Caribou wins Polaris Prize

Dan Snaith aka Caribou deserves it. It a brilliant album and Niobe is a fantastic track and one played by my alias DJ Mumbles. However I still think Two Hours Traffic is the better record and its one which can reclaim radio back for honest muscular pop songs. And is it just me or is there a fey hipster quality to the last winners, Final Fantasy, Patrick Watson and this year Caribou. Its not so diverse after all. The only thing to be garnered from all of this is that if there is consensus among critics on what is good it can't be based on such a subjective thing as taste. It is objective and that places more value on it. Unless all the critics are skinny underappreciated indie kats to begin with and are just voting in mirrors of themselves. And thats just arrogant. An interesting exercise would be to line up the critics with the winners and see if one can tell who is who. Those three bands now represent the best of Canada at this junction and if you consider what used to be considered good Canadian Music then at least we are on the right track. However capable Caribou is he's not pushing the envelope. The avant garde has backed up on itself and now straight up pop is where the progress is. Pity those kats on the jury missed that. Two Hours Traffic will have more traction than Caribou because of its specifics and its locale not despite them.
And at this point I'm voting in Chad Vangalen for next year's.