is this letter from Godspeed You! Black Emperor in response to winning a Polaris Music Award.

I think it’s brilliant: angry, sweet, sincere, sloppily poetic, political in a particularly self-aware, two-hearted, 21st-century way.

I don’t know why I took so long to post it. I would post it every day, really–or I’d like to remember to read it every day.

And this, by the way, is how to be an artist who is not co-opted.