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This Month

!earshot Top 200 of 2020 For January tp December 2020
TW	Artist - Title - (Label)
1	Andy Shauf Neon Skyline - (Arts & Crafts)
2	Lido Pimienta Miss Colombia - (Anti-)
3	Wolf Parade Thin Mind - (Royal Mountain)
4	Zoon Bleached Wavves - (Paper Bag)
5	Caribou Suddenly - (Merge)
6	Tops I Feel Alive - (Musique TOPS)
7	Tough Age Which Way Am I? - (Mint)
8	U.S. Girls Heavy Light - (Royal Mountain)
9	Destroyer Have We Met - (Merge)
10	Thanya Iyer KIND - (Topshelf Records)
View the full !earshot Top 200

Specialty Charts #1s
Electronic:	Caribou - Suddenly - (Merge)
Hip Hop:	Run The Jewels - RTJ4 - (Jewel Runners)
International:	Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia - (Anti-)
Jazz:	Audrey Ochoa - Frankenhorn - (Chronograph)
Loud:	Lié - You Want It Real - (Mint)
Folk/Roots/Blues:	William Prince - Reliever - (Six Shooter Records)

Best Jazz of 2020: Jim Dupuis - Jazz Notes
Jazz host and regular contributor jim Dupuis surveys some of the best Jazz releases of 2020. By Jim Dupuis.

!earshot - october 2020 - top 200

All !earshot charts in this issue reflect actual airplay on campus/community stations during the month of October 2020. Charts are weighted according to broadcast range and market size. To view older charts from as far back as 1999, go to our charts main page.

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top 200 > 51 to 100 > 101 to 150 > 151 to 200 || electronic | hip hop | international | jazz | loud | folk/roots/blues | main charts page

Rank	Artist	Title	Label	S
1	Thanya Iyer	KIND	Topshelf Records
2	Tough Age	Which Way Am I?	Mint
3	Orville Peck	Show Pony	Columbia
4	Yves Jarvis	Sundry Rock Song Stock	Flemish Eye
5	Freak Heat Waves	Zap The Planet	Telephone Explosion
6	Osees	Protean Threat	Castle Face
7	Idles	Ultra Mono	Partisan
8	Fleet Foxes	Shore	Anti-
9	Dog Day	Present	Fundog
10	METZ	Atlas Vending	Sub Pop
11	Marie Davidson & L'Œil Nu	Renegade Breakdown	Bonsound / Ninja Tune
12	Bully	SUGAREGG	Sub Pop
13	Busty and the Bass	Eddie	Arts & Crafts
14	Dizzy	The Sun and Her Scorch	Royal Mountain
15	Kathleen Edwards	Total Freedom	Dualtone
16	Lomelda	Hannah	Double Double Whammy
17	Land Of Talk	Indistinct Conversations	Dine Alone
18	Beverly Glenn-Copeland	Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland	Transgressive
19	Fontaines D.C.	A Hero's Death	Partisan
20	Le Couleur	Concorde	Lisbon Lux
21	New Fries	Is The Idea of Us	Telephone Explosion
22	Zoon	Bleached Wavves	Paper Bag
23	Toots And The Maytals	Got To Be Tough	Trojan Jamaica/BMG
24	Protomartyr	Ultimate Success Today	Domino
25	Jessy Lanza	All The Time	Hyperdub
26	Ora Cogan	Bells in the Ruins	Prism Tongue
27	Various	EVER NEW	Ever New
28	Moscow Apartment	Better Daughter	Hidden Pony
29	Jyoti	Mama, You Can Bet!	SomeOthaShip Connect
30	Crack Cloud	Pain Olympics	Self-Released
31	Pantayo	Pantayo	Telephone Explosion
32	Guided By Voices	Mirrored Aztec	Guided By Voices, Inc. (GBV)
33	Teenanger	Good Time	Telephone Explosion
34	Keleketla!	Keleketla!	Ahead Of Our Time
35	Pottery	Welcome to Bobby's Motel	Royal Mountain
36	Sylvan Esso	Free Love	Loma Vista
37	Daniel Romano's Outfit	How Ill Thy World Is Ordered	You've Changed
38	Kelly Lee Owens	Inner Song	Smalltown Supersound
39	Bright Eyes	Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was	Dead Oceans
40	astralblak	Space & Time	Sound Verité
41	Hannah Georgas	All That Emotion	Arts & Crafts
42	Rich Aucoin	United States	Haven Sounds
43	Everything Everything	Re-Animator	Infinity Industries
44	Elliott BROOD	Keeper	Six Shooter
45	Laroie	Laroie EP	Self-Released
46	L.A. Witch	Play With Fire	Suicide Squeeze
47	CRi	Juvenile	Anjunadeep
48	Blu & Exile	Miles	Dirty Science
49	The Jerry Cans	Echos	Aakuluk
50	Washed Out	Purple Noon	Partisan

top 200 > 51 to 100 > 101 to 150 > 151 to 200 || electronic | hip hop | international | jazz | loud | folk/roots/blues | main charts page

Rank	Artist	Title	Label	S
51	The Beths	Jump Rope Gazers	Carpark
52	Waahli	Soap Opera	Nomadic Massive Productions
53	Mi'ens	Future Child	Kill Rock Stars
54	The Flaming Lips	American Head	Warner
55	Sufjan Stevens	The Ascension	Asthmatic Kitty
56	Anjimile	Giver Taker	Father/Daughter
57	Helena Deland	Someone New	Luminelle
58	Michael Bernard Fitzgerald	Love Valley	Treasure Island
59	Arkells	Campfire Chords	Universal
60	Sneaks	Happy Birthday	Merge
61	Bad Buddy	Bad Buddy	Self-Released
62	Haley Blais	Below the Salt	Self-Released
63	Braids	Shadow Offering	Secret City
64	Girl Friday	Androgynous Mary	Hardly Art
65	Khotin	Finds You Well	Self-Released
66	Widowspeak	Plum	Captured Tracks
67	Little Kid	Transfiguration Highway	Solitaire
68	Sean Burns and Lost Country	We Gotta Lotta Truckin' To Do	Stringbreakin'
69	Crying High	Victory	Self-Released
70	Whitney	Candid	Secretly Canadian
71	pesewa	19999: a cephalopod fantasy	Self-Released
72	David Strickland	Spirit of Hip Hop	eOne
73	Karl Wyssen	Grandpas Hat	Self-Released
74	Death Valley Girls	Under The Spell Of Joy	Suicide Squeeze
75	SBDC	The Feeling Of Winning	Self-Released
76	Okay Kaya	Surviving Is The New Living	Jagjaguwar
77	No Joy	Motherhood	Hand Drawn Dracula
78	Women	Rarities 2007-2010	Flemish Eye
79	Lexxicon	Tropical R&B	Tropical Island Entertainment
80	Jenny Banai	couchwalker	Self-Released
81	The White Swan	Nocturnal Transmission	War Crime
82	The Avett Brothers	The Third Gleam	Loma Vista
83	BlakDenim	Usual Suspects: Season III	Self-Released
84	Scott Cook	Tangle of Souls	Self-Released
85	Self-Cut Bangs	Self-Cut Bangs	Self-Released
86	Shay Lia	Solaris EP	AWAL
87	Tkay Maidza	Last Year Was Weird Vol. 2	4AD
88	Bob Mould	Blue Hearts	Merge
89	Carmanah	Iris	Self-Released
90	Tricky	Fall to Pieces	False Idols
91	The Garrys	Haxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages	Grey Records
92	Robin Hatch	Noise	Self-Released
93	Sargeant & Comrade	Magic Radio	Black Buffalo
94	Bob Moses	Desire	Domino
95	Aluna	Renaissance	Mad Decent
96	Bike Thiefs	Leaking	Stomp
97	Necrot	Mortal	Tank Crimes
98	Laura Jane Grace	Stay Alive	Polyvinyl
99	The Pack A.D.	Live! Vol.1	Fontana North
100	Twig Harper	External Boundless Prison	Self-Released

top 200 > 51 to 100 > 101 to 150 > 151 to 200 || electronic | hip hop | international | jazz | loud | folk/roots/blues | main charts page

Rank	Artist	Title	Label	S
101	Bad Hoo	Right as Rain	Cool Ranch
102	BRONSON	BRONSON	Foreign Family Collective
103	T. Gowdy	Therapy With Colour	Constellation
104	Figure Walking	Vertical / Horizontal	Disintegration
105	Tyleen	Fanta$y	Make It Rain
106	Sam Lynch	Little Disappearance	Birthday Cake
107	Itchy Self	Here's the Rub EP	Celluloid Lunch
108	Peach Kelli Pop	Lucky Star	Laurel Records
109	Mav Karlo	Detonator (single)	Royal Mountain
110	Will Butler	Generations	Merge
111	Jeen	Jeen	Self-Released
112	I Like Trains	Kompromat	Atlantic Curve
113	Madeline Kenney	Sucker's Lunch	Carpark
114	Into It. Over It.	Figure	Triple Crown
115	Sarah Davachi	Cantus, Descant	Late Music
116	TeslaRosa	Cruise Control	Higher Reign
117	Summersets	Small Town Saturday	Self-Released
118	Mastodon	Medium Rarities	Reprise
119	Various	Addressing The Cosmic Unfolding: An Exploration of Canadian Ambient and Experimental Musics	NoiseAgonyMayhem
120	The Budos Band	Long in the Tooth	Daptone
121	Nature Walk	King of Wands	Self-Released
122	Waxahatchee	Saint Cloud	Merge
123	Samia	The Baby	Grand Jury
124	Heaps	What Is Heaps	Birthday Cake
125	Gum Country	Somewhere	Kingfisher Bluez
126	Alpen Glow	Amertape 2020	Self-Released
127	Matt Mays	Dog City	Sonic
128	Suuns	Fiction EP	Secret City
129	Mestizo Beat	Canoga Madness	California Soul
130	Blue Hawaii	Under 1 House	Arbutus
131	Deftones	Ohms	Warner
132	Ronnie Vega	2Eps	Don Giovanni
133	Paradise	PARIAH	Debt Offensive
134	Five Alarm Funk	Big Smoke	Self-Released
135	Marie-Clo	Shell(e) Pt I & II	Self-Released
136	Nana Adjoa	Big Dreaming Ants	Bloomer Records
137	Brenna Lowrie	Loss Leader	Self-Released
138	Lyle Bats	Book of Aches	Self-Released
139	Lunar Gateway	Temporal	Silent Bell
140	Sing Leaf	Not Earth	Tin Angel
141	Cults	Host	Sinderlyn Records
142	Aquakultre	Legacy	Black Buffalo
143	Old 97's	Twelfth	ATO
144	Aidan Knight	Aidan Knight	Next Door
145	Bombay Bicycle Club	Two Lives	Arts & Crafts
146	Lysandre	Maison-Dieu	Chivi Chivi
147	Linaire	Linaire	Self-Released
148	The Gumshoe Strut	Heartbeat EP	Self-Released
149	Nap Eyes	Snapshot Of A Beginner	Royal Mountain
150	BACKXWASH	God Has Nothing to Do With This Leave Him Out of It	Grimalkin

top 200 > 51 to 100 > 101 to 150 > 151 to 200 || electronic | hip hop | international | jazz | loud | folk/roots/blues | main charts page

Rank	Artist	Title	Label	S
151	Various	Record Kicks Chartbusters	Record Kicks
152	Buildings and Food	Up Down Strange Charm	Self-Released
153	Gregory Porter	All Rise	Blue Note
154	Westminster Park	Dark Night, Nearly Dawn	Self-Released
155	Klo Pelgag	Notre-Dame-Des-Sept-Douleurs	Secret City
156	Baby Bulldog	Rodney	22Twenty
157	Park Hye Jin	How Can I - EP	Ninja Tune
158	Brandi Disterheft Trio with George Coleman	Surfboard	Justin Time
159	July Talk	Pray For It	Sleepless
160	Jennifer Castle	Monarch Season	Idée Fixe Records
161	Gord Downie	Away Is Mine	Arts & Crafts
162	Frankie And The Witch Fingers	Monsters Eating People Eating	Greenway
163	Doves	The Universal Want	Virgin
164	JW Jones	Sonic Departures	Solid Blues
165	Khruangbin	Mordechai	Dead Oceans
166	PUP	This Place Sucks Ass (EP)	Rise
167	Cut Worms	Nobody Lives Here Anymore	Jagjaguwar
168	Sabota	Collins EP	Self-Released
169	Video Age	Pleasure Line	Winspear
170	Angel Olsen	Whole New Mess	Jagjaguwar
171	Heather Valley	Emily (single)	Self-Released
172	Okan	Espiral	Lulaworld Records
173	Throwing Muses	Sun Racket	Fire
174	Cayley Thomas	How Else Can I Tell You?	Self-Released
175	NAMBI	HeyBlackMan (single)	Self-Released
176	Kylie Fox	Green	Self-Released
177	Bill Callahan	Gold Record	Drag City
178	shn shn	structura EP	Self-Released
179	Young RJ and Mega Ran	2HANDSUP	Ne'Astra Music Group
180	Various	The Sled Island Lemonade Stand Vol. 1 & 2	Self-Released
181	Fake Shark	House Of Mirrors	Light Organ
182	Kestrels	Dream Or Don't Dream	Darla
183	Sum-01	Makin' Moves	Black Buffalo
184	Les Hay Babies	Boite Aux Lettres	Simone
185	Kordoroy Floyd	Kordo 3	Self-Released
186	Marques Martin	Brave & Afraid	Operator
187	Junia-T	Studio Monk	3-5 Playa
188	Alex Lilly	Love In Three Colors	Release Me Records
189	Japandroids	Massey Fucking Hall	Anti-
190	Terra Lightfoot	Consider the Speed	Sonic Unyon
191	Duckwrth	SuperGood	Republic
192	CAMÍNA	Te Quiero Mucho	Self-Released
193	Real Sickies	Quarantined	Self-Released
194	Rube & Rake	Leaving With Nothing	LHM Records
195	Takuya Kuroda	Fly Moon Die Soon	First World
196	Post-Rough	Vous êtes un personnage de roman	Self-Released
197	Fenne Lily	Breach	Dead Oceans
198	Working Men's Club	Working Men's Club	Heavenly/PIAS
199	Deep Covers	Dark World	Self-Released
200	Coco	Last of the Loving	Self-Released

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• Features: March 2021

  !earshot Top 200 of 2020 For January tp December 2020
  TW	Artist - Title - (Label)
  1	Andy Shauf Neon Skyline - (Arts & Crafts)
  2	Lido Pimienta Miss Colombia - (Anti-)
  3	Wolf Parade Thin Mind - (Royal Mountain)
  4	Zoon Bleached Wavves - (Paper Bag)
  5	Caribou Suddenly - (Merge)
  6	Tops I Feel Alive - (Musique TOPS)
  7	Tough Age Which Way Am I? - (Mint)
  8	U.S. Girls Heavy Light - (Royal Mountain)
  9	Destroyer Have We Met - (Merge)
  10	Thanya Iyer KIND - (Topshelf Records)
  View the full !earshot Top 200

  Specialty Charts #1s
  Electronic:	Caribou - Suddenly - (Merge)
  Hip Hop:	Run The Jewels - RTJ4 - (Jewel Runners)
  International:	Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia - (Anti-)
  Jazz:	Audrey Ochoa - Frankenhorn - (Chronograph)
  Loud:	Lié - You Want It Real - (Mint)
  Folk/Roots/Blues:	William Prince - Reliever - (Six Shooter Records)

  Best Jazz of 2020: Jim Dupuis - Jazz Notes
  Jazz host and regular contributor jim Dupuis surveys some of the best Jazz releases of 2020. By Jim Dupuis.

• Features: February 2021

  Best Jazz of 2020: Jim Dupuis - Jazz Notes
  Jazz host and regular contributor jim Dupuis surveys some of the best Jazz releases of 2020. By Jim Dupuis.

• Features: January 2021

  !earshot Top 200 of 2020 For January tp December 2020
  TW	Artist - Title - (Label)
  1	Andy Shauf Neon Skyline - (Arts & Crafts)
  2	Lido Pimienta Miss Colombia - (Anti-)
  3	Wolf Parade Thin Mind - (Royal Mountain)
  4	Zoon Bleached Wavves - (Paper Bag)
  5	Caribou Suddenly - (Merge)
  6	Tops I Feel Alive - (Musique TOPS)
  7	Tough Age Which Way Am I? - (Mint)
  8	U.S. Girls Heavy Light - (Royal Mountain)
  9	Destroyer Have We Met - (Merge)
  10	Thanya Iyer KIND - (Topshelf Records)
  View the full !earshot Top 200

  Specialty Charts #1s
  Electronic:	Caribou - Suddenly - (Merge)
  Hip Hop:	Run The Jewels - RTJ4 - (Jewel Runners)
  International:	Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia - (Anti-)
  Jazz:	Audrey Ochoa - Frankenhorn - (Chronograph)
  Loud:	Lié - You Want It Real - (Mint)
  Folk/Roots/Blues:	William Prince - Reliever - (Six Shooter Records)

  Best Jazz of 2020: Jim Dupuis - Jazz Notes
  Jazz host and regular contributor jim Dupuis surveys some of the best Jazz releases of 2020. By Jim Dupuis.

• Features: December 2020

  The Resurrection of Waskesu
  Rod Bandura and Margit Gossage have broaght the legacy of First Nations group Waskesu into the 21st Century with their new Margit Sky Project. By Jim Dupuis.

  When the Music Stopped
  It is not just musicians who are idled by the Coronavirus. A whole industry of people who support the live music scene are put on the sidelines too, says industry veteran Joelle May. By Magnus Thyvold

  Women's Rights, Inprovisation and Passion: The Meredith Bates Interview
  Meredith Bates has been busy trying to get more women musicians in the spotlight and working hard at combining improvised music with other art forms. By Jim Dupuis

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  Our Best of 2019 coverage Starts Here

  Best Jazz of 2019 with Jazz Notes Jim Dupuis
  Contributor and Host of Kamloops' Jazz Notes rounds up his favourite international and local Jazz releases of 2019

  Mingwa - The Strange One
  ...a great album that really stretches what world music can be, and seamlessly blends many styles of music.

  The Shangs - Golden Hits of the Shangs
  ...the band had another side gig going on all the while. Starting in 1990, The Shangs were a psychedelic pop off-shoot that sound very little like the main project Simply Saucer.

  Alex Cuba Sublime
  ...a great album that will fit fine into Canadian summers lounging around on the beach.

  Cutting Your Teeth With Necking
  Vancouver's new punk rock heros play on the Studio 6 Live Sssions. By CJSF Radio and Magnus Thyvold