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?”

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”

Best Albums of 2019

I'm adding less of an intro or labels for this year's list because I've been working on something bigger that I'll post sometime in the next week---but wow so much good music came out this year! 

Support the artists, go to shows, but their records and merch, and share the ones you love with those you love. Happy New Years, all my friends :)

1. Sondra Sun-Odeon - “Desyre” 

2. Lana Del Rey - “Norman Fucking Rockwell” 

3. The Caretaker - “Everywhere, an empty bliss”

4. Doomsquad - “Let Yourself Be Seen” 

5. Lightning Bug - “October Song” 

6. DIIV - “Deceiver” 

7. Sharon Van Etten - “Remind Me Tomorrow” 

8. Benoît Pioulard - “Sylva” 

9. Purple Mountains - “s/t” 

10. Tempers - “Private Life” 

11. Hana Vu - “Nicole Kidman/Anne Hathaway”

12. House and Land - “Across the Field” 

13. Loscil - “Lifelike”

14. The National - “I Am Easy To Find” 

15. Nivhek - “After its own Death...”

16. Blankenberge - “More” 

17. Angel Olsen - “All Mirrors” 

18. The Warlocks - “Mean Machine Music” 

19. A Winged Victory for the Sullen “Undivided Fifth” 

20. Lillie Mae - “Other Girls” 

21. Wand - “Laughing Matter” 

22. Boy Scouts - “Free Company” 

23. Weyes Blood - “Titanic Rising” 

24. Dolphin Midwives - “Liminal Garden”

25. Kim Gordon - “No Home Record” 

26. FKA Twigs - “Magdalene” 

27. Julia Jacklin - “Crushing” 

28. Tara Jane O’Neill - “Yoake”

29. Flaming Lips - “King’s Mouth” 

30. Anna Tivel - “The Question” 

31. Ana Roxanne - “~~~”

32. Pi Ja Ma - “Nice to Meet U” 

33. Death & Vanilla - “Are You A Dreamer” 

34. Daniel Norgren - “Woah Dang” 

35. Dustin Wong - “Seasons” 

36. Cate Le Bon - “Reward” 

37. Foxes in Fiction - “Trillium Killer” 

38. Laura Stevenson - “The Big Freeze” 

39. Ruby Haunt - “The Middle of Nowhere” 

40. Yohuna - “Mirroring” 

41. Wished Bone - “Sap Season” 

42. Chromatics - “Closer to Grey” 

43. Saariselka - “The Ground Our Sky” 

44. Cellar Doors - “s/t” 

45. Fleeting Joys - “Speeding Away to Someday”

46. Purple Pilgrims - “Perfumed Earth”

47. Cosey Fanni Tutti - “Tutti”

48. Little Scream - “Speed Queen”

49. Florist - “Emily Alone”

50. Credit Electric - “s/t”

51. Jason Lytle - “Nylonandjuno”

52. The Humble Bee & Benoît Pioulard - “Honesty”

53. Cate Le Bon & Bradford Cox - “Myths 2”

54. Jamila Woods - “Legacy! Legacy!”

55. Sasami - “s/t”

56. Living Hour - “Softer Faces”

57. Common Holly - “When I Say to you Black Lightning”

58. Dives - “Teenage Years are Over”

59. Aldous Harding - “Designer”

60. Hand Habits - “Placeholder”

61. Kazu - “Adult Baby” 

62. Whitney - “Forever Turned Around”

63. Vivian Girls - “Memory”

64. Jake Xerxes Fussell - “Out of Sight”

65. Primal Wound - “Flesh Bound World”

66. Big Thief - “U.F.O.F.”

67. Hotel Neon - “Vanishing Forms”

68. Daughter of Swords - “Dawnbreaker”

69. Bodywash - “Comforter” 

70. Froth - “Duress”

71. Field Medic - “Fade Into Dawn”

72. Kedr Lavinsky - “Your Need”

73. The Jeanines - “s/t”

74. Dope Lemon - “Smooth Big Cat”

75. Patio - “Essentials”

76. Holly Herndon - “Proto”

77. Greys - “Age Hasn’t Spoiled You”

78. Yeule - “Serotonin II”

79. Joan Shelley - “Like the River Loves the Sea”

80. Jenny Hval - “The Practice of Love”

81. Shana Cleveland - “Night of the Worm Moon”

82. Devendra Banhart - “Ma”

83. Girlpool - “What Chaos Is Imaginary”

84. Loscil - “Equivalents”

85. Slow Glows - “Stargaze Rock N’ Roll”

8. Chelsea Wolfe - “Birth of Violence”

87. Mercury Rev - “Delta Sweete Revisited”

88. Eerie Wanda - “Pet Town”

89. Esther Rose - “You Made It This Far”

90. Cross Record - “s/t”

91. Mister Lies - “s/t”

92. The Telescopes - “Exploding Head Syndrome”

93. Frankie Cosmos - “Close It Quietly”

94. Félicia Atkinson - “The Flower & the Vessel”

95. Campfires - “Fare Trax”

96. Lina Tungren - “Free Cell”

97. Seablite - “Grass Stains & Novocaine”

98. Foghorn - “Thanatos”

99. Lambchop - “This (is what I wanted to tell you)”

100. Viul - “Bright Decline”

101. Duster - “s/t”

102. Spellling - “Mazy Fly”

103. Sneaks - “Highway Hypnosis”

104. Bill Callahan - “Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest”

105. Westkust - “s/t”

106. Justus Proffit - “LA’s Got Me Down”

107. Drowse - “Light Mirror”

108. Yves Jarvis - “The Same but by Different Means”

109. Steven Malkmus - “Groove Denied”

110. Kevin Morby - “Oh My God”

111. Munya - “s/t”

112. Marissa Nadler & S. Brodsky - “Droneflower”

113. Fawns of Love - “Permanent”

114. Deerhunter - “Why hasn’t Everything already Disappeared?”

115. Jordan Moser - “Long Night”

116. Molly Sarlé - “Karaoke Angel”

117. Kelsey Lu - “Blood”

118. Benoît Pioulard & Sean Curtis Patrick ‎- “Avocationals”

119. Pan American - “A Son”

120. 93MillionMilesFromTheSun - “ Echo Delay Fuzz Reverb”

121. Gliss - “In Utopia”

122. Solange - “When I Get Home”

123. Iggy Pop - “Free”

124. Julian Lynch - “Rat’s Spit”

125. Operators - “Radiant Dawn”

126. Wurve - “Memory Bleach”

127. Jay Som - “Anak Ko”

128. Ohtis - “Curve of Earth”

129. Bear Call - “Fancy Acid”

130. Emily Reo - “Only You Can See It”

131. Oh Sees - “Face Stabber”

132. Tearjerker - “Faded”

133. Lower Dens - “The Competition” 

134. Cherry Glazerr - “Stuffed & Ready”

135. Jackie Cohen - “Wagg”

136. Billow - “Seascape”

137. 3 Leafs - “Four Blind Men”

138. Underground Youth - “Montage Images of Lust & Fear”

139. Palm Haze - “Rêve Blue”

140. Smileswithteeth - “Care”

141. R Beny - “Echo’s Verse”

142. Eerie Family - “s/t”

143. Shitkid - “Detention”

144. Rakta - “Falha Comum”

145. Night Beats - “Myth of a Man”

146. Mike Donovan - “Exurbian Quonset”

147. Machinefabriek - “With Voices”

148. Evan Caminiti - “Coiling”

149. Panda Bear - “Buoys”

150. Toro Y Moi - “Outer Peace”

151. Dido - “Still on my Mind”

152. Lisel - “Angels on the Slope”