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Sample Track 1:
"This is What We call Progress" from The Besnard Lakes
Sample Track 2:
"Texico Bitches" from Broken Social Scene
Sample Track 3:
"Odessa" from Caribou
Sample Track 4:
"Les Chemins de Verre" from Karkwa
Sample Track 5:
"Robots" from Dan Mangan
Sample Track 6:
"Lewis Takes His Shirt Off" from Owen Pallett
Sample Track 7:
"Guess What?" from Radio Radio
Sample Track 8:
"Another Year Again" from The Sadies
Sample Track 9:
"Rose Garden" from Shad
Sample Track 10:
"Alligator" from Tegan and Sara
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Artist Feature
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Surrey Now Newspaper, Artist Feature >>

POLARIS PRIZE FOR KARKWA

Montreal-based band Karkwa has won the 2010 Polaris Music Prize, which (deep breath...) "honours, celebrates and rewards creativity and diversity in Canadian recorded music by recognizing and marketing the albums of the highest artistic integrity, without regard to musical genre, professional affiliation or sales history, as judged by a panel of selected music critics."

Aside from all the buzz generated by band's big win for its fourth album, Les Chemins De Verre ("The Glass Paths"), the Polaris prize comes with $20,000 cash.

Parts of the winning album were recorded at La Frette studios in Paris, which became something of a "sixth member" of the band as they returned there time and again during their French tour.

Karkwa takes the prize over 10 other short-listed albums by the likes of Broken Social Scene, The Sadies, Dan Mangan and Tegan And Sara.

 09/24/10 >> go there
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