The jury has spoken! Patrick Watson wins Canada's 2007 Polaris Music Prize! Up against some majorly stiff competition (such as Feist and Arcade Fire), Montreal's Patrick Watson (the name of the singer/songwriter, but also his band) wins the $20,000 award and more importantly the respect of music critics across Canada (ahh hopefully the prize has begun to pick up some steam outside our borders... akin, but not nearly as well known or popular as the UK's Mercury Prize). And massive props to the Maritime Connection -- The Joel Plaskett Emergency as well as New Brunswick's own (and former Eric's Trip'er) Julie Doiron were both nominated. Watson, often compared to Jeff Buckley and Rufus Wainwright has a very luscious and melodic sound -- this is a record you can just put on and go to another place, definitely worth checking out.Here's the mission statement for the Polaris Prize:
MISSION STATEMENT
The operation of a not-for-profit organization that annually honours, celebrates and rewards creativity and diversity in Canadian recorded music by recognizing, then 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 critics and experts.
Nab the torrent here! This torrents picked up a lot of attention, shooting to 200+ seeders in the last few days.
Click here for AMG's review of Close to Paradise. And here's their bio on the band.
Check out the video for "Drifters" off of 2006's "Welcome to Paradise" album:
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