Polaris Music Prize 2013 Long List Announcement

Today was the 2013 Polaris Music Prize long-list announcement at the PHI Centre in Old Montreal. Members of Radio Radio, Laurel Sprengelmeyer (Little Scream), Ruby Kato Attwood (Yamantaka // Sonic Titan), and Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) were on hand to quickly read the list. The press conference included a live performance by 2013 long-listers Les Soeurs Boulay.

Many CJLO favourites have made the long list this year, including METZ, Alaclair Ensemble, Tegan and Sara, and Rah Rah.

Without further ado, here are the 40 long-list albums in alphabetical order by artist:

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

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

Al Tuck - Stranger at the Wake

Whitehorse - The Fate of the World Depends on this Kiss

Young Galaxy - Ultramarine