2014 Polaris Music Prize
The 2014 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize was presented on September 22, 2014, at The Carlu event theatre in Toronto, Ontario.[1] Actor Jay Baruchel was the host of the ceremony.[2]
The grand jury for the 2014 award consisted of Adam Bowie of
Shortlist
The ten-album shortlist was announced on July 15.[2]
Longlist
The prize's preliminary 40-album longlist was announced on June 19 at the
On June 24, the prize committee amended the longlist to include Greg MacPherson's album Fireball, announcing that the album had made the Top 40 in the voting but was erroneously omitted due to a tabulation error.[5] The committee opted not to drop another album from the longlist to compensate for MacPherson's addition, and went into the second round of voting with a 41-album longlist.[5]
- 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, The Kennedy Suite
- The Darcys, Warring
- Dead Obies, Montréal $ud
- Mac DeMarco, Salad Days
- DIANA, Perpetual Surrender
- Drake, Nothing Was the Same
- Freedom Writers, NOW
- Fresh Snow, I
- Frog Eyes, Carey's Cold Spring
- Gorguts, Colored Sands
- Virgins
- Jimmy Hunt, Maladie d'amour
- Jessy Lanza, Pull My Hair Back
- Greg MacPherson, Fireball
- Kalle Mattson, Someday, The Moon Will Be Gold
- 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
References
- ^ Aux, June 19, 2014.
- ^ a b "Arcade Fire, Drake, Shad make Polaris Music Prize short list". CTV News, July 15, 2014.
- ^ "Polaris Gala Performers Announced, Grand Jury Revealed". Polaris Music Prize, August 19, 2014.
- ^ a b c "Polaris Music Prize 2014: Tanya Tagaq wins $30K prize". CBC News, September 22, 2014.
- ^ a b "After a glitch, Polaris adds Greg MacPherson to the long list". The Globe and Mail, June 25, 2014.