Sunday, December 31, 2023

Less extensive list than usual this year, but the list as a whole has some pretty exceptional albums all around. Enjoy!

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1.  Ulrika Spacek - “Compact Trauma”

2.  Activity - “Spirit in the Room”

3.  Reverend Kristen Michael Hayter - “Saved!”

4.  Oneohtrix Point Never - “Again”

5.  Teresa Winter - “Proserpine” 

6.  Bar Italia - “Tracey Denim”

7.  Mars Kumari- “I Thought I Lost You”

8.  Mary Ocher - “Approaching Singularity: Music for the End of Time” 

9.  African American Sound Recordings - “Share Spirit”

10.  Dean Johnson - “Nothing for me, Please” 


11.  PJ Harvey - “I Inside the Old Year Dying”

Laurel Halo - “Atlas”

Woods - “Perennial”

Eartheater - “Powders”

Philipp Johann Thimm - “Birds Singing till the End of the World” 

Zakè & Benoît Pioulard - “Eve”

Steph Green - “Lore”

Damien Jurado - “Passing the Giraffes” 

Slowdive - “Everything Is Alive”

Jess Williamson  - “Time Ain’t Accidental”


21.  Wanderwelle - “All Hands Bury the Cliffs at Sea”

Eterna - “Wardrove”

Tim Hecker - “No Highs”

Marlene Ribeiro - “Toquei no Sol”

Nonconnah - “Unicorn Family”

La Timpa - “Pity by one All Good Treasure”

Spivak - “You Win Again”

Gruf Rhys - “The Almond & the Seahorse (OST)

Niecy Blues - “Exit Stimulation”

Young Fathers - “Heavy Heavy”


31.  Wednesday - “Rat Saw God”

Bonny Doon - “Let There Be Music”

Sparklehorse - “Bird Machine”

Everything But The Girl - “Fuse”

Holy Hive - “Celeste”

Being Dead - “When Horses Would Run”

Frankie Rose - “Love As Protection” 

Prewn - “Through the Window”

Mui Zwu - “Rotten Bun for an Eggless Century”

Gaz Coombes - “Turn the Car Around”


41.  Laurel Halo - “Atlas”

Animal Collective - “Isn’t It Now?”

Bar Italia - “Twits”

Hania Rani - “Ghosts”

White China - “Hang Up the Lights”

Sun June - “Bad Dream Jaguar” 

Flora Yin-Wong - “Cold Reading” 

Emma Tricca - “Aspirin Sun”

Mizu - “Distant Intervals”

Edless - “Editing a Dream”


51.  Yves Tumor - “Praise a Lord Who Chews but who does not Consume”

Glasser - “Crux”

Shabazz Palaces - “Robed in Rareness”

Ora Cogan - “Formless”

Ryuichi Sakamoto - “12”

Devendra Banhart - “

Modern Cosmology - “What Will You Grow Now”

Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - “Datura”

Lost Girls - “Selvutsletter”

Ruby Haunt - “Between Heavens”


61.  Loscil & Lawrence English - “Colours of Air”

Mhaol - “Attachment Styles”

Jackson & the Janks - “s/t”

The Black Dog - “The Grey Album”

Mutual Benefit - “Growing at the Edges”

Nighttime - “Keeper is the Heart”

Mark McGuire - “A Pocket Full of Rain”

Young Moon - “Triggered by Sunsets”

Maria BC - “Spike Field”

Heathered Pearls - “Loyal Extras”


71.  Sex - “Textin’ Yr Exes”

Duff Thompson - “Shadow People” 

DJ Shadow- “Action Adventure”

Mary Lattimore - “Goodbye, Hotel Arkada”

FACS - “Still Life In Decay”

Danny Paul Grody - “Arc of Light”

Saloli - “Canyon”

Tirzah - “trip9love”

Samuel Organ - “Guided by Horses”

Eye - “Honolulu Saigon”


81.  Mitski - “This Land is Inhospitable & so are We”

Lusine - “Long Light”

Julie Byrne - “The Greater Wings”

De Ambassade - “The Fool”

Austra - “Swan Song (Original Score)”

Body/Negative- “Everett”

Jon Collin & Demdike Stare - “Minerals”

Katie Gately - “Fawn/Brute”

En Attendant Ara - “Principia”

V/Z & Valentine Magetti - “Sueno Assente”


91.  Wiktor Stribog - “Astroenergoteropia”

Tomasz Bednarczyk - “Catbient”

Vanishing Twin - “Afternoon X”

Shana Cleveland - “Manzanita”

Otay:onii - “Dream Hacker”

Penelope Trappes - “

The Chap - “Burger Sauce”

Meernaa - “So Far So Good”

OZmotic & Fennesz - “Senzatempo”

Damien Jurado - “Motorcycle Madness”


101.  Blush - “Supercrush” 

Croatian Amor & Scandinavian Star - “Two 

Autumns / Spring Snow”

Index for Working Musik - “Dragging the Needlework for the Kids at Uphole”

Cosmetics - “Baby” 

Luca Beatović - “In Place”

Anika - “Eat Liquid”

Yaeji - “With a Hammer”

Vinyl Williams - “Aeterna”

TALsounds - “Shift”

Ruth Mascelli - “Non-Stop Healing Frequencies”


111.  Holy Wave - “Five of Cups”

Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbeck - “The Friend’s  Place”

Emil Amos - “Zone Black”



Favorite EPs:


Astral Swans & Chad Vangaalen - “split ep”

Lennie Rayen - “Believe That It’s Blue”

KMRU - “Drawing Water”

Kelly Lee Owens - “LP 8.2”

Carmen Villain - “

Color Me Blood Red - “s/t”

Alpha Maid - “spresso” 

Sunday, February 5, 2023

Best Albums of 2022

I’m still working on my best albums list but thought I’d share my top 33⅓ (so far) along with my best songs playlist. I’m freaking out over albums 1 and 2 (which may just swap): they’re two of the best records I have ever heard. Stay tuned for the full list, I’ll tag the usual suspects in that one when I post it later this month.

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1. Akini Jing - “Endless Farewell”
2. Tempers - “New Meaning”
3. Perfume Genius - “Ugly Season”
4. Kendrick Lamar - “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers”
5. King Hannah - “I’m Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me”
6. Raum - “Daughter”
7. Lucrecia Dalt - “¡Ay!”
8. Porridge Radio - “Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky”
9. Bloodz Boi (w’ Claire Rousay & More Ease) - “a crying poem”
10. Animal Collective - “Time Skiffs”
11. Kurt Vile - “(Watch My Moves)”
12. Naima Bock - “Giant Palm”
13. Dottie - “Thief”
14. Horsegirl - “Versions of Modern Performance”
15. Nosaj Thing - “Continua”
16. Sudan Archives - “Natural Brown Prom Queen”
17. JEEN. - “Tracer”
18. Fontaines DC - “Skinty Fia”
19. Angel Olsen - “Big Time”
Sofie Birch - “Holotropica”
21. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Emile Mosseri - “I Could Be Your Dog / I Could Be Your Moon”
22. Plains - “I Walked With You A Ways”
23. FKA Twigs - “Caprisongs”
24. Viul & Benoît Pioulard - “Konec”
25. Danger Mouse w’ Black Thought - “Cheat Codes”
26. Tomberlin - “i don’t know who needs to hear this…”
27. Cate Le Bon - “Pompeii”
28. Soundwalk Collective w’ Patti Smith - “The Perfect Vision Reworkings”
29. Soccer Mommy - “Sometimes, Forever”
30. Rachika Nayar - “Heaven Come Crashing”
31. Just Mustard - “Heart Under”
32. Abby Sage - “The Florist” (ep)
33. Melody’s Echo Chamber - “Emotional Eternal”
… & ⅓ : Young Moon - “Paraverbal Orchids”

Saturday, January 1, 2022

Best Albums of 2021

2021 was a mind-blowing year for music, possibly the greatest year of individual album releases since 1991's revolutionary advances and changes in all forms of rock experimental and electronic music. On top of so many new leaps and bounds in these genres this year, so many powerful, innovative, and meaningful albums were produced this year across the spectrum of all kinds of music. My list this year has more records than any previous year's I've ever made, and it traverses more styles of music from more areas of the world. I'm excited to share so much great music with you!  One shout out note, the ">" symbol is used for any artist's debut full length release.
  1.  Arca - "kick iiii"
  2.  Shitkid- “Sort Stjerne!”
  3.  Ian Sweet - “Show Me How You Disappear”
  4.  Space Afrika - “Honest Labour”
  5.  >Dina Ögon - “s/t”
  6.  >Arushi Jain - “Under the Lilac Sky”
  7.  Helado Negro - “Far In”
  8.  Chad VanGaalen - “World’s Most Stressed Out Gardner”
  9.  Drape - “Ecstatic Truth”
  10.  >gglum - “once the edge has worn off”
  11.  >Old Saw - “Country Tropics”
  12.  Noveller - “Aphantasia”
  13.  Iosonouncane - “IRA”
  14.  Grouper - “Shade”
  15.  >Smerz - “Believer”
  16.  Tara Jane O’Neill - “Dispatches from the Drift”
  17.  Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders, & the London Symphony Orchestra - “Promises”
  18.  Isaac Symonds & Yaeshun “Natura Sophia”
  19.  Arca - “kiCK iiiii”
  20.  >PACKS - “Take the Cake”
  21.  40 Winks - “Field Works”
  22.  Colleen - “The Tunnel & the Clearing”
  23.  Suuns- “The Witness”
  24.  >If I Promise - “Where You Built Your Nest”
  25.  >Dummy - “Mandatory Enjoyment”
  26.  >Ouri - “Frame of a Fauna”
  27.  King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - “Butterfly 3000”
  28.  Ylayali - “Magic Eye”
  29.  >Peter Talisman - “Lord of the Harvest”
  30.  Lighting Bug - “A Color of the Sky”
  31.  Darkside - “Spiral”
  32.  Ben Bertrand - “Dokkaebi”
  33.  Little Simz - “Sometimes I Might Be Introvert” 
  34.  S. Maharba - “Cold Friend”
  35.  Eartheater - “La Petite Mort Édition”
  36.  Mint Julep - “In a Deep Dreamless Sleep”
  37.  Jane Weaver - “Flock”
  38.  Benoît Pioulard - “Bloodless”
  39.  >Rock - “Rock”
  40.  Eera - “Speak”
  41.  >Coco - “s/t”
  42.  Puma Blue - “In Praise of Shadows”
  43.  Machinefabriek - “Re:Moving”
  44.  Wednesday - “Twin Plagues”
  45.  Night Beats - “Outlaw R&B”
  46.  The Black Dog - “Music for Photographers”
  47.  Smerz - "Før og etter"
  48.  Lump - “Animal” 
  49.  >John Glacier - “Shiloh: Lost for Words”
  50.  Holy Hive - “s/t”
  51.  Deafheaven - “Infinite Granite”
  52.  Søjus1 - “Orwo”
  53.  >Never Temple - “Throwing around an Invisible Ball”
  54.  Pearl & the Oysters - “Flowerland”
  55.  Vanessa Amara - “Music for Acoustic Instruments & Feedback” 
  56.  Goat Girl - “On All Fours”
  57.  F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm - “2X1=4”
  58.  >Hildegard - “s/t”
  59.  >April Magazine - “Sunday Music for an Overpass”
  60.  Croatian Armor & Varg2TM- “Body of Content”
  61.  >Damiana - “Vines”
  62.  Cold Beat - “War Garden”
  63.  Low - “Hey What”
  64.  bliss3three - “I’m Going to Miss You”
  65.  >Joy Orbison - “Still Slipping vol. 1”
  66.  From the Mouth of the Sun - “Light Caught the Edges” 
  67.  Sega Bodega - “Romeo”
  68.  >Evan Wright - “Sound from out the Window”
  69.  Trees Speak - “PostHuman”
  70.  Ex:Re w’ 12 Ensemble - “s/t”
  71.  Aloa Input - “Devil’s Diamond Memory Collection”
  72.  MJ Lenderman - “Ghost of Your Guitar Solo”
  73.  Tim Hecker - “The North Water”
  74.  Blankenberge - “Everything”
  75.  James Blake - “Friends that Break your Heart”
  76.  The Humble Bee - “A Miscellany for the Quiet Hours”
  77.  Courtney Barnett - “Things Take Time, Take Time”
  78.  Circuit Des Yeux - “-io”
  79.  Munya - “Voyage to Mars”
  80.  Julia Shapiro - “Zorked”
  81.  W.H. Lung - “Vanities”
  82.  Rachel Baiman - “Cycles”
  83.  >Fine Place - “This New Heaven”
  84.  Deux Filles - “Shadow Farming”
  85.  Nov3l - “Non-Fiction”
  86.  Exek - “Good Thing They Ripped up the Carpet”
  87.  Genghis Tron - “Dream Weapon”
  88.  Penelope Trappes - “Three”
  89.  >Trip Show - “The Far East Is The Near West And The Wild West Is The Near East”
  90.  Sweet Megg - “I’m in Love Again”
  91.  Spirit of the Beehive - “Entertainment, Death"
  92.  Maarja Nuut - “Hinged”
  93.  E.Vax & Ratatat - “s/t”
  94.  Sault - “Nine”
  95.  >Organi - “Parlez-vous Français?”
  96.  Ada Lea - “One Hand on the Steering Wheel the other Sewing a Garden”
  97.  Saint Etienne - “I’ve Been Trying to Tell You”
  98.  Argo Nuff - “anneboyln”
  99.  Benoît Pioulard & From Overseas - “Anon 2”
  100.  New Candys - “Vyvyd”
  101.  You’ll Never Get to Heaven - “Wave your Moonlight Hat for the Snowfall Train”
  102.  Arca - KICK ii
  103.  Lael Neale - “Acquainted with Night”
  104.  Daniel Wyche - “Earthwork”
  105.  Hana Vu - “Public Storage”
  106.  The KVB - “Unity”
  107.  Gruff Rhys - “Seeking New Gods”
  108.  >Bachelor - “Doomin’ Sun”
  109.  Joan as Policewoman w’ Tony Allen & Dave Okumu - “The Solution is Restless”
  110.  Richard Skelton - “Four Workings”
  111.  Tomaga - “Intimate Immensity” 
  112.  >Samuel Organ - “A Safe Place in Cyberspace” 
  113.  Marissa Nadler - “The Path of the Clouds”
  114.  La Luz - “s/t”
  115.  Billie Eilish - “Happier Than Ever”
  116.  Kramer - “And the Wind Just Blew it Away”
  117.  Clinic - “Fantasy Island”
  118.  Mas Aya - “Máscaras”
  119.  Haerts - “Dream Nation”
  120.  >Blue Ocean - “s/t”
  121.  Vanishing Twin - “Ookii Gekkou”
  122.  >Gustaf - “Audio Drag for Ego Slobs”
  123.  A Winged Victory for the Sullen - “Invisible Cities” 
  124.  Fleece - “Stunning & Atrocious”
  125.  The Antlers - “Green to Gold”
  126.  Dean Blunt - “Black Metal 2”
  127.  Reymour - “Leviosa”
  128.  Dolphin Midwives - “Body of Water”
  129.  Hectorine - “TEARS”
  130.  Besnard Lakes - “…Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings”
  131.  >Indigo Sparke - “Echo”
  132.  Tasha - “Tell Me What You Miss the Most”
  133.  Paul Leary- “Born Stupid”
  134.  Penelope Isles - “Which Way to Happy”
  135.  Sam Evian - “Time to Melt”
  136.  Controller 7 - “exhale 02: Moments”
  137.  >Tamar Aphek - “All Bets Are Off”
  138.  Haco - “Nova Naturo”
  139.  Piroshka - “Love Drips & Gathers”
  140.  Robert Farrugia - “Voicemail”
  141.  >Marion Raw - “Deep Cuts”
  142.  >Scam Avenue - “s/t”
  143.  >Nala Sinephro - “Space 1.8”
  144.  >Jodi - “Blue Heron”
  145.  >Tobacco City - “Tobacco City, USA”
  146.  Chloe Frances - “Zulu Giant (String of Hearts)”
  147.  Crumb - “Ice Melt” 
  148.  Erika de Casier - “Sensational”
  149.  Lambchop - “Showtunes”
  150.  Hawke - “The Dark Art of Light Work”
  151.  Amanda Berlind - “Green Cone”
  152.  Tirzah - “Colourgrade”
  153.  Loscil - “Clara”
  154.  Still Corners - “The Last Exit”
  155.  >Henry the Rabbit, Beatrice Journel, & Semay Wu - “Songs of the Marsh”
  156.  Alexalone - “Alexaloneworld”
  157.  >Skirts - “Great Big Wild Oak”
  158.  Emma Ruth Rundle - “Engine of Hell”
  159.  Satomimagae - “Hanazono”
  160.  Anne Imhof - “Sex”
  161.  >Painted Shrines - “Heaven & Holy”
  162.  >Rachel Chinoiriri - “Four° in Winter”
  163.  Parquet Courts - “Sympathy for Life”
  164.  Corduroy - “s/t”
  165.  Holy Other - “Lieve”
  166.  >JuJu - “La Que Sabe”
  167.  Dear Laika - “Pluperfect Mind”
  168.  >Elori Saxi - “The Blue of Distance”
  169.  Water From Your Eyes - “Structure”
  170.  Postcards - “After the Fire, Before the End”
  171.  Viagra Boys - “Welfare Jazz”
  172.  Fatima Al Qadiri - “Medieval Femme” 
  173.  Bill MacKay & Nathan Bowles “Keys”
  174.  Mister Baby - “Sidewalk Pop”
  175.  Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Emile Mosseri - “I Could Be Your Dog (prequel)”
  176.  The Third Sound - “First Light”
  177.  Danny Paul Grody - “Furniture Music 2”
  178.  Collin Weiland - “Now & Thus Suite”
  179.  Bar Italia - “bedhead”
  180.  Hovvdy - “True Love”
  181.  Chuck Johnson - "The Cinder Grove"
  182.  Audiobooks - “Astro Tough”
  183.  Rachika Nayar - “Our Hands against the Dusk”
  184.  Yung - “Ongoing Dispute”
  185.  Yellow Ostrich - “Soft”
  186.  >Feral - “The End”
  187.  Mt. Mountain - “Centre”
  188.  Film School - “We Weren’t Here”
  189.  >Robbie & Mona - “Ew”
  190.  Robert Ames - “Change Ringing” 
  191.  Facs - “Present Tense”
  192.  Baal & Mortimer - “The Torso Tapes”
  193.  GCom - “E2-XO”
  194.  Sis - “The Killer in the Looking Glass”
  195.  Lowertown - “The Gaping Mouth”
  196.  John Beltran - “Asthete”
  197.  >Mah Kee Oh - “Dogfood”
  198.  Pip Blom - “Welcome Break”
  199.  Julien Baker - “Little Oblivions”
  200.  Swim Ignorant Fire - “Bufo Alvarius”
  201.  Luwten - “Draft”
  202.  Sungaze - “This Dream”
  203.  >Bnny - “Everything”
  204.  >Alphabet Holds Hostage - “Where Were We?”
  205.  Pye Corner Audio - “Entangled Routes”
  206.  10 000 Russos - “Superinertia”
  207.  Dusted - “III”
  208.  Hannah Peel - “Fir Wave”
  209.  Dictaphone - “Goats & Distortions 5”
  210.  >Mia Joy - “Spirit Tamer”
  211.  Expo 70 - “Mystic Caravan”
  212.  Vhvl - “hem/sew”
  213.  Shannon & the Clams - “Year of the Spider”
  214.  White Ring - “Show Me Heaven”
  215.  >Molly Payton - “Slack”
  216.  Kyle Bobby Dunn - “Bring me the Head of…”
  217.  The Goon Sax - “Mirror II”
  218.  Yu Su - “Yellow River Blue”
  219.  Dntel - “The Seas Trees See”
  220.  serpentwithfeet - “Deacon”
  221.  Arooj Aftab - “Vulture Prince”
  222.  Moritz Van Oswald Trio - “Dissent”
  223.  The Notwist - “Vertigo Days”
  224.  The Peacers - “Blexxed Rec”
  225.  Pan Daijing - “Jade”
  226.  American Culture - “For My Animals”
  227.  Cucina Povera - “Dalmarnock Tapes”
  228.  >Foam & Sand - “Full Circle”
  229.  Pretty Sick - “Come Down”
  230.  Hand Habits - “Fun House”
  231.  L’Rain - “Fatigue”
  232.  TV Girl - “Summer’s Over”
  233.  Midwife - “Luminol”
  234.  Sun June - “Somewhere”
  235.  >White Flowers - “Day by Day”
  236.  Plankton Wat - “Future Times”
  237.  >Acavernus & Yantra - “Gnose”
  238.  Boy Scouts - “Wayfinder”
  239.  22° Halo - “Garden Bed”
  240.  Devendra Banhart & Noah Georgeson - “Refuge”
  241.  Matthew Dear - “Preacher’s Sigh & Potion”
  242.  Dark Time Sunshine - “Lore”
  243.  Orchid Mantis - “Visitations”
  244.  Lisel - “Mycelial Echo”
  245.  Bowerbirds - “becalmyounglovers”
  246.  >The Same - “Sync or Swim”
  247.  Massage - “Still Life” 
  248.  >Allison Russell - “Outside Child”
  249.  >Talking Violet - “Tell Your Friends You Love Them”
  250.  >Maple Glider - “To Enjoy Is the Only Thing”
  251.  Flyying Colors - “Fantasy Country”
  252.  Bernice - “Eau du Bonjourno”
  253.  Lee Noble - “The Man who Bites his Tongue”
  254.  Vladislav Delay - “Rakka II”
  255.  >Heta Bilaletdin - “Nauhoi”
  256.  Cryogeyser - “timetetheredtogether”
  257.  Houndmouth - “Good for You”
  258.  KMRU - “Logue“


EPs:

  1.  No Joy - “Can my Daughter See me from Heaven?"
  2.  Dolce - “Grönja Höjder”
  3.  Angel Olsen - “Aisles”
  4.  Plum Lovers - “Stone Liquid”
  5.  Nosdam + Rayon - “From Nowhere to North”
  6.  Cherubs - “Slo Blo 4 Frnz & Sxy”
  7.  Bomarr - “Fleshslap in Vaporlock”
  8.  Dylan Henner - “Amtracks”
  9.  Sylvie - “s/t”
  10.  Vegyn - “Like a Good Ole Friend”
  11.  Pale Jay - “The Celestial Suite”
  12.  Mhaol - “Gender Studies”
  13.  Sour Widows - “Crossing Over"
  14.  Heka - “(a)”
  15.  Julie - “Pushing Daisies”
  16.  Nosaj Thing - “No Mind Extended”
  17.  Hannah Jadagu - “What Is Going On?"
  18.  Yves Tumor - “The Asymptotical World ep" 
  19.  Victor Bongiovanni - “Dissociaterr” 
  20.  Feels - “Subversive Reaction ep" 
  21.  The Black Dog - “Dubs Volume 1, 2, and 3" 
  22.  Lee Renaldo - “In Virus Times”
  23.  Parva Karkhaneh - “Shabe Lajevardi”
  24.  Deep Tan - “Creeping Speedwells”
  25.  Upsammy - “Bend”
  26.  Uma - “The Moth & the Dove”
  27.  Mr. Airplane Man - “
  28.  Old Smile - “Four”
  29.  Chartreuse - “Is It Autumn Already?”

Thursday, December 31, 2020

Best Albums of 2020

2020 sucked beyond belief, and 100 times over for artists.  Go buy these albums from the bands now, and do it on Bandcamp, not Amazon or some other soulless corporate vampire.  

I'll probably keep adding albums to this...

 

1.  Cindy Lee - “What’s Tonight to Eternity”

2.  Fiona Apple - “Fetch the Bolt Cutters”

3.  Eartheater - “Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin”

4.  Porridge Radio - “Every Bad”

5.  Wednesday - “I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone”

6.  The Avalanches - “We will Always Love You”

7.  The Lovely Eggs - “I Am Moron”

8.  Flaming Lips - “American Head”

9.  Cindy Lee - “Cat O’ Nine Tails”

10.  Doomsquad - “Spandrels 2”

 

11.  Loma - “Don’t Shy Away”

12.  Ashtray Navigations - “It was the Start of Another Strange Week”

13.  Lucretia Dalt - “No era sólida”

14.  Ireen Amnes - “In the Land of Silence”

15.  Soccer Mommy - “color theory”

16.  Woods - “Strange to Explain”

17.  Perfume Genius - “Set My Heart on Fire Immediately”

18.  Dig Nitty - “Reverse of Mastery”

19.  Fontaines DC - “A Hero’s Death”

20.  Croation Amor - “All In the Same Breath”

 

21.  Waxahatchee - “Saint Cloud”

22.  Katie Gately - “Loom”

23.  Oneohtrix Point Never - “Magic OPN”

24.  Cabaret Voltaire - “Shadow of Fear”

25.  Run The Jewels - “4”

26.  Mary Lattimore - “Silver Ladders”

27.  Dehd - “Flowers of Devotion”

28.  Orion Sun - “Hold Space For Me”

29.  Black Dresses - “Peaceful As Hell”

30.  Jeen - “s/t”

 

31.  Anna McClellan - “I saw first light”

32.  Honey Radar - “Sing the Snow Away”

33.  Elvis Perkins - “Creation Myths”

34.  Secret Pyramid - “Embers”

35.  Deap Lips - “s/t”

36.  Pure X - “s/t”

37.  Emma Kupa - “It Will Come Easier”

38.  Phoebe Bridgers - “Punisher”

39.  Whitney - “Candid”

40.  Neil Young - “Homegrown”

 

41.  SAULT - “Untitled (Black Is)”

42.  Thanya Iyer - “Kind”

43.  Alex Maas - “Luca”

44.  Alex Zhang Hungtai & Patel Milyakov - “Styx”

45.  Kelly Lee Owens - “Inner Song”

46.  Giirls - “Far Reality”

47.  Cindy - “I’m Cindy”

48.  Noveller - “Arrow”

49.  Stephen Malkmus - “Traditional Techniques”

50.  Moses Sumney - “Græ”

 

51.  Landshapes - “Contact”

52.  Drew Citron - “Free Now”

53.  R.A.P. Ferreira - “Purple Moonlight Magic”

54.  Ana Roxanne - “Because of a Flower”

55.  Cafe Racer - “Shadow Talk”

56.  H.C. McEntire - “Eno Axis”

57.  Jessie Ware - “What’s Your Pleasure”

58.  Dorcha - “Honey Badger”

59.  Lomelda - “Hannah”

60.  Shitkid - “Always Amber (OST)”

 

61.  Jess Williamson - “Sorceress”

62.  No Joy - “Motherhood”

63.  Mint Field - “Sentimiento Mundial”

64.  Me Lost Me - “The Good Noise”

65.  Joan of Arc - “Tim Melina Theo Bobby”

66.  Adrienne Lenker - “Songs”

67.  Cold Beat - “Mother”

68.  Flavor Crystals - “Five”

69.  Young Jesus - “Welcome to Conceptual Beach”

70.  Rosa Anschütz - “Votive”

 

71.  Skyway Man - “The World Only Ends When You Die”

72.  Ekin Fill - “Coda”

73.  Siv Jakobsen  - “A Temporary Soothing”

74.  Peaking Lights - “E S C A P E”

75.  Sam Burton - “I Can Go With You”

76.  Jackie Lynn - “Jacqueline”

77.  Yves Jarvis - “Sundry Rock Song Stock”

78.  Choux - “Fallen”

79.  Ruby Haunt - “The Middle of Nowhere”

80.  Tara Jane O’Neill - “Songs for Peacock”

 

81.  Alexandra Savior - “The Archer”

82.  Galore - “s/t”

83.  Sally Anne Morgan - “Thread”

84.  See Oleana - “Weaving a Basket”

85.  Pool Holograph - “Love Touched Time & ...”

86.  Holy Motors - “Horse”

87.  Public Memory - “Ripped Apparition”

88.  Widowspeak - “Plum”

89.  Windy & Carl - “Allegiance & Conviction”

90.  Austra - “Hirudin”

 

91.  MJ Guider - “ Sour Cherry Bomb”

92.  White Poppy - “Paradise Garden”

93.  The Goodbye Party - “Beautiful Motors”

94.  Slow Spirit - “Nowhere No One Knows Where To Find You”

95.  A.A. Williams - “Forever Blue”

96.  Hey Colossus – “Dances / Curses”

97.  Geotic - “Oxperls”

98.  Shitkid - “20/20”

99.  Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - “Music of Transformation”

100.  Maria Minerva - “Soft Power”

 

101.  Good Sad Happy Bad - “Shades”

102.  Haim - “Women in Music, Pt. III”

103.  TALsounds - “Acquiesce”

104.  Bdrmm - “Bedroom”

105.  Lewsberg - “In This House”

106.  Jennifer Castle - “Monarch Season”

107.  Bad History Month - “Old Blues”

108.  Future Museums - “Transitional Spirit Mirror”

109.  R Beny “natural fiction”

110.  The Microphones - “Microphones in 2020”

 

111.  The Vacant Lots  - “Damage Control”

112.  Slow Pulp - "Moveys”

113.  Maya Hawke - “Blush”

114.  Sunstack Jones - “Golden Repair”

115.  Andy Bell - “The View from Halfway Down”

116.  Salem - “Fires in Heaven”

117.  Ray LaMontagne - “Monovison”

118.  Muzz - “s/t”

119.  Jonsi - “Shiver”

120.  Midwife - “Forever”

 

121.  L.A. Witch - “Play With Fire”

122.  Matchess - “Huizkol”

123.  Destroyer - “Have We Met”

124.  Ichiko Aoba - “Windswept Adan”

125.  Library of Babel - “Sing to Me of...”

126.  Ian Skelly - “Drifter’s Skyline”

127.  Primo! - “Sogni”

128.  Illuminati Hotties - “Free I.H.”

129.  Julian Lynch - “Animals 2”

130.  Nothing “The Great Dismal”

 

131.  Melkbelly - “Pith”

132.  Blear Moon - “Expanding lands”

133.  Yves Tumor - “Heaven to a Tortured Mind”

134.  Protomartyr - “Ultimate Success Today”

135.  En Attendant Ara - “Julliet”

136.  Nicolas Jaar - “Cenizas”

137.  Deadoorian - “Find the Sun”

138.  Laveda - “What Happens After”

139.  Tenci - “My Heart Is An Open Field”

140.  Stillhavet - “Kama Muta”

 

141.  CocoRosie - “Put the Shine On”

142.  David Nance - “Staunch Honey”

143.  U.S. Girls - “Heavy Light”

144.  Four Tet - “Parallel”

145.  Madeline Kenney - “Sucker’s Lunch”

146.  Half Waif - “The Caretaker”

147.  I Break Horses - “Warnings”

148.  Sleepy Sun - “Fever”

149.  Kidbug - “s/t”

150.  Empty Country - “s/t”

 

151.  Hilary Woods - “Birthmarks”

152.  William Tyler - “New Vanitas”

153.  Helena Deland - “Someone New”

154.  V.V. Lightbody - “Make a Shrine or Burn It”

155.  Mamalarky - “s/t”

156.  Tough Age - “Which Way Am I”

157.  Freak Heat Waves - “Zap the Planet”

158.  Gorillaz - “Song Machine, S1: Strange Timez”

159.  Billow - “III”

160.  Field Music - “Floral Music”

 

161.  Grykë Pyje - “Collision and Coalescence”

162.  Black Light Animals - “Playboys of the Western World”

163.  Sofie - “Cult Survivor”

164.  Actress - “Karma & Desire”

165.  Trummors - “Dropout City”

166.  Heather Trost - “Petrichor”

167.  Spill Gold - “Highway Hypnosis”

168.  The Warlocks - “The Chain”

169.  Sore Eros - “s/t”

170.  Ada Rook - “2,020 Knives”

171.  Sneaks - “Happy Birthday”

 

 

 

EPs:

 

#1.  Wished Bone - “A Bug Crawled in

Sapphire Slows - “Emotion Still Remains”

Relay Tapes - “Early Morning Abstract”

Amos the Kid - “Mountain Viewl

Floating Room - “Tired and True”

Kelly Moran - “Chain Reaction at Dusk”

Doomsquad - “Pure Yoke / Hard Boiled”

The Foreign Resort “the Rabbit Hole”

Sour Widows - “s/t”

Use Knife - “Tropentarn ep”

Zella Day - “Where Does the Devil Hide”

Shane Parish - “Acid Tunnel”

Alex Degroot - “Evolver Studies”

Tomberln - “Projections”

Public Memory - “Illusion of Choice”