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A Look at the Polaris Long List: 37. The Weeknd – House of Balloons
Regular readers already know how I feel about this album. And you know what? I keep playing it and it keeps sounding better. The hype is real! Whether homeboy can do his thing live will be revealed at the Molson Amphitheater at the end of this month when the second incarnation of the to be […]
A Look at the Polaris Long List: 36. Timber Timbre – Creep On Creepin’ On
Download Timber Timbre Black WaterDownload Timber Timbre Black Water [MP3] Timber Timbre‘s Creep On Creepin’ On was definitely one of the better albums on the Polaris Long List. If the primary yardstick by which these album are measured for awarding the prize is their level creativity and originality, these guys should really be considered shoe-ins […]
A Look at the Polaris Long List: 31. Shotgun Jimmie – Transistor Sister
This might have been the worst album I listened to on the entire Polaris Long List. I hate to spread negativity but there was a small but vocal contingent on the jury pool who were waving the flag hard for this album. So I was by no means expecting the terrible 90’s MTV crossover alt. […]
A Look at the Polaris Long List: 28. Daniel Romano – Sleep Beneath the Willow
If I was turned off by the fact that Doug Paisley was a little too light on the alternative quotient in his supposed ‘alt. country’, Daniel Romano was like kryptonite to my ears by comparison. Maybe this is actually great and it’s execution of a down-the-middle trad. country sound (at least it didn’t sound like […]
A Look at the Polaris Long List: 27. PS I Love You – Meet Me at the Muster Station
When I first played this I wrote, “got some energy to it, reminds me of Passion Pit and MGMT.” Still stand by that, especially as compared to a lot of downtempo, ethereal fare that seemed to populate the Long List, but I’m 50-50 on the band references now. There’s definitely shades of those two band’s […]