If you’ve never listened to them, or haven’t since the early albums, be aware that Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra is a very different beast than the Polaris-winning band from which they spun off, Godspeed You! Black Emperor. In fact, through the heaviness and mantra-like shouts, this latest song “Take Away ...

Godspeed You! Black Emperor won this year’s Polaris Music Prize, the annual award for Canadian Album Of The Year as chosen by an 11-person jury of music journalists, broadcasters, and bloggers. Hosted by previous Polaris nominees Kathleen Edwards and Shad, this year’s ceremony was held in Toronto earlier this evening and feat...

The $30,000 prize will be given out at a gala ceremony on September 23    

Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Besnard Lakes, Suuns and Tegan and Sara are also nominated    

I may have heard these songs before. “Mladic” and “We Drift Like Worried Fire,” the two 20-minute slabs of epicness that make up the meat of Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s new album Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!, were in the band’s live rotation when they blinked out of existe...