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# Polaris Music Prize names 40 album Long List 2021
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/polaris-music-prize-names-40-album-long-list-2021/
- Published: 2021-06-16T12:12:08.000Z
- Updated: 2021-06-16T13:33:36.000Z
- Description: The Polaris Music Prize has selected the 2021 Long List of 40 albums for the 2021 edition of the awards. Entries are judged based on artistic merit and not record. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2021/06/polaris-music-prize-names-40-album-long-list-2021.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 09:48

The Polaris Music Prize has selected the 2021 Long List of 40 albums for the 2021 edition of the awards. Entries are judged based on artistic merit and not record sales.

The 2021 ‘long list’ was compiled by a 199 member jury that reviewed 204 albums for the 2021 edition which will award $50,000 to the artist who created the Canadian Album of the Year. Nine other acts will receive $3,000.

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### **2021 Polaris Music Prize Long List**

Art Bergmann – Late Stage Empire Dementia  
Bernice – Eau De Bonjourno  
The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings  
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson – Theory of Ice  
BIG|BRAVE – Vital  
Cadence Weapon – Parallel World  
Charlotte Cardin – Phoenix  
CFCF – memoryland  
Clairmont The Second – IT’S NOT HOW IT SOUNDS  
Helena Deland – Someone New  
DijahSB – Head Above The Waters  
Kathleen Edwards – Total Freedom  
Dominique Fils-Aimé – Three Little Words  
Fiver with the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition – Fiver with the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition  
Thanya Iyer – KIND  
Yves Jarvis – Sundry Rock Song Stock  
Rochelle Jordan – Play With the Changes  
LAL – Meteors Could Come Down  
Daniel Lanois – Heavy Sun  
Thierry Larose – Cantalou  
Russell Louder – Humor  
Elliot Maginot – Easy Morning  
Mustafa – When Smoke Rises  
Laura Niquay – Waska Matisiwin  
Nyssa – Girls Like Me  
The OBGMs – The Ends  
Dorothea Paas – Anything Can’t Happen  
Klô Pelgag – Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs  
Savannah Ré – Opia  
Allison Russell – Outside Child  
Julien Sagot – Sagot  
Sargeant X Comrade – Magic Radio  
Shabason, Krgovich & Harris – Philadelphia  
Yu Su – Yellow River Blue  
Julian Taylor – The Ridge  
TEKE::TEKE – Shirushi  
TOBi – ELEMENTS Vol.1  
Vagina Witchcraft – Vagina Witchcraft  
The Weather Station – Ignorance  
Zoon – Bleached Wavves

**Bruce Houghton* is Founder and Editor of [Hypebot](https://www.hypebot.com/) and [MusicThinkTank](http://www.musicthinktank.com/?ref=hypebot.com) and serves as a Senior Advisor to [Bandsintown](https://www.bandsintown.com/?ref=hypebot.com) which acquired both publications in 2019\. He is also the Founder and President of the[ Skyline Artists Agency](https://skylineonline.com/?ref=hypebot.com) and a professor at the [Berklee College Of Music](https://online.berklee.edu/courses/touring-101?ref=hypebot.com) online.*