Favourite Music 2013-2023
As part of attempting to recover/reconstruct my blog here in the event that my old account is not restored, I'm reposting some old things that I've pieced together from Internet Archive scrapes of my old blog, personal files, and cross-postings elsewhere. A tradition I maintained on that blog over its ten year span was putting out a list of my favourite music releases at the end of every year.
I make it a goal to listen to fifty new releases every year, and I frequently manage over seventy or more, occasionally hitting one hundred. At the end of the year I distill all that listening down into a list of thirty-odd releases that I really enjoyed.
I've never much liked numbered and ranked lists so the lists are unranked and have been from the beginning. They are, however, partitioned into three categories. Two of these categories are self explanatory "Favourite Music" and "Favourite Reissues, Compilations, Soundtracks and Live Albums" while the third "Honourable Mentions" acts as a holding tank for things that I either liked "fine enough alright" or which I was/am still digesting. I have not gone back and edited these lists in any way (except to alphabetize earliest ones), as that would be cheating. I wanted these lists to be a document of a moment in time, a personal record of what I was listening to in any given year. Consequently, the further back you go, the more likely it is my opinions have changed. Some albums and artists that were favourites fell out of my rotation entirely, a few honourable mentions graduated to favourites while others slipped off, but a good half or more stayed right where I placed them. Some lists are longer than others. I was more discriminating in the first few years and left a great many things off.
I'm posting this mostly for myself, but please, take a look if you're looking for something to listen to, there are hundreds of recommendations below, something for everyone. My favourites from 2023 are directly below, and 2013-2022 are below the "read more" in reverse chronological order.
Favourite Music 2023:
Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad — Jazz is Dead 16
Algiers — Shook
Anjumile — The King
Annelies Monseré — Mares
ANOHNI — My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
Brighde Chaimbeul — Carry Them With Us
Chris Watson & Philip Jeck — Oxmardyke
Colin Stetson — When We Were That What Wept for the Sea
Danny Brown — Quaranta
The Drin — Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom
The Inward Circles — Before WE Lie Down in Darknesse
Jaimie Brand — Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
Kahil El’Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble ft. Dwight Trible & David Ornette Cherry — Spirit Gatherer: Tribute to Don Cherry
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard — The Silver Cord
La Baracande — La Baracande
Lankum — False Lankum
Meatraffle — Base and Superstructure
Oxbow — Love's Holiday
ØXN — CYRM
PJ Harvey — I Inside the Old Year Dying
Protomartyr — Formal Growth in the Desert
Squid — O Monolith
Tim Arnold — Super Connected
Tyvek — Overground
Yossari Baby — Inferiority Complex
Water From Your Eyes — Everyone's Crushed
Honourable Mentions 2023:
Gazelle Twin — Black Dog
Lonnie Holley — Oh Me, Oh My
Matmos — Return to Archive
The Mountain Goats — Jenny from Thebes
Mozart Estate — Pop-Up! Ker-Ching! And the Possibilities of Modern Shopping
The Murder Capital — Gigi's Recovery
Neil Young — Before and After
Peter Gabriel — i/o
The Pigeons — Bird Brain Gang
PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS — Land of Sleeper
Shame — Food for Worms
Sparks — The Girl is Crying in Her Latte
Stuck — Freak Frequency
Favourite Reissues, Compilations, Soundtracks and Live Albums 2023:
Alkemie — Pentiment (Original Game Soundtrack)
The Beatles — 1962-1966
The Beatles — 1967-1970
Black Country, New Road — Live at Bush Hall
Devo — Art Devo 1973-1977
John Coltrane — Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy
Lingua Ignota — The End: Live at Islington Assembly Hall
Neil Young — Chrome Dreams
Nervous Gender — Music from Hell
The Replacements — Tim (Let It Bleed Edition)
Shizuka (静香) — Heavenly Persona 天界のペルソナ
Sonic Youth — Live in Brooklyn 2011
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 — These Things Remain Unassigned (Singles, Compilation Tracks, Rarities & Unreleased Recordings)
Various Artists — Happy Land: A Compendium of Alternative Electronic Music from the British Isles 1993-1996
Various Artists — The NID Tapes: Electronic Music from India 1969-1972
Favourite Music 2022:
Alison Cotton — The Portrait You Painted of Me
Bill Orcutt — Music for Four Guitars
Black Country, New Road — Ants from Up There
black midi — Hellfire
Cate le Bon — Pompeii
Decius — Decius Vol. 1
Diamanda Galás — Broken Gargoyles
Extra Life — Secular Works, Vol. 2
Fontaines D.C. — Skinty Fia
Gnod — Hexen Valley
Hercules and Love Affair ft. Anhoni — In Amber
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard — Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava; Omnium Gatherum
Magma — Kãrtëhl
Moundabout — Flowers Rot, Bring Me Stones
One More Grain — Beans on Toast with Pythagoras
Richard Dawson — The Ruby Cord
Sam Slater — I do not wish to be known as a Vandal
Sault — 151; Air; Earth; Today & Tomorrow; UNTITLED(GOD)
SCUDFM — INNIT
Shovel Dance Collective — Water Is The Shovel of the Shore
Special Interest — Endure
Viagra Boys — Cave World
Honourable Mentions 2022:
The Chats — Get Fucked
Lady Neptune — Noz
Omertà — Collection particulière
Suede — Autofiction
Trupa Trupa — B flat A
Weak Signal — War&War
Yard Act — The Overload
Yoo Doo Right — A Murmur, Boundless to the East
Favourite Reissues, Compilations, Soundtracks & Live Albums 2022:
The Beatles — Get Back: the Rooftop Performance; Revolver Super Deluxe Edition
Bog-Shed — The Official Bog-Set
David Bowie — Divine Symmetry
Diamanda Galás — The Divine Punishment
Iannis Xenakis — Electroacoustic Works
Norma Tanega — I’m the Sky: Studio and Demo Recordings, 1964–1971
Oliver Coates — The Stranger
Oxbow & Peter Brötzmann — An Eternal Reminder Of Not Today: Live At Moers
Sonic Youth — In/Out/In
Tomasz Stańko Quintet — Wooden Music I
Valentina Goncharova — Ocean: Symphony for Electric Violin and Other Instruments in 10+ Parts
Favourite Music 2021:
Ärabrot — Norwegian Gothic
black midi — Cavalcade
Richard Dawson & Circle — Henki
Desperate Journalist — Maximum Sorrow!
Dry Cleaning — New Long Leg
Gnod — La Mort Du Sens
Greg Coates — Witch Egg
Hawthonn — Earth Mirror
Hedvig Mollestad Trio — Ding Dong. You're Dead
Iceage — Seek Shelter
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard — L.W.
Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra — Promises
LoneLady — Former Things
Low — HEY WHAT
Marissa Nadler — The Path of the Clouds
Mirage — Mirage
Nick Cave & Warren Willis — Carnage
Nyx & Gazelle Twin — Deep England
Oliver Leath and Explorer Ensemble — 'Me Hollywood'
Parquet Courts — Sympathy for Life
SAULT — Nine
shame — Drunk Tank Pink
Shortparis — Яблонный сад
Sleaford Mods — Spare Ribs
Snapped Ankles — Forest of Your Problems
Sons of Kemet — Black to the Future
Squid — Bright Green Field
Taqbir — Taqbir (Victory Belongs to Those Who Fight For a Right Cause)
Viagra Boys — Welfare Jazz
William Parker — Mayan Space Station
Favourite Reissues, Compilations, Soundtracks & Live Albums 2021:
Can — Live in Brighton 1975
Can — Live in Stuttgart 1975
Coil — Love's Secret Domain 30th Anniversary Edition
Faust — 1971-1974
Gang of Four — 77-81
John Coltrane — A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle
The KLF — The White Room (The KLF Director's Cut)
Magma — Simples
Suburban Lawns — Suburban Lawns
Van der Graaf Generator — The Charisma Years 1970-1978
Various Artists — Do You Have the Force? (Jon Savage's Alternate History of Electronica 1978-1982)
Various Artists — Cameroon Garage Funk
Willie Dunn — Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: the Willie Dunn Anthology
Favourite Music 2020:
Aksak Maboul — Figures
All diese Gewalt — Andere
Baxter Dury — The Night Chancers
Bill Fay — Countless Branches
Bob Dylan — Rough and Rowdy Ways
The Chats — High Risk Behaviour
Cold Meat — Hot and Flustered
Crack Cloud — Pain Olympics
Duma — DuMa
Einstürzende Neubauten — Alles in Allem
The Heliocentrics — Infinity of Now
Hen Ogledd — Free Humans
Hey Colossus — Dances/Curses
Idris Ackamor and the Pyramids — Shaman!
Jeff Parker — Suite for Max Brown
Jennifer Walshe — A Late Anthology of Early Music, Vol. 1: Ancient to Renaissance
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard — K.G.
Lonnie Holley — National Freedom
Nadine Shah — Kitchen Sink
Oranssi Pazuzu — Mestarin kynsi
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs — Viscerals
Protomartyr — Ultimate Success Today
Róisín Murphy — Róisín Machine
Sault — Untitled (Black Is); Untitled (Rise)
Shirley Collins — Heart’s Ease
The Sorcerers — In Search of the Lost City of the Monkey God
Wilma Archer — A Western Circular
Young Knives — Barbarians
Honourable Mentions 2020:
Algiers — There Is No Year
Christine and the Queens — La vita nuova
Fontaines D.C. — A Hero’s Death
fra fra — Funeral Songs
Idles — Ultra Mono
Pharoah Overlord — 6
Richard Skelton — These Charms May Be Sung Over a Wound
Sex Swing — Type II
Sparks — A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip
Thundercat — It Is What It Is
Torres — Silver Tongue
Wire — Mind Hive
Favourite Reissues, Compilations, Soundtracks and Live Albums 2020:
Beverly Glenn-Copeland — Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Black Sabbath — Paranoid Super Deluxe Box Set
Coil — The Gay Man’s Guide to Safer Sex
David Bowie — I’m Only Dancing (The Soul Tour ‘74); Ouvrez Le Chien (Live Dallas '95)
Fela Kuti — Perambulator
The Heshoo Beshoo Group — Armitage Road
The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Live In Maui
Neil Young — Homegrown
Pylon — Pylon Box
The Sun Ra Arkestra — Swirling
Sun Ra — Live Egypt 1971
Theotis Taylor — Brother Theotis Taylor
Uranium Club — Live for the Very First Time (In Italy)
Various Artists — Join The Future: UK Bleep & Bass 1988 - 1991
Various Artists — Interstellar Funk Presents Artificial Dancers: Waves Of Synth
Various Artists — Deutsche Elektronische Musik 4: Experimental German Rock And Electronic Music 1971 – 1983
Favourite Music 2019:
Alexander Tucker — Guild of the Asbestos Weaver
Ana Roxanne — ~~~
Årabrot — Die Nibelungen
BATS — Alter Nature
Beverly Glenn-Copeland — Primal Prayer
black midi — Schlagenheim
Cosey Fanni Tutti — Tutti
Damon Locks/Black Monument Ensemble — Where Future Unfolds
Drenge — Strange Creatures
Fat White Family — Serfs Up!
Holly Herndon — Proto
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard — Infest the Rats’ Nest
King Midas Sound — Solitude
Lingua Ignota — Caligula
MEATRAFFLE — Bastard Music
The Mekons — Deserted
Michael Kiwanuka — Kiwanuka
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds — Ghosteen
Priests — The Seduction of Kansas
Purple Mountains — Purple Mountains
Richard Dawson — 2020
shortparis — Так закалялась сталь
Sleaford Mods — Eton Alive
Snapped Ankles — Stunning Luxury
Test Dept. — Disturbance
Vanishing Twin — The Age of Immunology
Honourable Mentions 2019
Angel Olson — All Mirrors
Cate Le Bon — Reward
Caterina Barbieri — Ecstatic Computation
CHAI — PUNK
Earth — Full Upon Her Burning Lips
Jenny Hval — The Practice of Love
Kim Gordon — No Home Record
Leonard Cohen — Thanks for the Dance
The Murder Capital — When I Have Fears
Pharmakon — Devour
Richard Skelton — Border Ballads
Sudan Archives — Athena
Swans — Leaving Meaning
Favourite Reissues, Compilations, Soundtracks and Live Albums 2019:
The Beatles — Abbey Road Super Deluxe Edition
Can — Live Rockpalast 1970
David Bowie — Conversation Piece
The Deontic Miracle; Catherine Christer Hennix — Selections from 100 Models of Hegikan Roku
Hildur Guðnadóttir — Chernobyl (Music From the Original TV Series)
His Name Is Alive — All the Mirrors in the House (Early Recordings 1979 - 1986)
Mort Garson — Mother Earth’s Plantasia
Patrick Cowley — Mechanical Fantasy Box
Various Artists — Nigeria 70: No Wahala: Highlife, Afro-Funk & Juju 1973-1987
Various Artists — Tarantismo: Odyssey of an Italian Ritual
Various Artists — Third Noise Principle: Formative North American Electronica 1975-1984
Various Artists — Further Perspectives & Distortion: An Encyclopedia of British Experimental and Avant‐Garde Music 1976–1984
Favourite Music 2018:
Ärabrot — Who Do You Love
Capitol K — Goatherder
The Caretaker — Everywhere At The End of Time, Stage IV; Everywhere At The End of Time, Stage V
Chris Carter — Chemistry Lessons Volume 1
Daughters — You Won’t Get What You Want
Die Nerven — Fake
Lonnie Holley — MITH
The Ex — 27 Passports
Gazelle Twin — Pastoral
Gnod — Chapel Perilous
Hen Ogledd — Mogic
Hawthonn — Red Goddess (Of This Men Shall Know Nothing)
Julia Holter — Aviary
Hot Snakes — Jericho Sirens
Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids — An Angel Fell
ILL — We Are Ill
Insecure Men — Insecure Men
Idles — Joy As An Act Of Resistance
KELD — You Are Wolf
Laibach — The Sound of Music
Lonker See — One Eye Sees Red
Low — Double Negative
Mamuthones — Fear on the Corner
Parquet Courts — Wide Awake!
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs — King of Cowards
Protomartyr — Consolation EP
Pusha T — Daytona
Richard Skelton — Front Variations (I & II)
Rival Consoles — Persona
Simian Mobile Disco — Murmurations
Sons of Kemet — Your Queen Is A Reptile
Szun Waves — New Hymn to Freedom
Tropical Fuck Storm — A Laughing Death in Meatspace
Yves Tumor — Safe In The Hands Of Love
Honourable Mentions 2018:
Amen Dunes — Freedom
Amyl and the Sniffers — Big Attraction & Giddy Up
The Cavemen — Nuke Earth
Death and the Maiden — Wisteria
The Dirty Nil — Master Volume
Here Lies Man — You Will Know Nothing
Hop Along — Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Iceage — Beyondless
The Limiñanas — Shadow People
Lucy Dacus — Historian
The Messthetics — The Messthetics
Mitski — Be The Cowboy
Nine Inch Nails — Bad Witch
Ought — Room Inside the World
Sarah Louise — Deeper Woods
Scourge of Women — To End It All
Thou — Magus
U.S. Girls — In a Poem Unlimited
Tπc9 — Sekundenschlaf
Favourite Reissues, Compilations, Soundtracks and Live Albums 2018:
Art Ensemble of Chicago — Les Stances a Sophie
Austin Wintory — The Banner Saga 3 OST
Colin Stetson — Hereditary OST
Holger Czukay — Cinema
Holger Czukay & David Sylvian — Plight & Premonition/Flux & Mutability
Neil Young — Songs for Judy
Throbbing Gristle — Mission Of Dead Souls
Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton — Music and Poetry of the Kesh
Various Artists — Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop from Europe 1980-1991
Various Artists — Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3: Experimental German Music 1971-1981
Various Artists — Onda de Amor: Synthesized Brazilian Hits That Never Were, 1984-1994
Various Artists — Venezuela 70 Vol. 2: Cosmic Visions Of A Latin American Earth: Venezuelan Experimental Rock In The 1970s & Beyond
Various Artists — Soul Of A Nation 2: Jazz Is The Teacher, Funk Is The Preacher
Various Artists — African Scream Contest Volume 2: Benin 1963 - 1980
Favourite Music 2017:
Algiers — Underside of Power
Atlantik Wall — Atlantik Wall
Charlotte Gainsbourg — Rest
Circle — Terminal
Colin Stetson — All This I Do For Glory
Gnod — Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
Here Lies Man — Here Lies Man
Idles — Brutalism
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — The Kid
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard — Flying Microtonal Banana; Murder of the Universe; Polygondwanaland; Sketches of Brunswick East
The Moonlandingz — Interplanetary Class Classics
Nadine Shah — Holiday Destination
Oxbow — Thin Black Duke
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs — Feed the Rats
Protomartyr — Relatives in Descent
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement — Ambient Black Magic
Richard Dawson — Peasant
Thundercat — Drunk
Waxahatchee — Out in the Storm
William Basinski — A Shadow in Time
The Yossarians — Fabric of Time
Zola Jesus — Okovi
Honourable Mentions 2017:
All Them Witches — Sleeping Through the War
The Caretaker — Everywhere at the End of Time (Stage 2); Everywhere at the End of Time (Stage 3)
The Chats — Get This In Ya
Chelsea Wolfe — Hiss Spun
The Dumpies — The Dumpies
Electric Wizard — Wizard Bloody Wizard
EMA — Exile in the Outer Ring
The Fall — New Facts Emerge
French Vanilla — French Vanilla
Game Theory — Supercalifragile
Japan Blues — Sells His Record Collection
Moon Duo — Occult Architecture Vol. 1; Occult Architecture Vol. 2
NSRD — The Workshop for the Restoration of Unfelt Feelings
Onus — Ratsickles
Priests — Nothing Feels Natural
St. Vincent — MASSEDUCATION
Torres — Three Futures
UUUU — UUUU
Wire — Silver/Lead
Favourite Reissues, Compilations, Soundtracks and Live Albums 2017:
Black Sabbath — The Ten Year War
The Fall — Singles 1978-2016
German Oak — Down In The Bunker
Husker Dü — Savage Young Dü
Midori Takada — Through The Looking Glass
Patrick Cowley — Afternooners
The Pentangle — The Albums
Pep Llopis — Poiemusia La Nau Dels Argonautes
Various Artists — Music From Saharan Cellphones Vol. 1
Various Artists — N.E.E.T (Not in Education Employment or Training)
Various Artists — Noise Reduction System: Formative European Electronica 1974-1984
Various Artists — Silhouettes and Shadows: A Gothic Revolution 1978-1986
Favourite Music 2016:
All diese Gewalt — Welt in Klammern
ANOHNI — HOPELESSNESS
Årabrot — Gospel
Car Seat Headrest — Teens of Denial
Cheena — Spend the Night With…
Controlled Bleeding — Larva Lumps and Baby Bumps
David Bowie — Blackstar
The Dwarves of East Agouza — Bes
Exploded View — Exploded View
Fat White Family — Songs for Our Mothers
Fear of Men — Fall Forever
Hedvig Mollestad Trio — Black Stabat Mater
Jozef van Wissem — When Shall This Bright Day Begin
The KVB — Of Desire
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard — Nonagon Infinity
Leonard Cohen — You Want It Darker
The Mekons — Existentialism
Mélanie De Biasio — Blackened Cities
The Minneapolis Uranium Club — Human Exploration; All of Them Naturals
Moor Mother — Fetish Bones
Mütterlein — Orphans of the Black Sun
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds — Skeleton Tree
Parquet Courts — Human Performance
Savages — Adore Life
SHXCXCHCXSH — SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs
True Widow — Avvolgere
White Lung — Paradise
Honourable Mentions 2016:
The Caretaker — Everywhere at the End of Time
Diminished Men — Vision in Crime
Dinosaur Jr. — Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not
Future of the Left — The Peace and Truce of Future of the Left
Hen Ogledd — Bronze
Jenny Hval — Blood Bitch
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani — Sunergy
The Limiñanas — Malamore
Marissa Nadler — Strangers
PJ Harvey — The Hope Six Demolition Project
Radiohead — A Moon Shaped Pool
Rangda — The Heretic’s Bargain
SubRosa — For This We Fought the Battle of Ages
Swans — The Glowing Man
Wrekmeister Harmonies — Light Falls
Wire — Nocturnal Koreans
Favourite Reissues, Compilations, Soundtracks and Live Albums 2016:
Big Star — The Complete Third
Cluster — 1971-1981
Nine Inch Nails — The Fragile: Deviations 1
Pere Ubu — Architecture of Language 1979-1982
Scott Walker — The Childhood of a Leader (OST)
Sun Ra — Singles: The Definitive 45's Collection 1952-1991
Various Artists — Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984
Various Artists — Killed By Deathrock Vol. 2
Various Artists — Wake You Up! Vol. 1: The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock Music 1972-1977
Various Artists — Wake You Up! Vol. 2: The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock Music 1972-1977
Favourite Music 2015:
Bad Guys — Bad Guynaecology
Baron — Torpor
The Body & Thou — You, Whom I Have Always Hated
Chelsea Wolfe — Abyss
Circuit des Yeux — In Plain Speech
Couch Slut — My Life As a Woman
Die Nerven — Out
The Eccetronic Research Council — Johnny Rocket, Narcissist & Music Machine…I’m Your Biggest Fan
Feu! Chatterton — Ici le jour (a tout enseveli)
Ghold — Of Ruin
The Inward Circles — Belated Movements For An Unsanctioned Exhumation August 1st 1984
Institute — Catharsis
Jenny Hval — Apocalypse, Girl
Low — Ones and Sixes
MEATRAFFLE — Hi Fi Classics
The Mekons — Jura
Men I Trust — Headroom
Negative Scanner — Negative Scanner
Protomartyr — The Agent Intellect
Pyramids — A Northern Meadow
Thundercat — The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam
Torres — Sprinter
U.S Girls — Half Free
Viet Cong — Viet Cong
Honourable Mentions 2015:
Alessandro Cortini — Risveglio
Bell Witch — Four Phantoms
Container — LP
Gnaw Their Tongues — Abyss of Longing Throats
J.C. Satàn — J.C. Satàn
Księżyc — Rabbit Eclipse
LoneLady — Hinterland
Nadine Shah — Fast Food
Spectres — Dying
Titus Andronicus — The Most Lamentable Tragedy
Tropic of Cancer — Stop Suffering
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats — The Night Creeper
Favourite Reissues, Compilations, Soundtracks and Live Albums 2015:
Coil — Backwards
Harmonia — Complete Works
Patrick Cowley — Muscle Up
Peter Christopherson — Live At L'Étrange Festival 2004
Rose McDowall — Cut With the Cake Knife
Sun Ra And His Arkestra — To Those Of Earth… And Other Worlds
Swans — The Gate
Swans — White Light from the Mouth of Infinity/Love of Life
Van der Graaf Generator — After the Flood: At the BBC 1968-77
Various Artists — [Cease & Desist] DIY (Cult Classics from the Post-Punk Era 1978-82)
Various Artists — Next Stop Soweto: Zulu Rock, Afro-Disco and Mbaqanga 1975-1985 Vol. 4
Various Arists — Small Town Country, Vol. 1
Favourite Music 2014:
Angel Olsen — Burn Your Fire for No Witness
Ben Frost — A U R O R A
The Body — I Shall Die Here
Burial Hex — The Hierophant
Current 93 — I Am the Last of All the Field That Fell
Die Nerven — Fun
Einstürzende Neubauten — Lament
English Heretic — The Underground Service
Fear of Men — Loom
Feu! Chatterton — Feu! Chatterton
Grouper — Ruins
Hedvig Mollestad Trio — Enfant Terrible
Inga Copeland — Because I'm Worth It
The Inward Circles — Nimrod Is Lost in Orion and Osyris in the Doggestarre
Leonard Cohen — Popular Problems
Pharmakon — Bestial Burden
The Proper Ornaments — Wooden Head
Protomartyr — Under Color of Official Right
Pye Corner Audio & Not Waving — Intercepts
Richard Dawson — Nothing Important
Scott Walker & Sunn O))) — Soused
Silo — Work
Swans — To Be Kind
Thou — Heathen
White Lung — Deep Fantasy
Honourable Mentions 2014:
The Antlers — Familiars
Cult of Youth — Final Days
Earth — Primitive and Deadly
East India Youth — Total Strife Forever
EMA — The Future’s Void
Flying Lotus — You’re Dead!
Gazelle Twin — Unflesh
Iceage — Plowing Into The Field Of Love
Off — Wasted Years
Slim Twig — A Hound at the Hem
Sd Laika — That's Harakiri
Somali Yacht Club — The Sun
St. Vincent — St. Vincent
Tindersticks — Ypres
Ty Segall — Manipulator
White Fence — For the Recently Found Innocent
Wovenhand — Refractory Obdurate
Favourite Reissues, Compilations, Soundtracks and Live Albums 2014:
Austin Wintory — The Banner Saga (OST)
Jack Ruby — Hit and Run
John Coltrane — Offering: Live at Temple University
King Crimson — Starless
The Spies — The Battle of Bosworth Terrace
Various Artists — Native North America, Vol 1.: Aboriginal Folk, Rock, and Country 1966-1985
Various Artists — Sombras: Spanish Post-Punk and Dark Pop 1981-1986
Favourite Music 2013:
Chelsea Wolfe — Pain Is Beauty
David Bowie — The Next Day
Dawn of Midi — Dysnomia
Destruction Unit —Deep Trip; Void
The Devil — The Devil
The Dowland Project — Night Sessions
The Fall — Remainderer EP
Fat White Family — Champagne Holocaust
Iceage — You’re Nothing
Industrial Park — Cold White
Jozef Van Wissem — Nihil Obstat
Low — The Invisible Way
New War — New War
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds — Push the Sky Away
Pharmakon — Abandon
Protomartyr — No Technique, All Passion; Colpi Probiti EP
SubRosa — More Constant Than The Gods
Savages — Silence Yourself
True Widow — Circumambulation
Veronica Falls — Waiting for Something to Happen
Wire — Change Becomes Us
Honourable Mentions 2013:
Catholic Spray — Amazon Hunt
Darkside — Psychic
Diarrhea Planet — I'm rich beyond your wildest dreams
Jenny Hval — Innocence Is Kinky
The Limiñanas — Costa Blanca
Mark Mulcahy — Dear Mark J. Mulcahy, I Love You
Merchandise — Totale Night
My Bloody Valentine — m b v
Nadine Shah — Love You Dum and Mad
Nine Inch Nails — Hesitation Marks
Suede — Bloodsports
Tropic of Cancer — Restless Idylls
Ty Segall — Sleeper
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats — Mind Control
Unknown Mortal Orchestra — II
Favourite Reissues, Compilations, Soundtracks and Live Albums 2013:
Bob Dylan — Another Self Portrait (1969-1970): The Bootleg Series Vol. 10
The Conet Project — Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations
Earth Dies Burning — Songs from the Valley of the Bored Teenager 1981-1984
Jozef Van Wissem & SQÜRL — Only Lovers Left Alive (OST)
King Crimson — The Road to Red
Neil Young — Live At The Cellar Door 1970
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds — Live From KCRW
Patrick Cowley — School Daze
Swans — Not Here/Not Now
Various Artists — Deutsche Elektronische Musik 2: Experimental German Rock And Electronic Musik 1971-83
Various Arists — Everything's Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals
Various Artists — Scared to Get Happy: A Story of Indie-Pop 1980-1989
Various Artists — Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Black Religious Music
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