Hiatus Year End Lists

This site has been on hiatus since 2019 owing to personal and pandemic reasons, but I have been scribbling year-end lists on napkins anyways, of course…

2018

Pinch and Peverelist – Present: In Deep (Tectonic)
Etch – Altered Roads (cassette)
Tony Allen – Asiko (Ricardo Villalobos In A Silent Mix) (Dekmantel)
Chevel – In A Rush and Mercurial (Enklav) / Chevel – Always Yours (Different Circles)
Matthew Shipp Daniel Carter William Parker – Seraphic Light (live) (AUM Fidelity)
Thee Oh Sees – Smote Reverser (Castle Face)
Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!! (Matador)
Nels Cline Four – Currents, Constellations (Blue Note)
Lil Yachty – Lil Boat 2 (Capital/Motown/Quality Control)
Martyn – Voids (Ostgut Ton)

Best of the rest
Gnod- Chapel Perilous (Rocket Recordings)
Acre – Hollow Body (Opal Tapes)
Dr Octagon – Moosebumps: An Exploration Into Modern Day Horripilation
Djrum – Portrait With Firewood (R&S)
Animal Collective – Tangerine Reef (Domino)
Matthewdavid – Time Flying Beats
Nine Inch Nails – Bad Witch
Drake – Scorpion
A$AP Rocky – Testing
Future – Beast mode 2
Appleblim – Life In A Laser
Mr. Fingers – Cerebral Hemispheres
LFZ – Name Plus Focus
Hanz – Plasty I (Tri Angle)
NPVR – 33 33
Beak – >>>
Ras G – Stargate Music
Wand – Perfume
тпсб ‎– Sekundenschlaf

Great discs missed in 2017
Various – Grime 2017
Tom Rogerson and Brian Eno – Finding Shore
Nicolas Kummert w Lionel Loueke – La Diversite
Ekoplekz – Cassettera
Land of Talk – Life After Youth
Moon Wiring Club – Tantalising Mews
Champion – Snapshot
Claude Speeed – Other Infinities

Missed in 2018
Various – Kompakt Total 18
Prins Thomas – Movement of the Free Spirit
Marie Davidson – Working Class Woman
Pusha T – Daytona
Various – Brainfeeder X
Thomas Fehlmann – Los Lagos
Various – Soul of a Nation 2 (Soul Jazz)
Chris Corsano Bill Orcutt – Brace Up!

2019

Special Request – Vortex
Karl Hector and the Malcouns – Non Ex Orbis
Logos – Imperial Flood
Lee Gamble – In A Paraventral Scale
Nkisi – 7 Directions
The Dead C – Rare Ravers
Ian Brown – Ripples
Julian Lage – Love Hurts
Mana – Seven Steps Behind
Prins Thomas – Ambitions
F.U.S.E. – Computer Space (reisuse)
Various – Soul Jazz Presents Fashion Records
Skepta – Ignorance Is Bliss
Curren$y and Statik Selecta – Gran Turismo
Floating Points – Les AlpX/Coorabell (Single)
Mac DeMarco – Here Comes The Cowboy
L’Eclair – Sauropoda
Velvet Negroni – NEON BROWN
Vanishing Twin – The Age of Immunology
Branford Marsalis – The Secret Between The Shadow and Soul
Ekoplekz – Kirilian Visions
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib – Bandana
David Torn Tim Berne – Sun of Goldfinger
Various – Brasil USA (Soul Jazz)
Joe Lovano – Trio Tapestry
NOTS – 3
Thee Oh Sees – Face Stabber
Ras G – Down To Earth Vol 4
Wand – Laughing Matter

Missed in 2019
Kaytranada – Bubba
The Chemical Brothers – No Geography
Uranium Club – The Cosmo Cleaners

2020

Tame Impala – The Slow Rush
Hodge – Shadows In Blue
Tim Berne’s Snakeoil – The Fantastic Mrs 10
Ben Holmes – Naked Lore
Tashi Dorji – Stateless
Coral Club – Nowhere Island
Yazmin Lacey – Morning Matters EP
Al Wooton – Witness
Matthew Shipp Trio – The Unidentifiable
Rian Treanor – File Under U.K. Metaplasm
Decolonize Your Mind Society – A Courteous Invitation to an Uninhabited Anabatic Prism
Julia Reidy – Vanish
Teenanger – GOODTIME
Theo Parrish – Wuddadji
Autechre – SIGN
Baba Zula – Hayvan Gibi
Various Artists – PlanetMu25
Sylvie Courvoisier – Free Hoops
Etch – Strange Days
Lindstrom and Prins Thomas – III

Missed in 2020
Scratcha DVA – DRMTRK X LP (DVA Music)
Xyla – Ways (Leaving)

2021

DJ Manny – Signals In My Head (Planet Mu)
Gnod – Easy To Build Hard to Destroy (Rocket)
Chris Corsano and Bill Orcutt – Made Out of Sound (Palilalia)
Moritz Von Oswald Trio – Dissent (Modern Recordings)
Proc Fiskal – Siren Spine Sysex (Hyperdub)
Parquet Courts – Sympathy For Life (Rough Trade)
Aaron Dilloway and Lucrecia Dalt – Aaron & Lucy (Hanson)
Various Artists – Pressure Dome INTLPDCOMP001 (Pressure Dome)
Body/Dilloway/Head – Body/Dilloway/Head (Three Lobed)
Andrew Cyrille Quartet – The News (ECM)
John Carroll Kirby – Septet (Stones Throw)
Appleblim – Infinite Hieroglyphics (Sneaker Social Club)
Tim Berne Chris Speed Reid Anderson Dave King – Broken Shadows (Intakt)
Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders and the LSO – Promises (Luaka Bop)
Ben Goldberg – Everything Happens To Be (self released)
Lina Allemano Four – Vegetables (Lumo)
Andre Ethier – Further Up Island (Telephone Explosion)
Pino Palladino Blake Mills – Notes With Attachments
William Parker – Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)
Loraine James – Reflection (Planet Mu)
Equinoxx – Basic Tools mixtape (Equinoxx)
Gnod – La Mort Du Sens (Rocket)
Palberta – Palberta5000 (Wharf Cat)
Black Dice – Mod Prog Sic (FourFour)
Alexander Hawkins – Togetherness Music (Intakt)
Bitchin Bajas – Switched On Ra (Drag City)
Seekersinternational Presents Ragga Preservation Society – Worldwide Sound (Diskotopia)
Joy Orbison – Still Slipping Vol 1 (Toss Portal)
Georgia Anne Muldrow – VWETO III (Foreseen Entertainment)
Dave Holland – Another Land (Edition)
Various Artists – PDCOMP003 (Pressure Dome)
ENA – One Draw (Nullpunkt)

Missed in 2021
Blackface Family – Nthena
Tyler The Creator – Call Me If You Get Lost
Jeff Parker – Forfolks

Reissue of the year
Various Artists – Cameroon Garage Funk (Analog Africa)

2021 EPs and Singles
Al Wootton – Maenads EP (Trule)
Jennifer Walton – Flash On (All Centre)
Kode9 – The Jackpot / Rona City Blues (Hyperdub)
FJAAK – WH?T EP (Tectonic)
Maya Q – I Just Wanna (All Centre)
Jurango – Retreat Ites EP (Livity Sound)
Fiesta Soundsystem – How’s That? EP (Scuffed)
ANZ – OTMI001 (OTMI)
Two Shell – Soul City EP (Livity Sound)
Gavsborg – Domestic Audio Workstation EP (Equinoxx)
YOUTH – Blazing Sound System EP
Young Muscle – Amalgamation EP (Scuffed)
SPD – Pfhin EP (Keysound)
Andrea – Sktch EP (Ilian Tape)
She Spells Doom – Rudnick (All Centre)
Fiesta Soundsystem – First Colour EP (Geotact)
Batu – I Own Your Energy
Atrice – Q (Ilian Tape)

2022

Earl Sweatshirt – SICK! (Tan Cressida)
Spoon – Lucifer On The Sofa
Gabor Lazar – Boundary Object (Planet Mu)
Central Cee – 23
Flower-Corsano Duo – The Halcyon
Space Ghost – Private Paradise
John Tejada – Sleepwalker
Billy Woods – Aethiopes
They Hate Change – Finally, New
Steve Lacy – Gemini Rights
Pusha T – It’s Almost Dry
Glaas – Qualm
Bill Orcutt – Music For Four Guitars
Gilla Band – Most Normal
Bitchin Bajas – Bajascillators
James Devane – Music Is Useless
Billy Woods x Messiah Musik – Church
James Devane – Beauty Is Useless
Flaccid Mojo – FM

Reissue of the year
Alhaji K. Frimpong – Abrabo

2022 Singles
re;ni – Revenge Body single (Ilian Tape)
Low End Activist – Low End Activism 4 (Sneaker Social Club)
DJ Double Oh! – Cuerpo Y Sol (All Centre)
Sister Zo – Freak Shift (3024)
Tamlin – Bitter Fruit (Scuffed)
Duppy – Now You See Me EP
Chevel – Waiting For Love EP