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A Look at the Polaris Long List: 35. Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges

Colin Stetson‘s New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges is exactly the kind of album the Polaris Music Prize was created for. Music that pushes creative and artistic boundaries without any regard for commercial concerns

For those not knowing (which, admittedly, included myself prior to joining the Polaris jury), Steson is a respected saxophonist known for recording and performing with Arcade Fire, Bon Iver and other luminaries in the new indie rock scene. For his own album, he decided to another route than the stadium indie anthems of his colleagues’ Grammy awarding winning album, The Suburbs. There is nary a conventional song on the album, much less anything that would pass for a hit record. If I had to reference it against other music, well that’s kind of f-cking difficult frankly but, mix Miles DavisBitches Brew, Radiohead‘s Kid A and some ole’ Phillip Glass sh-t together and maybe you’d be partway to approximating what Stetson has come up with here.

For those whose conception of what music is is shaped by radio and music videos, New History Warfare Vol. 2 is probably a difficult verging on impossible listen, microwave LCD blog rap this is most certainly not. But stick with it, the rewards are worth it, kind of like the All for Nothing book I’m reading right now by Rachel K. Ward. Not to digress and get all kinds of sexist here but speaking of that book, who knew such a fox could be so brain meltingly smart and cool at the same time??!

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