Blocks Recording Club

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Blocks Recording Club is a Canadian cooperative of musicians, which serves as both a collaborative artist community and a record label for its member artists. The label's name may also be cited graphically as □ □ □ □ □ □ rather than the word "Blocks".

Artists who have released material through Blocks include Final Fantasy, Bob Wiseman, Barcelona Pavilion, Les Mouches, Ninja High School, Hank and The Creeping Nobodies.

Final Fantasy's second album on Blocks, He Poos Clouds, was named the winner of the inaugural Polaris Music Prize in 2006. Owen Pallett, the artist behind the Final Fantasy project, announced that he would donate a significant portion of his prize money to the label to help other artists.