The long list for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize has just been announced in Halifax, and we've got the complete list of 40 artists below:
Absolutely Free, Absolutely Free
The Acorn, Vieux Loup
Lydia Ainsworth, Right From Real
Alvvays, Alvvays
Arkells, High Noon
Rich Aucoin, Ephemeral
BadBadNotGood and Ghostface Killah, Sour Soul
Bahamas, Bahamas is Afie
The Barr Brothers, Sleeping Operator
Braids, Deep in the Iris
Steph Cameron, Sad-Eyed Lonesome Lady
Caribou, Our Love
Jazz Cartier, Marauding in Paradise
Jennifer Castle, Pink City
Cold Specks, Neuroplasticity
Louis-Jean Cormier, Les grandes artères
Death From Above 1979, The Physical World
Drake, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
Frazey Ford, Indian Ocean
Tobias Jesso Jr., Goon
B.A. Johnston, Shit Sucks
Pierre Kwenders, Le dernier empereur Bantou
Lee Harvey Osmond, Beautiful Scars
Jean Leloup, À Paradis City
Metz, II
Milk & Bone, Little Mourning
Tre Mission, Stigmata
The New Pornographers, Brill Bruisers
Joel Plaskett, The Park Avenue Sobriety Test
Buffy Sainte-Marie, Power in the Blood
Elizabeth Shepherd, The Signal
Siskiyou, Nervous
Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld, Never Were the Way She Was
Various Artists, Native North America (Vol. 1): Aboriginal Folk, Rock and Country, 1966-1985
Viet Cong, Viet Cong
Patrick Watson, Love Songs For Robots
The Weather Station, Loyalty
White Lung, Deep Fantasy
Whitehorse, Leave No Bridge Unburned
Young Guv, Ripe 4 Luv
The Polaris Music Prize is an annual, juried award given to a Canadian album of the highest artistic integrity without regard to sales figures, genre or professional affiliation. It is determined by a group of journalists, broadcasters, bloggers and programmers from across Canada. This year the winning album will receive $50,000.
Previous Polaris winners include Tanya Tagaq, Feist, Patrick Watson and Owen Pallett.
The jury will now cut this list of 40 to a short list of 10, which will be announced on July 16. The winner will be chosen at the Polaris Music Prize Gala on Sept. 21.
What do you think of the list? Did your favourite album make it? Let us know in the comments below or tweet us @CBCRadio3.
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