Here's a bunch of good albums I listened to this year.
Ambient/Drone:
Philip Jeck - Sand
Lawrence English - Kiri no Oto
Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker - Fantasma-Parastasie
Gas - Nah Und Fern
Sawako - Bitter Sweet
Emeralds - A bunch of different albums
Caboladies - Earth Canal
Burning Star Core - Challenger
Psychedelic/Noise:
LSD POND - LSD Pond
A.M - Rag Red Reverie
Raccoo-oo-oon - Raccoo-oo-oon
Mark McGuire - that one album whose name I can't remember
LI Jianhong - 三生石 (San Sheng Shi)
Boredoms - 77 Boadrum
Jason Crumer - Ottoman Black
Magic Lantern - High Beams
Electronic:
Ricardo Villalobos - Vasco
CoH - Plays Cosey
El Guincho - Alegranza
Shed - Shedding the past
2562 - Aerial
Pom Pom - CD 001
Pan Sonic - Kuvaputki
Hip-Hop:
Buraka Som Sistema - Black Diamond
Lantern Parade - Tokyo Eye and Ear Control
Shing02 - 歪曲
uhnellys - Mawaru
The Bug - London Zoo
Boss Hogg Outlawz - Serve & Collect 2: Back By Blockular Demand
The P Brothers - Gas
G-Side - Starshipz and Rocketz
Paper Route Gangstaz - Fear And Loathing in HuntsVegas
Rock/pop:
Idea of a joke - We Are All Making History
Wavves - Wavves
SPARTA LOCALS - Leecher
ZAZEN BOYZ - Zazen Boyz 4
Bugy Craxone - Two albums
ミドリ - Aratemashite, Hajimashite, Midori Desu
MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS - Mass of the Fermenting Dregs
VELTPUNCH - Paint Your Life Grey
ostooandell - Music
Bed - Response
Rock/Other:
accidents in too large field - New Buildings
ROVO - Nuou
sgt. - Stylus Fantasticus
Imahoritsuneoyoshidatatsuya - Dots
TWIN TAIL - すべては許されている
にせんねんもんだい - Destination Tokyo
Boris - Smile -Live at Wolf Creek-
Pop/Folk:
Quinka, with a Yawn - Field Recordings
Makino Takuma - In The Suburbs
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer up a Hill
Up And Coming - White Album
Dengue Fever - Venus On Earth
Free improv/Folk:
Fred Frith - To Sail, To Sail
ueno - Sui-Gin
No-Neck Blues Band - Clomeim
datashock & shivers - Vol. IV
Sitaar Tah! - Semimimimimin
The Magic I.D. - Till My Breath Gives Out
Toumani Diabaté - The Mandé Variations
Toshimaru Nakamura - Dance Music
Jazz:
William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune
Matana Roberts - The Chicago Project
Compilations:
Cumbia Digital - ZZK Sound Vol.1
Post Flag
African Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds From Benin & Togo 70s
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Algerian Proto-Rai Underground
This is probably going to be the same as my "best-of " list for the year.
Ambient/Drone:
Philip Jeck - Sand
Lawrence English - Kiri no Oto
Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker - Fantasma-Parastasie
Gas - Nah Und Fern
Sawako - Bitter Sweet
Emeralds - A bunch of different albums
Caboladies - Earth Canal
Burning Star Core - Challenger
Psychedelic/Noise:
LSD POND - LSD Pond
A.M - Rag Red Reverie
Raccoo-oo-oon - Raccoo-oo-oon
Mark McGuire - that one album whose name I can't remember
LI Jianhong - 三生石 (San Sheng Shi)
Boredoms - 77 Boadrum
Jason Crumer - Ottoman Black
Magic Lantern - High Beams
Electronic:
Ricardo Villalobos - Vasco
CoH - Plays Cosey
El Guincho - Alegranza
Shed - Shedding the past
2562 - Aerial
Pom Pom - CD 001
Pan Sonic - Kuvaputki
Hip-Hop:
Buraka Som Sistema - Black Diamond
Lantern Parade - Tokyo Eye and Ear Control
Shing02 - 歪曲
uhnellys - Mawaru
The Bug - London Zoo
Boss Hogg Outlawz - Serve & Collect 2: Back By Blockular Demand
The P Brothers - Gas
G-Side - Starshipz and Rocketz
Paper Route Gangstaz - Fear And Loathing in HuntsVegas
Rock/pop:
Idea of a joke - We Are All Making History
Wavves - Wavves
SPARTA LOCALS - Leecher
ZAZEN BOYZ - Zazen Boyz 4
Bugy Craxone - Two albums
ミドリ - Aratemashite, Hajimashite, Midori Desu
MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS - Mass of the Fermenting Dregs
VELTPUNCH - Paint Your Life Grey
ostooandell - Music
Bed - Response
Rock/Other:
accidents in too large field - New Buildings
ROVO - Nuou
sgt. - Stylus Fantasticus
Imahoritsuneoyoshidatatsuya - Dots
TWIN TAIL - すべては許されている
にせんねんもんだい - Destination Tokyo
Boris - Smile -Live at Wolf Creek-
Pop/Folk:
Quinka, with a Yawn - Field Recordings
Makino Takuma - In The Suburbs
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer up a Hill
Up And Coming - White Album
Dengue Fever - Venus On Earth
Free improv/Folk:
Fred Frith - To Sail, To Sail
ueno - Sui-Gin
No-Neck Blues Band - Clomeim
datashock & shivers - Vol. IV
Sitaar Tah! - Semimimimimin
The Magic I.D. - Till My Breath Gives Out
Toumani Diabaté - The Mandé Variations
Toshimaru Nakamura - Dance Music
Jazz:
William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune
Matana Roberts - The Chicago Project
Compilations:
Cumbia Digital - ZZK Sound Vol.1
Post Flag
African Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds From Benin & Togo 70s
極東最前線
Algerian Proto-Rai Underground
This is probably going to be the same as my "best-of " list for the year.