Blog: MBV

David Waldman So yesterday was P-Day - the announcement of the short list for the fourth annual Polaris Music Prize - and perhaps the biggest surprise with the results was the fact that there weren't any surprises. Of the ten, six were previously nominees from years past which, some might say, just shows they're among the country's elite artists and while they may well be, I can say personally that few of the final ten albums really stirred me in a significant way - certainly not as much as any of the ones on [...]

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