A Tribe Called Red is on the Polaris Prize long list, Again!
Ottawa’s one and only “Pow-wow step” innovators, A Tribe Called Red, have once again earned themselves a spot on the Polaris Prize long list.
Their outstanding sophomore album Nation II Nation made the list, just like their first album A Tribe Called Red did. Unfortunately their self-titled album did not make it onto the Short List last year, but this is a whole new year. They are in tough though with such other critically acclaimed bands as Hannah Georgas, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Kid Koala, Corb Lund, Metric and Tegan and Sara, just to name a few, also making the list. The complete list of the 40 nominees can be seen below.
The Polaris Music Prize is a juried award for creative artistic achievement in Canadian recorded music. This national prize honours the best Canadian full-length album of the year and awards a cash prize to the artist or artists who created it .
Now we wait until July 16th where we go from 40 albums to 10 albums as the Short List is announced. After that the winner will be announced at the Polaris Gala on September 23 in Toronto.
Ottawa Showbox wishes A Tribe Called Red the best of luck!
The 2013 Polaris Music Prize Long List:
A Tribe Called Red – Nation II Nation
Alaclair Ensemble – Les maigres blancs d’Amérique du Noir
ANCIIENTS – Heart of Oak
The Besnard Lakes – Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO
Louis-Jean Cormier – Le Treizième Étage
Daphni – JIAOLONG
Mac DeMarco – 2
Evening Hymns – Spectral Dusk
Hannah Georgas – Hannah Georgas
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
Chilly Gonzales – Solo Piano II
Jim Guthrie – Takes Time
Hayden – Us Alone
Zaki Ibrahim – Every Opposite
KEN mode – Entrench
Kid Koala – 12 bit Blues
Kobo Town – Jumbie in the Jukebox
Pierre Lapointe – Punkt
Lee Harvey Osmond – The Folk Sinner
Les soeurs Boulay – Le poids des confettis
Corb Lund – Cabin Fever
The Luyas – Animator
Majical Cloudz – Impersonator
Metric – Synthetica
METZ – METZ
Danny Michel with the Garifuna Collective – Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me
AC Newman – Shut Down The Streets
Old Man Luedecke – Tender is The Night
Lindi Ortega – Cigarettes & Truckstops
Peter Peter – Une version améliorée de la tristesse
Purity Ring – Shrines
Rah Rah – The Poet’s Dead
Rhye – Woman
Daniel Romano – Come Cry With Me
Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
Suuns – Images du futur
Tegan and Sara – Heartthrob
Al Tuck – Stranger at the Wake
Whitehorse – The Fate of the World Depends On This Kiss
Young Galaxy – Ultramarine