Juno Award Nominations Announced in Toronto

deadmau5 @ The 2012 Junos

ADULT ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR:

 If I’ve Only One Time Askin’ - Daniel Romano;

The Park Avenue Sobriety Test - Joel Plaskett; 

In My Dreams - Mo Kenney; 

Goon - Tobias Jesso Jr.; 

Leave No Bridge Unburned - Whitehorse

ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR: 

Deep in the Iris -  BRAIDS; 

Poison Season - Destroyer;

Are You Alone? - Majical Cloudz; 

Half Free - U.S. Girls; 

Viet Cong - Viet Cong

WORLD MUSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Alex Cuba Healer 
Boogat Neo-Reconquista 
Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra Productions Revuelta Danza Party 
Lemon Bucket Orkestra Moorka 
The Souljazz Orchestra Resistance

R&B/SOUL RECORDING OF THE YEAR
Alessia Cara Four Pink Walls
August Rigo The Fall Out 
Dru Déjà Vu
Patrick Lehman Butchy's Son
The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness 

REGGAE RECORDING OF THE YEAR
Dubmatix The French Sessions 
Exco Levi Hello Mama 
Kafinal Nah Complain ft. Daddy U Roy
Kreesha Turner Sexy Gal ft. T.O.K.
Lyndon John X Escape from the Mongoose Gang 
 
ABORIGINAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Armond Duck Chief The One 
Black Bear Come and Get Your Love: The Tribe Session 
Buffy Sainte-Marie Power In The Blood 
Derek Miller Rumble 
Don Amero Refined
 
CONTEMPORARY ROOTS ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Alan Doyle So Let's Go 
Buffy Sainte-Marie Power In The Blood 
Fortunate Ones The Bliss
Frazey Ford Indian Ocean
Lee Harvey Osmond Beautiful Scars 
 
TRADITIONAL ROOTS ALBUM OF THE YEAR
J.P. Cormier The Chance
Jayme Stone Jayme Stone's Lomax Project 
Old Man Luedecke Domestic Eccentric 
Pharis and Jason Romero A Wanderer I'll Stay 
The Wainwright Sisters Songs In The Dark 
 
BLUES ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Big Dave McLean Faded But Not Gone 
Blackburn Brothers In This World 
David Gogo Vicksburg Call 
Harrison Kennedy This Is From Here 
Michael Jerome Browne Sliding Delta 

VOCAL JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• New, Alex Pangman
• Live from the Cellar, Dan Brubeck Quartet
• Clear Day, Emilie-Claire Barlow
• This Bitter Earth, Jaclyn Guillou
• Some Version of the Truth, Tara Kannangara

JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR: SOLO

• It's About Time, Al Muirhead
• Dialectics, Curtis Nowosad
• Abeng, Rich Brown
• Movin' Forward, Robi Botos
• Duets, Tara Davidson

JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR: GROUP

• Forest Grove, Allison Au Quartet
• Over My Head, Brad Turner Quartet
• What I Hear Now, Jerry Granelli Trio
• Stealing From My Youth, Mark Kelso & The Jazz Exiles
• Sheer Tyranny of Will, Peripheral Vision

INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• Spin Cycle, Afiara Quartet and Skratch Bastid
• Never Were The Way She Was, Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld
• Orchestral Powwow, Cris Derksen
• Lost Voices, Esmerine
• Legacy Live, Jens Lindemann and  Tommy Banks

VIDEO OF THE YEAR 
Death From Above 1979 "Virgins" (dir. Eva Michon)
PUP "Dark Days" (dir. Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux and Chandler Levack)
Sonreal "For the Town" (dir. Peter Huang)
Kalle Mattson "Avalanche" (dir. Philip Sportel)
Adele "Hello" (dir. Xavier Dolan)