The 2020 Polaris Music Prize Long List was revealed earlier today!
A panel of 201 Canadian jurors considered a total number of 223 albums. The long list will be narrowed down to a short list of 10 nominees and announced on July 15.
See the 40 albums that were chosen for the 2020 Long List below.
The highlighted albums are FACTOR-funded!
Listen to the #FACTORfunded Polaris Long List Nominees 2020 playlist!
Allie X – Cape God
Anachnid – Dreamweaver
Andy Shauf – The Neon Skyline
Aquakultre – Legacy
Backxwash – God Has Nothing to do With This Leave Him Out of It
Badge Époque Ensemble – Badge Époque Ensemble
Begonia – Fear
Caribou – Suddenly
Chocolat – Jazz engagé
Cindy Lee – What’s Tonight to Eternity?
Corridor – Junior
Daniel Caesar – CASE STUDY 01
dvsn – A Muse In Her Feelings
Flore Laurentienne – Volume 1
Ice Cream – FED UP
Jacques Greene – Dawn Chorus
Jessie Reyez – Before Love Came to Kill Us
Joel Plaskett – 44
Junia-T – Studio Monk
Kaytranada – Bubba
Leif Vollebekk – New Ways
Lido Pimienta – Miss Colombia
Louis-Jean Cormier – Quand la nuit tombe
Marie-Pierre Arthur – Des feux pour voir
Men I Trust – Oncle Jazz
nêhiyawak – nipiy
OBUXUM – Re-birth
Owen Pallett – Island
Pantayo – Pantayo
P’tit Belliveau – Greatest Hits Vol. 1
Riit – ataataga
Sarah Harmer – Are You Gone
Super Duty Tough Work – Studies in Grey
The Weeknd – After Hours
U.S. Girls – Heavy Light
Wares – Survival
WHOOP-Szo – Warrior Down
William Prince – Reliever
Witch Prophet – DNA Activation
Zen Bamboo – GLU