Patrick Watson's 2006 cd Close to Paradise recently won the Polaris Prize for Canada's top album of the year. The track "The Great Escape" is one reason why.
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MMB's Top 2007 Singles
- Lightning Dust "Highway"
- A Fine Frenzy "Almost Lover"
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- Darren Hanlon "Happiness is a Chemical"
- Immaculate Machine "Jarhand"
- Darren Hayman "The Protons and the Neutrons"
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- Tullycraft "The Girl Who's Above Us"
- Static of the Gods "Pushback"
- Rilo Kiley "Dreamworld"
- Anthony Hamilton "Do You Feel Me"
- The Chromatics "In the City"
- The Thrills "Midnight Choir"
- Leona Lewis "Bleeding Love"
- Ingrid Michaelson "The Way I Am"
- Over The Rhine "Don't Wait For Tom"
- Johnathan Rice "We're All Stuck Out Here in the Desert"
- Iron and Wine "Flightless Bird, American Mouth"
- The Blakes "Two Times"
- Roddy Woomble "Every Line of a Long Moment"
- Tegan and Sara "Speak Slowly"
- Stars "Elevator Love Letter"
- Amandine "Faintest of Sparks"
- Ani DiFranco "Both Hands"
- A Fine Frenzy "You Picked Me"
- Chris and Thomas "Take These Thoughts"
- Spoon "Black Like Me"
- Golden Boy feat. Miss Kittin "Rippin Kittin"
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- The North Atlantic "Bottom of This Town"
- Nicole Atkins "Neptune City"
- Jason Isbell "Dress Blues"
- Regina Spektor "On The Radio"
- The Snake The Cross The Crown "Cakewalk"
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- Pink & Noseworthy "Balls"
- KT Tunstall "Hold On"
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- Pela "Tenement Teeth"
- One Republic "Apologize"
- Fields "Charming the Flames"
- Iron and Wine "Boy With A Coin"
- Elisa "Dancing"
- The National "Fake Empire"
- Walter the Orange Ocean "A State Away"
- Feist "So Sorry"
- William Elliott Whitmore "One Man's Shame"
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- Ash "Starcrossed"
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- Blonde Redhead "Silently"
- Let's Go Sailing "Sideways"
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- Cold War Kids "Hang Me Up To Dry"
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- The Shins "Girl Sailor"
- Sherwood "Song in my Head"
- Decemberists "O Valencia"
- Unkle Bob "Swans"
- Josh Ritter "Girl in the War"
- Guillemots "Sao Paulo"
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- The Format "Oceans"
- Explosions in the Sky "Welcome Ghosts"
- Feist "So Sorry"
- William Elliott Whitmore "One Man's Shame"
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- Ani DiFranco "Canon"
- Chris and Thomas "Land of Sea"
- A Fine Frenzy "One Cell in the Sea"
- Explosions in the Sky "All of the Sudden I Miss Everyone"
- Amandine "Solace in Sore Hands"
- St. Vincent "Marry Me"
- Josh Ritter "The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter"
- Band of Horses "Cease to Begin"
- Amy Winehouse "Back to Black"
- Darren Hanlon "Fingertips and Mountaintops"
- Bat for Lashes "Fur and Gold"
- Regina Spektor "Begin To Hope"
- The Shins "Wincing the Night Away"
- The National "Boxer"
- The White Stripes "Icky Thump"
- Eleni Mandell "The Miracle of Five"
- Immaculate Machine "Immaculate Machine's Fables"
- Fall Out Boy "Infinity On High"
- Let's Go Sailing "The Chaos in Order"
- Keren Ann "Keren Ann"
- William Elliott Whitmore "Song of the Blackbird"
- Bjork "Volta"
- Bruce Springsteen "Magic"
- Radiohead "In Rainbows"
- Bright Eyes "Cassadaga"
- Peter Bjorn & John "Writer's Block"
- Blonde Redhead "23"
- Kate Nash "Made of Bricks"
- LCD Soundsystem "Sound of Silver"
- Fields "Everthing Last Winter"
- Of Montreal "Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?"
- Fionn Regan "The End of History"
- The Hush Sound "Like Vines"
- Arcade Fire "Neon Bible"
- Wilco "Sky Blue Sky"
- Joseph Arthur "Let's Just Be"
- Avett Brothers "Emotionalism"
- Derek Webb "The Ringing Bell"
- Spoon "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga"
- The Snake The Cross The Crown "Cotton Teeth"
- Walter the Orange Ocean "Restless or Sleeping"
- Stars "In Our Bedroom After the War"
- A Fine Frenzy "One Cell in the Sea"
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