OPERATION MANATEE MUSIC PRIZE 2017: THE LONG LIST

No longer must you wait to be informed of what were the best albums released this year; the long awaited, highly revered Operation Manatee Music Prize is finally here! Because I went a little nuts with this list last year, and because 2016 saw so damned many good albums compared to this year, I’ve dialed

Operation Manatee Music Prize 2015: The Long List

2015 has been a crazy good year for new music! So good, in fact, that I’ve decided to expand upon my annual Top 5 Albums posts (OpMan Archives: 2014, 2013, 2012), and do a sort of long-list/short-list Polaris rip-off something or other. Below are all contenders for 2015’s Top 5 list. This is based on

Operation Manatee #18: Summah, summah, summah-tIIIIiIIiIiiIIIIIIIme….

Well.. I admit, this one snuck up on me. So much so, that I didn’t have time to find a hilarious picture to encapsulate the wonderfully creative title of the post as well.. (crickets) Is uh… this thing still on…? (louder crickets) As soon as that calendar hit July it seems like all our worries