Arcade Fire lead 2014 Polaris Music Prize longlist

Arcade Fire are one of the leading contenders for this year’s Polaris Music Prize after its longlist was revealed today (June 21st).

The award, which aims to highlight the best music Canada has to offer, was presented to a less than impressed Godspeed! You Black Emperor in 2013 and will whittle down these initial names to a final shortlist on July 15th, with the winner then being announced on September 22nd.

As well as Arcade Fire, other artists likely to feature prominently in judges’ thoughts include PUP, Solids and Owen Pallett.

2014 Polaris Music Prize longlist:

Arcade Fire – ‘Reflektor’
AroarA – ‘In The Pines’
Austra – ‘Olympia’
Philippe B – ‘Ornithologie, la nuit’
BADBADNOTGOOD – ‘III’
Basia Bulat – ‘Tall Tall Shadow’
Chromeo – ‘White Women’
Cousins – ‘The Halls Of Wickwire’
Cowboy Junkies / Various Artists – ‘The Kennedy Suite’
The Darcys – ‘Warring’
Dead Obies – ‘Montréal $ud’
DIANA – ‘Perpetual Surrender’
Drake – ‘Nothing Was The Same’
Freedom Writers – ‘NOW’
Fresh Snow – ‘I’
Frog Eyes – ‘Carey’s Cold Spring’
Gorguts – ‘Colored Sands’
Tim Hecker – ‘Virgins’
Jimmy Hunt – ‘Maladie d’amour’
Jessy Lanza – ‘Pull My Hair Back’
Kalle Mattson – ‘Someday, The Moon Will Be Gold’
Mac DeMarco – ‘Salad Days’
Moonface – ‘Julia With Blue Jeans On’
Mounties – ‘Thrash Rock Legacy’
Odonis Odonis – ‘Hard Boiled Soft Boiled’
Owen Pallett – ‘In Conflict’
Pink Mountaintops – ‘Get Back’
PUP – ‘PUP’
The Sadies – ‘Internal Sounds’
Shad – ‘Flying Colours’
Shooting Guns – ‘Brotherhood Of The Ram’
Solids – ‘Blame Confusion’
Rae Spoon – ‘My Prairie Home’
The Strumbellas – ‘We Still Move On Dance Floors’
Tanya Tagaq – ‘Animism’
Thus Owls – ‘Turning Rocks’
Timber Timbre – ‘Hot Dreams
Chad VanGaalen – ‘Shrink Dust’
Bry Webb – ‘Free Will’
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN – ‘UZU’