The long list of nominees for the 2008 Polaris Prize, which celebrates Canadian music by giving $20,000 to the creators of the best Canadian album released between Junes, has been announced, and while it seems like Sunset Rubdown are about to get hosed (their Dragonslayer, which is out next week and better than a lot of the albums on the list, isn't eligible until next year), there are some interesting inclusions, including a Leonard Cohen live album, Metric's Fantasies, Fucked Up's The Chemistry of Common Life and Wolf Parade's At Mount Zoomer.

Caribou's excellent Andorra won last year. We won't know who's eligible for the prize until the list of nominees is whittled down to 10 from the 40 listed below. I'm putting my money on Cohen. I'm going to call my bookie right now. 

Arkells, Jackson Square
Jill Barber, Chances
Beast
Bell Orchestre, As Seen Through Windows
Bison B.C., Quiet Earth
Bruce Peninsula, A Mountain Is A Mouth
Cœur De Pirate
Leonard Cohen, Live In London
D-Sisive, Let The Children Die
Elephant Stone, The Seven Seas
Elliott Brood, Mountain Meadows
Fucked Up, The Chemistry Of Common Life
Great Lake Swimmers, Lost Channels
Handsome Furs, Face Control
Tim Hecker, An Imaginary Country
Hey Rosetta!, Into Your Lungs
Japandroids, Post-Nothing
Junior Boys, Begone Dull Care
K-OS, YES!
K’NAAN, Troubadour
La patère rose
Land Of Talk, Some Are Lakes
Lhasa
Malajube, Labyrinthes
Metric, Fantasies
One Hundred Dollars, Forest Of Tears
Pink Mountaintops, Outside Love
Joel Plaskett, Three
Snailhouse, Lies On The Prize
Charles Spearin, The Happiness Project
Rae Spoon, superioryouareinferior
The Stills, Oceans Will Rise
Think About Life, Family
Timber Timbre
Chad VanGaalen, Soft Airplane
Martha Wainwright, I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too
Patrick Watson, Wooden Arms
Wolf Parade, At Mount Zoomer
Women
Woodpigeon, Treasury Library Canada C/W Houndstooth Europe

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