DNTTA Playlist for May 23, 2014

Artist - Song - Album (Label)
* indicates Canadian Content 

CFCF - Bowl* - Music for Objects (Paper Bag)
Mark Mills - Escape Artist* - Triple Fire Sign (Independent)
HLDN - In the Stars* - In the Stars (Independent)
Tensnake - Kill the Time - Glow (Virgin)
Christian Loffler - Notes - Young Alaska (Ki)
Me Succeeds - Rongorongo (Arp Aubert remix) - Rongorongo Remixed (Ki)
Colo - The View from Nowhere - Ur (Ki)
Men Without Hats - Editions of You* - Greatest Hats (Aquarius)
Shriekback - Fish Below the Ice - Oil and Gold (Island)
M0 - Maiden - No Mythologies to Follow (Glassnote)
Manitoba - Bijoux* - Up in Flames (Merge)

DNTTA Playlist for May 16, 2014

Artist - Song - Album (Label)
* indicates Canadian Content 

Black Mountain - Set Us Free* - Black Mountain (Scratch)
The Pixies - What Does Boom - Indy Cindy (PIAS)
The Pixies - Bagboy - Indy Cindy (PIAS)
Howler - In the Red - World of Joy (Rough Trade)
Role Mach - Holy Shades of Night* - Holy Shades of Night EP 7" (Independent)
Role Mach - Hobgoblin Blues* - Holy Shades of Night EP 7" (Independent)
Village - Stranger Thoughts* - Stranger Thoughts EP (Independent)
Mudhoney - Mudride - Superfuzz Bigmuff (Sub Pop)
Walrus - Bulash* - Glam Returns EP (Out of Sound)
Shooting Guns - Taylor St. Champagne Room* - House of Burner (Pre-Rock)
The Thermals - When I Died - Now We Can See (Kill Rock Stars)
Nash the Slash - Dead Man's Curve* - Children of the Night (Dindisk)

Best of 2013 #5: John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts (Partisan)

My pic for #5 album of 2013 wasn't a favourite when I first heard it. It took several listens for me to start to hear the brilliance within. At first, I found the album a jarring mix of styles that didn't really fit together. John Grant comes from a roots/indy pop background, starting with a Colorado based band called the Czars. His first solo album in 2010, Queen of Denmark, was a lush indy pop album. His follow up, Pale Green Ghosts, was nothing like his debut. Grant has a dense, rich baritone voice well suited for indy pop, but clashed greatly with the music in Pale Green Ghosts, which was performed by Biggi Viera of the lush, experimental Icelandic electronic band GusGus. As I said, the two styles don't fit together easily, but settled down into a dense, atmospheric and almost funky groove upon multiple listens. As typical for Icelandic bands, more depth reveals itself after long sessions with headphones. This album is a grower, and not for the casual listener. You'll find more and more the deeper you dig.

DNTTA Playlist May 9, 2014

Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - (Relax) You Will Think You Are a Chicken* - Sport Fishin' (Cargo)
Pif Paf Hangover - Bombay* - Curry Love (The Good People)
Medicine - Time Baby III - The Crow OST (Atlantic)
Phono D'Enfant - I Wear the Scarf She Made* - The Wild Rose That Is (Independent)
Mark Mills - #Moms* - #Moms EP (Independent)
Sounds Around - Season* - Psych Pop 2 (Optical Sounds)
The Civil Wars - Billie Jean - Between the Bars EP (Columbia)
Mecca Normal - 1922* - The Observer (Kill Rock Stars)
Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone - Violent Femmes (Slash)
The Frolics - Love* - Sippin' Lemonade (Independent)
The Frolics - Fame* - Sippin' Lemonade (Independent)
Tough Mitts - First, Do No Harm* - Tough Mitts EP (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for May 2, 2014

Artist - Song - Album (Label)
* indicates Canadian Content

Cygnets - The Girl That I'll Exit With* - Bleak Anthems (Independent)
Solvent - Sender* - New Ways (Suction)
Gary Numan - I Dream of Wires - Telekon (Beggar's Banquent)
Sabota - Teacher* - Sabota (Hybridity)
Ghost Beach - Without You - Blonde (Nettwerk)
Small Black - Proper Spirit - Limits of Desire (Jagjaguwar)
Mussolini Headkick - Europe - Themes for Violent Retribution (Wax Trax)
Thievery Corporation - Bateau Rouge - Saudade (ESL)
Metronomy - Love Letters - Love Letters (Because)
Top Men - Drop the Hammer* - Top Men (Independent)
Model Clocks - Scribblers* - Mabel (Independent)