Year-End Lists

Polaris Music Prize: 2025 Award

Winner

• Yves Jarvis
  All Cylinders

Shortlist

• Bibi Club
  Feu de garde
• Lou-Adriane Cassidy
  Journal d'un Loup-Garou
• Marie Davidson
  City of Clowns
• Mustafa
  Dunya
• Nemahsis
  Verbathim
• Population II
  Maintenant Jamais
• Ribbon Skirt
  Bite Down
• Saya Gray
  Saya
• The OBGMs
  Sorry, It's Over

Longlist

• Antoine Corriveau
  Oiseau de Nuit
• Ariane Roy
  Dogue
• Art d'Ecco
  Serene Demon
• Backxwash
  Only Dust Remains
• Basia Bulat
  Basia's Palace
• Bells Larsen
  Blurring Time
• Caribou
  Honey
• Choses Sauvages
  Choses Sauvages III
• Cold Specks
  Light for the Midnight
• Destroyer
  Dan's Boogie
• Donovan Woods
  Things Were Never Good If They're Not Good Now
• Dorothea Paas
  Think of Mist
• Eliza Niemi
  Progress Bakery
• Gloin
  All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)
• Hildegard
  Jour 1596
• Kaia Kater
  Strange Medicine
• Kelly McMichael
  After the Sting of It
• Klô Pelgag
  Abracadabra
• Men I Trust
  Equus Asinus
• Mike Shabb
  Sewaside III
• Myriam Gendron
  Mayday
• N Nao
  Nouveau Langage
• Quinton Barnes
  Code Noir
• Richard Laviolette
  All Wild Things Are Shy
• Rick White and the Sadies
  Rick White and the Sadies
• Sister Ray
  Believer
• Snotty Nose Rez Kids
  Red Future
• The Weather Station
  Humanhood
• Wyatt C. Louis
  Chandler
• Yoo Doo Right
  From the Heights of Our Pastureland