Happy NYE!
The time has come to reveal the Top 10 Canadian albums.
My #1 goes to The Weather Station who made an impressive album that was a change from previous works.
Ignorance takes Tamara out of her comfort zone from the guitar to more of a full band pop-rock sound vibe.
Montreal’s Teke::Teke debut full-length bought out the retro Japanese surf rock which is very daring in Canadian music.
Cedric Noel’s stunning full-length album
Had to put a tie between 2021 & 2020 Polaris Music Prize winners Cadence Weapon and Backxwash who put out a stunning album.
Dorothea Paas released a wonderful debut album filled with singer/songwriter alt-folk pop rock album.
Ada Lea second album title sort of reminds me of Fiona Apple’s ambitious long titled album.
Casper Skulls changes up their style of music to a serious rock album.
Absolutely Free put out a stunning art-rock album filled with social commentary on the track Remaining Light.
Korea Town Acid surprised me with Metamorphosis.
1. The Weather Station – Ignorance
2. Teke::Teke – Shirushi
3. Cedric Noel – Hang Time
4. Tie with Cadence Weapon’s Parallel World & Backxwash’s I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES
5. Shad – TAO
6. Dorothea Paas – Anything Can’t Happen
7. Ada Lea – one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden
8. Casper Skulls – Knows No Kindness
9. Absolutely Free – Aftertouch
10. Korea Town Acid – Metamorphosis
Here is the rest of the list.
11. SUUNS – The Witness
12. Chad VanGaalen – World’s Most Stressed Out Gardener
13. New Chance – Real Time
14. You’ll Never Get To Heaven – Wave Your Moonlight Hat in the Snowfall Train
15. N0V3L – NON-FICTION
16. Sam Coffey and the Iron Lungs – Real One
17. Pony – TV Baby
18. Bernice – Eau De Bonjourno
19. Paul Jacobs – Pink Dogs on the Green Grass
20. Motorists – Motorists
21. Nick Schofield – Glass Gallery
22. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson – Theory of Ice
23. Charlotte Day Wilson – Alpha
24. Le Ren – Leftovers
25. Astral Swans – Astral Swans
26. Said the Whale – Dandelion
27. Mustafa – When Smoke Rises
28. Michael Feuerstack – Harmonize the Moon
29. The Dirty Nil – Fuck Art
30. Hildegard – Hildegard
31. Packs – Take The Cake
32. Royal Canoe – Sidelining
33. Meggie Lennon -Sounds from Your Lips
34. The Halluci Nation – One More Saturday Night
35. Jasper Sloan Yip – Strange Calm / Blushing Autumn
36. Charlotte Cornfield – High in the Minuses
37. Album – Album
38. Kirty – We Are All On Fire
39. Central Heat Exchange – Central Heat Exchange
40. Julie Doiron – I Thought Of You
41. Ouri – Frame of a Fauna
42. Slow Down, Molasses – Minor Deaths
43. HOMESHAKE – Under the Weather
44. Bad Waitress – No Taste
45. Goodbye Honolulu – Goodbye Honolulu
46. Munya – Voyage to Mars
47. Fleece – Stunning & Atrocious
48. Graham Wright – The Cost of Doing Business
49. Silla & Rise – Silarjuaq
50. Gold & Youth – Dream Baby
51. Ducks Ltd. – Modern Fiction
52. Dave Monks – I’ve Always Wanted to Be Me
53. Nick Ferrio – Television of Roses
54. Cœur de Pirate – Impossible à aimer
55. Lydia Ainsworth – Sparkles & Debris
56. Teen Daze – Interior
57. Alyson McNamara – Let Me Sleep
58. Joseph Shabason – The Fellowship
59. Rochelle Jordan – Play with the Changes
60. TDA – Ascète
61. Scott Orr – Oh Man
62. Hot Garbage – Ride
63. Kyle Edward Connolly – On Arrival
64. Cots – Disturbing Body
65. Bell Orchestre – House Music
66. The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings
67. Kiwi Jr. – Cooler Returns
68. Graham Van Pelt – Salt Spring: Sun and Shadow
69. Men I Trust – Untourable Album
70. Dishpit – Dipshit
71. Yoo Doo Right – Don’t Think You Can Escape Your Purpose
72. Les Shirley – Forever is Now
73. Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz – Jooj Two
74. Mas Anya – Máscaras
75. Breeze – Only Up
76. Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band – Banned
77. Civic TV – Black Moon
78. Holobody – Phosphorus
79. The Wilderness of Manitoba
80. CFCF – Memoryland
81. Senior Citizen – What Was That
82. Kill Birds – Married
83. Ariel Posen – Mile End
84. Islands – Islomania
85. Postdata – Twin Flames
86. anders – Honest
87. Rêves Sonores – Crépuscule
88. Small Sins – Volume II
89. Silverpools – Chroma
90. Charles Spearin – My City of Starlings
91. Julia Daigle – Un single sur l’epaule
92. Radiant Baby – Pantomime
93. Spencer Burton – Coyote
94. Kogane – All Together
95. Astrocolor – Paradise
96. Brad Sucks – A New Low in Hi-Fi
97. Arkells – Blink Once
98. Charlotte Cardin – Phoenix
99. Death from Above 1979 – Is 4 Lovers
100. Drake – CLB
