Indie rockers Arcade Fire continue to rack up awards this year, taking home a 2011 Polaris Prize at the Canadian event held last night (September 19) in Toronto, reports Spinner.
The band beat out several other notable performers – including The Weeknd, Ron Sexsmith, Austra, Braids, and Hey Rosetta! – with their critically-acclaimed new album, The Suburbs. The honor also comes with a $30,000 prize.
The invite-only event was co-hosted by Damian Abraham, who won the 2009 Polaris Prize with his hardcore punk band F—ed Up. Arcade Fire attended the ceremony but did not perform; although several other nominees took the stage, including Austra, Braids and Timber Timbre.
The 2011 awards season has been especially generous to Arcade Fire: in a surprise upset, they took home the Grammy for album of the year, followed by both Juno and Brit Awards for their new album.
Their third studio album, The Suburbs was released in August 2010, a follow-up to the 2007 album, Neon Bible, which had also been nominated for a Polaris Prize but lost out to Patrick Wilson’s Close to Paradise.