Year-End Lists

Polaris Music Prize: 2011 Award

Winner

• Arcade Fire
  The Suburbs

Shortlist

• Austra
  Feel It Break
• Braids
  Native Speaker
• Colin Stetson
  New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
• Destroyer
  Kaputt
• Galaxie
  Tigre et diesel
• Hey Rosetta!
  Seeds
• Ron Sexsmith
  Long Player Late Bloomer
• The Weeknd
  House of Balloons
• Timber Timbre
  Creep On Creepin’ On

Longlist

• Black Mountain
  Wilderness Heart
• Buck 65
  20 Odd Years
• D-Sisive
  Jonestown 2: Jimmy Go Bye Bye
• Daniel Romano
  Sleep Beneath the Willow
• Diamond Rings
  Special Affections
• Dirty Beaches
  Badlands
• Doug Paisley
  Constant Companion
• Eternia & MoSS
  At Last
• Frederick Squire
  March 12
• Hooded Fang
  Album
• Imaginary Cities
  Temporary Resident
• Jenn Grant
  Honeymoon Punch
• Land of Talk
  Cloak and Cipher
• Little Scream
  The Golden Record
• Louise Burns
  Mellow Drama
• Luke Doucet and the White Falcon
  Steel City Trawler
• Malajube
  La caverne
• Miracle Fortress
  Was I the Wave?
• Neil Young
  Le Noise
• One Hundred Dollars
  Songs of Man
• PS I Love You
  Meet Me at the Muster Station
• Shotgun Jimmie
  Transistor Sister
• Sloan
  The Double Cross
• Stars
  The Five Ghosts
• The Dears
  Degeneration Street
• The Luyas
  Too Beautiful to Work
• The Rural Alberta Advantage
  Departing
• Tim Hecker
  Ravedeath, 1972
• Women
  Public Strain
• Young Galaxy
  Shapeshifting