100 Essential Canadian Songs from 2014
By Adam ~ Posted Tuesday, December 9th 2014A strange thing I noticed this year is that I almost expressly listen to Canadian music now. Piles and piles of new cassettes from all corners of the country containing anything from the sweetest ambience to the harshest noise. Canada is ripe with nascent and quickly growing talent, all rooted in bubbling scenes that have multitudes of tendrils that spread and reach far. I do know too that there are many treasure chests that lay still buried, many flavours of fruit not yet savoured. These hundred fantastic songs are those I personally felt most compelled to share, and I hope that you find a brilliant new love somewhere down these tunnels. - Adam Bradley
Memorex - Learn Design
http://mmrx.bandcamp.com/track/learn-design
PyPy - Pagan Day
http://slovenly.bandcamp.com/track/pagan-day-2
Dirty Frigs - Osiris
http://dirtyfrigs.com
Carl Didur - Pretty Insignificant
http://carldidur.bandcamp.com/track/pretty-insignificant
Alpha Strategy - Thread
https://alphastrategy.bandcamp.com/track/thread-3
Lee Paradise - Farisian
http://leeparadisemusic.bandcamp.com/track/farisian
Kurt Marble - Replacement
http://kurtmarble.bandcamp.com/track/replacement
Holiday Rambler - Florida
http://holidayrambler.bandcamp.com/track/florida
Ylang Ylang - Amulette Secrète
http://lavachurch.bandcamp.com/track/amulette-secre-te
Flash Palace - Some Set Sun
http://flashpalace.bandcamp.com/track/some-set-sun
Klondike - Mon Beau Perroquet
Odonis Odonis - Order In The Court
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z66prOj0tw
(* video still pictured above)
Absolutely Free - Beneath The Air
https://soundcloud.com/absolutelyfree/beneath-the-air
Zoo Owl - Break Out
http://zooowl.bandcamp.com/track/break-out
Bataille Solaire - JAP
https://soundcloud.com/mindrecords-1/mind-mmm-003-jap-bataille-solaire-jap
Pet Sun - Feel Like I'm Going Away
http://petsun.bandcamp.com/track/feel-like-im-going-away
Telstar Drugs - Endless Straight
http://telstardrugs.bandcamp.com/track/endless-straight
Ramzi - Pou Bet Ke Mwen
http://ramzi1.bandcamp.com/track/pou-b-t-ke-mwen
Moss Lime - Ice Cream Sandwiches
Whimm - Surveillance In The Park
http://whimm.bandcamp.com/track/surveillance-in-the-park
VCR - Fake Freaks (Fuck Off!) // Bugs, Bugs, Bugs // Slap Your Mammy!
http://vcr-toronto.bandcamp.com/track/fake-freaks-fuck-off-bugs-bugs-bugs-slap-your-mammy
The Weather Station - What Am I Going To Do (With Everything I Know)
http://youvechangedrecords.bandcamp.com/track/what-am-i-going-to-do-with-everything-i-know
Elrichman - Cool Shade of a Palm
http://elrichman.bandcamp.com/track/cool-shade-of-a-palm
Man Made Hill - Constant Touching
http://manmadehill.bandcamp.com/track/constant-touching
Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En1llevuLQ4
Creep Highway - What
http://creephighway.bandcamp.com/track/what
Ginla - Almost Plastic
Hag Face - Worst Nightmare
http://hagface.bandcamp.com/track/worst-nightmare-2
Bad River - Freedom 14'
http://baddriver.bandcamp.com/track/freedom-14
Ken Park - Car Commercial
https://kenparkkenpark.bandcamp.com/track/car-commercial
Wrong Hole - Jake
http://wrongholemusic.bandcamp.com/track/jake
New Fries - Uncle Carmin Cruise Ship Cuba
http://newfries.bandcamp.com/track/uncle-carmin-cruise-ship-cuba
Viet Cong - Continental Shelf
http://youtu.be/hdMz7BUtOvk
Doomsquad - Head Spirit (Four our Mechanical Time)
http://doomsquad.bandcamp.com/track/head-spirit-four-our-mechanical-time
Sinoia Caves - Forever Dialating Eye
Owen Pallett - Song For Five & Six
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr_SbrFIuKA
STEVE JR - Guru
http://stevejr.bandcamp.com/track/guru
Ice Cream - Cool Water
https://soundcloud.com/icecreamband/ice-cream-cool-water
Shrines - Tuning
http://shrinestheband.bandcamp.com/track/tuning
Mexican Slang - Blisters
http://mexicanslang.bandcamp.com/track/blisters
Jay Holy - Buried Alive
http://jayholy.bandcamp.com/track/buried-alive
TOPS - Way To Be Loved
https://soundcloud.com/arbutus-records/tops-way-to-be-loved
Caribou - Can't Do Without You
https://soundcloud.com/caribouband/cant-do-without-you
Dorval Devereaux - Heavy Hands
Kyle Bobby Dunn - Variation on a Theme by St-Dipshit
https://soundcloud.com/studentsofdecay/variation-on-a-theme-by-st?in=studentsofdecay/sets/kyle-bobby-dunn-infinite-sadness
Mozart's Sister - Good Thing Bad Thing
http://youtu.be/KSIU9kQ4_rQ
You'll Never Get To Heaven - Caught In Time, So Far Away
http://youllnevergettoheaven.bandcamp.com/track/caught-in-time-so-far-away
Wolfcow - Ammonia Club X 2
https://wolfcow.bandcamp.com/track/ammonia-club-x2
Last Ex - Girl Seizure
White Poppy - Jennifer (Faust Cover)
https://whitepoppy.bandcamp.com/track/jennifer-faust-cover
Secret Sign - Cat + Mouse
https://soundcloud.com/secretsign/secret-sign-catmouse-demo
Jennifer Castle - Pink City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCXNT0Shfw
DAS RAD - Land of Nod
http://dasrad.bandcamp.com/track/land-of-nod
Several Futures - Thatcher in the Rye
http://severalfutures.bandcamp.com/track/thatcher-in-the-rye
(* disclosure: this band contains Wavelength's own Jonny Dovercourt!)
The Beverleys - Dreams
http://buzzrecordsto.bandcamp.com/track/dreams
iFLIST! - Purify Your Soul
Baal Astarté - Potato Jazz
https://soundcloud.com/baal-astart/baal-astart-potato_jazz
Omhouse - Mooneye
http://omhouse.bandcamp.com/track/mooneye
Zones - Open Sky
http://zonesmusic.bandcamp.com/track/open-sky
Bile Sister - Mullet Bullet
http://bilesister.bandcamp.com/track/mullet-bullet
Most People - Falling Apart
http://mostpeopleband.bandcamp.com/track/falling-apart
Dilly Dally - Next Gold
http://dillydally.bandcamp.com/track/next-gold
Weaves - Buttercup
http://weaves.bandcamp.com/track/buttercup
Petra Glynt - Propaganda
http://petraglynt.bandcamp.com/track/propaganda-demo
Ought - Today More Than Any Other Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpqQRDaaNI0
Sean Nicholas Savage - Heartless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRgvW6MZwok
Energy Slime - Bustin' Up
Tasseomancy - Reality
http://youtu.be/jkjttYoDXhI
Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAn3JdtSrnY
Beta / Mai - Never Enough
https://soundcloud.com/buzzrecords/betamai-never-enough
JFM - The Debutante
http://jfm3.bandcamp.com/track/the-debutante
Hush Pup - Swimming
http://hushpup.bandcamp.com/track/swimming-2
Cousins - Phone
http://cousinscousins.bandcamp.com/track/phone
Soupcans - Crimes Of The Future pt 1
http://thesoupcans.bandcamp.com/track/crimes-of-the-future-pt-i
Astro Screamer - Escapes
https://soundcloud.com/astroscreamer/escapes
Last Lizard - Dickie's Theme
https://soundcloud.com/lastlizard/dickies-theme
Tenderness - 99+1
BizZarh - Rap Game Eat My Shorts (prod Cities Aviv)
http://bizzarh.bandcamp.com/track/rap-game-eat-my-shorts
Téléphone Maison - Nous Rencontrons des Difficultés
http://arachnidiscs.bandcamp.com/track/b2-nous-rencontrons-des-difficulte-s
HSY - Cyber Bully
http://hussywhore.bandcamp.com/album/cyber-bully-phantasm-blast-7
Fleshtone Aura - Deep Space Love Probe
http://fleshtoneaura.bandcamp.com/track/deep-space-love-probe
Wish - Retrograde
http://handdrawndracula.bandcamp.com/track/retro-grade
Kahuna - $tepping $tone
https://hereticalobjects.bandcamp.com/track/tepping-tone
Thomas - Shy
http://isthisthomas.bandcamp.com/track/shy
C. Diab - Sittin On a Plane, Lookin at Some Clouds
http://cdiab.bandcamp.com/track/sittin-on-a-plane-lookin-at-some-clouds
Monomyth - Pac Ambition
http://mmyth.bandcamp.com/track/pac-ambition
Nick Storring - (Come To My) Thicket
http://nickstorring.bandcamp.com/track/come-to-my-thicket
Red Mass - Sharp (feat. Mac DeMarco)
S.H.I.T. - Feeding Time
http://whatwedoissecrete.bandcamp.com/track/feeding-time-3
Hoover Party - Drone 1
http://hooverparty.bandcamp.com/track/drone-1
Babel - Zwerm.03
http://babelmusik.bandcamp.com/track/zwerm-03
Dirty Beaches - Displaced
https://soundcloud.com/zoo-music/displaced
Nap Eyes - No Man Needs To Care
http://napeyes.bandcamp.com/track/no-man-needs-to-care-2
Fresh Snow - Mony Mony
https://soundcloud.com/reelcod/fresh-snow-mony-mony?in=reelcod/sets/mimico-fresh-snow-split
Mystic Triangle - Lightfighter Enjoys A Holiday
https://soundcloud.com/reelcod/lightfighter-enjoys-a-holiday?in=reelcod/sets/mystic-triangle-pulses-1
Cold Specks - Absisto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgqRYbPLlnU
Yacht Club - I.W.4.Y.L
STÜKA - Tr(u)st
http://youtu.be/ab1Qa_pnzBw
Cellphone - No Wind In Hell
https://soundcloud.com/telephoneexplosion/no-wind-in-hell
Moon - Gomorrah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jRJBcSc8MM#t=95