Shame spirals

Jim E. Brown, Kneecap + Toronto live music listings

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks preparing to cast a ballot on the “best” Canadian music of the last 12 months, for the Polaris prize, which of course I’ve been overthinking. (I wrote about some of my favourite Quebec ones last week.) I was also asked by a major publication to send them my list of my top 20 Canadian records of all time, which I did n…