Continued commentary on the Polaris Process...

The actual short list:

Black Mountain – In The Future (Vancouver, BC) official site | MySpace	Plants and Animals – Parc Avenue (Montréal, QC) official site | MySpace
Basia Bulat – Oh, My Darling (London, ON) official site | MySpace	Stars – In Our Bedroom After The War (Montréal, QC) official site | MySpace
Caribou – Andorra (Dundas, ON) official site | MySpace	Shad – The Old Prince (London, ON) MySpace
Kathleen Edwards – Asking For Flowers (Ottawa, ON) official site | MySpace	Two Hours Traffic – Little Jabs (Charlottetown, PE) official site | MySpace
Holy Fuck – LP (Toronto, ON) official site | MySpace	The Weakerthans – Reunion Tour (Winnipeg, MB) official site | MySpace

Kudos for including:

• Shad - one of my favourite rap albums in the last year - would've been a top album of last year if I didn't think he was a Shawn Desman clone until I actually heard his music.
• Basia Bulat - another London native who is a terrific performer with an outstanding voice. Probably my most written about performer of 2007 - some videos I took at Aoelian Hall here.
• Two Hours Traffic - who I've heard very little of, but are poppy and fun.

Wag of the finger for including:

• Black Mountain - my thoughts here (hint: its not a pretty comparison to Gilbert Arenas).
• Stars - which, I assume, must be an homage to how good Set Yourself on Fire was and not on the merits of this CD.
• The Weakerthans - see above comment and replace Set Yourself on Fire with either Reconstruction Site, or, alternatively, Left and Leaving.

I'm absolutely shocked that:

The Acorn's Hope Glory Mountain missed the cut.