- Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society – Mandatory Reality (Eremite)
- Sofie Birch – Island Alchemy (Constellation Tatsu)
- Matthew Burtner – Glacier Music: Ecoacoustics Of Glaciers (Ravello)
- Nico Georis – Shirley Shirley Shirley! (Psychic Arts)
- Aldous Harding – Designer (4AD)
- Ernest Hood – Neighborhoods (Freedom To Spend)
- IE – Pome (Moon Glyph)
- Various Artists – Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990 (Light In The Attic)
- Skyminds – Skyminds (Auasca)
- Tuluum Shimmering – Dancing In The Seven Skies (Tuluum Shimmering)
2019
99 Records that Sparkle Motion enjoyed a lot in 2019 in alphabetical order:
Akiko Yano – Japanese Girl & Iroha Ni Konpeitou (WeWantSounds)
Aldous Harding – Designer (4AD)
Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom – Glitter Wolf- Royal Potato Family
Altered Five Blues Band- Ten Thousand Watts (Blind Pig)
Altin Gun – Gece (Glitterbeat)
Amendola vs. Blades – Everybody Wins (Royal Potato Family)
Andrew Bird – My Finest Work Yet (Loma Vista)
Ashley Henry – Beautiful Vinyl Hunter (Sony)
Attacca Quartet – Caroline Shaw: Orange (New Amsterdam/Nonesuch)
Auto Da Fe – Hither and Thon (S/R)
Bastarda – Ars Moriendi (Time Released Sound)
Big Thief – Two Hands & U.F.O.F. and Two Hands (4AD)
Bill Baird – Owl (Dangerbird)
Bill Callahan –Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest (Drag City)
Bill Whitley – Then Elephant Speaks (Ravello)
Black Midi – Schlagenheim (Rough Trade)
Blaine Todd – Every Road is a Good Road (Debacle)
Breathe Blow Burn – Breathe Blow Burn (Super Invincible)
Brittany Howard – Jaime (ATO)
Buck Young – Buck II: Where Do You Want It? (No Rent)
Caleb Burhans: Past Lives- (Cantaloupe)
Calexico & Iron and Wine – Years to Burn (Sub Pop)
Cass McCombs – Tip of the Sphere (ANTI-)
Chris Cohen – Chris Cohen (Captured Tracks)
Chris Forsyth – All Time Present (No Quarter)
Chrissie Hynde – Valve Bone Woe (BMG)
Chris Lightcap – Superbigmouth (Pyroclastic)
Crumb – Jinx (S/R)
CUP [Nels Cline & Yuka Honda]– Spinning Creature (Northern Spy)
Dakh Daughters – Air (S/R)
Dax Pierson – Live in Oakland (Ratskin)
Deerhunter – Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? (4AD)
Deradoorian – Disembodied Improvisations Vol 1 (S/R)
Erik Wollo – Sources (Early Works 1986-1992) (Smalltown Supersound)
Faye Webster – Atlanta Millionaires Club (Secretly Canadian)
Fire! Orchestra – Arrival (Rune Grammophon)
Follokzoid – I (Sacred Bones)
Fontaines DC – Dogrel (Partisan)
Graham Reynolds – Marfa (Golden Hornet)
Hanggai – Big Band Brass & He Who Travels Far (Beijing TaiHe Musician Culture and Art Co., Ltd.)
Hayes Carll – What It Is (Dualtone)
Hillbilly Moon Explosion – The Sparky Sessions (Demented Are Go!)
Iggy Pop – Free (Caroline International)
J(essica) Pavone String Ensemble – Brick and Mortar (Birdwatcher)
Jackson Reid Briggs & the Heaters – It All Comes Down (Grubby Publications)
Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise (International Anthem)
Jamila Woods – Legacy Legacy (Jagjaguwar)
Jenny Hval – The Practice of Love (Sacred Bones)
Jeremy Denk – c. 1300-c. 2000 (Nonesuch)
Jesca Hoop – Stonechild (Memphis Industries)
Joan Shelley – Like the River Loves the Sea (No Quarter)
John Luther Adams – Become Desert (Cantaloupe)
Kacy & Clayton – Carrying On (New West)
Kali Malone – The Sacrificial Code (Ideal)
Keith Jarrett – Munich 2016 (ECM)
Kramer-The Brill Building Book Two, featuring Bill Frisell (Tzadik)
Kris Davis – Diatom Ribbons (Pyroclastic)
Kristine Barrett – Cantadora (S/R)
Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell (Polydor)
Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith – Songs From the Bardo (Smithsonian Folkways)
Lucy Yeghiazaryan – Blue Heaven (Cellar Live)
Martin Hayes and Brooklyn Rider – The Butterfly (In a Circle)
Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis (Constellation)
Matmos – Plastic Anniversary (Thrill Jockey)
Mega Bog – Dolphine (Paradise of Bachelors)
Mercury Rev – Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited (Partisan)
MJ Lallo – Take Me With You (Seance Centre)
Moon Duo- Shadow of the Sun (Sacred Bones)
Mountain Goats – In League With Dragons (Merge)
Musical Art Quintet — Nuevo Chamber & Chamber con Alma (S/R)
Nicholas Payton – Relaxin’ with Nick (Smoke Sessions)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Ghosteen (Ghosteen Ltd)
Nots – 3 (Goner)
O Terno – <atras/alem> (RISCO)
Object as Subject – Permission (Lost Future)
Pan American – A Son (Kranky)
Pat Irwin & J. Walter Hawkes – Wide Open Sky (Open Sky)
Patty Griffin – Patty Griffin (Thirty Tigers)
Peter Perrett – Humanworld (Domino)
Protomartyr – No Passion All Technique (Urinal Cake)
Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains (Drag City)
Rakta – Falha Comun (Iron Lung)
Rhiannon Giddens –There is No Other (Nonesuch) + Songs of our Native Daughters (Smithsonian Folkways)
Sharon Van Etten – Remind Me Tomorrow (Jagjaguwar)
Slow Dakota – Suite for Voice & Ukulele (Massif)
Solange- When I get home (Columbia)
Sons of Kemet –Your Queen is a Reptile (Impulse!)
Steve Gunn- The Unseen in Between (Matador)
Sunn O))) – Life Metal (Southern Lord)
Terry Robb – Confessin’ My Dues (NiaSounds)
The Comet is Coming –Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery (Impulse!)
VA – Nigeria 70 – Funky Lagos (Strut)
VA- Outro Tempo II: Electronic and Contemporary Music From Brazil, 1984-1996 (Music from Memory)
Wand – Laughing Matter (Drag City)
Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet – The Rhythm of Invention (Patois)
Whit Dickey / Tao Quartets – Peace Planet / Box of Light (AUM Fidelity)
Wilco- Ode to Joy (dBpm)
Y La Bamba – Entre Los Dos and Mujeres (Tender Loving Empire)
Yazz Ahmed – Polyhymmia (Ropeadope)
Nineteen albums that accompanied me in work, sleep, structure, and play in 2019 (by release date)
Matthew Burtner – Glacier Music: Ecoacoustics of Glaciers (Ravello)
Nicola Cruz – Siku (ZZK)
VVD WNDWS – Blue Landscape (Glowing Dagger)
Saba Alizadeh – Scattered memories (Karlrecords)
Cochemea – All My Relations (Daptone)
Amma Ateria – Vague Pure Affection (Bimodal Press)
Skyminds – Skyminds (Auasca)
Matmos – Plastic Anniversary (Thrill Jockey)
HRNS – Naomi (Warm Winters Ltd.)
Nico Georis – Shirley Shirley Shirley! (Psychic Arts)
Holly Herndon – PROTO (4AD)
Vanishing Twin – The Age of Immunology (Fire)
Jane Weaver – Loops in the Secret Society (Fire)
Young Marco – Bahasa (Island of the Gods)
Dax Pierson – Live in Oakland (Ratskin)
Sarah Pagé – Dose Curves (Backward Music)
Saariselka – The Ground Our Sky (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
A Winged Victory for the Sullen – The Undivided Five (Ninja Tune)
Sofie Birch – Island Alchemy (Constellation Tatsu)
Berkestir 2019
New Stuff
Oren Ambarchi-Simian Angel (Editions Mega)
Natacha Atlas-Strange Days Whirlwind)
Black Mountain-Destroyer (Jagjaguwar)
AA Bondy-Enderness (Fat Possum)
Boris-Love/Evol (Third Man)
Dave Douglas/Uri Caine/Andrew Cyrille-Devotion (Greenleaf Music)
The Flaming Lips- Kings Mouth (Warner Bros.)
Lee Fields & The Expressions-It Rains Love (Big Crown)
Follakzoid-I (Sacred Bones)
Neil Francis-Changes (Karma Chief)
Kim Gordon-No Home Record (Matador)
Guerilla Toss-Twisted Crystal (DFA)
Hash Redactor-Drecksound (Goner)
Hawkestrel-The Future Is Us (Purple Pyramid)
Hawkwind-All Aboard The Skylark/Acoustic Daze (Cherry Red)
Robyn Hichcock & Andy Partridge-Plant England (Ape House)
Jesca Hoop-Stone Child (Memphis Industries)
Hot Lunch-Seconds (Tee Pee)
Light Conductor-Sequence One (Constellation)
Mekons-Deserted (Bloodshot)
Metz-Automat (Sub Pop)
Moon Duo-Stars Are The Light (Sacred Bones)
The Mystery Lights-Too Much Tension! (Wick)
Nots-3 (Goner)
Oceans Of The Moon-S/T (Castle Face)
Pere Ubu-The Long Goodbye (Cherry Red)
Danny Schmidt-Standard Deviation (Live Once)
The Spiral Electric-S/T (S/R)
Swervedriver-Future Ruins (Dangerbird)
Nik Turner-The Final Frontier (Purple Pyramid)
Velveteen Rabbit-S/T (HoZac)
Eerie Wanda-Pet Town (Joyful Noise)
Jane Weever-Loops In The Secret Society (Fire)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse-Colorado (Reprise)
Old Stuff
John Coltrane-Blue World (Impulse!)
Bob Dylan-Travelin’Thru Featuring Johnny Cash The Bootleg Series Vol.15 1967-1969 (Columbia)
Dome-1/2/3/4 (Editions Mega)
Mort Garson-Plantasia (Sacred Bones)
Stan Getz Quartet-Getz At The Gate, Live At The village Gate 1961 (Verve)
Peter Ivers- Becoming Peter Ivers (RVNG)
Peter Laughner- S/T Vinyl Box (Smog Veil)
Pacific Breeze-Japanese City Pop, AOR, And Boogie 1976-1986 (Light In The Attic)
Pink Floyd-A Saucerful Of Secrets Mono Mix (Columbia)
Eddy Senay-Step By Step (Modern Harmonic)
Tony Joe White-Swamp Music Monument Rarities (Monument)
Favorite songs of 2019
Laura Cannell – “Organum” – The Sky Untuned (Brawl)
Mac Demarco – “On the Square” – Here Comes the Cowboy (S/R)
Iona Fortune – “Da You” – The Tao of I Volume 2 (Ecstatic)
Froth – “Laurel” – Duress (Wichita)
Aldous Harding – “Fixture Picture” – Designer (4AD)
Hearing Things – “Shadow Shuffle” – Here’s Hearing Things (Yeggs)
Lukid – “Drip” – Drip (Arcola)
Moore Brothers – “Koala Hunter” – Winters (Unavailable)
Julia Shapiro – “Perfect Version” – Perfect Version (Hardly Art)
Caroline Spence – “What You Don’t Know” – Mint Condition (Rounder)
Mavis Staples – “Anytime” – We Get By (Anti-)
Tacocat – “New World” – This Mess Is a Place (Sup Pop)
Tuluum Shimmering – “Track 1” – Where the Turquoise Shimmers Among the Pebbles (S/R)
Michael Vincent Waller – “Nocturne No.4” – Moments (Unseen Worlds)
Faye Webster – “Room Temperature” – Atlanta Millionaires Club (Secretly Canadian)
Big Lunch: Big 25 of 2019
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society – Mandatory Reality (Eremite)
Oren Ambarchi – Simian Angel (Editions Mego)
Barker – Utility (Ostgut Ton)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Ghosteen (Ghosteen Ltd.)
The Comet is Coming – Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery (Impulse!)
Drab Majesty – Modern Mirror (Dais)
Galcher Lustwerk – Information (Ghostly International)
Grupo Jejeje – S/T (Discos Rolas)
JPEGMAFIA – All My Heroes Are Cornballs (EQT)
Klein – Lifetime (ijn inc.)
Kali Malone – The Sacrificial Code (iDEAL Recordings)
Moodymann – Sinner (KDJ)
Negativland – True False (Seeland)
Angel Olsen – All Mirrors (Jagjaguwar)
ose – With & Without (Ghunghru)
People Like Us – The Mirror (Discrepant)
Caroline Polachek – Pang (Perpetual Novice)
Jessica Pratt – Quiet Signs (Mexican Summer)
Rich Ruth – Calming Signals (General General)
Solange – When I Get Home (Columbia)
Sote – Parallel Persia (Diagonal)
Ulla Straus – Big Room (Quiet Time Tapes)
These New Puritans – Inside the Rose (Infectious Music)
Tyler, The Creator – IGOR (Columbia)
Sam Wilkes – Live on the Green (Leaving Records)