The Best, The Worst and the Rest
Best of 2004 1. Lil Pocket Knife - Pants Control - Narnack Abrasive. Annoying. Addictive as sin. 2. Tilly and the Wall - Wild Like Children - Team Love Tap dancing percussion. That's enough right there. 3. The Arcade Fire - Funera l - Merge --CC Orchestral, sweeping, and also just plain raucous. Oh, and its going to be on everyone else's lists, so I didn't want to be different. j/k. Most Under-Rated Record of the Year Immaculate Machine � Transporter - Indie CC Because I once saw them play in Halifax until the cops came and shut it down. Because they toured for months to great response. And its a great record...with ballads and everything. Indie too. Most Over-Rated Record of the Year Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat - RoughTrade The media and public explosion over this record screams of an emporer and his new clothes complex. Maybe I just didn't get it. Best Local Release - Halifax Brent Randall and his Pinecones Quite Precisely Brent Randall Just Friends--CC The Just Friends recording collective are new in Halifax , but already in the last year have put out 6 releases, Brent's being a favourite. Its organ/piano pop with unique vocals and a sort of lounge style. Most Anticipated Record for 2005 The new Crooked Fingers record. I've loved all of his albums, so I'm expecting great things. Take me away Eric Bachman. Best Personal Campus/Community Radio Moment Or Experience of the Year. Listening to a group of on-air programmers who were stuck in the studio because they were snowed in.Part 1- Kevin Doyle at CKMS, Waterloo Part 2- Jessica Whyte at CKDU, Halifax Part 3- Tim Jones at CHMA, Sackville Part 4- Leland Bjerg at CFUR, Prince George Part 5- Maddee Gee at CFRU, Guelph Part 6- Chris Reid at CFUR, Prince George Part 7- Jon Bruhm at CKDU-FM, Halifax Part 8- Alexis Brett at CFBX, Kamloops Part 9- Mike D at CHMA, Sackville Part 10- Alex Callahan at CHMA, Sackville Part 11- Alanna Stuart at CHUO, Ottawa Part 12- Alex Cairncross at CHUO, Ottawa Part 13- Matt Jillard at CHRW, London |
Reviews
Mngwa
Andrew Franey
The Shangs
Alex Cuba
Tri Nguyen
Defend The Rhino
Talltale
Kiwi Jr.
Plaster
Hyness
Black Suit Devil
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan
The Pack A.D.
Chad VanGaalen
Potengowski Anna Friederike
Todd Rundgren
Old 97's
Needles//Pins
This Month
!earshot Top 200 of 2021For January to December 2021
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| TW | Artist - Title - (Label) | ||
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| 1 | TEKE::TEKE 
Shirushi - (Kill Rock Stars) |
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| 2 | The Halluci Nation
One More Saturday Night - (Radicalized) |
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| 3 | Chad VanGaalen
World's Most Stressed Out Gardener - (Flemish Eye) |
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| 4 | The Weather Station
Ignorance - (Next Door) |
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| 5 | Kiwi Jr.
Cooler Returns - (Kiwi Club) |
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| 6 | Arlo Parks
Collapsed In Sunbeams - (Transgressive) |
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| 7 | Ada Lea
one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden - (Next Door) |
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| 8 | Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz
jooj two - (Mint) |
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| 9 | Suuns
The Witness - (Secret City) |
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| 10 | Andy Shauf
Wilds - (Arts & Crafts) |
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| Specialty Charts #1s | |||
| Electronic: | The Halluci Nation - One More Saturday Night - (Radicalized) | ||
| Hip Hop: | Cadence Weapon - Parallel World - (Self-Released) | ||
| International: | Lakou Mizik and Joseph Ray - Leave The Bones - (Anjunadeep) | ||
| Jazz: | Adrian Younge - The American Negro - (Jazz Is Dead) | ||
| Loud: | Tunic - Exhaling - (Artoffact) | ||
| Folk/Roots/Blues: | Allison Russell - Outside Child - (Fantasy) | ||
