Toronto digital artist Debby Friday has received the 2023 Polaris Music Prize for her debut album Good Luck, which was launched in March through Sub Pop. The album acquired the dignity awarded yearly to the most effective Canadian album of the yr. The album, that includes the standout single “So Laborious to Inform,” earned Debby Friday the annual $50,000 money prize.
A panel of writers, programmers, and broadcasters decide the nominees; 221 albums have been condensed right into a longlist earlier than being narrowed to a 10-album shortlist. The shortlist included Alvvays’ Blue Rev, Feist’s Multitudes, and Daniel Caesar’s By no means Sufficient, plus albums by Aysanabee, Begonia, Dan Mangan, Gayance, the Sadies, and Snotty Nostril Rez Children.
Final yr, Pierre Kwenders received the prize for his album José Louis and the Paradox of Love. Earlier winners embrace Cadence Weapon, Backxwash, Haviah Mighty, Jeremy Dutcher, Lido Pimienta, Arcade Hearth, Tanya Tagaq, Kaytranada, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Fucked Up, Feist, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Caribou.
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