Posted on 25/09/07
Montreal band's album snares Polaris prize
Toronto -- Montreal's Patrick Watson band won the second annual Polaris Music Prize last night, a $20,000 award chosen by music critics, for the album Close to Paradise. With its atmospheric sound, as if coming from a slightly dark, slightly decrepit carnival, the band beat out such contenders as Feist's The Reminder and Arcade Fire's Neon Bible.
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