2018

• Myra Melford & Ben Goldberg – Dialogue (Bag Productions)
• McCormick Percussion Group – Kid Stuff (Ravello)
• Wailin’ Jennys – Fifteen (True North)
• Bettye Lavette – Things Have Changed (Verve)
• Egrets on Ergot – Surfeit of Gemutlich (Cleopatra)
• Rent Romus & the Lords of Outland – In the darkness we speak a song brightness and life (Edgetone)
• Baby Got Bacteria – Boo (S/R)
• Kairos Sextet – Transition (Dafnisian Music)
• Bon Bon Vivant – Live at the New Orleans Jazz Museum (Gallatin Street)
• California Honeydrops – Call it Home Vol. 1 & 2 (TubTone)
• Pandoras – Hey! It’s the Pandoras (Burger)
• Low Cut Connie – Dirty Pictures Part II (Contender)
• Al Dimeola – OPUS (Earmusic)
• Ali Farka Toure – The Source (World Circuit)
• Bombino – Deran (Partisan)
• Joe Louis Walker – Journeys to the Heart of the Blues (Alligator)
• Polarity/1 – Take a Pill (S/R)
• Barrence Whitfield and the Savages – Soul Flowers of Titan (Bloodshot)
• Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis – Wild! Wild! Wild! (Bloodshot)
• Mavis Staples – If All I Was Was Black (Anti-)
• Cuasares – Afro-Progresivo (Pharaway Sounds)
• Aki Kumar – Hindi Man Blues (Little Village Foundation)
• Mackrosoft – Snakerhythms (S/R)
• Chris Butler – Better Than I Ever Was (Future fossil)

• Mitski – Be the Cowboy (Dead Oceans)
• Snail Mail – Lush (Matador)
• Soccer Mommy – Clean (Fat Possum)
• Pinegrove – Skylight (S/R)
• Frankie Cosmos – Vessel (Sub Pop)
• Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) (Matador)
• Parquet Courts – Wide Awake (Rough Trade)
• IDLES – Joy as An Act of Resistance (Partisan)
• Ought – Room Inside a World (Merge)
• Jeff Rosenstock – POST- (Polyvinyl)
• Lala Lala – The Lamb (Hardly Art)
• Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Sparkle Hard (Matador)
• Forth Wanderers – S/T (Sub Pop)
• Kikagaku Moyo – Masana Temples (Guruguru Brain)
• Dorian Concept – The Nature of Imitation (Brainfeeder)
• Peggy Gou – Once (Ninja Tune)
• BODEGA – Endless Scroll (What’s Your Rupture)
• illuminati hotties – Kiss Yr Frenemies (Tiny Engines)
• The Spirit of the Beehive – Hypnic Jerks (Tiny Engines)
• Remember Sports – Slow Buzz (Father/Daughter)
• CHAI – Pink (Burger)
• Palm – Rock Island (Carpark)
• Various Artists – Community Records Compilation Vol. 6 (Community Records)

Local Releases that I Really Loved

• Stephen Steinbrink – Utopia Teased (Western Vinyl)
• Pllush – Stranger to the Pain (Father/Daughter)
• Tanukichan – Sundays (Company)
• Blues Lawyer – Guess Work (Emotional Response)
• Dick Stusso – In Heaven (Hardly Art)
• Madeline Kenney – Perfect Shapes (Carpark)
• Perhapsy – Kingdom Starlight Bliss (Porch Party)