DNTTA Playlist for April 23, 2020 - Quarantine Edition #3

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

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Icicle - Catch Me* - Resurgence (Herd)
Thomas Dolby - Flying North - The Golden Age of Wireless (Manhattan)
Cristina - What’s a Girl to Do - Ladytron: Softcore Jukebox (Nettwerk)
Rational Youth - Wir Danen auf der Berliner Mauer* - Dancing on the Berlin Wall EP (Yul)
Anthrax - Be All, End All - Persistence of Time (Island)
Connect_icut - 74 Guitars* - Small Town by the Sea (Independent)
Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating* - Crystal Castles (Last Gang)
Bugskull - Taj Mahal - The Big White Cloud (Scratch)
Liars - Grown Men Don’t Fall in Rivers, Just Like That - They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top (Gern Blansden)
Bis - Girl Star - Social Dancing (V2)
Electrelane - At Sea - No Shouts No Calls (Too Pure)
Pylon - Feast on My Heart - Gyrate (DFA)

DNTTA Playist for April 16, 2020 - Quarantine Edition #2

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

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Doubting Thomas - Hiding* - The Infidel (Wax Trax!)
Ministry - You Know What You Are - The Land of Rape and Honey (Sire)
Lard - Moths - Pure Chewing Satisfaction (Alternative Tentacles)
Pigface - The Bushmaster - Gub (Invisible)
PlatEAU - White Widow* - Music for Grass Bars (Metropolis)
Industrial Artz - Braineater* - 6 Demon Bang (Squid)
The Sudden - Time* - The Sudden (Independent)
Out Out - Tear Me Down - Voiceprint (Metropolis)
X Marks the Pedwalk - Arbitrary Execution - Abattoir (Cleopatra)
Future Sound of London - We Have Explosive - Dead Cities (Astralwerks)

DNTTA Log for April 9, 2020 - Quarantine Edition #1

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

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AA Wallace - Success* - In Alpha Zones (Culvert)
Psychic TV - Black Rainbow - Towards Thee Infinite Beat (PIAS)
Throbbing Gristle - Subhuman - Something Came Over Me (Industrial)
Chris and Cosey - Infectus - Trust (PIAS)
Les Handclaps - J’en ai Assez (Poirier remix)* - Cliche (Independent)
Grimes - Delete Forever* - Miss Anthropocene (4AD)
Anemone - Memory Lane* - Beat My Distance (Luminelle)
Dan Deacon - True Thrush - America (Domino)
Clark - Ache of the North - Turning Dragon (Warp)
Blue Hawaii - Belize* - Blooming Summer (Arbutus)
Add N to (X) - Party Bag - Avant Hard (Mute)

DNTTA Playlist for March 13, 2020 - International Women's Day Special

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

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Controller.Controller - History* - History EP (Paper Bag)
Tacocat - Dana Katherine Scully - Lost Time (Hardly Art)
Sheer Mag - What You Want - I EP (Wilsuns)
Ariel View - How Much Longer - Until My Lungs Are Cleared (Epitaph)
Vivian Girls - When I`m Gone - Everything Goes Wrong (In the Red)
Organ Mood - The End of Roadkill* - Indivisible (Dare to Care)
Lederhosen Lucil - Doing the Ganglion* - Tales from the Pantry (Hypo)
Parallels - Heart of the Wild* - Metropolis (Independent)
Obuxum - Own Your Truth* - Re-Birth (Urbnet)
Riit - Qujana* - Ataataga (Six Shooter)
Tawiah - Recreate - Starts Again (First World)
The Amps - First Revival - Pacer (4AD)
Caveboy - Hide Your Love* - Night in the Park, Kiss in the Dark (Independent)
Kim Gordon - Air BnB - No Home Record (Matador)

Best of 2019 #5: Kim Gordon - No Home Record (Matador)

If you had told me in 2011 that the break up of Sonic Youth was going to be a good thing, I may have slapped you in the face while crying. Man, I loved Sonic Youth. But, their break up has given us more music from each individual in the band, and it's been uniformly great! It's also been interesting to see which member was instrumental in each part of the band's sound. Thurston Moore has given us the same moody, skronky guitar noise-rock that Sonic Youth was known for, and constistently ends up on my Top 10 lists. (2011, 2013). Kim Gordon has gone in some wildly extreme directions, first a wall-of-noise style instrumental guitar band with Bill Nace called Body/Head, a foray into visual art, a biography called Girl in a Band (which I desperately need to read still). some acting, an album with experimental band Glitterbust, and finally, in this year, the first proper solo album under her own name. No Home Record is a dense mix of experimental rock, guitar noise, skittering electronics, echoed vocals and ambient atmospheres. Kim Gordon continues to surprise with her range after 40 years in music.

DNTTA Log for March 6, 2020

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

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Woodhawk - Clear the Air* - Violent Nature (Independent)
Alder and Ash - No More Storms* - The Crowneater (And an Earth)
Sleepy Gonzales - Sleepwalking* - Mellowtrauma (Independent)
Mogwai - Acid Food - Mr. Beast (Matador)
Friendly Rich - Donkey Day* - We Are All Terrorists (Pumpkin Pie Corp.)
Fyonha - Lie Down
The Shangs - Just a Little Boy* - Golden Hits of the Shangs (Independent)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Galleon Ship - Ghosteen (AWAL)
Third Coast Percussion - For All It’s Fury – Cradle - Fields (Cedille)
The Basement Paintings - Koan* - Antipodes (Independent)
Shrouded Strangers - Oilheart - Lost Forever (Independent)

Best of 2019 #6: Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel (Partisan Records)

I was introduced to Dublin, Ireland's Fontaines D.C. through British band Idles (my fave album from last year), because the two were touring together. Cut from some of the same cloth as Idles, Fontaines D.C. distill the edge and vigor of classic punk, the working class grit of Ireland and some brutally angular post-punk vibes together for a sound that's like a more melodic version of The Fall. Lead singer Grian Chatten sings with his Irish accent intact, giving the music a drunken Pogues-like swagger that is maintain through the album. The post-punks come out in tracks like "Hurricane Laughter" and the punishingly in your face "Too Real". Their punk roots are always shining through with each song though, which keeps them from feeling too arty and pretentious. A stunning debut!