DNTTA Playlist for April 17, 2015

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

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ttwwrrss - I Need You* - ttwwrrss_2 (Masionneuve)
Charles Barabe - Les Confessions II* - Split Single (Unit Structure Sound)
Pedro Monkeyfinger and Protagonst/Antagonist - PMPA05* - Split LP (Unit Structure Sound)
Bent Spoon Duo - With Christopher Riggs - Part 2* - With Christopher Riggs and Jack Wright (Unit Structure Sound)
Mid Pines - Bond Lake* - Year of the Horse (Cirsuit Song)
Ensemble SuperMusique - Le Fruits de Hasard* - MusicWorks #121 (Independent)

Best of 2014 #1: Future Islands - Singles (4AD)

North Carolina's Future Islands third album, Singles, is a singularly unique album. It's an odd mix of 80s style synth-pop and new wave, with a crooning, melodramatic and powerful lead singer, Samuel T. Herring. It's a weird album, but it's also oddly catchy. One can't help but be pulled along with Herring's enthusiastic vocal presence. He's earnest and seems very excited to do what he's doing. The music behind it is oddly soothing, sometimes lilting and sometimes jarring. Their odd juxtaposition of the music and Herring's odd vocal approach comes to a head on the song “Fall from Grace”, with Herring building a howling, almost screaming crescendo while the band crafts a Julee Cruise style dirge in the background. It's a compelling album, startlingly and unapologetically unique, like a 2010s version of Pere Ubu.

DNTTA Playlist for April 10, 2015

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

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Uzeb - Hit It* - You Be Easy (A&M)
Lan Tung - Ba Ban Variations* - Musicworks #121 (Independent)
Kronomorfic - Cellar Door - Entangled (OA2)
Billy Bang and William Parker - Sky Song - Medicine Buddha (NoBusiness)
Barry Guy - Fizzle 4 - Five Fizzles for Samuel Beckett (NoBusiness)
Tom Trio - Clocks - Radical Moves (For-Tune)
BadBadNotGood and Ghostface Killah - Mind Playin' Tricks* - Sour Soul (Lex)
Portishead - Undenied - Portishead (London)
Ibeyi - Think of You - Ibeyi (XL)
Nihilist Spasm Band - I Dreamt I Was Living in Paradise* - Live @ Western Front (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for April 3, 2015

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

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Hermetic - Prevenative Arrest* - Civilized City (Independent)
David Parker - Three Lighthouses* - Noise Noise Noisy Noisy Nooise (Independent)
Milk Toast - Weird Way* - Noise Noise Noisy Noisy Nooise (Independent)
Freak Heat Waves - Dig a Hole* - Bonnie's State of Mind (Hockey Dad)
Moon - Narrow Draw* - Moon (Bruised Tongue)
Brainiac - Vincent Come On Down - Hissing Prigs in Static Couture (Touch and Go)
Polysics - Jhout - Now is the Time (MySpace)
Kellar - Shining Sun Makes a Dwelling in the Sky - The Even Keel (Foolproof)
Big Dick - Last Days* - Disappointment (Dirt Cult)
Oromocto Diamond - Osoyoos* - Oromo Kumakis (P-572)
Ace Martens - Waiting* - Silent Days (Independent)
Waingro - Tailwind* - Waingro (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for March 27, 2015 - Women's Day Special

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

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Minutes from Downtown - Emotion Under Pressure* - Minutes from Downtown (Popguru)
Delerium feat. Emily Haines - Glimmer (Emjae club remix)* - Glimmer EP (Nettwerk)
Curve - Fait Accompli - Doppleganger (Too Pure)
Lederhosen Lucil - Chicken on Clark* - Guten Tag Gemini (Hypo)
Anamai - Abris* - Sallows (Buzz)
Belle and Sebastian - The Everlasting Muse - Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance (Matador)
The Amps - Full on Idle - Pacer (4AD)
Voice of the Beehive - I Walk the Earth - Let it Bee (Capitol)
Body/Head - Last Mistress - Coming Apart (Matador)
Tamara Filyavitch - Chernobyl Box* - Noise Noise Noisy Noisy Nooise (Independent)
I Am Spoonbender - Stopwatch Static* - Sender/Receiver (Mint)

Latest Earshot Reviews - April 2015

A few new reviews I've finished for Earshot Online:

And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - IX

Gord Downie and The Sadies - The Conquering Sun

Purity Ring - Another Eternity