2020 recap

My annual yearbook of my favorite albums.

2020 Recap

The Rentals: Conspiracy
Guided by Voices: Steely Dodger
Shopping: Expert Advice
Deerhoof: O, Ye Saddle Babes
OOIOO: Bulun
Horse Lords: Against Gravity
Peter Evans: Double Drone
Ashley Paul: Light Inside My Skin
Kristo Rodzevski: Gauze
Throwing Muses: Bo Diddley Bridge
Good Sad Happy Bad: Shades
Hen Ogledd: Trouble
Sonic Boom: I Feel a Change Coming On
Thomas Köner: Substance (Suicide)
Junk Magic: Sargasso
More Eaze / Claire Rousay: Pre-Op
Offthesky & the Humble Bee: Fallen Fruit to Navigate by
Bill Callahan: The MacKenzies
Eiko Ishibashi: Hyakki Yagyō, part 1
Papillon: Aqueducts
Matmos: On the Team
Sun Araw: 78 Sutra
Decolonize Your Mind Society: Through the Prism
Richard Youngs & Daniel O’Sullivan: Oblivion Riviera
Autechre: TH Red A

2019 Recap

Here is my annual musical yearbook mix.

2019 Recap

Major Stars: Echo
Lower Slaughter: Some Things Take Work
Kim Gordon: Air B ‘n B
Kukangendai: Hi-Vision
Nate Wooley: With Condolences
The Telescopes: Don't Place Your Happiness in the Hands of Another
Bill Callahan: Ballad of the Hulk
Alexander Tucker: Precog
Paco Sala: Minories
Maayan Nidam: Acid Kiss*
Stepehn Mallinder: Satellite
rRoxymore: Hectadrums
Gonzo: Estorvo
Lambchop: The Lasting Last of You
United Waters: Arrowheads
Andy Stott: Promises
Tunes of Negation: Rückschlag
Rupert Clervaux: Make Nature Speak
Amirtha Kidambi / Elder Ones: Dance of the Subaltern
Fire! Orchestra: Weekends (the Soil is Calling)
Mega Bog: Truth in the Wild
Tomeka Reid Quartet: RN
You Tell Me: Springburn
Robert Forster: I’m Gonna Tell It
Sacred Paws: What’s So Wrong?

* the internet claims this album was officially released mid-December 2018, but I am fairly certain, at least where I live, it was not available until the new year (and have seen it on at least two other best-of-2019 lists).

2018 Recap

Here is my yearbook, a recap of 2018. I’ve collected songs from my 25 favorite albums of the last year into a wide-ranging mix.

Screaming Females: Agnes Martin
Shopping: Asking for a Friend
Marker: French Dress
The Ex: Silent Waste
Ben Vince with Rupert Clervaux: Sensory Crossing
Hen Ogledd: Problem Child
DJRum featuring Zosia Jagodzinska: Creature, pt.2
Autechre: TT1Pd
Matthew Dear: Can You Rush Them
NHK yx Koyxen: Strange Gesture
Jako Maron: Fanali Dann Bwa
Field Music: Checking on a Message
Against All Logic: Now U Got Me Hooked
Thomas Fehlmann: Morris Louis
Neneh Cherry: Faster than the Truth
Mast featuring Jason Fraticelli: Blue Monk
Kristo Rodzevski: Out of Key
Eric Chenaux: There’s Our Love
Ashley Paul: Breathless Air
Roy Montgomery with Katie von Schleicher: Outsider Love Ballad, no.1
Sarah Davachi: Matins
Sandro Perri: In Another Life
Toshimaru Nakamura: NIMB 56
Angelique Kidjo: The Overload
Reidemeister Move: Arcanum 17

2017 Recap

My annual, personal albums-of-the-year mix.

Cummi Flu / Raz Ohara: Akasak
Acid Pauli: Ayam
Shackleton & Vengeance Tenfold: Spheric Ghost / Fear the Crown
Kaitlyn Aurelia-Smith: I Will Make Room for You
Soundwalk Collective: Xiao Youmei Corridor
Juana Molina: A00 B01
Kink Gong: Saisir l’Aiguille au Fond de la Mer
The Fall: Second House Now
Thurston Moore: Turn On
Mary Halvorson Quartet: Ruhiel
Nate Wooley: Knknighgh 6
Zen Mother: Strange Mother
The Telescopes: Down on Me
Sarah Davachi: For Organ
Phew: Antenna
NHK yx Koyxen: Intention
RE-TROS: At Mosp Here
Mourning [a] Blkstar: Take Two
Arto Lindsay: Uncrossed
Oto Hiax: Eses Mitre
Alvvays: Hey
Sacred Paws: Empty Body
Kristos Rodzevski: Ladybug
United Waters: Shaped like the Sea
Dans les Arbres: Flourescent

2016 Recap

My annual, personal albums-of-the-year mix.

Powell featuring Jonny: Jonny
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down: Slash / Burn
Field Music: Don't You Want to Know What's Wrong?
Radian: Blue Noise, Black Lake
Memotone: All Collapsed
Andy Stott: Forgotten
NHK yx Koyxen: 1048
Factory Floor: Dial Me in
Ash Koosha: Fool Moon
Tomutonttu: Studioon Astuu Haavoittunut Ystävä
Grumbling Fur: Perfect Reader
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Arthropoda
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Magneto
Autechre: Spaces How V
Anarchist Republic of Bzzz: Dark Mirrors
Guy Andrews: Spirit Ritual
Tangents: N-Mission
David Bowie: Dollar Days
Fire! Orchestra: Ritual
DKV / The Thing: Cards
Deerhoof: Life Is Suffering
Oren Ambarchi: Hubris
Supersilent: 13.3
Lambchop: JFK
Sarah Louise: Silent in Snow

2015 recap

Personal best-of-2015 mix

TRACKLIST:
Sacred Paws: Shirley
Sleater-Kinney: A New Wave
Screaming Females: Triumph
Lightning Bolt: Mythmaster
Vision Fortune: Tied and Bound
Sote: Lacuna
LoneLady: Hinterland
Matias Aguayo: Gato Disco
Hot Chip: Why Make Sense?
Cummi Flu: B.
Wire: Burning Bridges
Vilod: Surmansky Blow
Jenny Hval: Heaven
**Ricardo Dias Gomes: Junta-Espirito
Boduf Songs: Great Anthem of Our Youth
Senyawa: Hadirlah Suci
Ghold: All Eyes Broke
Zomes: Syster
Battles: Dot Com
Pole: Kafer
King Midas Sound featuring Fennesz: Lighthouse
Helen: Pass Me By
Kris Davis Infrasound: Jumping Over Your Shadow
Eric Chenaux: Poor Time
Mary Halvorson: Aisha