Top 10 Albums of 2015

1) The Soft Moon - Deeper (Captured Tracks)
2) Faith Healer* - Cosmic Troubles (Mint)
3) METZ* - II (Sub Pop)
4) Tacocat - NVM (Hardly Art)
5) ttwwrrss* - ttwwrrss_2 (Maisonnevue)
6) Viet Cong* - Viet Cong (Flemish Eye)
7) Shamir - Ratchet (XL)
8) Girl Band - Holding Hands with Jamie (Rough Trade)
9) Conduct* - Fear and Desire (Public Tone)
10) FFS - FFS (Domino)

Honourable Mentions: Sleater-Kinney - No Cites to Love (Sub Pop), Purity Ring* - Another Eternity (Last Gang), White Reaper - White Reaper Does it Again (Royal Mountain), Foals - What Went Down (Transgressive), Ought* - Sun Coming Down (Constellation)

I'll be counting them down Friday, January 15th 8-9 PM.

DNTTA Playlist for December 18, 2015

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

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Grimes* - California - Art Angels (Crystal Math)
Lilly Wolf - Wasteland - Deleted Scenes (Independent)
Colliding Canyons* - 8000 Dolphin Day - Colliding Canyons (Shake!)
LCD Soundsystem - Disco Infiltrator - LCD Soundsystem (DFA)
Terra* - Control - Couldn't Save This EP (Shake!)
Blu Shorts* - The Rip - Blu Shorts (Shake!)
The Shiverettes* - Bad for Me - Just Three Songs (Independent)
Juice Box* - Two Stars on Amazon - Tetra Pak (Independent)
OK Jazz* - Warning Light - Level Up (Independent)
Chron Goblin* - Give Way - Backwater (Independent)
We Hunt Buffalo* - The Barrens - Living Ghosts (New Damage)
A.P. Laurenson - Evidently - Desert Ethereal (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for December 11, 2015

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

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Telstar Drugs* - Greyed Rainbow - Sonatine (Egg Paper Factory)
Skim Milk* - The Prince - Ghosts of Jazz (Independent)
North Atlantic Explorers* - Lapwing - All the Ships at Sea (Anniedale)
Bowery Electric - Floating World - Tea for 2000 (Beggar's Banquet)
Low - Spanish Translation - Ones and Sixes (Sub Pop)
Altered Images - Song Sung Blue - Pinky Blue (Portrait)
Homo Duplex* - Caves - 05 (Independent)
Hook and Eye* - Lost Brothers - Start Slow (Medicine)
The Nils* - Love to Hate - Ghosts and Shadows (Cobraside)
Betrayers* - 60/40 - Love Rat EP (Shake!)
Dri Hiev* - Good Shirt - Contravirtual EP (Shake!)
The Evaporators* - Cardboard Brains - Ripple Rock (Mint)

Earshot Reviews for December 2015

Decent stuff here, but avoid that Young Empires album...

Monkeyjunk - Moon Turn Red

The Sweet Lowdown - Chasing the Sun

Young Empires - The Gates

DNTTA Playlist for December 4, 2015

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

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Blue Hawaii* - Castle of Clouds - Blooming Summer (Arbutus)
Jerusalem in My Heart* - Ah Ya Mal El Sham - If He Dies, If If If If If If (Constellation)
Suuns* - Arena - Zeroes QC (Secretly Canadian)
Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart* - Seif - Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart (Secret City)
New Order - Plastic - Music Complete (Mute)
Alien Heirs* - War is News - To Heir is Human (Independent)
1977* - We Do - Twister (Independent)
Farao - Hunter - Till It's All Forgotten (Arts and Crafts)
Chairs* - Sleeper - Drawn Into Mazes (Kinnta)
Late Spring* - Topless - Late Spring (Independent)
Fine Young Cannibals - Love for Sale - Red Hot and Blue (Chrysalis)
Sinead O'Connor - I Want Your Hands on Me - The Lion and the Cobra (Chrysalis)

DNTTA Playlist for Nobemver 27, 2015

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

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The Floor* - Impossible - Automony Off/On (Independent)
Kristien Nordevil/Elizabeth Brown - She Lost Her Voice, That's How We Knew (Part II) - She Lost Her Voice, That's How We Knew (Ravello)
Mother Falcon - Boxer - Good Luck, Have Fun (Universal)
Parkland* - Drinking Glue - Singularity (Offseason)
Spoons* - Camera Shy - Talkback (Ready)
Bodies That Matter* - I Confess - Glorify! Glorify! Glorify! (Optical Sounds)
Peter Murphy - I've Got a Miniature Secret Camera - Pump Up the Volume OST (MCA)
Fine Times* - Not Dead - Bad::Better (Light Organ)
Unalaska* - Salaryworld - Unalaska (Light Organ)
Tame Impala - The Moment - Currents (Modular)
Esmerine* - A River Runs Through This City - Other Voices (Constellation)

DNTTA Playlist for November 20, 2015

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

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Tanuki* - Top Floor - Sound System (Independent)
Shamir - Hot Mess - Ratchet (XL)
Appliance - Heroes of Telemark (Pole remix) - D4 EP (Warp)
Hau Li* - Luxury - Za Zhong (Art Not Love)
Sego - Psychobabble - Long Long Way from the Fridge (Dine Alone)
Julian Bachlow* - Can You Feet It - Family Ties (Independent)
Ensh* - Plaid Patterns - Both of Them Milenko (Independent)
Ded Sheppard* - Wrong Music - Ded Sheppard (East Van Digital)
Decoder - Circuit Breaker - Infinite Beat Vol. 1 (DGC)
Troye Sivan - Bite - Wild (EMI)
Wumpscut - Concrete Rage - Music for a Slaughtering Tribe (Metropolis)