I was curious about who's MU's pick for the Polaris prize would be. This isn't a very open topic -- the Polaris Music Prize is a Canadian award so I wouldn't be surprized if very few if anyone heard about some of these bands.
Past winners are Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy), and Patrick Watson. It's still a new award modeled after the UK Mercury Music Prize but for the 'best' album Canadian album of the year. The criteria isn't sales, one criteria is creativity -- how they rate this I have no idea.... ah, here's the wiki link: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris_Music_Prize[/url]

[url]http://www.polarismusicprize.ca/[/url]

Ah the poll goes
Artist - Album

Ah, I should have posted this a while back.... the award is announced at the end of the week.

Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?