Year-End Lists

Polaris Music Prize: 2012 Award

Winner

• Feist
  Metals

Shortlist

• Cadence Weapon
  Hope in Dirt City
• Cold Specks
  I Predict a Graceful Expulsion
• Drake
  Take Care
• Fucked Up
  David Comes to Life
• Grimes
  Visions
• Handsome Furs
  Sound Kapital
• Japandroids
  Celebration Rock
• Kathleen Edwards
  Voyageur
• Yamantaka // Sonic Titan
  YT//ST

Longlist

• A Tribe Called Red
  A Tribe Called Red
• Ariane Moffatt
  MA
• Avec pas d'casque
  Astronomie
• Azari & III
  Azari & III
• Bahamas
  Barchords
• Blackie and the Rodeo Kings
  Kings and Queens
• Bry Webb
  Provider
• Cannon Bros.
  Firecracker/Cloudglow
• Cœur de pirate
  Blonde
• Dan Mangan
  Oh Fortune
• Great Lake Swimmers
  New Wild Everywhere
• Joel Plaskett Emergency
  Scrappy Happiness
• John K. Samson
  Provincial
• Kathryn Calder
  Bright and Vivid
• Leonard Cohen
  Old Ideas
• Lindi Ortega
  Little Red Boots
• Mares of Thrace
  The Pilgrimage
• Marie-Pierre Arthur
  Aux alentours
• Mark Davis
  Eliminate the Toxins
• Parlovr
  Kook Soul
• Patrick Watson
  Adventures in Your Own Backyard
• PS I Love You
  Death Dreams
• Rich Aucoin
  We’re All Dying to Live
• Rose Cousins
  We Have Made a Spark
• Sandro Perri
  Impossible Spaces
• Shooting Guns
  Born to Deal in Magic: 1952-1976
• The Barr Brothers
  The Barr Brothers
• The Slakadeliqs
  The Other Side of Tomorrow
• The Weeknd
  Echoes of Silence
• Yukon Blonde
  Tiger Talk