DNTTA Playlist for January 21, 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 

--

Change of Heart - What My Paws Can Move* - Honeysuckle (Cargo)
Mira Calix - Little Long Gone - Skimskitta (Warp)
China Crisis - King in a Catholic Style - Flaunt the Imperfection (Virgin)
Chelsea Light Moving - Sleeping Where I Fall - Chelsea Light Moving (Matador)
Citadel - The Valley and What Lies Beyond It* - Aquarian EP (Independent)
Curve - Alligators Getting Up - Come Clean (Universal)
Clues - You Have My Eyes Now* - Clues (Constellation)
Cygnets - Juno* - Isolator (Negative Gain)
Cinerama - Unzip - Disco Volante (Manifesto)
Cassandra Complex - Sleeper - Cyberpunx (PIAS)
Consolidated - Business of Punishment - Business of Punishment (Nettwerk)

DNTTA Playlist for January 14, 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 

--

Broken Social Scene - Highway Slipper Jam* - Forgiveness Rock Record (Arts and Crafts)
Bailterspace - Be on Time - Robot World (Matador)
Bakelite - Silence in Golden* - Bakelite (Independent)
Syd Barrett - Dominoes- Wouldn't You Miss Me? The Best of (Harvest)
Borghesia - 133 - No Hope No Fear (PIAS)
Birmingham 6 - You Cannot Walk Here - You Cannot Walk Here (Zoth Ammog)
Beef Terminal - How We Ended Up Under the Wheels* - 20 Goto 10 (Noise Factory)
Bear Mountain - Always Been You* - Badu (Last Gang)
Bonobo - Terrapin - Animal Magic (Ninja Tune)
Bigod 20 - Swallow Me - Supercute (Sire)
bis - Girl Star - Intendo (Grand Royal)
Beat Happening - Foggy Eyes - Beat Happening (K Records)

DNTTA Playlist for January 7, 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 

--

Alunared - This Machinery* - SLMZK! (Action Driver)
Barry Adamson - It’s Business as Usual - Oedipus Schmoedipus (Mute)
Arling and Cameron - 1999 Spaceclub - 1999 Spaceclub EP (Emperor Norton)
Lydia Ainsworth - Ricochet* - Darling of the Afterglow (Arbutus)
Animal Collective - Kids on Holiday - Sung Tongs (Domino)
Adult. - Nothing of the Kind - Anxiety Always (Ersatz Audio)
Azeda Booth - Big Fists* - In Flesh Tones (Absolutely Kosher)
Jay Arner - Sacrifice* - Jay Arner (Mint)
Animal Names - Skyline Teeth* - Ballet Bones (Independent)
Asobi Seksu - Coming Up - Fluorescence (Polyvinyl)
And Christ Wept - Fascist Statement - Destroy Existence (Independent)

 

Best of 2020

 Best Albums of 2020

1) Idles - Ultra Mono (Partisan)
2) Civic Center - The Ground Below (American Dreams)
3) Psychedelic Furs - Made of Rain (Cooking Vinyl)
4) Bootblacks - Thin Skies (Artoffact)
5) METZ* - Atlas Vending (Sub Pop)
6) A Certain Ratio - ACR Loco (Mute)
7) Jehnny Beth - To Love is to Live (Caroline)
8) Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today (Domino)
9) Crack Cloud* - Pain Olympics (Meat Machine)
10) lie* - You Want it Real (Mint)

Honourable Mentions: Bob Mould - Blue Hearts (Merge), Austra* - HiRUDiN (Pink Fizz), Spectres* - Nostalgia (Artoffact), Evishen - Hair Birth (American Dreams), Caribou* - Suddenly (Merge)

Best of 2019 #1: METZ - Automat (Sub Pop)

 It's always a cause for celebration when METZ puts out an album. Toronto's masters of pummeling, patent-leather-tough noise rock knock it out of the park with this album, which is mostly outtake and b-side material from their first three albums. Normally, I won't consider re-released material for my Top 10, but the freshness and urgency of this album compelled me to keep listening and listening. As is typical for METZ, they approach each song with the idea of crushing your tiny brain, tender ears and meager sense of self into soft, mushy soup. Each song is brutal, punishing, driving, droning noise rock, backed with the finest of gutteral screaming. You'd be tempted to call this a punk album, but it has more in common with a middle-finger wagging post punk band. It's literate and smart, and at the same time, utterly base and streetsmart.

DNTTA Playlist for May 21, 2020 - Quarantine Edition #7

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

Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific (currently Thursdays 7-8 PM due to pandemic quarantine) at www.thex.ca 

--

Fidgital - Drag and Drop* - Spyglass (Independent)
Jessica Bailiff - Failing Yesterday - Kranky Kompilation (Kranky)
Manhole Vortex - Superhuman Machines - Electro-Cution (Arts Industrial)
Mannequin Lung - Is it Live? - The Art of Travel (Plug Research)
Uffie - Robot Ouef - Ed. Rec Vol. III (Ed Banger)
The Inner Thumb - Citroens and Sitars - Space Baby Blast Off (Emperor Norton)
Translucid - Hang - Unheard Artist Compilation Vol. 2 (Plastiqmusiq)
The New Deal - Gone Gone Gone* - Gone Gone Gone (Sound and Light)
Hello Moth - River* - Infinitely Repeated (Independent)
Devo - Planet Earth - Freedom of Choice (Warner)

Best of 2019 #2: Orville Peck - Pony (Sub Pop)

Orville Peck was one of the most unique artists of 2019. Performing under a fringed leather mask, and overlapping the genres of country, indy rock, shoegaze and electronics, no one could match Peck's odd sound. Pony earned him a lot of play on campus radio as well as more adventurous ends of the country music radio spectrum. His real identity is a mystery; he says he wears the mask because he is a well known name in the music industry in Toronto, and wants to separate his Peck persona from his own identity to carve out his own musical space. Peck is hard to put into a category. Ostensibly, this is a country album, a brooding one that only tangentally addresses country, with banjo and steel guitar floating in and out of the music. But it's not solidly in that camp, with shoegazing indy rock taking most of the rest of his sound. It's a tough album to get, but when you do, you'll get it full on.