DNTTA Playlist for November 12, 2021

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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Moev - Yeah Whatever* - Yeah Whatever (Warner)
Warren Dunes - Count on Me - Get Well Soon (Independent)
St. Vincent and Thomas Bartlett - All Tomorrow’s Parties - I'll Be Your Mirror (Verve)
Medicate and Ashley - Deep Depression* - Nowhere (Independent)
Debra-Jean Creelman - Conduit* - Threshold (Modern Laundry)
Keeper E - Please Don’t Tell Me* - The Sparrows All Find Food (LHM)
WUT - Capital City* - Now (Independent)
Les Chouettes - Curve of Time* - EP (Hypo)
Parlour Panther - Hear the Rumble* - Retrograde (Coax)
Sega Sisters - Skyway Bridge* - Sonic Sisters (Independent)
Q2 - Estimated Deficiencies*
The Hidden Cameras - In the NA* - Origin: Orphan (Arts and Crafts)

Top 10 Albums of 2021

1) Low - Hey What (Sub Pop)
2) Tunic* - Exhaling (Artoffact)
3) Snapped Ankles - Forest of Your Problems (Leaf)
4) Spectres* - Hindsight (Artoffact)
5) Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz (Year 0001)
6) J.Alpinist* - VHS Dubs (Independent)
7) Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg (4AD)
8) Suuns* - The Witness (Secret City)
9) Idles - Crawler (Partisan)
10) Wet Cigarette* - Uncut (Independent)

Honourable Mentions: Actors* - Acts of Worship (Artoffact), cEvin Key* - Resonance (Artoffact), Cots* - Disturbing Body (Boiled), TRAITRS* - Horses in the Abbatoir (Freakwave), Gustaf - Audio Drag for Ego Slobs (Royal Mountain)

DNTTA Playlist for November 5, 2021

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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The Besnard Lakes - Feuds with Guns* - Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings (Flemish Eye)
Cymon Lamarre - W Y M* - Mtl.Drone - Balcony Drone (Independent)
I Can’t Techno - Ouroborous*
Peppermoth - Mezermiser* - Ventrillokissed (Big Mind)
Iain Howie - Leaf Syndrome* - Patterns (Independent)
Darkwinds - Ombres et Miroirs* - Noirs Velours (Cuchabata)
Christopher Icasiano - Provinces II - Provinces (Origin)
Plains Apparition - Wave of Debris* - Encrypt (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for October 15, 2021

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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Suuns - Go to My Head* - The Witness (Secret City)
Ride - Jump Jet - This is Not a Safe Place (Wichita)
Dilly Dally - Sober Motel* - Sore (Buzz)
ILikeTrains - Terra Nova - Progress Reform (Fierce Panda)
Mudhoney - Night and Fog - Digital Garbage (Sub Pop)
Body Breaks - Reality* - Bad Trouble (Independent)
Pretty Girls Make Graves - The Teeth Collector - The New Romance (Matador)
KV Raucous and the Cave Dwellers - All Bark No Bite* - Beach Party at Drac's (Independent)
Foals - Alabaster - Total Life Forever (Transgressive)
Public Image Ltd. - Don’t Ask Me - Greatest Hits So Far (Virgin)
Crabe - 8008 rue des Lombards* - Sentients (Independent)
Mahogany Frog - Cube* - In The Electric Universe (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for October 8. 2021

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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Betaboys - July 87* - So Shy EP (Independent)
Kizis - Side of the Road* - Tidabadibe/Turn (Tin Angel)
Nevada Brown - Simple Moments* - Speak Low (Independent)
Paula Eve Kirman - Self Isolation* - The Pandemic Project (Independent)
Paula Eve Kirman - The New Normal* - The Pandemic Project (Independent)
Zane Coppard and Outback - Way Off* - Dupoint EP (Independent)
pseudo-antigone - Lullabies* - Into the Void of Infinite Sadness (Independent)
Reversels - Skin - Lesabre (Independent)
Dry Cleaning - Strong Feelings - New Long Leg (4AD)
IMUR - Birdseye* - My Molecules (Independent)
Death Hags - Chaos Magic - Big Grey Sun #3 (Independent)
Paragon Cause - Disconnected*  - Autopilot (Neko)

Best of 2020: #1 Idles - Ultra Mono (Partisan Records)

After hearing Joy as an Act of Resistance (my favourite album of 2018), Idles became one of my favourite new bands. They play an uncompromising style of punk and post-punk, with jackhammer guitars, loud, unrelenting bass and guitars, and howled vocals about the unfairness of life as a working person. Ultra Mono is just as good as JaaAoR, maybe even a bit better. It's a bit more melodic, and even a bit more noisy.

Best of 2020: #2 Civic Center - The Ground Below (American Dreams Records)

Like so much music I've grown to love, discovering Civic Center was completely by chance. Both they and their record label, American Dreams, were unknown to me before 2020. Civic Center hail from Chicago, ground zero for a great deal of American industrial music, and the band takes its cues from the more classic sound of early British industrial. Their music is full of minimalist dirges, angular drums and guitars, and howling, distorted vocals. The sound is much like early Cabaret Voltaire mixed with kraut rock bands like D.A.F. and extreme post-punk bands like The Fall and The Birthday Party. Their record label is full of fascinating industrial, post punk and electronics. Another album on the label, Evicshen's Hair Birth, ended up as an honourable mention for 2020.