DNTTA Playlist for May 25, 2018

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

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Junior Boys - Last Exit* - Last Exit (Domino)
Redress - Gorgon* - Gorgon (Independent)
Tovi - Passenger Seat* - Midnight Hum (Independent)
WYVZ - Meaning Found* - Triangle (Independent)
Always a Bad Thing - Acid Pronoun Burn* - Always a Bad Thing (Baffled Octopi)
Makeness - Who Am I To Follow Love - Loud Patterns (Secretly Canadian)
Jayne Murray - I Cleaned My House* - I Cleaned My House (Independent)
The Herbaliser - Gadget Funk - You Don't Know (Ninjatune)

DNTTA Playlist for May 18, 2018

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

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Les Handclaps -  J’en ai Assez* - Cliche (Blow the Fuse)
Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 1 - New York Noise (Soul Jazz)
Frightened Rabbit - Backyard Skulls - Pedestrian Verse (Clash)
Fanny Bloom - Jure Crache* - Liqueur (Grosse Boite)
Royksopp - Vision One - Junior (Astralwerks)
Front 242 - Quite Unusual - Official Version (RRE)
Charlotte Day Wilson - Falling Apart* - Stone Woman (Independent)
Braggarts - Different Light - Exploring New Stars (Ambulance)
Schulz - React* - What Crisis (Sudden Death)
Fred Cracklin - Cold Spring Full Circle* - Looming Spook (Cuchabata)
Dungen - Bortglund - Dat Te Lungt (Domino)
Matteo Liberatore - Barrea - Solos (Innova)

DNTTA Playlist for May 11, 2018

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

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Eric Chenaux - There’s Our Love* - Slowly Paradise (Constellation)
Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette - Late Lament - After the Fall (ECM)
Glen Hall/Bernie Koenig/MJ Idzerda - Let’s Take a Moment* - Three Way Conversation (Slam)
David Mott/Vinny Golia - Ostenatious* - Have You Heard? (Pet Mantis)
The Buddha Belly - The Marching Powder* - Orchards (Ulusulu)
Mazzle - Alone Together - Genetically Modified Art (Independent)
Peripheral Vision - Chubby Cello* - More Songs About Error and Shame (Independent)
Ken Nordine - Flibberty Jib - The Best of Word Jazz, Vol. 1 (Rhino)
Map 71 - One Dimensional Bang - Gloriosa (Fourth Dimension)
Andrew Hadro - View from Without - For Us, the Living II (Tone Rogue)
\\livingfossil// - Macrophages* - Never Die! (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for May 4, 2018

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

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I Am Spoonbender - October Blurred By* - Sender/Receiver (Mint)
Jaunt - Faster Interactions* - Cue EP (Independent)
The Human Statues - The Man on the Radio* - The Human Statues (Independent)
Sunglaciers - Sleepwalk City* - Twin Evil Twin EP (Independent)
Never Betters - Pictures* - Guns and Roses' Roses (Grooves)
LAPS - Another* - LAPS/La Fete Split EP (Independent)
Rampant Lion - Fix Me Up* - Songs for Loves Lost (Independent)
Cousins - Jules* - The Palm at the End of the Mind (Saved by Vinyl)
Ceremony - Adult - Zoo (Matador)
Ensign Broderick - Dead Feelings* - Feast of Panthers (Six Shooter)
Owen - No Language - At Home with Owen (Polyvinyl)
Ringo Deathstarr - Prisms - Shadow EP (Sonic Unyon)

Best of 2017 #7: Alvvays - Antisocialites (Royal Mountain)

Toronto-based band Alvvays' 2014 debut was an album I didn't hear in time for it to make my best of list that year, but if I had heard it, rest assured, it would have been near the top of the chart. Their 2017 album Antisocialites sees the band tightening up their willowy post-punk tinged indy rock and smoothing down the edges of their punky debut's leaning. While their new album lacks the wild abandon of some of the more shambling bits of their debut, and also misses out on the transcendent feel of "Archie, Marry Me" (which seemed to be everywhere in 2014-5), it does have a focus the debut lacked. This album is a few steps behind and ahead of the debut, and is no less enjoyable.

DNTTA Playlist for April 27, 2018

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

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The Floor - Seconds Later* - Doll EP (Independent)
Francois Couture - Sea Song* - Ballades por Elle (Cuchubata)
Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill - Slowdive (Dead Oceans)
Nap Eyes - Sage* - I'm Bad Now (You've Changed)
Moby - The Tired and the Hurt - Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt (Arts and Crafts)
US Girls - Pearly Gates* - In a Poem Unlimited (Royal Mountain)
They Might Be Giants - Push Back the Hands - I Like Fun (Idlewild)
The Submissives - Don`t Worry* - Pining for a Boy (Egg Paper Factory)
Chris-a-Riffic - Memorial Cup* - Post-Season (Independent)
Hi-Ranger - Warble* - Hi-Ranger (Independent)
Co-Op - New Motive Power* - 2nd View (Independent)
Buffalo Tom - Roman Cars - Quiet and Peace (Schoolkids)

DNTTA Playlist for April 20, 2018

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

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DS Lori - Tender Seal* - DS Lori (Independent)
The Thermals - A Pillar of Salt - The Body, the Blood, the Machine (Sub Pop)
The Thermals - Returning to the Fold - The Body, the Blood, the Machine (Sub Pop)
Mike Mikus - Plastic Veggies* - Mike Mikus (Independent)
Pizza Bath - North Star* - You Are What You Eat (Independent)
Ponctuation - Nada Brahma* - Mon Herbier du Monde Entier (Blow the Fuse)
Anmls - No Nos Ven - Anmls (Slovenly)
Hyness - Resistor* - The End of Music (Independent)
Actors - Face Meets Glass* - It Will Come to You (Artoffact)
Yamantaka//Sonic Titan - Dark Waters* - Dirt (Paper Bag)
Suuns - Baseline* - Felt (Secret City)
Bort - Hello Mr. Thompson* - Crossing the Desert (Independent)
The Cars - Sad Song - Move Like This (Hear Music)