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• Patrick Watson puts out the Fire

  September 28, 2007 @ 6:44 am | by Jim Carroll

  Montreal’s Patrick Watson - who plays Dublin’s Ambassador on November 13th - won this year’s Polaris Music Prize for his Close To Paradise album at an event in Toronto on Monday.

  There were 10 albums in the running, including Arcade Fire, Feist, The Besnard Lakes and Miracle Fortress, but the media jury gave the nod on the night to Watson’s epic melancholic pop.

  Besides the Can$20,000 (€14,000) prize and the giant novelty cheque, Watson can expect to see a significant sales and PR bump for the album as a result of the win.
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September 28, 2007
12:46 pm
A great prospect, I got the album during the week. A more experimental Jeff Buckley perhaps?? Even looks a bit like him…?! Supporting Cold War Kids seems to make sense to me, too.
Comment by Waffler
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September 30, 2007
10:38 am
Just got to listen to the album this week - very nice stuff (even though, as a pop kid, I’d be more of a Feist man myself).
Comment by aidan

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