Best Albums of 2023

 Best Albums of 2023

1) TEKE::TEKE - Hagata (Kill Rock Stars)
2) Renonce - Ombre (Mothland)
3) Slowdive - Everything is Alive (Dead Oceans)
4) The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons (Hives Music)
5) Debby Friday - Good Luck (Sub Pop)
6) Tunic - Wrong Dream (Artoffact)
7) Zoon - Bekka Ma'iignan (Paper Bag)
8) The Armed - Perfect Saviors (Sargent House)
9) KEN Mode - Void (Artoffact)
10) Joey Joesph - Triple Fantasy/Taking it Easy (Eyebrow Palace)

Honorable Mentions:

All Hands_Make Light - Darling the Dawn (Constellation)
Indications - Indications (Early Onset)
Telehealth - Content Oscillator (Independent)
hundredmillionthousand - Attention Span (Independent)
Jonah Yano - Portrait of a Dog (Innovative Leisure)

Re-releases and collections

Devo - Art Devo 1973-1977 (Futurismo)
Blue Oil - Blue Oil 1981-1983 (Supreme Echo)
Negativland - Speech Free (Seeland)
Actors - Reanimated (Artoffact)
Oeuf Korrect - Podweek (No Type)

Join me on Do Not Touch This Amp, Friday, January 19th and 26th to look back at 2023 in music, my favourite albums, re-releases, EPs and compilations!

Also coming, a list of great Canadian independent releases you may have not heard!

DNTTA Playlist for August 25, 2023 - All Covers show

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

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Von Zippers - Truck Stop Nun (Da Slyme)* D.O.A. - War (Edwin Starr)* The Smithereens - Woolly Bully (Sam the Sham) The Smithereens - Lust for Life (Iggy Pop) Metallica - The Wait (Killing Joke) Glampire - Porcelain (Moby) DJ Matthew Grimm - Breathe (The Prodigy) Dub Spencer meets Trance Hill - Guns of Brixton (The Clash) Dearly Beloved = Explosions (Devo)* Bria - Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? (Paula Cole)* The Delays - Ride it On (Mazzy Star) Paul Westerberg = Nowhere Man (The Beatles)

 

DNTTA Playlist for August 18, 2023

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Barkman - That Guy Next Door*
Yamabiko Quartet - Sandrinella
Transatlantic Five - Transition II
The Griots Speak - It’s Alright to Run
Orhan Demir - Veritas*
Meshell Ndegeocello - Clear Water
Dhaivat Jani Plus - Change is the Only Constant*
Lawful Citizen - February 2nd*

DNTTA Playlist for August 11, 2023

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

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Fresh Wax - Ones and Zeroes*
Sinead O’Connor - Mandinka
Sinead O’Connor - Troy
The Kropotkins - Truck Stop Girls
Dave Soldier - I Still Remember
TEKE::TEKE - Yurei Zanmai*
Caveman and the Banshee - Back in Time*
Lee Paradise - Range Life*
Braids - Millenia*

DNTTA Playlist for Aug 4, 2023 - BC Day Special

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

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Astrocolor - Singularity*
Samplore - Dumbluck*
Aster Dawn - Crooked Branch*
Cosmic Arp - Angel*
Psychic Pollution - Pre-Eminent Existence*
Skinny Puppy - Yes He Ran*
Rooms - You’ll Be at Home*
Curious George - Pit Bull Attack*
D.O.A. - General Strike*
Sweater Kittens - Never the Same*
The Pseudos - Final Sunset Ride* 

DNTTA Playlist for July 28, 2023

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Eric Normand - Le Rire et le Poignard*
Chat Pile - Pamela
Reynols - Eliano Mogal
Kilmore - Firestone*
Bleak Valley - King of Kings*
Closetalkers - Mess*
Girl Band - Um Bongo
Joe Keithley - Fentanyl Blues*
Miesha and the Spanks - Bully*
Grimelda - Freedom*
Tunic - Disease*
Pizzarrhea! - Bruce Springthing Style*

DNTTA Playlist for July 21, 2023

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

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Lee Hutzulak - Here Come the Shakes*
Lina Choi - Water and Dreams*
You Can Can - Everything in Time*
Fiver - Wallace Goes to Russia*
Coastal Futures Conservatory - Where Water Meets Memory
Grace Scheele - Pomposity*
Quiet Winter - Refresh*
Tanya Ekanayaka - Seiri
Karim Sulayman/Sean Shibe - Caccini: Dalla Porta D’Oriente
Guerilla Opera - I Give You My Home: Scene 6

DNTTA Playlist for July 14, 2023

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Pottery - Worked Up*
Protomartyr - Let’s Tip the Creator
Uncanny Valley - Puppet*
Wack - Bet Time*
Frankiie - Crystal Eyes*
GLDMTH - Oh Life*
Quaker Parents - No Travel*
Redd Kross - Monolith
No Museums - Country Sound (version)*
Wax Mannequin - Even Then*
Land Line - 52 Elephants*
Cole Walt RO - Track Two*

DNTTA Playlist for July 7, 2023

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A Tribe Called Red - Sila (ft. Tanya Tagaq)*
PlatEAU - Nam*
Atari Umma - Could Not Sleep*
Noise Unit - Still Alive*
Black Cabbage - Bird Heaven*
The Russian Futurists - Why You Gotta Do That Thang?*
Bodywash - Massif Central*
Plumtree - Scott Pilgrim*
Bart - Turncoat*
Marcher - Won’t Join Your Club*
The Switching Yard - Champagne Action*
Strapping Young Lad - Goat*

DNTTA Playlist for June 30, 2023

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

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The Great Speckled Fritillary - Belladonna*
Butthole Surfers - Human Cannonball
Caspar Brotzmann Massaker - Tempelhof
Elura - The Culling Bell Part 2*
The Damned - Girl I’ll Stop at Nothing
kkidss - To You*
Bria - By the Time I Get to Phoenix*
poolblood - Voyager*
Dragon Inn 3 - Not Enough
Grey Brother - Robo Swamp

DNTTA Playlist for June 23, 2023

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Untrained Animals - Sweatshirt Sweatshop*
How Sound - On My Bed*
Nescia - Don’t Drag Me Down with You*
Tynes - Makar*
Metafloor - Checkmate*
Aagative - Dawn Energy*
Lunr Girl - Cry*
Psychic Pollution - Inferior Shine*
Zero Cool - V’Ger*
Debby Friday - I Got it*
Nightmares on Wax - Imagineering

DNTTA Playlist for June 16, 2023

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

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cub - Tomorrow Go Away* - Come Out, Come Out (Mint)
Jonah Yano - Always* - Portrait of a Dog (Innovative Leisure)
Takako Minekawa - A Report on an Investigation - Ximer (Emperor Norton)
Cornelius - Wataridori - Fantasma (Matador)
DJ Honda - Trouble in the Water (ft. De la Soul) - H III (Independent)
Prince Shima - Trembling Poplars* - Matsu's Forest of Dreams (Independent)
Ultra Bide - She’s So Difficult - DNA vs. DNA-C (Alternative Tentacles)
The 5.6.7.8.s - Hot Generation - Bomb the Rocks (Time Bomb)
Voivod - Ultraman Opening Theme* - Ultraman (Century Media)
Polysics - Pretty Good - We Ate the Machine (Ki/oon)
Yamantaka//Sonic Titan - Hoshi Heko*  YT/ST (Psychic Handshake)
Mad Capsule Markets - Tribe - Oscillator in Distortion (Speedstar)

DNTTA Playlist for June 9, 2023

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Atsuko Chiba - Seeds* - Water, it Feels Like it's Growing (Mothland)
Suns of Arqa and Prof. Stanley Unwin - The Sky Shall Vanish - Tributey (Arka Sound)
Dubmatix - Reign Over Me (ft. Duane Stephenson)* - In Dub (Echo Beach)
The Flowering Eyeballs - Dusk Til Dawn* - Nuclear Free Nanaimo Vol. III (NoiseAgonyMayhem)
Behaviours - Take Me Out* - The Sad Truth About Happiness (NoiseAgonyMayhem)
MASSIRRAYTORR - The Juice* - Twincussion (NoiseAgonyMayhem)
Electrique Junk - A Cancellation of Void* - Electrique Junk (Cuchabata)
Eric Normand - En Lutte* - Suite Reprise (Cuchabata)
Of Montreal - City Bird - Satanic Panic in the Attic (Polyvinyl)
The B-52s - Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland - Bouncing Off the Satellites (Sire)

DNTTA Playlist for June 2, 2023

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Shearing Pinx - Pump Knot* - Poison Hands (Independent)
Map 71 - Corn Dolly Crosshatch - Blood Fruit (Foolproof)
Rouge Pompier - Peche No Kill* - Zoo 7 (Slam Disques)
Indications - Anticondriac* - Indications (Early Onset)
MASS - Tenements Vermin* - Resentment Vermin (P in a Circle)
Liars - Mr. You’re on Fire Mr. - They Threw Us all in a Ditch and Stuck a Momunent on Top (Gern Blanstein)
We Are Wolves - Night* - La Mort Pop Club (Dare to Care)
Warpage - Hot Air Baloon Sniper* - Absolutely Delicious (Independent)
Warpage - Pin My Head* - Absolutely Delicious (Independent)
Subsun - Proliferation* - Doomsday Clock (Independent)
Tunic - My Body, My Blood* - Wrong Dream (Artoffact)
bananahaus - Beef Stew* - Welcome to the Bananahaus (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for May 26, 2023

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

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UBT - The Boys Are Out for Blood* - Ego Orientation (Psychic Handshake)
Esmerine - Blackout* - Everything Was Forever Until it Was No More (Constellation)
Ky  - Dragons* - Power is the Pharmacy (Constellation)
Joni Void - Non-Locality* - Every Day is the Song (Constellation)
All Hands_Make Light - Waiting for the Light to Quit* - Darling the Dawn (Constellation)
Avec le Soleil Sortant de sa Bouche - Tourner Incessamment Dans L’Eclatement Euphorique de Soi (part 2)* - Zubberdust! (Constellation)
Mayfly - Ma Peau Brule* - Hideaway Vol. 1 (Independent)
Sarah Shafey - Queen of Oceans* - Blackbox Universe (Independent)
Thompson Egbo-Egbo - Smells Like Teen Spirit* - What Remains (Independent)
Compander - Sagrada* - Diverdant (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for May 19, 2023

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

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Greenhouse Ensemble - Beyond Me* - Rez-de-Chausses (Independent)
Matthew Burtner - Oil Drum - Icefield (Navona)
Mary Lou Newmark - Three Rivers - A Stitch in Time (Independent)
Jason Zumpano - Those Days* - Village Lights (Jaz)
O Lake - Motions - Still (Independent)
Frank Paul Schubert/Kazuhisa Uchihashi/Klaus Kugel - Additional Rendezvous - Black Holes Are Hard to Find (Nemu)
Ark Trio - Sherman: Wedding Song - Ark Resounding (Navona)
Metropolitan Jazz Octet - I Would Be Your Slave - The Bowie Project (Origin)

DNTTA Playlists May 12, 2023

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

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Always a Bad Thing - He Who Lies with Robots* - He Who Lies with Robots (Baffled Octopi)
Christian Loffler - Mt. Grace - Young Alaska (Ki)
Little Snake - Fever Dream* - Driving on Acid (Independent)
Metafloor - Memento* - Stronger (Independent)
Vanden Dool - Hours Away* - The View from Here (Independent)
In the Well - HP Drifter* - Few Less Ravens (Independent)
Digawolf - Idi Whaa (Ancient Times)* - Ini (Independent)
Ctrl_alt_rock - The Hippie Cowboy* - Ctrl_alt_rock_forever (Independent)
hundredmillionthousand - Eleven* - Attention Span (Independent)
Ouef Korrect - Four Channels* - Podweek (No Type)
Os Mutantes - El Justiciero - Everything is Possible (Luaka Bop)

DNTTA Playlist for May 5, 2023

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

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Baited - Leader* - Baited (Independent)
Sonic Youth - Youth Against Fascism - Dirty (DGC)
If I Look Strong, You Look Strong - Pod Racing on the Rings of Saturn* - Noah's Fiftieth Album (Independent)
Marcher - Spun* - Marcher (Independent)
Foetus - Tonight I Started Slogging Again - Sink (Wax Trax)
Hidden Hierarchies - Get it Right* - Get it Right (P in a Circle)
Chemlab - Codeine, Glue and You - Burnout at the Hydrogen Bar (Fifth Column)
Noise Box - The Night the Aliens Came In - Industrial Revolution (Cleopatra)
Random Killing - This Whole World* - Re-Issued (Raw Energy)
F**ked Up - Falling Right Under* - One Day (Merge)
Little Fire - Self-Immurement* - Do You Have it in You? (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for April 298, 2023

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

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Freak Heat Waves - Design of Success* - Bonnie's State of Mind (Independent)
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Anger - Discord (Nonesuch)
Meg Okura and the Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Orchestra - Riot in Lagos - Music of Ryuichi Sakamoto (Independent)
Cornelius - Free Fall - Fantasma (Matador)
Talking Heads - Give Me Back My Name - Naked (Sire)
The Replacements - Bent Out of Shape - All Shook Down (Sire)
Everything But the Girl - Flipside - Walking Wounded (Sire)
Men Without Hats - I Got the Message* - Rhythm of Youth (Sire)
Postnamers - Wallet in a Washing Machine* - Sissies and Sluts (Independent)
River Tiber - Everyone’s Sleeping* - Dreaming Eyes (Independent)
SEX - Come Again* - Textin' Yr Exes (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for April 21, 2023 - Tribute to Victoria

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

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Null Command - Selective Reset* - Control Language for Deviation (Independent)
NoMeansNo - The Day Everything Became Nothing* - The Day Everything Became Nothing (Alternative Tentacles)
The Dishrags - I Don’t Love You* - Three (Supreme Echo)
Retsepti - Mshia (Hunger) - Retspeti (Supreme Echo)
Pharaons - Bloody Red Book - Evil World (Supreme Echo)
Riot .303 - Run in with the Law* - Riot .303 (Supreme Echo)
Infamous Scientists - Canada’s Pissed* - All Your Ears Can Hear (Independent)
Automatic Shock - Mushrooms* - All Your Ears Can Hear (Independent)
House of Commons - 1999* - All Your Ears Can Hear (Independent)
Sludge Confrontations - Slug Death* - All Your Ears Can Hear (Independent)
General Purv - Forbidden Janet* - Don Juan Without So Much Spam in it (Baffled Octopi)
Bridal Party - Cool Down* - Cool Down (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for April 14, 2023

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

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Smokey and the Feeelings - Fields of the Bored* - Smokey and the Feeelings (Mangled)
Young Guv - Helium* - GUV IV (Hand Drawn Dracula)
R. Ring - Lighter Than a Berry - War Poems, We Rested (Don Giovanni)
Ancient Ocean - Ashes in the Fern*
Pere Ubu - Breath - Cloudland (Fontana)
Afternoon Bike Ride - Not Ideal* - Glossover (Friends of Friends)
Shabason and Krgovich - What Comes Back* - At Scaramouche (Idee Fixe)
Wire - Kidney Bingos - A Bell is a Cup (Enigma)
R.E.M. - Harborcoat - Murmur (IRS)
Cold Water - Shortcut* - Instead, I am a Golden Oriole (Independent)
Ruby Singh and the Future Ancestors - Shine* - Ruby Singh and the Future Ancestors (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for April 7, 2023

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

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Noise Unit - Orson Welles Was Right* - Cheeba City Blues (Artoffact)
Jarius Sharif - Plume d’Onyx*
Gordon Grdina’s Nomad Trio - Koen Dori*
Grodon Grdina - Lost in Redding*
Haythem Mahbouli - The Abandoned Ones* - Last Man on Earth (Independent)
Shumalia Hemani - Living with Purpose* - Mannat (a prayer, a wish) (Independent)
Gillian Stone - The Throne* - Spirit Photographs (Independent)
Mondegreen - Ultraviolet* - single (Independent)
Asta Hiroki and Tristan de Liege - Swim - Untied (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for March 31, 2023

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

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neyiwayak - Page* - nipiy (Independent)
Quasi - Riots and Jokes - Breaking the Balls of History (Sub Pop)
Dumb - 30 Degrees* - Pray 4 Tomorrow (Mint)
Ski Holiday - Do You Really Feel It - Ski Holiday (Independent)
Chemical Club - Hurt Happens* - Pale Blue EP (Arts and Crafts)
Living Hour - Exploding Rain* - Someday is Today (Kanine)
Darksoft - Stones Unturned - Beigification (Look Up!)
Family Dinner - Trigger Warning* - Family Dinner (Independent)
KV Raucous and the Cave Dwellers - Nightmare in Tiki Land* - Nightmare in Tiki Land (Tombstone Pop)
Da’at - The Mute* - The Hissing House (Bat-Cave)
MVLL CRIMES - Checkin’ Out* - You Embvrrvs Me (Cursed Blessings)
Pinkshinyultrablast - I Catch You Napping - Grandfeathered (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for March 24, 2023

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

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KEN Mode - Unresponsive* - Null (Artoffact)
The Comet is Coming - Angel of Darkness - Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (Impulse)
Negativland - Nothing is Destroyed - Speech Free (Seeland)
Drummachinemike - Context* - A Photocopied Life (Independent)
Garden Dog - Jamming Forever* - Slothargic Meditation (Independent)
Johnny Johnny and the Johnnys - Draft Punks* - Johnny (Independent)
Jessica Moss - Uncanny Being* - Galaxy Heart (Constellation)
Fetus Blasters - Kade Brown Calgary Alberta* - Live Laugh Love (Independent)
Benjamin Russell and Rob Stuart - Touch Me Inside* - Something in F Minor (Independent)
Fitness - Theme II* - Fuller Weller (Sad Cactus)
Moat Bells - Circles in June* - Bones of Things (A Person Disguised as People)

DNTTA Playlist for March 17, 2023

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Altered Laws - Norse Meaning* - The Outsiders (Independent)
Brad Mehldau - For No One - Plays the Beatles (Nonesuch)
Matt Greenwood - Campire Ghosts* - Atlas (Independent)
Cassandra Wilson and Bill Frisell - Painted from Memory - Painted from Memory Deluxe (Mercury)
Bill Frisell - The Pioneers - Four (Blue Note)
RJ Leblanc - Into the Sun* - Heyday (Independent)
Tyler Mitchell Octet - Velvet - Sun Ra's Journey (Cellar)
Geraldine Eguiluz - Hablando Languas* - Noos (Cuchabata)
Archie Shepp - Attica Blues (The Chief Xcel remix) - Impulse Remixed (Impulse)
Ten Meter Band - Rock and Roll Toaster Oven*  - Ten Meter Band (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for March 10, 2023 - International Women's Day Special

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

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I Am Spoonbender - Slow Metal Fire* - Sender/Reciever (Mint)
ESG - Be Good to Me - Step Off (Soul Jazz)
PVA - Comfort Eating - Blush (Ninja Tune)
Korea Town Acid - Cast Pearls Before Swine* - Elephant in the Room (Urbnet)
Ariel Ulysses - Time Shadows* - Emergence from Behind the Shutters of Clouds (Independent)
Laura Hickli - The Ebony Room* - Both Feet in the World, at Least I Can Stand (North Pole)
Dry Cleaning - Driver’s Story - Stumpwork (4AD)
U.S.Girls - Incidental Boogie* - In a Poem Unlimited (4AD)
Ringo Deathstarr - Imagine Hearts - Color Trip (Sonic Unyon)
Self-Cut Bangs - Never Say Never* - Circle Around the Free (Independent)
Self-Cut Bangs - Pick Up* - Circle Around the Free (Independent)
Elizabete Balcus - The Skin I Live in - Hotel Universe (Mothland)
Rogers Sisters - Fantasies Are Nice - The Invisible Deck (Too Pure

DNTTA Playlist for March 3, 2023

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The Hermit - Driving in Solitude* - Flying Out of Solitude (Nettwerk)
La Fievre - Chapitre 5* - Tu le ne les as jamais entendus crier, mais ils crient (No Type)
Totalement Sublime - Harpe* - Alt+15 (Independent)
Shout Out Out Out Out - Self Loathing Rulz* - Not Sayin/Just Saying (Normals Welcome)
Junior Boys - Dum Audio* - Waiting Game (City Slang)
Sarah Belle Reid and David Rosenboom - Pluck Ping Scatter - Nows (Navona)
Harmonische-23 - Broken Biscuits* - Kiosk (A Person Disguised as People)
El Hombre al Agua - Replicant Ice Forest* - Memories Can Be Injected (Independent)
Rapoon - Muted - Cold War: Drum and Bass (Cariocavallo)
Gary Numan - Remind Me to Smile - Telekon (Beggars Banquet)

DNTTA Playlist for February 24, 2023 - All Covers Show

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Von Zippers - Truck Stop Nun (Da Slyme)*
Love Sculpture - Sabre Dance (Aram Khachaturian)
Bob Dylan - Mutineer (Warren Zevon)
Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Leadbelly)
Teresa James - Oh Darlin’ (The Beatles)
The Smithereens - I’m Happy Just to Dance with You (The Beatles)
Tod Lippy - Point of Disgust (Low)
Idaho - Rope (Low)
Nadjiwan - The Maker (Robbie Robertson)*
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Live to Tell (Madonna)*
Aliens - Tower of Song (Leonard Cohen)*
Sharon van Etten - Femme Fatale (Velvet Underground)
 

DNTTA Playlist for February 17, 2023

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Mendelson Joe - Photos in the Mail* - Women Are the Only Hope (Independent)
Sparks - I Thought I Told You to Wait in the Car - Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins (Topic)
Jerry Harrison and Casual Gods - Confess - Walk on Water (Warner)
OK Vancouver OK - Best Friends* - Outside Computer (Independent)
Marci - Immaterial Girl* - Marci (Arbutus)
NoProfit - Future Test* - Volume II (Independent)
TDJ - Yesterday* - TDJ123 (Collection Disques Durs)
Leftovers Diable! - Deglutition Pilarie* - Lumieres Dance Toutes Les Fentes Possibles (Cuchabata)
Bigbigdogdog - Summer* - Velvet (Cuchabata)
Goldroom - Teenage Waste - West of the West (Independent)
Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach - I Still Have That Other Girl - Painted from Memory (Mercury)

DNTTA Playlist for February 10, 2023

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No Museums - Local Society* - Folk Terrors (Independent)
Television - Ain’t That Nothing - The Blow Up (ROIR)
The Fall - Kicker Conspiracy - 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong (Beggars Banquet)
Joy Division - Incubation - Substance (Beggars Banquet)
Public Image Ltd. - Rise - Album (Sire)
Skinny Puppy - Three Blind Mice* - Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse (Nettwerk)
Lesser Evil - Wandering* - Subterranean (Independent)
Alvvays - Easy on Your Own* - Blue Rev (Polyvinyl)
Blessed - Agoraphobia* - Circuitous (Flemish Eye)
White Lung - Mountain* - Premonition (Domino)

DNTTA Playlist for January 27, 2023

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Suuns - Witness Protection* - The Witness (Secret City)
Mclusky - To Hell with Good Intentions - Mcluskyism (Beggars Banquet)
UUBBUURRUU - Cosmic Cannibalism* - Swamp Ritual (Psychic Handshake)
Dual Nature - Punctured Lung* - The End of History (Independent)
KEN Mode - Not My Fault* - Null (Artoffact)
Plead - Ataxia* - Withered (Independent)
Alienator - Irreconcilable* - Regrets (Independent)
Godcaster - All the Feral Girls in the Universe - Long Haired Locusts (Ramp Local)
Chairman - No Bones* - Demonstration II (Independent)
Mi’ens - Bolshevik Brunch* - Future Child (Kill Rock Stars)
The Gnar Gnars - Dirt Devil Man* - Gnarmaste (Independent)
Outpatient - You’re So Cool* - EP (Independent)
Guided by Voices - Bulldog Skin

DNTTA Log for January 20, 2023 - Best of 2022 Part II

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Blunt Chunks - Natural Actors* - Blunt Chunks (Telephone Explosion)
Sonic Youth - Out and In - In Out In (Three Lobed)
Softcult - Perfect Blue* - Year of the Snake (Independent)
Visibly Choked - Uneven Keel* - Visibly Choked (Mothland)
Void Fill - Landfill History* - EP #2 (Independent)
Screaming Trees - Love or Confusion - Sub Pop 200 (Sub Pop)
The Dead Kennedys - Bleed for Me - Plastic Surgery Disasters (Alternative Tentacles)
Low - California - The Great Destroyer (Sub Pop)
Emblematics - An Impact* - Navigation (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for January 13, 2023: Best of 2022 Part 1

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T. Gowdy - Miracles* - Miracles (Constellation)
Built to Spill - Understood - When the Wind Forgets Your Name (Sub Pop)
Gloin - Shoot to Kill* - We Found This (Mothland)
Dry Cleaning - Hot Penny Day - Stumpwork (4AD)
Weird Nightmare - Wrecked* - Weird Nightmare (Sub Pop)
Cola - Water Table* - Deep in View (Fire Talk)
Civic TV - Flesh is Fiction* - Black Moon (Flemish Eye)
PVA - Bunker - Blush (Ninja Tune)
Lisa Leblanc - Gossip* - Chiac Disco (Bonsound)
Encephalon - The Same Wound* - Echoes (Artoffact)
Encephalon - Deader Without You* - Echoes (Artoffact)

DNTTA Playlist for January 6, 2023

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Hello Moth - Grass Seed* - Birds on Wires (Independent)
The Specials - A Message to You Rudy - Specials (Two-Tone)
Bruno Gerussi’s Medallion - Who’s Behind the Wheel* - EP (Warner)
Faithless - She’s My Baby - Sunday 8PM (Cheeky)
Primal Scream - Damaged - Screamadelica (Creation)
The Besnard Lakes - A Jacket for a Rainy Day* - Are the Prayers for the Death of Fame (Flemish Eye)
Zoon - Move* - A Sterling Murmuration (Paper Bag)
Medicine Singers - Daybreak - Medicine Singers (Mothland)
The Ember Glows - The Mirror* - Where Spirits Play EP (Independent)
Teenage Art Scene - Never Be the Same Again* - Sensory Entanglement (Independent)
TOVI - Tennessee Baby*  - Fallen Woman 1 (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for December 16, 2022

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C.Ross - The Stranger*
Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks Theme
Angelo Badalamenti - Laura Palmer’s Theme
Archers of Loaf - Screaming Undercover
Western Bloc - The Grim Gram*
TOPS - Waiting*
Crones - Red Light*
Hunting Giants - Rituals*
Gloin - Dark Moto*
Drug Sauna - Race Freeley*
Fetus Blasters - The Golden Rule*
Jingle Cats - Silent Night

DNTTA Playlist for December 9, 2022

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Preoccupations - Slowly*
The Clean - Circle Canyon
The Stranglers - Thrown Away
Hugh Cornwell - Dark Side of the Room
Adam Siakaley - 44 Seconds Prepared Piano*
Alain Lefebvre - Le Son a Suivre*
Alex Pelchat - En Bas de la Cote*
Alexandre St-Onge - DegatD’eau*
Amy MacDonald - 0312*
Titus Andronicus - I Cannot Be Satisfied
Ben Shemie - The Passage*
Aliens - Clean Up Well
Temps - Singularity*
Ghost Woman - Along*

DNTTA Playlist for December 2, 2022

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Mecca Normal - Excalibur*
DenMother - King (Idol Worship)*
Tona Ohama - And Without a Word*
Jessica Moss - Contempation II*
Lakeman - Astro Ditto*
Guiom et Anette - La Saison des Mirages*
Devenir-Ensemble - Resonances Manifestes – Mouvement 6 – Forces de Dispersion*
Laura Sewell - The Lousy Tailor
Jill Haley - Bursts of Color*
Brulez les Meubles - La Manitoukai*

DNTTA Playlist for November 25, 2022

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OneOverZero - Span R3*
Claptone - Puppet Theater
Anomalie - Dribble*
TOVI - Mad Melancholia*
a-souvenir - mawtana*
Ryan Waldon - Stunned Zero*
Moat Bells - Darkened Light*
Fish Memory - Last Day*
Ghost Cartridge - Twenty Something*
Lunar Lemur - Interstellar Medium*
Twinsnakess - Black Absurd Cosmos*

DNTTA Playlist for November 18, 2023

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General Purv - I’m a Believer* - Take Cover! (Baffled Octopi)
Low - Days Like These - Hey What (Sub Pop)
Low - Everybody’s Song - The Great Destroyer (Sub Pop)
Low - Condescend - Kranky Kompilation (Kranky)
Keith Levene - Cops Too - Steal This Disk (Ryko)
Public Image Ltd. - Poptones - The Best of Public Imagine Limited... So Far (Virgin)
Preoccupations - Death of Melody* - Arrangements (Flemish Eye)
Johnny Johnny and the Johnnys - Like a Neighbour* - Johnny (Independent)
Sheenah Ko - Wake Up* - Wake Up (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for November 11, 2023

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The Poor Choices - Bring it Back* - The Poor Choices (Independent)
The Dead Kennedys - Halloween - Plastic Surgery Disasters (Alternative Tentacles)
The Dead Kennedys - Cesspools in Eden - Bedtime for Democracy (Alternative Tentacles)
Mojo Nixon and the Toadliquors - Winnebago Warrior - Virus 100 (Alternative Tentacles)
High Horse - Bullarina* - Creators of the 6th Dimension (Independent)
New Jacobin Club - What is the Night* - Empire of Dis (Manticore)
Homeless Gospel Choir - Ripoff - Fourth Dimension Intervention (Don Giovanni)
Megamall - The Bug* - Escape from Lizard City (Fanta)
Priors - Expelled Virtue* - NEWNEWNEW EP (Independent)
The Undertones - Julie Ocean - Teenage Kicks: The Best of the Undertones (Sanctuary)
Kiwi Jr. - The Sound of Music* - Chopper (Mint)
The Gruesomes - You Gotta Believe Me* - Hey (Og)

DNTTA Playlist for November 4, 2023

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Robert Lee - Jade* - Cha-Ran (Three Pines)
Lewis Jordan and Music at Large - Build a Bridge - Critical Mass (Innova)
Trio Xolo - Gravesend - In Flower, in Song (577)
Robert Diack - Plex* - Small Bridges (Independent)
Triio - Six-Ish Plateaus* - Six-Ish Plateaus (Independent)
George Crotty Trio - Prayer Dance* - Chronotope (Independent)
Kate Wyatt - Artifact* - Artifact (Independent)
A Half with Tinnitus - Misshapen Misfortunes with Confident Hardship* - A Half with Tinnitus (Arachnidiscs)
Joy Lapps - Juliet Bloom* - Girl in the Yard (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for October 28, 2022 - Halloween Special

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Skinny Puppy - Antagonism* - Bites (Nettwerk)
Ministry - Every Day is Halloween - 12 Inch Singles (Wax Trax)
Encephalon - Someone Else’s Dream* - Echoes (Artoffact)
Cygnets - Sick Device* - Bleak Anthems (Independent)
Pandemik9 - Freedom of Oppression* - Stellar Parallax (Independent)
Sisters of Mercy - Valentine - BBC Sessions (Beggar's Banquet)
Slick Idiot - Merci Beaucoup - Dicknity (Itchy)
Warp Spazm - Black Widow* - Demo (Independent)
The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck - Bad Music for Bad People (IRS)
The Kids of Widney High - Monster Mash - Dr. Demento: Covered in Punk (Independent)
Chris and Cosey - Trust - Trust (PIAS)
The Wake - Nazarene - Gothspotting (Cleopatra)

DNTTA Playlist for October 21, 2022

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Parkland - Patience is a Virtue* - Affiliates 2 (Backwards)
Dan Deacon - Prettyboy - America (Domino)
Medicine Singers - Shapeshifter - Medicine Singers (Mothland)
The Soviet Influence - The Catastrophe* - Thieves of Joy (Independent)
yoo doo right - SMB* - A Murmur, Boundless to the East (Mothland)
Pink Mountaintops - Nikki Go Sudden* - Peacock Pools (ATO)
Happy Birthday - Too Shy - Happy Birthday (Sub Pop)
Dez Dare - Tyrannosaurus Shake - Ulysses Trash (Chimp)
Ian McCulloch - Candleland (Second Coming version) - Just Say Da (BMG)
ESG - It’s Not Me - Step Off (Soul Jazz)
Secret Mommy - Kool Aid River* - Plays (Ache)

DNTTA Playlist for October 14, 2023

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Shoulder Season - More Pretty* - Not the Time (Independent)
The Wedding Present - Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft - George Best (Beggar's Banquet)
The Wedding Present - My Favourite Dress (Beggar's Banquet)
Void Fill - Wipe* - EP #3 (Independent)
Shared Image - Lick Your Wounds* - Along the Way (Independent)
Chachi on Acid - Pickle Destroyer*
Uniform - All We’ve Ever Wanted - Shame (Sacred Bones)
David Parker - Three Lighthouses* - Noise Noise Noisy Nooise (Independent)
Gush - Warsaw BC* - Gender Death (Independent)
Two - Leave Me Alone - Voyeurs (Nothing)
Garden Dog - Round 3* - V (Independent)
Aphex Twin - Omgyjya-Switch - Drukqs (Warp)

DNTTA Playlist for October 7, 2023

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Absolutely Free - How Moogs Paint Clouds (Castelf remix)* - How to Paint Clouds Remixes (Tin Angel)
Wake Ooloo - Doin’ it Again - Live from Upsallapalooza (Independent)
Momus - Virtual Valerie - Live from Upsallapalooza (Independent)
thais - Vieux-Port* - Tout est Parfait (Bravo)
Bibi Club - La Nuit* - Le Soleil et la Mer (Secret City)
Yves Jarvis - Endless Tube* - The Zug (Flemish Eye)
No Joy - Moon in My Mouth* - More Faithful (Mexican Summer)
The Floor - Doll*
NWAXE - Kalyptos – Firebright*
Icicle - Snowman at My Door* - Axiom (Herd)
Pitted - Like That* - So Pitted (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for September 30, 2023

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Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful Bees - Girls You Love* - Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful Bees (Independent)
Tanya Tagaq - Earth Monster (Ash Koosha mix)* - Tongues North Star Remixes (Six Shooter)
Kizis - Kiss for the Valley* - Tunubalade/Turn (Tin Angel)
Jonathan Kawchuk - Look at the Distractor* - Everywhen (Paper Bag)
Brayden Hart - Fabricated Paradise* - 1000 Lines 3 (Independent)
Murphy Luzod - Empty* - Siamese Spine EP (Independent)
Simply Sausage II - Are You in a Late Night Pickle?* - Cylindrical Meats (Independent)
Habalayon - Whiteout* - Frozen Rail (A Person Disguised as People)
Suicide - Rocket USA  - Surrender (Mute)

DNTTA Playlist for September 26, 2023

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Jayme Stone and Mansa Sissoko - Tunya*
Pierre Kwenders - Your Dream*
Konono No. 1 - Ungudi Wele Wele
aubin pi la scb - Cosque Ca*
PIQSIQ - Storm*
Zoon - Who and Always Will Be*
Die Knodel - Vielfacher
Lodestar Trio - Ciaconna
Lars Hollmer - Paztema
Anil Camci - Shadowbands

DNTTA Playlist for September 16, 2023

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Easy Idiot - Work* - Monkey Fancy (Independent)
Blessure Grave - Hope for the Worst - Judged by Twelve, Carried by Six (Alien8)
ceryyse - Framboises* - je sais qu'au fond de mon âme se trouve un jardin (Independent)
Kamikaze Nurse - Aileen* - Stimuloso (Mint)
The Slime - Instinct* - Living on Borrowed Slime (Cursed Blessings)
Fetus Blasters - My Shirt is Too Tight* - Live Laugh Love (Independent)
Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel - Lust for Death - Hole (Thirsty Ear)
Pharoans - The Colonel’s Assissination - Evil World (Supreme Echo)
Stick Farm - Scrum* - Stick Farm (Supreme Echo)
Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (Warner)
Mudhoney - We Hate the Bloody Queen* - Oh Canaduh! 2 (Lance Rock)
The Golden Boys - Older Than You - Casual Victim Pile (Matador)

DNTTA Playlist September 9, 2022

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In the Well - Barstow* - Meadow Transient (Independent)
Yves Jarvis - Stitchwork* - The Zug (Flemish Eye)
LIA and Thomas White - Unstable* - Stardust (Independent)
Super Furry Animals - She’s Got Spies - Radiator (Creation)
The Sugarcubes - Coldsweat - Life's Too Good (Warner)
Frog Eyes - When You Turn on the Light* - The Bees (Paper Bag)
Blunt Chunks - Going Back* - Blunt Chunks (Telephone Explosion)
Joyful Joyful - Marrow* - Joyful Joyful (Idee Fixe)
Revolution Above Disorder - Illuminate* - Annihilator EP (Independent)
Ether and Bones - Winter in New Hampshire* - Snow and the Apple Tree (Independent)
LT Leif and Amber PB - Jacket Jacket* - The Object of Our Desires (Independent)
Julian Cope - Spacehopper - Peggy Suicide (Island)

DNTTA Playlist for September 2, 2022

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Earl Donald - Dreamscape* - A Lighter World (Independent)
General Purv - White Rabbit* - Take Cover! (Baffled Octopi)
Celebrity Traffic - Stone Crows* - We Bleed Blood (Independent)
Charl Cilders - Smaller Parts* - Bitch in Technicolour (Surkeus)
Plastikman and Chilly Gonzales - Cor Ten* - Consumed in Key (Minus)
Verisimilitude - TWOTWO* - Verisimilitude (Independent)
Warp Spazm - Devil at the Discotech* - Demo (Independent)
Wise Old Owl - Full Disclosure* - Dance Fk--rs (Independent)
gerry - Bloody* - gerry (Independent)
Mass Choir - We’re Going Higher* - Circles (Independent)
Gorula - LxL* - LxL (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for August 26, 2022 - All Covers Show

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Von Zippers - Truck Stop Nun (Da Slyme)* - Oh Canaduh 2 (Lance Rock)
Jazz Sabbath - Paranoid (Black Sabbath) - Jazz Sabbath 2 (Blacklake)
Dread Zeppelin - Bring it on Home (Led Zeppelin) - Un-led-ed (IRS)
Juliana Eye - Dreaming (Blondie)* - Coverama (Confidence Emperors)
Robbie Fulks - Sally G (Wings) - More Super Hits of the 70s (Independent)
Cowboy Junkies - Ooh Las Vegas (Gram Parsons)* - Tales of the Recollection (Latent)
Alice Bell - Follow My Lead (Simbiyez Wilson)* - Rethink Vol. 1 (Surkeus)
Stephin Merritt - Listen, the Snow is Falling (Yoko Ono) - Ocean Child: The Songs of Yoko Ono (Reprise)
Feed - Debaser (The Pixies) - Tribute to the Pixies (Invisible)
Philly Boy Roy - Punk Rock Girl (Dead Milkmen) - Covered in Punk (Demented)
Spahn Ranch - Shot Down in Flames (AC/DC) - Covered in Black (Cleopatra)

DNTTA Playlist for August 19, 2022

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No Frills - Down for the Count* - Downward Dog (Independent)
Teenage Head - Somethin’ on My Mind* - Frantic City (Attic)
Teenage Head - Sheila Scarf* - Some Kinda Fun (Attic)
D.O.A. - Dead Men Tell No Tales* - Are U Ready? (Sudden Death)
Facepuller - Snakes in the Grass* - Wade-Free Vancouver (Independent)
Super Kill Me Now - Buzzsaw Louie* - Super Kill Me Now (Independent)
Weird Nightmare - Wrecked* - Weird Nightmare (Sub Pop)
Idles - Date Night - Brutalism (Partisan)
Death Hags - Teleport Now - Big Grey Sun #4 (Independent)
Saltwater Cowboy - In My Head* - Farm Demos (Independent)
Greydini - Dream Dwarves* - Secret Funeral (Independent)
Culk - Salvation - Zersteuen Uber Euch (Siluh)
Foals - 2AM - Life is Yours (Warner)

DNTTA Playlist for August 12, 2022

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Stretch Alexander - A Spicy Curve* - Simple Pleasures (Ulusulu)
Squid in Chains - Crowd Life Underground* - Sirens of Kyiv EP (Independent)
Jordan Vanhemert - Half Moon - Nomad (Origin)
Queen Kong - If/Then* - Fray (Independent)
Joyfultalk - Take it to the Grave* - Familiar Science (Constellation
Jazz Sabbath - Snowblind - Jazz Sabbath 2 (Blacklake)
Aleksi Glick - Casey Jones - Guitar and Me (Independent)
David S. Ware - Sweet Georgia Bright - Surrendered (Columbia)
The Grassy Knoll - Down in the Happy Zone - III (Nettwerk)
Jeari Czapla - Good Old Days* - Not Only But Also (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for August 5, 2022 - BC Day Special

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Hilt - Liquid Soul Shoe* - Call the Ambulance Before I Hurt Myself (Nettwerk)
Itoko - Love Hotel* - Itoko EP (Surkeus)
Elan Noon - Beautiful Thing* - Caricature (Independent)
JP Meldrum - Fellini Fantasia* - Dashcam Rodeo (Independent)
beholding - From Above a Forest Fire* - Collapse (Independent)
the r.a.p. - Refortified* - Velvet (Surkeus)
Show Business Giants - She Called Me Pete* - Let's Have a Talk with the Dead (Virgin)
Art d’Ecco - I Was a Teenager* - After the Head Rush (Paper Bag)
Tankhog - Fortytwo TwoFours* - House of Mystery (Zulu)
Kitty Prozac - Primary Colours* - None Shall Be Afraid (Fanta)
Active Dog - Nothing Holding You* - Last Call (Zulu)
Mecca Normal - The Orbit* - Who Shot Elvis (Matador)

DNTTA Playlist for July 29, 2022

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Paranerd - Wockx* - Writ EP (Vandelay)
Charbonneau/Amato - Light Memoir* - Synth Works Vol. 2 (Backwards)
Untrained Animals - Just the Arps* - Trapped Somewhere on the Planet Fantastic (Independent)
Automatisme and Stefan Paulus - Blau Schnee* - Gap/Void (Constellation)
T. Gowdy - U4A* - Miracles (Constellation)
Selci - Talk About It* - Fallen Woman 1 (Independent)
Para Palabras - A Mirage* - Two Lakes (A Person Disguised as People)
Soulier - Emptiness*
Cylindricon - Uniform* - Technicolour (Independent)
 

DNTTA Playlist for July 22, 2022

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Basement Revolver - Circles* - Embody (Sonic Unyon)
OMBIIGIZI - Cherry Coke* - Sewn Together (Arts and Crafts)
Pierre Kwenders - No No No* - Jose Louis and the Paradox of Love (Arts and Crafts)
Lisa Leblanc - Gossip* - Chiac Disco (Bonsound)
Destroyer - Labyrinthitis* - Labyrinthitis (Merge)
Cola - Met Resistance* - Deep in View (Next Door)
Jasmyn - Blank Paper* - In the Wild (Royal Mountain)
Sleaford Mods - Drayton Mannered - English Tapas (Rough Trade)
No Museums - Now, as it Snows* - Pale Blue Eyes (Independent)
BAAB - Montre-Moi* - La Cible EP (Pantoum)
TJ Webb - Ballad of a Worm* - Worms (Independent)
TJ Webb - Noises* - Worms (Independent)
Pylon - Volume - Gyrate (Alias)

DNTTA Playlist July 15, 2022

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Nathan Shubert - Door* - The Moon From Here
Gayle Young - Ancient Ocean Floor*
John Bullard - Larrabee: Preludes, Book 1, No. III in D Major
Joep Beving - Nocturnal - Hermetism (Deutsche Grammophon)
Jean-Michel Blais - Amour* - aubades (Arts and Craftes)
Roger Eno - Bells - The Turning Year (Deutsche Grammophon)
American Contemporary Music Ensemble and Theatre of Voices - Johannsson: To Fold and Remain Dormant - Drone Mass (Deutsche Grammophon)
Brendan McGrath - One* - 4 Improvisations (Independent)
Sonic Arts Ensemble - Into the Multiverse  - Live from the Multiverse (Ravello)

DNTTA Playlist for July 8, 2022

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Bullosa - My Dogs* - Bullosa (Independent)
DJ Pnutz - Cravings - Semi-Live Entertainment (Independent)
Nickelman - Night Walk - Butterwax (Urbnet)
Northern State - A Thousand Words - Dying in Stereo (Star Trak)
Kitz Willman - Pinch Rattlesnake* - Royal Visit to Uranium City (Independent)
Glitterkid - Hormone* - Sally (Independent)
Times Neue Roman - Way Way Down* - Times Neue Roman (Independent)
Lee Reed - Moving Finger* - The Butcher the Banker the Bitumen Tanker (Rhymethink)
Pierre Kwenders - Sahara* - Jose Louis and the Paradox of Love (Arts and Crafts)
Kid606 - Powerbookfiend - Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You (Ipecac)
Keys N Krates - Pull Up* - Original Classic (Last Gang)
Paul Sea - Break Yourself* - 3362 AD (Independent)
Thug Shells - Brain Candy* - Bubbly Gangster (Independent)

Top 10 Albums for 2022

1) *Encephalon - Echoes (Artoffact)
2) *Lisa Leblanc - Chiac Disco (Bonsound)
3) PVA - Blush (Ninja Tune)
4) Civic TV - Black Moon (Flemish Eye)
5) *Cola - Deep in View (Next Door)
6) *Weird Nightmare - Weird Nightmare (Sub Pop)
7) Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork (4AD)
8) *Gloin - We Found This (Mothland)
9) Built to Spill - When the Wind Forgets Your Name (Sub Pop)
10) *T. Gowdy - Miracles (Constellation)

Honourable Mentions:

*Preoccupations - Arrangements (Flemish Eye)
*Alvvays - Blue Rev (Polyvinyl)
*KEN Mode - Null (Artoffact)
*Jasmyn - In the Wild (Royal Mountain)
*Emblematics - Navigation (Independent)