DNTTA Playlist for February 7, 2020

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

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Les George Leningrads - Sleek Answer* - Sangue Puro (Dare to Care)
Sonic Youth - Disappearer - Goo (DGC)
The Clash - Spanish Bombs - London Calling (Warner)
Temples - Holy Horses - Hot Motion (ATO)
Jacob Rehlinger - M87* - Powehi (Arachnidiscs)
Babel - Release of the Spirit III* - Thirteen Exquisite Ghosts (Arachnidiscs)
Tranzmit - Stigma and Crisis* - Concentration (Independent)
Building Castles Out of Matchsticks - Darkness Falls* - Oscillating Forests (Arachnidiscs)
L’Electrique Brulant - Le Ciel D’Hiver 4* - Le Ciel D'Hiver (Arachnidiscs)
A Half with Tinnitus - Irritated Sociopaths with 3 Piece Hazmat Suits* - A Half with Tinnitus (Arachnidiscs)
Gang of Four - To Hell with Poverty - Return the Gift (V2)

DNTTA Playlist for January 31, 2020

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

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Glutenhead - Dryer Lint* - Glutenfrau (Independent)
Depeche Mode - Fly on the Windscreen - Black Celebration (Sire)
Nine Inch Nails - Last - Broken EP (Nothing)
Dives - Waiting - Teenage Years Are Over (Siluh)
Dead Horse One - Falling - The West is the Best (RPUT)
Drug Hunt - The Well - Drug Hunt (Independent)
Dead Soft - Step Out* - Big Blue (Arts and Crafts)
Basement Revolver - Wax and Digital* - Wax and Digital EP (Sonic Unyon)
Cat Casual and the Final Word - Black Sun - The Secret Sun (Independent)
Amyl and the Sniffers - Starfire 500 - Amyl and the Sniffers (ATO)
Crimson Witch - Ride with the Flames* - Satanic Panic (Independent)

Best of 2019 #7: Necking - Cut Your Teeth (Mint Records)

Vancouver remains ground zero for many exciting underground bands and Mint Records keeps finding them and signing them to record contracts. For this, we can be eternally grateful. Necking are a no-frills, nothing-fancy style grrl punk band. Well maybe a bit of post punk and garage and Motown girl-pop in there too, but still... This is, um, balls-out angular punk, much like what Sleater-Kinney were making in their youth, before they became all introspective and corporate and shit. Listen to this band, buy their album, keep 'em around to keep kicking in our teeth.

Best of 2019 #8: Girl Band - The Talkies (Rough Trade)

Girl Band, Ireland's answer to the Jesus Lizard, took their time putting out a follow up to their 2015 debut, Holding Hands with Jamie, and it shows. This album is a finely crafted mashup of punk, demented noise rock, electronic drones and offkey screaming. Their first album was a paean to noise rock and one of my favourite albums of 2015. This album shows the band branching out into new territories, like electronics, while remaining true to their weird noise-rock core.

DNTTA Playlist for January 24, 2020 - Best of 2019 Part 2

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

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The Evaporators - Do the Eggbeater* - Ripple Rock (Mint)
Porteau - Scatter* - Water's Gate (Independent)
Teenage Violets - Hollywood Babylon* - Victoria's Secret 2019 (Baffled Octopi)
Waax - Same Same - Weak and Wild EP (Independent)
The Electric Cows - Frenzy!* - Wheatfield Fuzz (Dub Ditch Picnic)
D.O.A. - Liar for Hire* - 1978 (Sudden Death)
Bob Bell - Necropolis II* - Necropolis (Telephone Explosion)
Phil Western - No Help* - The Escapist (Map)
Mental as Anything - Looking for Bird - Cats and Dogs (Regular)
Big Black - Bad Houses - Atomizer (Touch and Go)
Deadbeat and Camara - To Love is to Bury* - Trinity Thirty (Constellation)
Mercvrial - Otherworld - Otherworld EP (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for January 17, 2020 - Best of 2019 Part 1

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

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Anemone - Memory Lane* - Beat My Distance (Luminelle)
Ride - Future Love - This is Not a Safe Place (Wichita)
Girl Band - Couch Combover - The Talkies (Rough Trade)
Necking - Drag Me Out* - Cut My Teeth (Mint)
Fontaines DC - Hurricane Laughter - Dogrel (Partisan)
Kim Gordon - Murdered Out - No Home Record (Matador)
Snapped Ankles - Tail Pipe - Stunning Luxury (Leaf)
Goon - Cammie at Night - Heaven is Humming Partisan)
Orville Peck - Turn to Hate* - Pony (Royal Mountain)
Orville Peck - Buffalo Run* - Pony (Royal Mountain)
METZ - Can’t Underground* - Automat (Sub Pop)
METZ - Pure Auto* - Automat (Sub Pop)