The NxEW "Long List" - (Our Top 40 - if we'd done that)

I said earlier that our answers to the best album(s) question would be much different than the Polaris Jury's. "The "Long" list - our long list was way longer than this, but if we had narrowed it down to a Top 40 - a Polaris Style "Long List" this is what ours would have looked like. Tomorrow morning I'll publish the top 20 and voting in the next round (to take us to a Top 10) will start.

AC Newman - Get Guilty
Andrew Vincent - Rotten Pear
the Arkells - Jackson Square
Bend Sinister - Stories of Brothers - Tales of Lovers
Black Hat Brigade - Fathers
Bruce Peninsula - AMIAM
the Burning Hell - Baby
the CFL Sessions
Chad Van Gaalen - Soft Airplane
Cour de Pirate - Self Titled
The Dears - Missiles
Deep Dark Woods - Winter Hours
Dog is Blue - Makes Ghost Noises
Elliot Brood - Mountain Meadows
Gentleman Reg - Jet Black
Great Bloomers - Speak of Trouble
Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels
Handsome Furs - Face Control
Hey Rosetta! - Into Your Lungs
Hot Panda - Volcano Bloody Volcano
Jenn Grant - Echoes
Jill Barber - Chances
Joel Plaskett - Three
Jon-Rae Fletcher - Oh Maria
Julie Doiron - I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day
Kyrie Kristmanson
Laura Barrett -Victory Garden
Land Of Talk - Some Are Lakes
Mark Berube - What the Boat Gave the River
Metric - Fantasies
Mother Mother - O My
Olenka and the Autumn Lovers - self titled
Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
Rah Rah - Going Steady
Rock Plaza Central - At The Moment Of Our Most Needing ...
Said The Whale - Howe Sounds/Taking Abalonia
Sunparlour Players - Wave North
Timbre Timbre - self titled
Women - Self Titled
Woodpigeon - Treasury Library Canada