The Atlantis Music Prize is a music award annually given to the best full-length album from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, based only on artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales, or record label. The award, established in 2008 by St. John's-based alternative newspaper The Scope, includes a certificate prize of $1000. The award is modeled after the Polaris Music Prize for all of Canada (which in turn is modeled after the Mercury Music Prize in the United Kingdom).
Jury and selection process
No entry fee is required for submission, and all genres of music are included. A shortlist of 10 albums is compiled by more than 30 judges from the area, who each choose five albums, and a second panel of six judges selects the winner at the Atlantis Music Prize Gala.
Mercy, the Sexton, Another Month
AE Bridger, I Am a Ghostly Leech
Duane Andrews, Raindrops
Hey Rosetta!, Into Your Lungs (and around in your heart and on through your blood)
Idlers, Corner
Narrows, Narrows
Slippery Rabbits, La Marée Noire
The Human Soundtrack, Organs for Sale
The Satans, Renovabis Faciem Terrae
Victor Lewis, Good Intentions
Curtis Andrews, The Offering of Curtis Andrews
Amelia Curran, Hunter, Hunter
Chris Kirby, Vampire Hotel
The Class War Kids, Reflection! Rage! Rebellion!
The Dardanelles, The Dardanelles
Errand Boy, Cape Disappointment
Kujo, Kujo
Map to Temenos, O! Sweet Guillotine
The Novaks, Things Fall Apart
The Once, The Once
A tie.
Gramercy Riffs, It’s Heartbreak
Pathological Lovers, Calling All Favours
Colonel Craze and the Hunch, Reptilian Lipstick
Duane Andrews and Dwayne Côté, Duane Andrews and Dwayne Côté
Idlers, Keep Out
Jake Nicoll, Wild Machines
Matthew Hornell and the Diamond Minds, Matthew Hornell and the Diamond Minds
McKudo, Kudos
Sherman Downey, Honey For Bees
The Subtitles, Quick and Painless
All the Wiles, Painted
Andrew O’Brien & The Searchers, Songs for Searchers
The Burning Hell, Flux Capacitor
Casual Male, Bonding
Hey Rosetta!, Seeds
John Cossar, Another Bridge to Burn
Mark Bragg & The Butchers, Your Kiss
Monsterbator, Precious Rhino
Repartee, Repartee
The Once, Row Upon Row of the People They Know
