DNTTA Playlist for May 7, 2020 - Quarantine Edition #5

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

Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific (currently Thursdays 7-8 PM due to pandemic quarantine) at www.thex.ca 

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Teenage Head - Somethin’ Else* - Double Header (Attic)
Black Mountain - Queens Will Play* - In the Future (Scratch)
Wolf and Cub - Master - Science and Sorcery (Last Gang)
Comets on Fire - The Swallow’s Eye - Blue Cathedral (Sub Pop
Body/Head - Can’t Help You - Coming Apart (Matador)
Moths and Locusts - Troubled* - Helios Rising (NoiseAgonyMayhem)
Godflesh - Crush My Soul - Selfless (Earache)
Knotted Cord - Daydream in Gravity - Polyphonic Beasts Expand in Parallel (Independent)
Eric’s Trip - Sunlight* - Love Tara (Sub Pop)
Images in Vogue - Calling My Name* - Collection 3.0: Evolution (Last Road)

DNTTA Playlist for April 30 - Quarantine Edition #4

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

Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific (currently Thursdays 7-8 PM due to pandemic quarantine) at www.thex.ca 

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Metric - Wet Blanket* - Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? (Last Gang)
Men Without Hats - Editions of You* - Greatest Hats (Unidisc)
Men Without Hats - Close to the Sun* - Love in the Age of War (Hear)
The Enigmas - Teenage Barnacle* - Last Call (Zulu)
Go Four 3 - Just Another Day* - Last Call (Zulu)
Oversoul Seven - 1 + 1 is 3* - Last Call (Zulu)
Tona Ohama and Alanna Clarke - Pray for Rain* - Grrrlz Monosynth Tower (Independent)
Spoons - Escape With You* - Static in Transmission (Fontana)
Blue Peter - Shell Shocked* - Radio Silence (Universal)
The Extras - Can’t Sit Still* - Extropolis (Ready)
Martha and the Muffins - Women Around the World at Work* - This is the Ice Age (Dindisc)

Best of 2019 #4: Snapped Ankles - Stunning Luxury (Leaf)

London's Snapped Ankles is another band I discovered thanks to the KEXP Clash Day celebrations last year. Their live performance was incredible, energetic and wildly oddball. Their music kind of like if Devo met the Gang of Four. It's got the manic energy and driving electronic music lines of classic Devo albums, but the snarky and pointed politics of Gang of Four. And like Devo, they use costumes, dance routines/stage directions and multi media presentations during their live performances. Stunning Luxury is just their second full length album, but they have 4 EPs and a bunch of singles to their credit too.