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Microtone’s Most Memorable from 2021

Posted on January 17, 2022

Microtone’s Most Memorable 25 Albums and + 2 Retrospectives from 2021 (ordered by release date)

  • Yu Su 苏玉 – Yellow River Blue (Music from Memory)
  • Chuck Johnson – The Cinder Grove (VDSQ)
  • A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Invisible Cities (Artificial Pine Arch Manufacturing)
  • Dax Pierson – Nerve Bumps (A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction) (Rat Skin/Dark Entries)
  • Alex Albrecht – Campfire Stories (Analogue Attic)
  • Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (Luaka Bop)
  • Tomaga – Intimate Immensity (Hands in the Dark)
  • Flock of Dimes – Head of Roses (Sub Pop)
  • Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble – NOW (International Anthem)
  • Howie Lee 李化迪 – Birdy Island 鸟岛 (Mais Um Discos)
  • Inhmost – Early Horizons (Huinali)
  • Mong Tong 夢東 – Music from Taiwan Mystery 台灣謎景  (WV Sorceror)
  • Sarah Neufeld – Detritus (Paper Bag)
  • Gianluca Petrella & Pasquale Mirra – Correspondence (Tuk Music)
  • Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp – We’re OK. But We’re Lost Anyway (Les Disques Bongo Joe)
  • Arushi Jain – Under the Lilac Sky (Leaving)
  • Guzz – Seven Days and Twelve Nights 七天十二夜 (S/R)
  • Haco – Nova Naturo (Someone Good)
  • Li Yilei 李亦蕾 – 之 / Of (Metron)
  • Low – HEY WHAT (Sub Pop)
  • Hania Rani & Dobrawa Czocher – Inner Symphonies (Deutsche Gramaphon)
  • Channelers – Another Entrance (Inner Islands)
  • Jon Hopkins – Music for Psychedelic Therapy (Domino)
  • Fishdoll 漁 – Moonsense 月感 (S/R)
  • Hualun 花伦 – Wuhan Wuhan 武汉武汉 (S/R)

+ Two Retrospectives

  • Willie Dunn – Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies (Light in the Attic)
  • “Blue” Gene Tyranny – Degrees of Freedom Found (Unseen Worlds)

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