Canada's Polaris Music Prize, which honors the best Canadian album of the year, has announced its Long List for the 2020 edition. The 40 albums on the list include four by previous winners: Caribou's Suddenly, Owen Pallett's Island, Kaytranada's Bubba, and Lido Pimienta's Miss Colombia. The list also features Quand la nuit tombe by Louis-Jean Cormier who used to lead Montreal's Karkwa (who's album Chemins de verre won in 2010).
Other nominees: Cindy Lee's What's Tonight to Eternity?, The Weeknd's After Hours, Andy Shauf's The Neon Skyline, US Girls' Heavy Light, Corridor's Junior, and Jessie Reyez's Before Love Came to Kill Us, and dvsn's A Muse In Her Feelings.
The Long List was chosen by a panel of 199 Canadian jurors, who will then whittle it down to a 10-album shortlist that will be announced on July 15, with the Polaris Prize to be given out at a ceremony this fall (details TBA).
Check out the full 2020 Polaris Music Prize Long List, and the announcement video, below.
The 2019 Polaris Music Prize went to Haviah Mighty's The 13th Floor.
POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE - 2020 LONGLIST Allie X, Cape God Anachnid, Dreamweaver Aquakultre, Legacy Marie-Pierre Arthur, Des feux pour voir Backxwash, God Has Nothing to do With This Leave Him Out of It Badge Époque Ensemble, Badge Époque Ensemble Begonia, Fear P'tit Belliveau, Greatest Hits Vol. 1 Caribou, Suddenly Daniel Caesar, CASE STUDY 01 Chocolat, Jazz engagé Louis-Jean Cormier, Quand la nuit tombe Corridor, Junior dvsn, A Muse In Her Feelings Jacques Greene, Dawn Chorus Sarah Harmer, Are You Gone Ice Cream, FED UP Junia-T, Studio Monk Kaytranada, Bubba Flore Laurentienne, Volume 1 Cindy Lee, What's Tonight to Eternity? Men I Trust, Oncle Jazz nêhiyawak, nipiy OBUXUM, Re-birth Owen Pallett, Island Pantayo, Pantayo Lido Pimienta, Miss Colombia Joel Plaskett, 44 William Prince, Reliever Jessie Reyez, Before Love Came to Kill Us Andy Shauf, The Neon Skyline Riit, ataataga Super Duty Tough Work, Studies in Grey U.S. Girls, Heavy Light Leif Vollebekk, New Ways Wares, Survival The Weeknd, After Hours WHOOP-Szo, Warrior Down Witch Prophet, DNA Activation Zen Bamboo, GLU
