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"The Polaris Awards have announced their shortlist of 10 albums that are up for the 2012 prize, including Drake&amp;apos;s Take Care, Feist&amp;apos;s Metals, Japandroids&amp;apos; Celebration Rock, Grimes&amp;apos; Visions, and Fucked Up&amp;apos;s David Comes to Life. Also included are Handsome Furs&amp;apos; Sound Kapital, Kathleen Edwards&amp;apos; Voyageur, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan&amp;apos;s YT // ST, rapper Cadence Weapon&amp;apos;s Hope in Dirt City, and Cold Specks&amp;apos; I Predict a Graceful Expulsion.  The final nominees were announced today at the Drake Hotel in Toronto at an event hosted by CBC Radio 3&amp;apos;s Craig Norris. Now in its seventh year, the Polaris Music Prize awards $30,000 to the artist responsible for Canadian Album of the Year, which is chosen by a jury of over 200 members of the Candian music media. The other nine nominees receive $2,000 courtesy of Slaight Music. Albums are &amp;quot;judged solely on artistic merit, without consideration of genre or record sales,&amp;quot; a statement reads.  Cadence Weapon, Feist, Fucked Up and Kathleen Edwards are the only artists in this year&amp;apos;s final 10 who have made the shortlist twice. Cadence Weapon&amp;apos;s Breaking Kayfabe was nominated in 2006, Feist&amp;apos;s breakout The Reminder was in 2007, Edwards&amp;apos; Asking for Flowers was in 2008 and Fucked Up&amp;apos;s The Chemistry of Common Life took home the grand prize in 2009.  Back in June, Polaris announced its long list of nominees. Notable omissions on the shortlist including Leonard Cohen&amp;apos;s Old Ideas, The Weeknd&amp;apos;s Echoes of Silence and 2007 winner Patrick Watson&amp;apos;s Adventures in Your Own Backyard.  This year&amp;apos;s winner will be announced at the Polaris gala on September 24th. The event &amp;#x2013; which will follow the actual voting &amp;#x2013; will feature performances from the artists on the shortlist and will stream live on Muchmusic."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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