By Jon (and Justin)
Throughout the year, I curate a weekly radio show with a cohort. Each month we dedicate one show to new releases from the previous month and another to an underappreciated record label we love. The list that follows reflects this musical journey, simply divided by the best, exceptional, and honorable records in alphabetical order. Check out the radio show at KUAA / 99.9 FM / Salt Lake City / kuaafm.org / Second Wind / Thurs. 7-10pm MST.
//Best//
Action & Tension & Space, New Dimensions.
Amba, Zoh, Sun.
Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Adreas Werliin, Ghosted III.
Automatic, Is It Now?
Barker, Stochastic Drift.
Sofie Birch / Antonina Nowack, Hiraeth.
Clear Path Ensemble, Black Sand.
The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, The Cosmic Tones Research Trio.
Domenique Dumont, Deux Paradis.
Enji, Sonor.
Feater, Obsolescence.
C.R. Gillespie, Island of Women.
Yasmine Hamdan, I Remember, I Forget بنسى وبتذكر.
James Holden / Wacław Zimpel, The Universe Will Take Care of You.
Ivan the Tolerable, Proust Quartering.
Kanot, Vind.
Sarathy Korwar, There Is Beauty, There Already.
Piotr Kurek, Songs and Bodies.
Go Kurosawa, Soft Shakes.
Juana Molina, DOGA.
Kelly Moran, Don’t Trust Mirrors.
The Necks, Disquiet.
Cole Pulice, Land’s End Eternal.
Siinai, Tanssi I.
Širom, In the Wind of Night, Hard-Fallen Incantations Whisper.
SML, How You Been.
СОЮЗ (SOYUZ), Крок (Krok).
MK Velsorf / Aase Nielsen, Opening Night.
Joe Westerlund, Curiosities from the Shift.
Raimund Wong / Suren Seneviratne, A Record of Living Beings.
//Exceptional//
Daniel Bachman, Moving Through Light.
Billy Meier, Ten.
Brighde Chaimbeul, Sunwise.
Collettivo Immaginario, Oltreoceano.
The Far Sound, To Heart, To Earth.
Hannah Frances, Nested in Tangles.
Gelli Haha, Switcheroo.
Nico Georis, Music Belongs to the Universe.
Glyders, Forever.
Gunn-Truscinski Duo, Flam.
IE, Reverse Earth.
Park Jiha, All Living Things.
Alek Lee, Cold Feet.
Leoparden, Disko Inferno.
Natural Information Society / Bitchin Bajas, Totality.
Old Saw, The Wringing Cloth.
Oneohtrix Point Never, Tranquilizer.
Organic Pulse Ensemble, Oppression Is Nine Tenths of the Law.
Setting, At Public Records.
Marina Zispin, Now You See Me, Now You Don’t.
//Honorable//
anaiis, Devotion & The Black Divine.
Oren Ambarchi / Eric Thielemans, Kind Regards.
Ichiko Aoba, Luminescent Creatures.
Ashinoa, Un’altra Forma.
Autine Flo, Birds of Paradise.
Daniel Bachman, As Time Draws Near.
Bella Wakame, Bella Wakame.
Błoto, Grzyby.
Ben Bondy, XO Salt Llif3.
Brown Spirits, Cosmic Seeds.
Buscabulla, Se Amaba Así.
Carniverous Plant Society, The Lizard.
Eddie Chacon, Lay Low.
cktrl, spirit.
COLLIGNON, Bicicleta.
Cosmic Ear, TRACES.
Deradoorian, Ready for Heaven.
Drazek Fuscaldo, Attachments.
James Elkington, Pastel de Nada.
Mark Ernestus Ndagga Rhythm Force, Khadim.
Flur, Pulse.
Greg Foat / Jihad Darwish / Moses Boyd, Opening Time.
Garavanta, Casual Drama.
Ben LaMar Gay, Yowzers.
Sam Gendel / Nate Mercereau, digi-squires.
Golden Brown, Patterner.
J.H. Guraj, The Flip Side.
Cerys Hafana, Angel.
Steve Hauschildt, Aeropsia.
Ben Heckett, Songs for Sleeping Dogs.
Helado Negro, The Last Sound on Earth.
helen island, silence is priceless.
Ill Considered, Balm.
Petre Inspirescu, Ever Moving.
Intermood, Casuarina.
Eiko Ishibashi, Antigone.
Ivan the Tolerable / Hawksmoor, Atoms in the Void.
Jaan, Baghali.
James K, Friend.
John Also Bennett, Στον Ελαιώνα (Ston Elaióna).
KALI Trio, The Playful Abstract.
Siri Karlsson / Solo Dja Kabaco, Stockholm-Ouagadougou.
Sofia Kourtesis, Volver.
Madala Kunene / Sibusile Xaba, kwaNTU.
Matt LaJoie, Stonehouse.
Okkyung Lee, just like any other day (어느날): background music for your mundane activities.
Les Halles, Original Spirit.
Light-Space Modulator, The Rising Wave.
MAÂT, Lustra.
Olga Anna Markowska, ISKRA.
Walt McClements, On a Painted Ocean.
Melody’s Echo Chamber, Unclouded.
Nate Mercereau / Josh Johnson / Carlos Niño, Openness Trio.
Milkweed, Remscéla.
More Eaze / claire rousay, no floor.
The Myrrors, Land Back.
Mytron / Zongamin, Congregate.
Johnny Nash, Once Was Ours Forever.
numün, Opening.
Other Lands, Star Jumps.
Misha Panfilov, To Blue from Grey in May.
Misha Panfilov Septet, Skyways.
Jonah Parzen-Johnson / Lau Nau, A Few We Remember.
Hayden Pedigo, I’ll Be Waving as You Drive Away.
Orio Pena, Béke.
Jules Reidy, Ghost/Spirit.
Rose City Band, Sol y Sombra.
Saccades, Portreath.
M. Sage, Tender / Wading.
Salami Rose Joe Louis, Lorings.
SANAM, Sametou Sawtan.
Loris S. Sarid, Ambient $.
SFJ, Drifting.
Joseph Shabason / Spencer Zahn, Buds.
Qur’an Shaheed, Pulse.
Patrick Shiroishi, Forgetting Is Violent.
Patrick Shiroishi / Piotr Kurek, Greyhound Days.
Shrunken Elvis, Shrunken Elvis.
SMG, SMG, Vol. 2.
Soft Power, Space to Breathe.
Maria Somerville, Luster.
Macie Stewart, When the Distance Is Blue.
Misha Sultan, Lantern in the Wind.
Sumac / Moor Mother, The Film.
Kuniyuki Takahashi, We Are Together.
Titanic, HAGEN.
Laurie Torres, Après coup.
Tortoise, Touch.
Gregory Uhlmann / Josh Johnson / Sam Wilkes, Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes.
Vaudou Game, Fintou.
Voice Actor / Squu, Lust 1.
Anna von Hausswolff, Iconoclasts.
Web Web, Plexus Plexus.
JJ Whitefield, Off the Grid.
Chip Wickham, The Eternal Now.
Wilson Tanner, Legends.
Yestsuby, 4EVA.
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek, Yarın Yoksa.
YHWH Nailgun, 45 Pounds.
Various Artists, Fantologia I.
**Typically, compilations are omitted from end-of-year lists, but this one is comprised of exclusive tracks not available elsewhere...and it’s incredible. Eat me.
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