From the Polaris Music Prize website:
In total, 204 albums were considered for the Long List by the 199 member jury.
This year’s Long List was unveiled in a video broadcast via the Polaris Facebook page and YouTube channels.
The 10 album Short List will be unveiled live on July 15 as part of a two-hour special during Drive on CBC Music. An encore broadcast of the special will be available on CBC Music, Sunday, July 18 at 10 p.m. The 2021 Polaris Music Prize-winning album will be revealed in the fall via CBC Music. More details on this will be announced in the coming weeks. Leading up to the reveal of the Short List, CBC Music will have a retrospective special on Sunday, July 11 at 10 p.m.
The Polaris Music Prize awards $50,000 to the artist who creates the Canadian Album of the Year, judged solely on artistic merit, without consideration for genre or record sales. Additionally, the nine other nominated acts whose albums make the 2021 Short List will receive $3,000 each courtesy of Slaight Music.
Below is the Long List Reveal video
Links: Polaris Music Prize, More Polaris Stories, Video above courtesy of polarismusicprize
Complete list (local artists are bolded)
- Kathleen Edwards (Hamilton) – Total Freedom
Links: Kathleen Edwards, More Kathleen Edwards Stories, Video above courtesy of Kathleen Edwards - Daniel Lanois (Hamilton) – Heavy Sun
Links: Daniel Lanois, More Daniel Lanois Stories, Video above courtesy of Daniel Lanois - Topic - Zoon (Hamilton) – Bleached Wavves
Links: Zoon, Video above courtesy of Paper Bag Records - Art Bergmann – Late Stage Empire Dementia
- Bernice – Eau De Bonjourno
- The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings
- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson – Theory of Ice
- BIG|BRAVE – Vital
- Cadence Weapon – Parallel World
- Charlotte Cardin – Phoenix
- CFCF – memoryland
- Clairmont The Second – IT’S NOT HOW IT SOUNDS
- Helena Deland – Someone New
- DijahSB – Head Above The Waters
- Dominique Fils-Aimé – Three Little Words
- Fiver with the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition – Fiver with the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition
- Thanya Iyer – KIND
- Yves Jarvis – Sundry Rock Song Stock
- Rochelle Jordan – Play With the Changes
- LAL – Meteors Could Come Down
- Thierry Larose – Cantalou
- Russell Louder – Humor
- Elliot Maginot – Easy Morning
- Mustafa – When Smoke Rises
- Laura Niquay – Waska Matisiwin
- Nyssa – Girls Like Me
- The OBGMs – The Ends
- Dorothea Paas – Anything Can’t Happen
- Klô Pelgag – Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs
- Savannah Ré – Opia
- Allison Russell – Outside Child
- Julien Sagot – Sagot
- Sargeant X Comrade – Magic Radio
- Shabason, Krgovich & Harris – Philadelphia
- Yu Su – Yellow River Blue
- Julian Taylor – The Ridge
- TEKE::TEKE – Shirushi
- TOBi – ELEMENTS Vol. 1
- Vagina Witchcraft – Vagina Witchcraft
- The Weather Station – Ignorance
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