go into a music hole for the next week to dig into all this

might be fun to poll the longlist next year instead to see how it compares to the jury selection

Sampled a few tracks from each album here and there, ended up listening to the Backxwash in its entirety.

helps that it's only like 20 mins

Kaytranada

― carin' (map), Thursday, July 16, 2020 5:59 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

psych, i finally listened to bubba and mehhh

Very pleased to have found Pantayo and Backxwash through here.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

can't not vote with my heart (lido) even though she already won

So grateful Pantayo was included, such an amazing album. I'd put "Kaingin" on any shortlist of my favorite songs at this point.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

wow @ Witch Prophet!

this is kind of a Bajka + Radio Citizen + FlyLo '08 fresh punch. i couldn't have asked for more rn, really hitting the spot

btw if Caribou or US Girls wins this it will be the biggest disgrace in Canada's cultural history

nothing worse than artists getting retrospective props for the much better music they used to make, after making really mediocre albums

well there's a few things worse but

I love that Caribou album so, so much in the context of his discography! US Girls is the weakest of the last three amazing albums tbh but it's still A+ imo

Objectively I think the "best" album here is... the nêhiyawak album. It's crazy, crazy good, I can't believe this band just shat out "the best album XTC never made" as their first offering.

it is really good yeah, did I say upthread? that and the Pantayo were great discoveries

celebration and announcement underway

https://polarismusicprize.ca/

Love the Polaris! Great result once more. Proud Canadian!

congrats to the ILX-appointed jury!

There it is :)

Can you imagine something even approaching this wild even getting on the Mercury shortlist let alone winning?