The Seldom Seen Kid The Seldom Seen Kid The Seldom Seen Kid is the fourth studio album by English rock band Elbow. It was released by Fiction Records on 17 March 2008 in the United Kingdom and was released by Geffen Records on 22 April 2008 in the United States. The album debuted at number five on the UK Albums Chart and won the Mercury Prize in 2008. The album was recorded at Blueprint Studios in Manchester, and is the first Elbow album to be entirely self-produced, mixed and recorded without any outside help. The bulk of the record was written and performed by
2008 Polaris Music Prize Evelyn Cote ("Ici"), Lana Gay (CBC Radio 3), Kevin Kelly ("Newfoundland Herald"), Joshua Ostroff (AOL Canada), James Stewart Reaney ("London Free Press"), Li Robbins (CBC Radio/"The Globe and Mail"), Hannah Simone (MuchMusic), Darryl Sterdan ("Winnipeg Sun") and Frank Yang ("Chromewaves"). The prize's 10-album shortlist was announced on July 7. On June 12, for the first time in the three-year history of the award, the preliminary 40-album longlist was published. 2008 Polaris Music Prize The 2008 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize was presented on September 30, 2008 at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto. The prize was won by