Best of 2018 - #5: Peach Kelli Pop - Gentle Leader (Mint)

Peach Kelli Pop are a wonderful 60-style garage rock band centred around former White Wires drummer Allie Hanlon. The band is mainly her with touring musicians. Formed around 2010, they put out three EPs (2 on the California based label Burger), before putting out an EP single, Which Witch, on Mint, then following up a month later with Gentle Leader. Peach Kelli Pop are kind of like a mix between Canadian indiepop legends cub, The Supremes and The Muffs: soulful, gruff and cute. The almost only clocks in around 30 minutes, but you don't need much more of what they give you. Fantastic pick up for Mint, and another in a long line of fantastic bands they've discovered.

Best of 2018: #6 - Alpha Strategy - The Gurgler (Antena Kryzku)

It's been a long time since we've seen a noise rock band approach the genre with the wild disregard that the Jesus Lizard used to. Toronto's Alpha Strategy seem worthy enough to take up the mantle. Lead singer Rory Hinchley has David Yow's demented, howling scream down pat, and the band takes noise to the extreme, brings it back to quiet, then back to the extreme again. Add in the noise rock pedigree of Steve Albini in engineering the record, and you've got one of the best noise recordings of 2018.

Best of 2018 #7: Superorganism - Superorganism (Domino)

I love a fascinating band formation story, and Superorganism has one. Lead singer Orono Niguchi was a teenage exchange student in Maine in the US, but travelled back to Japan on a trip. She found one of her favourite bands, The Eversons, were playing a concert there, so she went and connected with the band. Through the internet, they began making music, which turned into the first Superorganism songs. The band was split up between the US, UK and Australia, but now all live in London in the UK. Their music is an oddball pastiche of corny pop, electronica, disco, lo-fi indy rock and slacker funk. It has a wonderful innocence and naiveity to it as well. This is their debut album and it's excellent!

DNTTA Playlist for July 19, 2019

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

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Nicholas Krgovich - Goofy* - Ouch! (Tin Angel)
Bart - Heritage Moment* - Today, Tomorrow and the Next Day (Idee Fixe)
LAPS - Soon* - Soon Not Often In it (Independent)
l.n. baba - Cloud of Data* - Rubber Eye (Independent)
Longboat - Miss Friday - Album 14 (Independent)
Christopher Hill and the Stardust Crush - Pink Hat - Make America All Better Again (Independent)
Mr. Bungle - Retrovertigo - California (Reprise)
Flying Saucer Attack - Standing Stone - Further (Drag City)
Mac DeMarco - Preoccupied* - Here Comes the Cowboy (Royal Mountain)
Dinner is Ruined - Snow White* - Love Songs from the Lubratorium (Raw Energy)
Doomsquad - Emma* - Let Yourself Be Seen (Independent)
Chevalier Avant Garde - Minutes* - Fixture Records Sampler 4 (Fixture)

DNTTA Playlist for July 12, 2019

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

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respectfulchild - Glitter* - Searching (Coax)
Longwalkshortdock - Watch Your Step* - How Can You Just Pretend? (East Van Digital)
DJ Oxide - Sundae* - Dig Your Roots: Electronic Dance (Independent)
Tender - Bottled Up - Fear of Falling Asleep (Partisan)
WYVZ - Ghost This Body* - Sine (Independent)
Jaguar Knight - Lying in Bed* - Rock Your Boxes (Partysauce)
TR/ST - Grouch* - The Destroyer Part 1 (Royal Mountain)
Melted Mirror - Escalator* - Past Life (Independent)
MM Crone - Fish for Breakfast* - 2 EP (Independent)
Hollowlove - Reset* - Hollowlove (Independent)
Silica-Gel - Master of the Game - Noisy Children Party (Wifflefist)

DNTTA Playlist for July 5, 2019

Artist - Song - Album (Label)  * indicates Canadian Content  Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca  -- Animal Slaves - Contemporary Armor* - A Fine End (Spiral) SIRR - The Stranger* - Time Machine (Independent) Look Vibrant - Jail My Son* - Cherish Everything (Independent) Deep Covers - Mirror World* - Deep Covers (Independent) Yves Jarvis - Dew of the Dusk* - The Same But By Different Means (Flemish Eye) Quaker Parents - No Travel* - Our Drawing Club (Independent) Snake River - A Clean Stone* - Tread On to the Seaside (Independent) Weed - Puncture* - Running Back (Lefse) Lungbutter - Vile* - Honey (Constellation) Heart Attack Kids - The Driver* - Bad Luck Like Gold (New Damage) Joseph Michel - Back Street Alley* - Year of the Solo (Independent) Ape War - Blank Territory* - War Ape (Independent) The Evaporators - Ripple Rock* - Ripple Rock (Mint)

DNTTA Playlist for June 28, 2019

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

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Black Mountain - Horns Arising* - Destroyer (Dine Alone)
Dub Trio - World of Inconvenience - The Shape of Dub to Come (New Damage)
The Melvins - Goose Freight Train - Stoner Witch (Warner)
Dumb - Content Jungle* - Club Nites (Mint)
Gold Punks - Cold Water* - Gold Punks (Partysauce)
Cursing and Swearing - Double the Heartbreak* - Cursing and Swearing (Partysauce)
Shearing Pinx - Pump Knot* - Poison Hands (Independent)
Sean Luciw - Curvatures* - Beautiful Guitars (Ulusulu)
Problem Patient - ECT* - Patient Problems (Independent)
The Shiverettes - Trust* - Real Shrill Bitches (Independent)
Yamantaka//Sonic Titan - A Star Over Pureland* - YT/ST (Psychic Handshake)