Polaris Music Prize 2013 <<< Winner

Congratulations to Godspeed You! Black Emperor, winner of the 2013 Polaris Music Prize for their album 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!

The short list of nominees:

Godspeed You! Black Emperor – 'Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! (music review)

Zaki Ibrahim – Every Opposite

Metric – Synthetica (CJLO Top 100 of 2012)

METZ – METZ (show review & live CJLO session)

Purity Ring – Shrines (music review)

Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light

Tegan and Sara – Heartthrob (feature)

A Tribe Called Red – Nation II Nation

Whitehorse – The Fate of the World Depends on This Kiss

Young Galaxy – Ultramarine (music review)

The long list of nominees:

Alaclair Ensemble - Les Maigres Blancs D'Amérique du Noir

Anciients - Heart of Oak

The Besnard Lakes - Until Excess, Imperceptible UFO

Louis-Jean Cormier - Le Treizième Étage

Daphni - Jiaolong

Mac DeMarco - 2

Evening Hymns - Spectral Dusk

Hannah Georgas - Hannah Georgas (music review)

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 Michael 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

A Tribe Called Red - Nation II Nation

Al Tuck - Stranger at the Wake

Whitehorse - The Fate of the World Depends on this Kiss

Young Galaxy - Ultramarine