Arcade Fire at the 2011 Polaris Music Prize GalaThe 2011 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize [ 1] Arcade Fire , for the album The Suburbs Grammy Award for Album of the Year .
For the 2011 award, the prize was increased to $30,000 for the winning musician.[ 1]
The prize's 10-album shortlist was announced on July 6.[ 2]
Arcade Fire , The Suburbs Austra , Feel It Break Braids , Native Speaker Destroyer , Kaputt Galaxie , Tigre et diésel Hey Rosetta! , Seeds Ron Sexsmith , Long Player Late Bloomer Colin Stetson , New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges Timber Timbre , Creep on Creepin' On The Weeknd , House of Balloons The prize's preliminary 40-album longlist was announced on June 16.[ 1]
Arcade Fire , The Suburbs Austra , Feel It Break Black Mountain , Wilderness Heart Braids , Native Speaker Buck 65 , 20 Odd Years Louise Burns , Mellow Drama D-Sisive , Jonestown 2: Jimmy Go Bye Bye The Dears , Degeneration Street Destroyer , Kaputt Diamond Rings , Special Affections Dirty Beaches , Badlands Luke Doucet and the White Falcon , Steel City Trawler Eternia & MoSS , At Last Galaxie , Tigre et diésel Jenn Grant , Honeymoon Punch Tim Hecker , Ravedeath, 1972 Hey Rosetta! , Seeds Hooded Fang , Album Imaginary Cities , Temporary Resident Land of Talk , Cloak and Cipher Little Scream , The Golden Record The Luyas , Too Beautiful to Work Malajube , La caverne Miracle Fortress , Was I the Wave? One Hundred Dollars , Songs of Man Doug Paisley , Constant Companion PS I Love You , Meet Me at the Muster Station Daniel Romano , Sleep Beneath the Willow The Rural Alberta Advantage , Departing Ron Sexsmith , Long Player Late Bloomer Shotgun Jimmie , Transistor Sister Sloan , The Double Cross Frederick Squire , March 12 Stars , The Five Ghosts Colin Stetson , New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges Timber Timbre , Creep on Creepin' On The Weeknd , House of Balloons Women , Public Strain Neil Young , Le Noise Young Galaxy , Shapeshifting
By year Winners
Owen Pallett , He Poos Clouds Patrick Watson , Close to Paradise Caribou , Andorra Fucked Up , The Chemistry of Common Life Karkwa , Les Chemins de verre Arcade Fire , The Suburbs Feist , Metals Godspeed You! Black Emperor , 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! Tanya Tagaq , Animism Buffy Sainte-Marie , Power in the Blood Kaytranada , 99.9% Lido Pimienta , La Papessa Jeremy Dutcher , Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa Haviah Mighty , 13th Floor Backxwash , God Has Nothing to Do with This Leave Him Out of It Cadence Weapon , Parallel World Pierre Kwenders , José Louis and the Paradox of Love Debby Friday , Good Luck Jeremy Dutcher , Motewolonuwok
