firstly, this should not be a canadian but a montreal-toronto-and ad hoc vancouver competition, don't get me started... its a circle jerk for the scenesters in these cities, but anyway, some thoughts:
Arkells - Jackson Square
Jill Barber - Chances
Beast - Beast
Bell Orchestre - As Seen Through Windows - no... no... no... do you like the arcade fire, yah, well check out a side project... ok lets nominate it
Bison B.C. - Quiet Earth - eat your heart out stoner rock, amazing album by ex deadly snakes guys... went under the radar for the most part this year, sadly
Bruce Peninsula - A Mountain Is A Mouth - strong album but makes me ask what about entire cities if this is nominated
Cœur De Pirate - Cœur De Pirate
Leonard Cohen - Live In London - leonard cohen wins every award ever by default, he should not even be on this list...
D-Sisive - Let The Children Die
Elephant Stone - The Seven Seas
Elliott Brood - Mountain Meadows
Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Common Life - if thier was a award for great live acts maybe, but not a great album
Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels - great lake swimmers (along with snailhouse) should win the prize for the artist who constantly add to my sad middle class white boy soundtrack... great album
Handsome Furs - Face Control
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country - im just happy hecker was nominated
Hey Rosetta - Into Your Lungs
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care
K'NAAN - Troubadour
K-OS - YES
La patère rose - La patère rose
Land Of Talk - Some Are Lakes - a decent follow up to thier first amazings, and deeply underated album
Lhasa - Lhasa - not 'mainstream' scenster enough to win, which is a shame
Malajube - Labyrinthes
Metric - Fantasies - crap crap crap over hyped crap
One Hundred Dollars - Forest Of Tears
Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love - as always pink mountaintops don't dissapoint but not their strongest release
Joel Plaskett - Three
Snailhouse - Lies On The Prize - i will always have a soft spot for snailhouse
Charles Spearin - The Happiness Project - riding the coat tail of his bands and the books, nothing impressive, unlike ohed's band years which put out a great s/t release
Rae Spoon - superioryouareinferior
The Stills - Oceans Will Rise - crap
Think About Life - Family - crap times a million which is sad as thier first album is amazing
Timber Timbre - Timber Timbre - unique and surprisingly great album, takes a few listens but each time it grows, this is my darkhorse pick
Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane - really not much not to like about chad vg
Martha Wainwright - I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too
Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer - as much as i enjoy wolf parade, and this album, it's by far not the best album of the year
Women - Women - this should win, best album of the year hands down!!!
Woodpigeon - Treasury Library Canada C/W Houndstooth Europa
i could write a lot more but these are the things that first off stand out... 20 days until the short list which i will bitch about when it comes... maybe ill make my national omissions short list to go along with it...
all images by the late Gordon Matta-Clark
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