Angine de Poitrine Wins Both the Polaris Music Prize & SOCAN Polaris Song Prize: Recap & Reaction
Angine de Poitrine earned two of Canada’s top musical honors in the same night.
The band emerged victorious Tuesday (Sept.
22) at the Polaris Concert & Award Ceremony powered by FACTOR at Toronto’s Massey Hall, taking home both the Polaris Music Prize for Vol.
II and the SOCAN Polaris Song Prize for “Fabienk.” The wins were announced simultaneously by two-time Polaris Prize winner Jeremy Dutcher and Tanya van Luven, SOCAN’s chief membership officer, immediately following Angine de Poitrine’s live performance of “Fabienk.” The two did a bit in which van Luven took the stage to announce the Song Prize, and Dutcher joined her to tell her she had the wrong award case.
After second-guessing which was which, they opened both to find the same name: Angine de Poitrine.
As the pair did after winning its first award outside of Quebec, the Billboard Canada Global Breakthrough Award , the duo didn’t drop its wordless alien gimmick to accept the award.
Instead, the Billboard Canada cover stars mimed silently with the vinyl-shaped award until manager Sébastien Collin arrived to give some words on their behalf.
“It’s a great year for all the music scene,” he said.
“Thanks for all the nominees and all the innovative music.” The honors earned Angine de Poitrine two cash prizes including $30,000 for the Album Prize, courtesy of the Slaight Family Foundation, and $10,000 for the Song Prize, which is split between the songwriters and performers.
“That all this attention is being directed toward music this rock-driven and this complex is unexpected, yet entirely deserved,” Collin said in a later statement.
Angine de Poitrine was at home amongst the other shortlisters at the Polaris Music Prize, which values artistic merit above all other factors.
As host Odario Williams of CBC noted, that includes social followers, label affiliation, stream count and genre.
That’s all irrelevant to the award, which is chosen by a jury of over 200 music critics, journalists and curators across the country.
That leads to an eclectic shortlist of albums each year.
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