
I'm not sure why I'm bothering with this exercise in futility, save for the fact that I'll be away on vacation by the time you read this, and won't be returning to write new posts until well after the dust has settled on the Polaris Music Prize Short List for 2012. It's been a polarizing Polaris year for me, probably one of the hardest I've participated in yet. There's been a wealth of "good" records from the 2011-2012 nomination year, but for my personal taste, there's been little in the way of "great" records [...]