Polaris 2009 Long list

From the mailing list...

Without further delay, here is the 40-strong 2009 Polaris Music Prize Long List.

• Arkells - Jackson Square • Jill Barber - Chances • Beast - Beast • Bell Orchestre - As Seen Through Windows • Bison B.C. - Quiet Earth • Bruce Peninsula - A Mountain Is A Mouth • Cœur De Pirate - Cœur De Pirate • Leonard Cohen - Live In London • D-Sisive - Let The Children Die • Elephant Stone - The Seven Seas (Demonoid account req.) • Elliott Brood - Mountain Meadows • Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Common Life • Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels (Popups and wait 1.5 min) • Handsome Furs - Face Control • Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country • Hey Rosetta! - Into Your Lungs • Japandroids - Post-Nothing (Demonoid account req.) • Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care • K'NAAN - Troubadour • K-OS - YES! • La patère rose - La patère rose • Land Of Talk - Some Are Lakes • Lhasa - Lhasa • Malajube - Labyrinthes • Metric - Fantasies • One Hundred Dollars - Forest Of Tears • Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love • Joel Plaskett - Three • Snailhouse - Lies On The Prize • Charles Spearin - The Happiness Project (Demonoid account req.) • Rae Spoon - superioryouareinferior • The Stills - Oceans Will Rise • Think About Life - Family (Popups and wait 1.5 min) • Timber Timbre - Timber Timbre • Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane • Martha Wainwright - I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too (slow!) • Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms • Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer • Women - Women • Woodpigeon - Treasury Library Canada C/W Houndstooth Europa

No Julie Doiron?

The Long List is newly and proudly presented this year by the Canada Council for the Arts.

The jury will now take this list and vote again to come up with the Short List, which will be announced at 11am est on July 7 from the Sky Yard of the Drake Hotel in Toronto, and will be broadcast live across Canada and the U.S. on SIRIUS Satellite Radio Canada's CBC Radio 3 channel 86 at 11am EST.

Will post download links to these as I gt them... download and listen to the music. It goes without saying, but if you like the music, go see the band, tell your friends about them, maybe buy a t-shirt at their show...

And, if you want a Demonoid account, just ask and I can send you an invite.