Polaris Music Prize 2014 <<< WINNER

Congratulations to Tanya Tagaq, winner of the 2014 Polaris Music Prize for her album Animism.

These were the nominated albums, released between June 2013 and June 2014 (*short list):

Arcade Fire – Reflektor*

AroarA – In The Pines

Austra – Olympia

Philippe B – Ornithologie, la nuit

BADBADNOTGOOD – III

Basia Bulat – Tall Tall Shadow*

Chromeo – White Women

Cousins – The Halls Of Wickwire

Cowboy Junkies  / Various Artists – The Kennedy Suite

The Darcys – Warring

Dead Obies – Montréal $ud

Mac DeMarco – Salad Days*

DIANA – Perpetual Surrender

Drake – Nothing Was The Same*

Freedom Writers – NOW

Fresh Snow – I

Frog Eyes – Carey's Cold Spring

Gorguts – Colored Sands

Tim Hecker – Virgins

Jimmy Hunt – Maladie d'amour

Jessy Lanza – Pull My Hair Back*

Kalle Mattson – Someday, The Moon Will Be Gold
Greg MacPherson - Fireball

Moonface – Julia With Blue Jeans On

Mounties – Thrash Rock Legacy

Odonis Odonis – Hard Boiled Soft Boiled

Owen Pallett – In Conflict*

Pink Mountaintops – Get Back

PUP – PUP

The Sadies – Internal Sounds

Shad – Flying Colours*

Shooting Guns – Brotherhood Of The Ram

Solids – Blame Confusion

Rae Spoon – My Prairie Home

The Strumbellas – We Still Move On Dance Floors

Tanya Tagaq – Animism*

Thus Owls – Turning Rocks

Timber Timbre – Hot Dreams*

Chad VanGaalen – Shrink Dust

Bry Webb – Free Will

YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN – UZU*

The Polaris Music Prize is a not-for-profit organization that annually honours, celebrates and rewards creativity and diversity in Canadian recorded music by recognizing, then marketing the albums of the highest artistic integrity, without regard to musical genre, professional affiliation, or sales history, as judged by a panel of selected music critics.