I'm absolutely sold on Soft Airplanes. I understand him not winning it with Skelliconnection, I felt like it was missing something, but with this album. Absolutely beautiful, front to back. It has been in heavy rotation in my album playlists since it came out.
I would have loved to see a harder band like Bison B.C (who absolutely kill) make it to the short list, but it seemed this year there were more harder bands nominated than past years, which kind of gives me hope in what direction the Polaris might be going. If Fucked Up wins this year, that would be the first time a harder band wins this thing. Or even a hard band making the short list. I enjoy this.
I'm really hoping Metric doesn't win. I know that each nominee has a brilliant album in their own way. But judging by who is there, Metric could use the money way less than anybody else. Aside from K'Naan they are really the only band with mainstream high rotation.
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