DNTTA Playlist for January 26, 2024 - Best of 2023

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

Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca 

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Odonis Odonis - Brilliant Things* - Icon EP (Pirates Press)
Devo - Nutty Buddy (live 1976) - Art Devo (Futurisma)
Devo - Watch Us Work It - 50 Years of Devolution (Rhino)
Negativland - No Excuse - Speech Free (Seeland)
Cygnets - Venus and the Wraiths* - Anthology (Independent)
Blue Oil - Money* - Blue Oil (Supreme Echo)
Sinead O’Connor - You Do Something to Me - Red Hot and Blue (Virgin)
Psychedelic Furs - This’ll Never Be Like Love - Made of Rain (Cooking Vinyl)
Killing Joke - Eighties - The Singles Collection (Spinefarm)
The Besnard Lakes - She’s an Icicle* - Are the Prayers for the Death of Fame (Flemish Eye)
Chairman - No Bones* - Demonstration II (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for Jan 19, 2024 - Best of 2023 Part I

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

Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca 

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Joey Joesph - I’ll Be Around - Triple Fantasy/Taking it Easy (Eyebrow Palace)
KEN Mode - We’re Small Enough* - Void (Artoffact)
The Armed - Sport of Form - Perfect Saviors (Sacred Bones)
Zoon - Care* - Bekka Ma'iingnan (Paper Bag)
Tunic - Punishment Enough* - Wrong Dream (Artoffact)
Debby Friday - So Hard to Tell* - Good Luck (Sub Pop)
The Hives - Bogus Operandi - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons (Hives Music)
Slowdive - Chained to a Cloud - Everything is Alive (Dead Oceans)
Renonce - Avec Violence* - Ombre (Mothland)
TEKE::TEKE - Gotoku Lemon* - Hagata (Kill Rock Stars)

 

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!