Caribou’s reign will soon end as Canada’s music insider-voted award for best album has revealed its final nominees, including Fucked Up, Malajube, Metric, Chad VanGaalen, and previous recipient Patrick Watson. Full list at polarismusicprize.com.

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Comments (11)
  1. If Fucked Up doesn’t win… well, I guess I don’t care that much, but I definitely think they’ve got the clear winner of that bunch.

  2. jerry  |   Posted on Jul 7th, 2009

    Yeah for FUCKED UP! I hope they win too.

  3. Toss up between Vangaalen and Fucked Up.

  4. isn’t it patrick watson?

    • Clipitar  |   Posted on Jul 7th, 2009

      Yeah, not only it’s Patrick Watson, but “Malijube” is in fact Malajube. Great research on that piece!

  5. At least Coeur de Pirate didn’t make it.

  6. crossedwires  |   Posted on Jul 8th, 2009

    Joel Plaskett definitely deserves to win.

  7. Johnnyboy  |   Posted on Jul 8th, 2009

    The funny thing is, no one in Canada cares about or has even heard of Patrick Watson, even after he won the first Polaris Prize.

  8. Einar  |   Posted on Jul 8th, 2009

    Guess that’s why Patrick Watson sold 300.000 records in canada?

  9. jerry  |   Posted on Jul 9th, 2009

    ^^^^ are you sure of your numbers? i don’t think PW has gone platinum 3 times over in Canada.

    who do you work for over there, you’re quite defensive.

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