Though we spend a great deal of our time and energy focusing on new music during the year, compiling lists of favourite records and playlists of awesome songs, in 2018, we tried our best not to neglect great Canadian music of years past. Beyond the albums we’ve already profiled, there’s a slew of music that rocked us this year that originated in years past. As has become a tradition, the following is DOMINIONATED’s collective favourite non-2018 Canadian records either newly discovered or revisited.
Ancient Shapes, Silent Rave
The Band, Music From Big Pink
Blue Hawaii, Tenderness
Rich Brown, Between Heaviness & Here
CFCF, Continent
Clairmont The Second, Little Mont from The Ave
Climb Aboard the Friendship, We All Need Friends Pt. 1
Cursed, III: Architects of Troubled Sleep
Deliluh, Day Catcher
Dream Warriors, And Now the Legacy Begins
EONS, Long Walks
Jean-Pierre Ferland, Jaune
Final Fantasy, He Poos Clouds
The Fortunate, Get Up, You Dead
Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Keyboard Fantasies
Carly Rae Jepsen, E*MO*TION Side B
Kid Koala, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Gordon Lightfoot, Old Dan’s Records
Sarah McLachlan, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Miracle Fortress, Was I The Wave?
Joni Mitchell, Hejira
Myriad3, Tell
John Oswald, Plunderphonic
Sandro Perri, Impossible Spaces
Buffy Sainte-Marie, Coincidence and Likely Stories
Jane Siberry, The Walking
Sights & Sounds, Monolith
Tanya Tagaq, Auk/Blood
Tryal, Companion
Rufus Wainwright, Poses
The Weather Station, The Weather Station
Women, Women
