Polaris Long List Lazy First Impressions

Much will be said about the Polaris Prize lists... I like to go off the cuff first impressions and leave it at that. Here are all the albums with my thoughts on them 1-5 (with 0 being "I haven't yet heard it"). FIRST! :)

0Apollo Ghosts - Mount Benson (Vancouver)

2Bahamas - Pink Strat (Toronto)

3The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night (Montréal)

0Blue Rodeo - The Things We Left Behind (Toronto)

3Brasstronaut - Mt. Chimaera (Vancouver)

4Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record (Toronto)

4Basia Bulat - Heart Of My Own (London)

0By Divine Right - Mutant Message (Toronto)

3Caribou – Swim (Dundas)

2Jason Collett - Rat A Tat Tat (Toronto)

2Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II) (Toronto)

0Amelia Curran - Hunter Hunter (Halifax)

0Fred Fortin - Plastrer La Lune (Montréal)

0Frog Eyes - Paul's Tomb: A Triumph (Victoria)

3.5Hannah Georgas - This Is Good (Vancouver)

0Ghostkeeper - Ghostkeeper (Calgary)

2Holy Fuck - Latin (Toronto)

0Karkwa - Les Chemins De Verre (Montréal)

0LeE HARVeY OsMOND - A Quiet Evil (Hamilton)

2Greg MacPherson - Mr. Invitation (Winnipeg)

5Dan Mangan - Nice, Nice, Very Nice (Vancouver)

0Misteur Valaire - Golden Bombay (Montréal)

4.5The New Pornographers - Together (Vancouver)

5Owen Pallett - Heartland (Toronto)

3Plants And Animals - La La Land (Montréal)

0Radio Radio - Belmundo Regal (Montréal)

0Justin Rutledge - The Early Widows (Toronto)

0The Sadies - Darker Circles (Toronto)

4Shad - TSOL (London)

0Elizabeth Shepherd - Heavy Falls The Night (Toronto)

0The Slew - 100% (Montréal)

0Meaghan Smith - The Cricket's Orchestra (London)

0South Rakkas Crew - The Stimulus Package (Toronto)

4Tegan And Sara - Sainthood (Vancouver)

0The Wooden Sky - If I Don't Come Home You'll Know I'm Gone (Toronto)

0Hawksley Workman - Meat (Huntsville)

5You Say Party! We Say Die! - XXXX (Vancouver)

3Young Galaxy - Invisible Republic (Montréal)

3Yukon Blonde - Yukon Blonde (Vancouver)

2Zeus - Say Us (Toronto)