Polaris Music Prize 2006-2011

My personal Photoshop disaster

Arcade Fire's music is on Spotify, the full catalogue! Let's celebrate with the update of Polaris Music Prize playlists. As Wikipedia says, "the Polaris Music Prize is a music award annually given to the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales, or record label. The award was established in 2006 and includes a C$20,000 cash prize". Last year I made two playlists, based on all the shortlisted albums for this award. Now, I added the 2011 shortlisted albums, including the winning one, that by chance is Arcade Fire's The Suburbs. Enjoy!

P.S. I don't wanna think of how many other 2010 playlists should I update...

Stay in touch with the new playlists!
Follow Spotirama on Twitter and Facebook

  Follow @spotirama


POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE 2006-2011
Source: Polaris Music Prize.
Albums available on Spotify: 58/60 (96,66%)

2006
Final Fantasy – He Poos Clouds (winners!)
Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene
Cadence Weapon – Breaking Kayfabe
The Deadly Snakes – Porcella
Sarah Harmer – I'm a Mountain
K'naan – The Dusty Foot Philosopher
Malajube – Trompe-l'oeil
Metric – Live It Out
The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary

2007
Patrick Watson - Close to Paradise (winner!)
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse
The Dears - Gang of Losers
Julie Doiron - Woke Myself Up
Feist - The Reminder
Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
Miracle Fortress - Five Roses
Joel Plaskett Emergency - Ashtray Rock
Chad VanGaalen - Skelliconnection

2008
Caribou - Andorra (winners!)
Black Mountain - In the Future
Basia Bulat - Oh, My Darling
Kathleen Edwards - Asking for Flowers
Holy Fuck - LP
Plants and Animals - Parc Avenue
Shad - The Old Prince
Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War
Two Hours Traffic - Little Jabs
The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour

2009
Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life (winners!)
Elliott Brood - Mountain Meadows
Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels
Hey Rosetta! - Into Your Lungs (and around in your heart and on through your blood)
K'naan - Troubadour
Malajube - Labyrinthes
Metric - Fantasies
Joel Plaskett - Three (actually, the condensed three-albums-in-one version)
Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms

2010
Karkwa - Les Chemins de verre (winners!)
The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Caribou - Swim
Dan Mangan - Nice, Nice, Very Nice
Owen Pallett - Heartland
Radio Radio - Belmundo Regal
The Sadies - Darker Circles
Shad - TSOL
Tegan and Sara - Sainthood

2011
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (winners!)
Austra - Feel It Break
Braids - Native Speaker
Destroyer - Kaputt
Galaxie - Tigre et diesel
Hey Rosetta! - Seeds
Ron Sexsmith - Long Player Late Boomer
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol.2: Judges
Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin' On
The Weeknd - House of Balloons

Listen to it on Spotify:
mammoth (full albums): HTTP Link, URI. (SR0221)
lite (3 tracks each album) HTTP Link, URI. (SR0222)