Saturday, December 30, 2017

Top 10 Records of 2017


  1. Felicia Atkinson – Hand in Hand
  2. Esmerine – Mechanics of Dominion
  3. Colleen – A flame my love, a frequency
  4. Circuit Des Yeux – Reaching for Indigo
  5. Kelly Lee Owens – s/t
  6. Kelela – Take Me Apart
  7. Zola Jesus - Okovi
  8. Ibeyi - Ash
  9. Sudan Archives – s/t
  10. Irreversable Intanglements – s/t

Bonus 100 records I really enjoyed from 2017


  1. Aida Victoria – Beyond the Bloodhounds
  2. Áine O'Dwyer - Gegenschein
  3. Akira Rabelais – Spellewauerynsherde
  4. Alan Vega – IT
  5. Alessandro Cortini & Merzbow – s/t
  6. Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda - The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
  7. Aldous Harding - Party
  8. Angel Olsen - Phases
  9. Arca - Arca
  10. Arve Henriksen - Towards Language
  11. Avec Le Soleil Sortant De Sa Bouche  - Pas Pire pop, I love you so much
  12. Ben Frost - The Centre Cannot Hold
  13. Bérangère Maximin – Frozen Remains
  14. Bill Brovold and Jamie Saft – Serenity Knolls
  15. Bjork – Utopia
  16. Broken Social Scene – Hug of Thunder
  17. Brooklyn Raga Massive – Terry Riley In C
  18. C. Spencer Yeh – The RCA Mark II
  19. Can – Singles
  20. Carmen Villain – Infinite Avenue
  21. Cécile McLorin Salvant – Dreams and Daggers
  22. Charlemagne Palestine - Strumming Music
  23. Charlemagne Palestine and Grumbling Fur Time Machine - Omminggg And Schlomminggg
  24. Charlotte Gainsbourg - Rest
  25. Colin Stetson - All This I Do For Glory
  26. Cosey Fanni Tutti - Time To Tell
  27. Dave Douglas – Little Giant Still Life
  28. Deradoorian – Eternal Recurrence
  29. Dhani Harrison – IN//PARALLEL
  30. Diamanda Galás - All The Way
  31. Diamanda Galás - At Saint Thomas the Apostle Harlem
  32. Do Make Say Think - Stubborn Persistent Illusions
  33. Ellen Arkbro – For Organ and Bass
  34. Elliott Sharp with Mary Halvorson and Marc Ribot – Err Guitar
  35. Emika - Melanfonie
  36. Ex Eye - s/t
  37. Fred Frith & Hans Koch – You Are Here
  38. Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
  39. Gas – Narkopop
  40. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Luciferian Towers
  41. Helena Hauff – Have You Been There, Have You Seen It
  42. Hélène Breschand & Elliott Sharp – Chansons Du Crépuscule
  43. Ian William Craig - Slow Vessels
  44. James Holden & The Animal Spirits – The Animal Spirits
  45. Jessica Moss - Pools of Light
  46. Julie Byrne – Not Even Happiness
  47. Julien Baker – Turn Out the Lights
  48. Kaleema - Nomada
  49. Keiji Haino - Watashi Dake?
  50. Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke, and Oren Ambarchi – The Dazzling, Genuine “Difference” Now Where Shall it Go?
  51. Konrad Sprenger – Stack Music
  52. Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble - Find Me Finding You
  53. Laibach - Also Sprach Zarathustra
  54. Laraaji - Bring On the Sun / Sun Gong
  55. Laurel Halo – Dust
  56. Lee Ranaldo - Electric Trim
  57. Loren Connors – Evangeline
  58. Maggie Rogers – Now That the Light is Fading
  59. Marissa Nadler - Leave the Light On: Bedroom Recordings
  60. Marvin Pontiac – The Asylum Tapes
  61. Mary Lattimore - Collected Pieces
  62. Mary Ocher – The West Against the People
  63. Merzbow -Pornoise 1 KG
  64. Merzbow / Keiji Haino / Balázs Pándi ‎– An Untroublesome Defencelessness
  65. Neil Young – Hitchhiker
  66. Nimesh - Pharma
  67. Ninos Du Brasil – Vida Eterna
  68. Noveller - A Pink Sunset For No One
  69. Oiseaux-Tempête - A L - ' A N ! الآن
  70. Olga Wojciechowska – Maps and Mazes
  71. Pere Ubu - 20 Years In a Montana Missile Silo
  72. Phew – Light Sleep
  73. Prurient – Rainbow Mirror
  74. Roscoe Mitchell – Bells for the South Side
  75. Royal Trux - Platinum Tips and Ice Cream
  76. Ryuichi Sakamoto - async
  77. Saicobab - Sab Se Purani Bab
  78. Splice Girls – Spliceworld
  79. St. Vincent – Masseduction
  80. Stars – There Is No Love in Fluorescent Light
  81. The Bug vs Earth - Concrete Desert
  82. The Caretaker - Everywhere at the end of time - Stage 2
  83. The Caretaker - Everywhere at the end of time - Stage 3
  84. The Magnetic Fields - 50 Song Memoir
  85. The National – Sleep Well Beast
  86. The Sun Ra Arkestra - Singles Volume 2: The Definitive 45s Collection 1962-1991
  87. Thurston Moore - Rock’n’Roll Consciousness
  88. Tiger Village - Fade
  89. Tom Rogerson with Brian Eno – Finding Shore
  90. Tony Conrad – Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain
  91. Waclaw Zimpel - 2
  92. Washed Out – Mister Mellow
  93. William Basinski - A Shadow In Time
  94. William Eggleston – Musik
  95. Xordox - Neospection
  96. Yves Tumor – Experiencing the Deposit of Faith
  97. [V/A] - Mono No Aware
  98. [V/A] – The Killing of a Sacred Deer OST
  99. [V/A] - Twin Peaks Limited Event Series Soundtrack Score
  100. [V/A] - Twin Peaks Music from the Limited Event Series