Polaris Music Prize Shortlist Revealed

Hopefully, Arcade Fire will let someone else win something for a change.

Ten bands have been shortlisted for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize for the best Canadian album released in the last year. Arcade Fire's The Suburbs, which has won just about every other music award on the planet, will go up against Austra's Feel It Break, Braids' Native Speaker, Destroyer's Kaputt, Galaxie's Tigre et Diesel, Hey Rosetta!'s Seeds, Ron Sexsmith's Long Player, Late Bloomer, Colin Stetson's New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges, Timbre Timbre's Creep On Creepin' On and The Weeknd's House of Balloons. Our vote (not that we have one, hint, hint, Polaris organizers) would go to Braids, because they're making beautiful music truly unlike anything else in this country.