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Carnacki Best-of 2021 lists

Posted on January 19, 2022

25 Favourite Physical Releases in alphabetical order

  • Leila Abdul-Rauf – Phantasiai (Cyclic Law)
  • Liz Allbee – Rille (Relative Pitch)
  • Marisa Anderson & William Tyler – Lost Futures (Thrill Jockey)
  • Angel Archer – LightRay Variations (S/R)
  • Anoice – The Hidden Forest (Ricco)
  • The Body and Big|Brave – Leaving None But Small Birds (Thrill Jockey)
  • Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Carnage (Goliath)
  • Chloe Foy – Where Shall We Begin (S/R)
  • Circuit Des Yeux – -io (Matador)
  • Clara Engel – Dressed in Borrowed Light (S/R)
  • Val Esway + Global Spider Community – No One Ever Said This Would Be Pretty (S/R)
  • R.K. Faulhaber – Dugong Weeps (Helen Scarsdale)
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor – G_d’s Pee At State’s End! (Constellation)
  • Adrian Lane – Slow Autumn at my Window (Preserved Sound)
  • Cheryl E. Leonard – Schism (mappa)
  • Lime Rickey – F U T U R E F A I T H (S/R)
  • Low – Hey What (Sub Pop)
  • Jessica Moss – Phosphenes (Constellation)
  • Marissa Nadler – The Path of the Clouds (Sacred Bones)
  • Sarah Neufeld – Detritus (Paper Bag)
  • Nurse With Wound – Opium Cabaret (ICR)
  • Dax Pierson – Nerve Bumps (A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction) (Ratskin)
  • Rudimentary Peni – Great War (Sealed Records)
  • Tele Novella – Mervyn Belle (Kill Rock Stars)
  • Yat-Kha – We Will Never Die (The Lollipop Shoppe)

25 Favourite Digital/Ephemeral Releases in alphabetical order

  • Kate Carr – Making Do #1, #2 (S/R)
Damon and Naomi – A Sky Record (20|20|20)
  • Dark Leaves – Laid Under Leaf, Under Branches (S/R)
  • Thomas Dimuzio – Sculpting Electric: In the Ice Phase (Gench)
Alexander Hacke, Danielle De Picciotto, Mick O’Shea – Tricephalus (Ground0)
  • Ionophore – Knells (S/R)
Irr. app. (ext.) – Legends of Frogtown digital single series (S/R)
  • Julia Kent – Stories From The Sea Original Soundtrack (S/R)
  • Carla Kihlstedt and Rafael Osés – Necessary Monsters (S/R)
  • Andrews Liles – 1221 (S/R)
  • My Heart, An inverted Flame – A Collection Of Essays… series (S/R)
  • Kemper Norton – Troillia (S/R)
  • The Owl Service – (Love Is Like A) Railway Station (Hobby Horse)
  • Poisoning Wave – As Fog In Sunlight (S/R)
Potter / Coleclough / Hill – Rituals of Breath and Bone (ICR)
  • Prueba de Aislamiento – Response No. 3 (S/R)
  • Rabbit Rabbit – Rabbit Rabbit Radio Volume 4: The Animal I Am (S/R)
  • The Redwood Flowers – The Redwood Flowers (S/R)
  • Diana Rogerson – Blue Bottle in a Jam Jar (S/R)
  • Geneva Skeen – Universal Building Supply (Superpang)
  • Southeast of Rain – 42 Days (S/R)
  • Stephen Vitiello – Soundtracks for Lynne Sachs (Room40)
  • Various – Make Noise Myanmar (S/R)
  • Various – Lost In Catland: A Cat Compendium (S/R)
  • Various – All Creatures (Polar Seas)

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