100 Essential Canadian Songs from 2014

A 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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X86QvXV7DXI

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UITgOpX_yIo

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