Year-End Lists

Polaris Music Prize: 2021 Award

Winner

• Cadence Weapon
  Parallel World

Shortlist

• DijahSB
  Head Above the Waters
• Dominique Fils-Aimé
  Three Little Words
• Klô Pelgag
  Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs
• Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
  Theory of Ice
• Mustafa
  When Smoke Rises
• The OBGMs
  The Ends
• The Weather Station
  Ignorance
• Tobi
  Elements Vol. 1
• Zoon
  Bleached Wavves

Longlist

• Allison Russell
  Outside Child
• Art Bergmann
  Late Stage Empire Dementia
• Bernice
  Eau de Bonjourno
• Big Brave
  Vital
• CFCF
  Memoryland
• Charlotte Cardin
  Phoenix
• Clairmont The Second
  It's Not How It Sounds
• Daniel Lanois
  Heavy Sun
• Dorothea Paas
  Anything Can't Happen
• Elliot Maginot
  Easy Morning
• Fiver with the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition
  Fiver with the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition
• Helena Deland
  Someone New
• Julian Taylor
  The Ridge
• Kathleen Edwards
  Total Freedom
• LAL
  Meteors Could Come Down
• Laura Niquay
  Waska Matisiwin
• NYSSA
  Girls Like Me
• Rochelle Jordan
  Play with the Changes
• Russell Louder
  Humor
• Julien Sagot
  Sagot
• Sargeant X Comrade
  Magic Radio
• Savannah Ré
  Opia
• Shabason, Krgovich & Harris
  Philadelphia
• Teke::Teke
  Shirushi
• Thanya Iyer
  Kind
• The Besnard Lakes
  The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings
• Thierry Larose
  Cantalou
• Vagina Witchcraft
  Vagina Witchcraft
• Yu Su
  Yellow River Blue
• Yves Jarvis
  Sundry Rock Song Stock