As many of you may have gathered the Polaris Jury narrowed down their long list of 40, to a short list of 10 yesterday. The albums that made the cut were:
Artist: Hey Rosetta!
Album: Into Your Lungs (and around your heart and on through your blood)
From: St. John's
Links: Website | MySpace
Album: Into Your Lungs (and around your heart and on through your blood)
From: St. John's
Links: Website | MySpace
If I were choosing the list, it would look a lot more like this, than the list above; in fact, I only expressed a preference for one of the albums on the short list (Chad VanGaalen's Soft Airplane). But, the nature of these sort of competitions is finding some sort of common denominator, which is difficult, given the depth and quality of Canadian music in 2009. Its certainly unfortunate that bands like Bruce Peninsula and the Black Hat Brigade didn't make the short (or, in the case of the latter, the long) list, but its certainly understandable that they're not on the radar screens of jury members outside SW Ontario since I'm fairly certain neither band has ever played out East/West.
That said, if I were a betting man both BP and tBHB are going to get their due i.e. make their way onto some sort of Polaris list - even if their next albums aren't as good - since I'm fairly confident that that's what happened with CVG's Skelliconnection, getting retro-active votes for the far superior Infiniheart. And if you scrolled through the albums on the list, Great Lake Swimmers, K'Naan, and Metric, all kind of seem to me like pretty reasonable cases for 'retrovoteitis' for Great Lake Swimmers, The Dusty Foot Philosopher and Old World Underground respectively.
On the whole, I can't say that I'm entirely disappointed with the list (at least, there's more representation from the T.Dot.Oh), and its nice to see some representation from east to west (just like the Senate!)... now you'll have to excuse me while I look through my inbox to see if I've got an email from Hey Rosetta! with a copy of their album...
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And a humourous list of reasons "Why Your Album Didn't Make the Polaris..." via CHARTattack
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