Best of 2021

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Best of 2021

Albums I Enjoyed in 2021

• Alessandro Cortini - Scuro Chiaro (Mute)
• Anika - Change (Sacred Bones)
• Astral Brain - The Bewildered Mind (Shelflife)
• Aya - Im Hole (Hyperdub)
• Azu Tiwaline - Draw Me A Silence (IOT)
• Black Marble - Fast Idol (Sacred Bones)
• Bobby Lee - Origin Myths (Tompkins Square)
• Christina Chatfield - Sutro (Mysteries Of The Deep)
• Colleen - The Tunnel And The Clearing (Thrill Jockey)
• Dame Area - Ondas Tribales (Mannequin)
• Dax Pierson - Nerve Bumps (A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction) (Dark Entries)
• Dummy - Mandatory Enjoyment (Trouble In Mind)
• Fake Fruit - S/T (Rocks In Your Head)
• Helado Negro - Far In (4AD)
• Karl Kave & Durian - Untergang Und Finsternis (Detriti)
• Liars - The Apple Drop (Mute)
• Marauder - Puissance 4 (S/R)
• Maston - Panorama (KPM)
• Midnight Sister - Painting The Roses (Jagjaguwar)
• Paul Jacobs - Pink Dogs On The Green Grass (Blow The Fuse)
• Remember Ecstatic Duo - Palo Santo (Aural Canyon)
• Smoke Bellow - Open For Business (Trouble In Mind)
• Suuns - The Witness (Joyful Noise)
• Taqbir - S/T (La Vida Es Un Mus)
• Tonstartssbandht - Petunia (Mexican Summer)
• Vanishing Twin - Ookii Gekkou (Fire)

Reissues & Compilations

• Geneva Jacuzzi - Lamaze (Mexican Summer)
• Grand Veymont - Route Du Vertige (Moon Glyph)
• Hailu Mergia / The Walias Band - Tezeta (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
• Henri Salvador - Homme Studio (Born Bad)
• Kiko Kids Jazz - Tanganyika Na Uhuru (Mississippi)
• Rogér Fakhr - Fine Anyway (Habibi Funk)
• V/A - Back Up: Mexican Tecno Pop 1980-1989 (Dark Entries)
• V/A - Sabor Surf (El Palmas)
• V/A - Wizzz! Volume 4 (French Psychorama 1966-1974) (Born Bad)

Berkestir

Berkestir 2021

New Stuff

• Acid Twilight-S/T (Not Not Fun)
• Anika-Change (Sacred Bones)
• A Place To Bury Strangers-Hologram (Dedstrange)
• The Beths-Demos (Carpark)
• The Bevis Frond-Little Eden (Fire)
• The Bug-Fire (Ninja Tune)
• Cloud Nothing-The Shadow I Remember (Carpark)
• Dinosaur Jr-Sweep it into Space (Jagjaguwar)
• Domingae-ae (Sacred Bones)
• Steve Earle & The Dukes-J.T. (New West)
• Filippo Diana-Formula Abstracts (Medical)
• Future Children-The Crying of Lot 49 (StrawberryMIDI)
• Gnod-La Mort Du Sens (Rocket)
• Grand Veymont-S/T- Persistance et Changement- Route du Vertige (Moon Glyph)
• Colleen Green-Cool Hardly Art)
• Hawkwind-Somnia (Cherry Red)
• Jerusalem In My Heart-Qalaq (Constellation)
• Charles Lloyd & the Marvels-Tone Poem (Blue Note)
• Low Flying Hawks-Fuyu (Magnetic Eye)
• Meitei-Kofu II (Kitchen)
• Mdou Moctar-Afrique Victime (Matador)
• Jessica Moss-Phosphenes (Constellation)
• Marissa Nadler-The Path of the Clouds (Sacred Bones)
• The Notwist-Vertigo Days (Morr Music)
• The Ophelias-Crocus (Joyful Noise)
• Part Chimp-Drooooool (Wrong Speed)
• Pye Corner Audio-Volume 5: The Lost Tapes Black Mill Tapes (Lapsus)
• Emma Ruth Rundle-Engine of Hell (Sargent House)
• Dr. Lonnie Smith-Breathe (Blue Note)
• Strawbs-Settlement (Cherry Red)
• Masahiro Takahashi-Flowering Tree, Distance Moon (Not Not Fun)
• Richard Thompson-Serpent’s Tears (Beeswing)
• VA-A Place To Bury Strangers Hologram/ Destroyed & Reassembled (Dedstrange)
• VA-The Problem of Leisure * A Celebration of Andy Gill & The Gang of Four (Gill Music)
• Jane Weaver-Flock (Fire)
• White Hills-Performs Music From Splintered Metal Sky Live at BC Studios (Heads On Fire)
• Sven Wunder- Natura Morta (Piano Piano)
• X.Y.R.-Wave Tapes (Constellation Tatsu)
• Neil Young Crazy Horse-Barn (Reprise)

Old Stuff

• Bad Brains-S/T (Bad Brains)
• The Beach Boys-Feel Flow The Sunflowers & Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971 (Brother)
• Karen Black-Dreaming of You 1971-1976 (Anthology)
• Bardo Pond-Volume 2 (Fire)
• Can-Live in Stuttgart 1975 - Live in Brighton 1975 (Spoon)
• Caravan-Who Do You Think We Are? Complete Recordings 1967-2018 (Madfish)
• Stu Cisco-Amanita (Glossy Mistakes)
• Coil-Love’s Secret Domain ( Infinite Fog Production)
• John Coltrane- A Love Supreme Live In Seattle (Impulse!)
• Dead Boys-Young Loud And Snotty (Sire)
• Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt-Lucy & Aaron (Hanson)
• Willie Dunn-Creation Never Sleeps,Creation Never Dies (Light In The Attic)
• Dyke & The Blazers-Down On Funky Broadway Phoenix 1966-1967 (Craft)
• Fire- The Complete Fire Father’s Name is Dad (Grapefruit)
• Follakzoid-S/T (BYM)
• Goat-Head Soup (Rocket)
• Gang of Four-This Heaven Gives Me Migraine 77-81 (Matador)
• Elton John-Regimental Sgt. Zippo (EMI)
• Kiko Kids Jazz-Tanganyika Na Uhuru (Mississippi)
• Masashi Kitamura And Phonogenix-Prologue for Post Modern Music (Light In THe Attic)
• L7-Wargasm The Slash Years 1992-1997 (Cherry Red)
• Kenka Oyaji-Hoodoo Fushimi (Greg Gouty)
• Nancy Sinatra-Start Walkin’ 1965-1976 (Light In The Attic)
• Sun Ra-Lanquidity (Strut)
• Nik Turner’s Sphynx-Xitintoday (Cleopatra)
• VA-Back Up Mexican Tecno Pop 1980-1989 (Dark Entries)
• VA-Brown Acid The Thirteenth Trip Heavy Rock from the Underground Comedown (Ridingeasy)
• VA-Country Funk III 1975-1982 (Light in the Attic)
• VA-Dirty French Psychedelics Selected by Dirty Sound System (Born Bad)
• VA-Heisei No Oto Japanese Left-Field Pop From The Cd Age 1989-1996 (Light In The Attic)
• VA-La Ola Interior Spanish Ambient & Acid Exoticism 1983-1990 (Bongo Joe)
• VA-Somewhere Between Mutant Pop Minimalism & Shadow Sounds Of Japan 1980-1988 (Light In The Attic)
• VA-Stone Crush Memphis Modern Soul 1977-1987 (Light in the Attic)
• VA-Wezin,Jakwar and Guitar Boogie from the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (Mississippi)
• VA-Wizzz! French Psychorama 1966-1974 Vol. 4 (Born Bad)
• Tony Joe White-The Complete Warner Bros. Recording (Real Gone Music)
• Tony Joe White - Smoke from the Chimney (Easy Eye Sound)
• Bobby Womack- The Poet- The Poet II ( Abkco)

Brickbats

Brickbats Best of 2021

• Acavernus & Yantra: "Gnose" (Buh)
• Olivia Block: "Innocent Passage In the Territorial Sea" (Room 40)
• Circuit Des Yeux: "-io" (Matador)
• Joe Colley: "Trance Tapes" (No Rent)
• Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt: "Lucy and Aaron" (Hanson)
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor: "G_d's Pee at State's End" (Constellation)
• Grouper: "Shade" (Kranky)
• Hide: "Interior Terror" (Dais)
• Kris & Tavi: "Chiral" (Post Present Medium)
• Cheryl E Leonard: "Schism" (Mappa)
• Jessica Moss: "Phosphenes" (Constellation)
• Diana Rogerson: "Blue Bottle In a Jam Jar" (S/R)

Carnacki

Carnacki Best-of 2021 lists

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)

DJ Aahh

DJ Aahh's 2021 Shortwave Electronica Z-to-A

DJ Aahh's Top 2021 Shortwave Electronica Songs Z-to-A

• Poté - “Open Up” (Ninja Tune)
• The Pop Group - “We Are Time (Dennis Bovell Dub Version)” (Mute)
• Planningtorock - “Girl You’ve Got My Heart (rRoxymore Remix)” (Human Level)
• 박혜진 PARK HYE JIN - “Y DONT U ft Clams Casino & Take A Day Trip 1” (Ninja Tune)
• Metronomy - “Monday feat. Brian Nasty & Folly Group)” (Because Music)
• Jules - “Miami Breaks” (S/R)
• José González - “Tjomme (DJ Koze Remix)” (Imperial Recordings)
• Flowdan - “Welcome to London (J. Sparrow Remix)” (Tru Thoughts)
• boerd - “Ice Hot” (Anjunadeep)
• Bad with Phones - “HOME” (S/R)

Excuse My French

Excuse My French Best of 2021 Playlist

• Woob "5005"
• Ceephax Acid Crew "Box Steady"
• Matthieu Faubourg "Aqua EP"
• The BasementDiscos "Chapter 14 edits"
• u-Ziq & Mrs. Jynx "Secret Garden"
• Awakened Souls & From Overseas "Keep the Orange Sun"
• AES Dana "(a) period."
• Gcom "E2-Xo"
• Noé Preszow "À Nous"
• Alice et Moi "Drama"
• Dua Lipa "Future Nostalgia (Moonlight Edition)"
• Joy Orbison "Still Slipping, Vol. 1"
• The Future Sound of London "Music For Calendars"
• Min-Y-Llan "Involatile"
• Humanoid "7 Songs"
• Derek Carr "Arrival"
• Norm Chambers "Seaside Resonance"
• Air "Air I - You"
• Anjimile "Stranger"
• Freedom to Spend Catalogue Compendium, Vol. 6
• Gaudi "KARMA"
• Biosphere "Angel's Flight"
• Gas "Der Lange Marsch"
• Frozen Compilations
• Jessica Moss "Phosphenes"
• Clara Luciani "Coeur"
• Magdalena Bay "Mercurial World"
• Tim Dup "La Course Folle"
• Bistro Boy "Drifting"
• Pauline Anna Strom "Angel Tears in Sunlight"
• Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra "Promises"
• Dr. Atmo & Mick Chillage "Ruhleben"
• Christine Ott "Time to Die"
• Ocoeur "Connections"
• Tim Story "Moebius Strips"
• Leif "9 Airs"
• Ochre "An Eye to Windward"
• Masayoshi Fujita "Bird Ambience"
• MOY "Dynamics of Acid"
• The Black Dog "Music for Photographers"
• Modeselektor "Extended"
• 36 & Awakened Souls "The Other Side of Darkness"
• World Circuit "Desolate Snow Road"
• Infinite Scale "Accolade"
• Nuron "Likemind06 Remastered"
• Mick Chillage "Year One Before & After Silence"
• Neotantra's compilations "Tantra XX"
• Dr. Atmo "Lost Tapes"
• Globular "Long Grass for Small Frogs"
• Heogen "Odd Radio Circle"
• Cult 48 "Underground Signals...."
• Ludwig A.F. Rohrscheid "Velocity"
• Placid Angles "Touch The Earth"
• Golden Donna "The Truth About Love EP"
• A Positive Life "Synaesthetic"
• KiloWatts "Six Silicates (remastered)"
• Octo Octa "She's Calling"
• EOD "presents the Symbols"
• PCM "Macro"
• Halftribe "Lucenyt Forms Travelling"

Film Close-Ups

Film Close-ups Top Films of 2021

FILM CLOSE-UPS Top Films of 2021

• About Endlessness by Roy Andersson [CB]
• Another Round by Thomas Vinterberg [EA]
• Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar by Josh Greenbaum [EA]
• Bernstein's Wall by Douglas Tirola [CB]
• Bo Burnham: Inside by Bo Burnham [EA]
• Bring Your Own Brigade by Lucy Walker [AB, SM]
• The Card Counter by Paul Schrader [CB, AB]
• Censor by Prano Bailey-Bond [GS]
• A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks by John Maggio [SM]
• The Devil All The Time by Antonio Campos [AB]
• Don’t Look Up by Adam McKay [GS]
• Dune by Denis Villeneuve [EA]
• The First Wave by Matthew Heineman [SM]
• The Green Knight by David Lowery [EA, GS]
• Identifying Features by Fernanda Veladez [AB]
• Julia by Julie Cohen & Betsy West [SM]
• Lamb by Valdimar Johannsson [GS]
• Last Night in Soho by Edgar Wright [GS]
• Listening To Kenny G by Penny Lane [CB, SM]
• Lost Leonardo by Andreas Koefoed [GS]
• Madres Paralelas (Parallel Mothers) by Pedro Almodóvar [AB, SM]
• Motian In Motion by Michael Patrick Kelly [CB]
• Nightmare Alley by Guillermo del Toro [GS]
• No Sudden Move by Steven Soderbergh [CB]
• No Time to Waste: The Urgent Mission of Betty Reid Soskin by Carl Bidleman [SM]
• Paper & Glue by JR [SM]
• Pig by Michael Sarnoski [GS]
• The Power of the Dog by Jane Campion [CB, EA, AB]
• Procession by Robert Greene [CB]
• Saint Maud by Rose Glass [AB]
• The Souvenir: Part II by Joanna Hogg [EA]
• The Sparks Brothers by Edgar Wright [EA, AB, SM]
• Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street by Marilyn Agrelo [SM]
• Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson [EA, AB, SM]
• Terra Femme by Courtney Stephens [GS]
• Tove by Zaida Bergroth [GS]
• The Underground Railroad by Barry Jenkins [CB, SM]
• The Velvet Underground by Todd Haynes [CB, AB]
• Zola by Janicza Bravo [EA]

AB: Anthony Bonet
CB: Chandler Bennett
EA: Esme Agilar
GS: Greg Scharpen
SM: Sonia Mistry

Foob

Foob - What Shaped Foob in 2021

Things that came out in 2021 (December 2020 counts)

• Roundhay Garden Scene - Some Rain Must Fall (S/R)
• Biosphere - Angel's Flight (Biophon)
• Burial & Four Tet & Thom Yorke - Her Revolution / His Rope (XL Recordings)
• Aindulmedir - The Winter Scriptures (Hypnagoga Press)
• Jane the Message - High Functioning (S/R)

Albums I discovered in 2021 that did not come out in 2021

• Blackhill Transmitter - Blackhill Transmitter (FSOLdigital)
• Dis Fig - PURGE (Purple Tape Pedigree)
• Polyphia - New Levels New Devils (Equal Vision)
• Pantayo - Pantayo (Telephone Explosion)

Tracks I discovered in 2021 that did not come out in 2021

• Yellow Magic Orchestra - "Prologue" - Technodelic (Alfa)
• Chris Child & Micah Frank - "Debris Of The Days" - Tape Pieces Vol. 1 (Foil)
• Hudson People - "Trip To Your Mind" - Trip To Your Mind / Power To The Hour (Hithouse)
• Dee D. Jackson - "Automatic Lover" - Automatic Lover (AVI)
• Disparition - "Eliezer’s Waltz" (S/R)
• Vito Tommaso - “Fred Astaire”  - A Day in Rome (REKON)
• Naoki Kodaka "Under Pressure" - Gremlins 2: The New Batch [NES] (Sun Corporation)
• Busdriver - "The Troglodyte Wins" - RoadKillOvercoat (Epitaph)
• Song Sung - “I’m Not In Love” - LateNightTales - David Holmes (LateNightTales)
• Yellow Magic Orchestra - "Epilogue" - Technodelic (Alfa)

Leftfield Lance

Leftfield Lance 2021 Favorites

7"

• CDG - Unconditional (Domestic Departure)
• Friendly Boyfriend - Pick Up! (Happiest Place)
• Set Top Box - Max Headroom (Polaks)
• Snooper - Snõõper (Goodbye Boozy)
• Snoozers - S/T (No Town)
• Tee Vee Repairman - Patterns (Warttmann Inc.)
• Warm Exit - S/T (Belly Button)

12"

• BRNDA - Do You Like Salt? (Crafted Sounds)
• Dry Cleaning - New Long Leng (4AD)
• Dummy - Mandatory Enjoyment (Trouble In Mind)
• Fake Fruit - S/T (Rocks In Your Head)
• Hits - Cielo Nublado (Paisley Shirt)
• Smirk - Smirk EP (Total Punk)
• Spread Joy - S/T (Feel It)

Tapes, Postcard Flexis, etc.

• April Magazine - Sunday Music For An Overpass (Paisley Shirt)
• Blues Lawyer - Scenic Route (S/R)
• Toe Ring - Collapsed Mine (S/R)
• Famous Mammals - S/T (S/R)
• Fugitive Bubble - No Outside (Impotent Fetus)
• Mesh - S/T (Born Yesterday)

Little Citrus

Little Citrus’ Favorite 2021 Albums

Little Citrus’ Favorite 2021 Albums

• Japanese Breakfast-Jubilee (Dead Oceans)
• Bo Burnham-Inside (The Songs) (Netflix)
• Ginger Root-City Clicker EP (Acrophase Records)
• Nation of Language-A Way Forward (Play It Again Sam)
• Hand Habits- Fun House (Saddle Creek)
• Lin Manuel Miranda, Germaine Franco, Encanto Cast-Encanto Motion Picture Soundtrack (Walt Disney Records)
• Olivia Rodrigo-Sour (Geffen Records)
• Doja Cat-Planet Her (Kemosabe Records)
• Black Marble-Fast Idol (Sacred Bones)
• Lauer-Answers To Trouble (Permanent Vacation)
• Arlo Parks-Collapsed In Sunbeams (Transgressive)
• Tyler The Creator-Call Me If You Get Lost (Columbia)
• Benny Sings-Music (Stones Throw Records)
• Durand Jones & The Indications-Private Space (Dead Oceans)
• Arcade Fire & Owen Pallett-Her (Original Score)  (SONY)
• Bryan and Aaron DessnerC’mon C’mon (Original Motion Picture Score) (A24 Music)
• Taylor Swift-Red (Taylor’s Version) (Taylor Swift)

Majority Whip

Majority Whip’s Favorites of 2021

Majority Whip’s Favorite Albums of 2021

• Acid Twilight — “S/T” (Not Not Fun)
• Akai Solo & Navy Blue — “True Sky” (S/R)
• Marina Allen — “Candlepower” (Fire)
• David Allred — “Felt The Transion” (Erased Tapes)
• Fatima Al Qadiri — “Medieval Femme” (Hyperdub)
• Anika — “Change” (Sacred Bones)
• Yuko Araki — “End Of Trilogy” (Room 40)
• Arszyn — “Bop” (S/R)
• Awkward Corners & Kitty Whitelaw — “Amateur Dramatics” (Shapes Of Rhythm)
• Bacchus Harsh — “Caveat Tumultum” (Heavy Machinery)
• Beautify Junkyards — “Cosmorama” (Ghost Box)
• Blawan — “Under Belly” (XL)
• BLK ODYSSY — “BLK VINTAGE” (After School)
• Camera — “Prosthuman” (Bureau B)
• Çhâñt Éle?trónïqùe — “Çhâñt Éle?trónïqùe Vol. 1” (Rika Muzika)
• Colleen — “The Tunnel And The Clearing” (Rocket)
• Cucina Povera — “Lumme” (Primordial Void)
• Dame Area — “Ondas Tribales” (Mannequin)
• Dark Time Sunshine — “Lore” (Fake Four)
• Marta Del Grandi — “Until We Fossilize” (Fire)
• Lana Del Rey — “Chemtrails Over The Country Club” (Interscope)
• Dialect — “Under~Between” (RVNG Intl.)
• Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt — “Lucy And Aaron” (Hanson)
• Niña Dioz — “Amor, Locura Y Otros Vicios” (Nacional)
• Disrupt — “Under Triple Suns” (Zonedog)
• McKinley Dixon — “For My Mama And Anyone Who Look Like Her” (Spacebomb)
• DJ Manny — “Signals In My Head” (Planet Mu)
• Erika Dohi — “I Castopollux” (37d03d)
• Dom La Nena — “Tempo” (Six Degrees)
• Dry Cleaning — “New Long Leg” (4AD)
• Ducks Ltd — “Get Bleak” (Carpark)
• Dummy — “Mandatory Enjoyment” (Trouble In Mind)
• Leon Duncan — “Fuck A Rosetta Stone For My Brainwaves” (Hakuna Kulala)
• Editrix — “Tell Me I’m Bad” (Exploding In Sound)
• El Michels Affair — “Yeti Season” (Big Crown)
• Emamouse — “Distorted Bayer” (S/R)
• Evolfo — “Site Out Of Mind” (Royal Potato Family)
• Thomas Fehlmann — “Böser Herbst” (Kompakt)
• Fimber Bravo — “Lunar Tredd” (Moshi Moshi)
• Flesh Of Morning — “Here In Heaven” (Blind Rage)
• Floresta Oblíqua — “A” (Fungo)
• Mabe Fratti — “Será Que Ahora Podremos Entendernos” (Tin Angel)
• Freelove Fenner — “The Punishment Zone” (Moone)
• Garage A Trois — “Calm Down Cologne” (Royal Potato Family)
• Golden Hallway Music — “Rules & Chance Vol. 2” (Not Not Fun)
• Jose Gonzalez — “Local Valley” (Mute)
• Armand Hammer — “Haram” (Backwoodzstudioz)
• Tim Hecker — “The North Water (Original Score)” (Lakeshore)
• Robert Hood — “Mirror Man” (Rekids)
• HTRK — “Rhinestones” (N&J Blueberries)
• Jaco — “Los Misterios” (Màgia Roja)
• Loraine James — “Reflection” (Hyperdub)
• Omar Joesoef — “Rituals Of Gorontalo” (Hard Fist)
• Mikado Koko — “Maza Gusu” (Fringe Biology)
• La Femme — “Paradigmes” (Disque Point)
• Lavender Diamond — “Now Is The Time” (Petaluma)
• L'Eclair — “Confusions” (Bongo Joe)
• Leopardo — “Malcantone” (Feel It)
• Lisel — “Mycelial Echo” (Luminelle)
• L’Orange & Namir Blade — “Imaginary Everything” (Mello)
• Los Pirañas — “Infame Golpazo En Keroxen” (Discrepant)
• Louisahhh — “The Practice Of Freedom” (He.She.They)
• Low — “Hey What” (Sub Pop)
• Madlib — “Sounds Ancestors” (Madlib Invazion)
• Mandy, Indiana — “EP” (Fire Talk)
• Mirry — “Miry” (Dinked Edition)
• Emile Mosseri & Han Ye-Ri — “Minari (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (Sony)
• Multiform Palace — “S/T” (Specious Arts)
• David Lee Myers — “Room In A Moon House” (Pulsewidth)
• Lael Neale — “Aquainted With Night” (Sub Pop)
• Maarja Nuut — “Hinged” (S/R)
• Ora The Molecule — “Human Safari” (Mute)
• Orquesta Akokán — “16 Rayos ” (Daptone)
• Pachyman — “The Return Of Pachyman” (ATO)
• Palberta — “Palberta5000” (Wharf Cat)
• PG Six & Louise Bock — “All Summer Long Is Gone” (Feeding Tube)
• Podium — “S/T” (God Unknown)
• Porest — “Cancer In The Soft Breeze” (Discrepant)
• QOW — “Dawafer” (Genot Centre)
• Rival Consoles — “Overflow” (Erased Tapes)
• Run Logan Run — “For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers” (Worm Discs)
• Sault — “Nine” (Forever Living Originals)
• Scalping — “Flood EP” (Houndstooth)
• Samuel Sharp — “Patterns Various” (Boot Cycle Audio)
• Nala Sinephro — “Space 1.8” (Warp)
• Smoke Bellow — “Open For Business” (Trouble In Mind)
• Snapped Ankles — “Forest Of Your Problems” (Leaf)
• Solemn Brigham — “South Sinner Street” (Mello)
• Sons Of Kemet — “Black To The Future” (Impulse!)
• Space Afrika — “Honest Labour” (Dais)
• Still Corners — “The Last Exit” (Wrecking Light)
• Pauline Anna Strom — “Angel Tears In Sunlight” (RVNG Intl.)
• Yu Su — “Yellow River Blue” (Bié)
• Tele Novella — “Merlynn Belle” (Kill Rock Stars)
• Various Artists — “This Is Tehran?” (30M)
• Tirzah — “Colourgrade” (Domino)
• Tomaga — “Intimate Immensity” (Hands In The Dark)
• Vanishing Twin — “Ookii Gekkou” (Fire)
• Whirlynn — “Yakakeitiwa” (Popnihil)
• Zedashe — “Silver Sanctuary” (Electric Cowbell)

Majority Whip's Favorite Songs of 2021

• Fatima Al Qadiri—"Qasmuna" Medieval Femme (Hyperdub)
• Anika—"Finger Pies" Change (Sacred Bones)
• Beautify Junkyards—"Reverie" Cosmorama (Ghost Box)
• Blawan—"Under Belly" Under Belly (XL)
• BLK ODYSSY—"Murda" BLK VINTAGE (After School)
• Niña Dioz—"Mezcal" Amor, Locura Y Otros Vicios (Nacional)
• DJ Manny—"Signals In My Head" Signals In My Head (Planet Mu)
• Dry Cleaning—"Scratchcard Lanyard" New Long Leg (4AD)
• Editrix—"Tell Me I’m Bad" Tell Me I’m Bad (Exploding In Sound)
• Mabe Fratti—"Nadie Sabe" Será Que Ahora Podremos Entendernos (Tin Angel)
• H.E.R.—"Bloody Waters" Back Of My Mind (RCA)
• Homeboy Sandman—"Fyi" Anjelitu (Mello)
• Jordana—"I'll Take It Boring" Something To Say To You (Grand Jury)
• Louisahhh—"Like A Shot" The Practice Of Freedom (He.She.They.)
• Low—"All Night" Hey What (Sub Pop)
• Moonshine & Ahadadream—"Woah" SMS For Location, Vol. 4 (Foreseen)
• Lael Neale—"Every Star Shivers In The Dark" Acquainted With Night (Sub Pop)
• Orquesta Akokán—"Mi Conga Es De Akokán" 16 Rayos (Daptone)
• Pachyman—"Big Energy" The Return Of Pachyman (ATO)
• Sault—"London Gangs" Nine (Forever Living Originals)
• Sons Of Kemet—"To Never Forget The Source" Black To The Future (Impulse!)
• Still Corners—"Crying" The Last Exit (Wrecking Light)
• Torres—"Are You Sleepwalking?" Thirstier (Merge)
• Vanishing Twin—"Big Moonlight" Ookii Gekkou (Fire)
• Amanda Whiting—"Just Blue" After Dark (Jazzman)

Meaty Paws

Meatypaws best of 2021

Best Discoveries and Re-Discoveries of the Great Pandemic of 2020 & 2021

(Some new songs and some old ones that I forgot about until I found them again).
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• Robert Earl Keen “I’m the Man Around Here”
• Jesse Ashlock “My Bank Account is Gone”
• Joe West “Keeper of the Light”
• JD McPherson “Bloodhound Rock”
• Hank Williams III “D.Ray White (Rebel Yell)”
• Maria McKee “Ways to be Wicked”
• Los Straitjackets “Popcorn”
• Grover Anderson “Handle the Lonely”
• Meat Puppets “Warranty”
• Grace Chang “I Want Your Love”
• Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn “Banjo Guzheng Pickin Girl”
• Petty Booka “Bla Bla Bla Cha Cha Cha”
• Moonlighters “Big Times”
• Kitty Rose “Halleluia”
• Albert Lee “Rainbows All Over Your Blues”
• Margo Price “Since You Put Me Down”
• Rachel Brooke “The Loneliness in Me”
• Peter Cooper “The Last Laugh”
• Rodney Crowell “Stars on the Water”
• Cristina “Whats a Girl to Do?”
• Trixie and the Trainwrecks “No Good Town”
• Elizabeth Cook “All the Time”
• Pistol Annies “Got My Name Changed Back”
• Sarah Shook & the Disarmers “Nothin Feels Right but Doin Wrong”
• Alex the Astronaut “San Francisco”
• SOL “Coma Queen”
• Aquadolls “Mine”
• Gorillaz “On Melancholy Hill”
• Fruit Bats “The Balcony”

Megasoup

Megasoup's Favorites of 2021

~ Megasoup's Favorite Albums from 2021

• Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Instrumentals JID009 (Jazz Is Dead)
• Alex Albrecht pres. Melquiades - Campfire Stories (Analogue Attic)
• Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams (Transgressive Records)
• Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Haram (BackwoodzStudioz)
• Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince (New Amsterdam Records)
• Arushi Jain - Under the Lilac Sky (Leaving Records)
• Ashan - Sacred Spring (Inner Islands)
• Ashley Bellouin & Ben Bracken - String Songs (Debacle)
• Barrett Martin Group - Stillpoint (Sunyata)
• Bedouine - Waysides (Spacebomb Records)
• Bickram Ghosh - Avijatrik {Soundtrack to "The Wanderlust Of Apu"} (Warner Music India)
• Burkina Azza - Wari bô (Social Joy)
• Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview on Phenomenal Nature (Ba Da Bing!)
• Centuries of Roses - Centuries of Roses (Qame Feraq)
• Channelers - Another Entrance (Inner Islands)
• Chuck Johnson - The Cinder Grove (Vin Du Select Qualitite)
• Cochemea - Vol II: Baca Sewa (Daptone)
• Combo Lulo - Neotropic Dream (Names You Can Trust)
• Dax Pierson - Nerve Bumps {A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction} (Ratskin)
• Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Dost 1 (Les Disques Bongo Joe / Catapulte Records)
• D.K. - Eighteen Movements (Abstrakce)
• El Michels Affair - Yeti Season (Big Crown Records)
• Felinto - Futuro Antigo Perpétuo (Bokeh Versions)
• Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders - Promises (Luaka Bop)
• Folest - XI (Bandcamp)
• Gianluca Petrella & Pasquale Mirra - Correspondence (Tǔk Air)
• Golden Brown - Gems and Minerals (Inner Islands)
• Hassan Wargui - Tiddukla (Hive Mind)
• Inhmost - Early Horizons (Huinali Recordings)
• J Foerster / N Kramer - Habitat (LEAVING)
• Jane Weaver - Flock (Fire)
• Li Yilei - 之 / Of (Metron)
• Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (Age 101)
• Mas Aya - Máscaras (Telephone Explosion)
• Matthew Halsall - Salute to the Sun {Live at Hallé St Peter's} (Gondwana)
• Men I Trust - Untourable Album (Return To Analog)
• Michael Harrison - Seven Sacred Names (Cantaloupe)
• N Chambers - Spectrum Garden (Soft Profile)
• Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8 (Warp)
• Nat Birchall - Ancient Africa (Ancient Archive of Sound)
• Nimbudala - Universal Compassion (Inner Islands)
• Okuté - Okuté (Chulo)
• Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp - We're OK. But We're Lost Anyway. (Les Disques Bongo Joe)
• Orquesta Akokán - 16 Rayos (Daptone)
• Pachyman - The Return of… (ATO)
• Panabrite - Sub-Aquatic Meditation Vol. 2 (Muzan Editions)
• Petrona Martinez - Ancestras (Chaco World Music)
• Pino Palladino & Blake Mills - Notes With Attachments (Impulse / New Deal)
• Populous - Stasi (La Tempesta Dischi)
• Quantic & Nidia Góngora - Almas Conectadas (Tru Thoughts)
• Salamanda - Allez (Good Morning Tapes)
• Sean La'brooy - Out Moving Windows (Analogue Attic)
• Sleep D x Ad Lib Collective - Flashed Glass (Play On)
• Sunhiilow - Beyond The Cycle (Ikuisuus)
• Tomaga - Intimate Immensity (Hands In The Dark)
• Vanishing Twin - Ookii Gekkou (Fire)
• Wau Wau Collectif - Yaral Sa Doom (Sahel Sounds)
• Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood (Spinster Sounds)
• Yola - Stand for Myself (Easy Eye Sound)
• Yu Su 苏玉 - Yellow River Blue (Music From Memory)

~ Megasoup's Favorite Singles, EPs, and Mini-Albums (30 minutes or less) from 2021 :

• Carmen Villain - Sketch for Winter IX: Perlita (Geographic North)
• Chari Chari - Suburban Ethnology Vol.1 EP (Groovement Organic Series)
• CZN - Commutator (Offen Music)
• Dijf Sanders - Lichen (Unday)
• D.K. - Gate Of Enlightenment (Worship)
• Guazú & Terror/Cactus - Botanas (Shika Shika)
• Holy Tongue - II (Amidah)
• Kiln - Tungsten (Ghostly International)
• Light The Fuse - King Of Funk / Give The Horns Some (Mukatsuku Record)
• Lorde - Te Ao Mārama (Universal)
• Mitchum Yacoub - Cumbia Divina / Bansuri (All-Town Sound)
• Nicolas Repac - Rhapsodic Suite (No Format!)
• Nilotika Cultural Ensemble - Ejokawulida (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
• Parva Karkhaneh - Shabe Lajevardi (Qame Feraq)
• Sophia Nzayisenga & Andi Otto - Abagore Barashoboye (YNFND)
• SUSS - Night Suite (Northern Spy)
• Tape - Apt E Vol 3 (Apt E)
• Tristan Arp - Sculpturegardening (Wisdom Teeth)
• Winter - Lua {feat. Nailah Hunter} (Leaving)
• V/A - All Welcome Volume III (Good Morning Tapes)

~ Megasoup's Favorite Reissues & Archival Releases from 2021

• Aurita Y Su Conjunto - Chambacu (Mississippi)
• Baligh Hamdi - Instrumental Modal Pop of 1970's Egypt (Sublime Frequencies)
• The Beach Boys - Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971 (Capitol / Brother)
• Emeka Ogboh- Beyond The Yellow Haze (A-TON)
• Grand Kalle & African Jazz with Manu Dibango - Joseph Kabasele And The Creation Of Surboum African Jazz  (Planet Ilunga)
• Hailu Mergia & The Walias Band - Tezeta (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
• Hany Mehanna - Music For Airplanes - A Collection of Instrumental Showpieces and Scores for Egyptian Films and TV-series {1973-1980} (Souma)
• Juana Molina - Segundo (Crammed Discs)
• Kenji Kihara - Scenes of Scapes (Inner Islands)
• Kiko Kids Jazz - Tanganyika Na Uhuru (Mississippi)
• Manzanita y su Conjunto - Trujillo, Perú 1971-1974 (Analog Africa)
• Mario Rui Silva - Stories from Another Time 1982-1988 (Time Capsule)
• Mary Lattimore - Collected Pieces: 2015-2020 (Ghostly International)
• Masahiko Sato - Belladonna Of Sadness (Finders Keepers)
• Phương Tâm - Magical Nights - Saigon Surf Twist & Soul {1964-1966} (Sublime Frequencies)
• Robin Saville -  Public Flowers (Abstrakce)
• Roger Webb - Bartleby {Original Soundtrack Recording} (Trunk)
• Salah Ragab & The Cairo Jazz Band - Egypt Strut (Strut)
• Seefeel - Rupt and Flex (Warp)
• The KLF - Come Down Dawn (KLF Communications)
• The Poets Of Rhythm - Discern/Define (Daptone)
• The Pretty Things - Live at the BBC (Repertoire)
• X.Y.R. - Waves Tapes (Constellation Tatsu)
• V/A - When the Moon Goes Down in the Valley of Time: African-American Gospel, 1939-52 (Canary)
• V/A - Written On the Wall : American Soul Music 1958-1974 (Cairo)

Microtone

Microtone’s Most Memorable from 2021

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)

Pop Goes The Weasel

Pop Goes the Weasel Best of 2021

Favorite Songs:

• Alt-J - “U&Me” -  SINGLE (Atlantic)
• Bitchin Bajas - “Outer Spaceways Inc” - Switched on Ra (Drag City)
• Cold Beat - “See You Again” - The War Garden (S/R)
• Dry Cleaning - “Unsmart Lady” - New Long Leg (4AD)
• House of Yahweh (feat. Lily Konigsberg) - “Glass Realty” - Moon’s Toons Vol.1 (RVNG Intl.)
• Lewis, Molly - “Oceanic Feeling” - The Forgotten Edge (Jagjaguwar)
• Owusu, Genesis - “I Don’t See Color” - Smiling With No Teeth (Ourness)
• Sons of Kemet (feat. Moor Mother & Angel Bat Dawid) - “Pick Up Your Burning Cross” - Black to the Future (Impulse!)
• St Vincent - “Down” - Daddy’s Home (Loma Vista)

Favorite Album:

• Gay, Ben Lamar - Open Arms to Open Us (International Anthem)

qb(X)

qb(x) Best of 2021

qb(x)’s Favorite Albums of 2021

(unordered)

• The Body & BIG|BRAVE - Leaving None But Small Birds (Thrill Jockey)
• Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises (Luaka Bop)
• Mary Lattimore -  Collected Pieces: 2015-2020 (Ghostly International)
• Damon Locks - Black Monument Ensemble - Now (International Anthem)
• Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready (Sargent House)
• MMMD & Alem -  L’âge de l’absolutisme (Antifrost)
• Meitei - Kofū II (KITCHEN. LABEL)
• Mong Tong - Music from Taiwan Mystery (WV Sorcerer Productions)
• TEKE::TEKE - Shirushi (Kill Rock Stars)
• Xochimoki -  Temple Of The New Sun (Phantom Limb)

Renée Black

Renée Black Best of 2021

Renée Black’s Favorite New Releases of 2021

Not in Order

• The Chisel - Retaliation (La Vida Es Un Mus)
• La Femme - Paradigmes (Disque Pointu)
• Oi Boys - S/T (La Vida Es Un Mus)
• Collision - Sur Les Trottoirs (Un Vie Pour Rien)
• The Skinflicks - “Won’t Bend the Knee” (Trisol)
• Mess - Intercity (Mendeku Diskak)
• The Gluts - Ungrateful Heart (Fuzz Club)
• Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz (Year001)
• Amyl & The Sniffers - Comfort to Me (ATO)
• Chubby & the Gang - The Mutt’s Nut (Partisan)
• Rata Negra - “Desconfía de ese chico” (La Vida Es Un Mus)
• Sweeping Promises - “Pain Without a Touch” (Feel It, Sub Pop)
• Various Compilation - Staring At The Rude Boys (Pressure Drop)

Sparkle Motion

Sparkle Motion's Faves of 2021

SPARKLE MOTION’S FAVE ALBUMS OF 2021 in no particular order

MUSIC WITHOUT WORDS (mostly)

• Vijay Iyer Trio [with Linda May Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey] - Uneasy (ECM)     
• Dr. Lonnie Smith [ft. Iggy Pop] - Breathe (Blue Note)
• Tyshawn Sorey & King Britt - Tyshawn & King (The Buddy System)
• Chuck Johnson - The Cinder Grove (Vin du Select Qualitite)
• Molly Herron [with Science Ficta] - Through Lines (New Amsterdam)
• Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises (Luaka Bop)
• Toumani Diabate & London Symphony Orchestra - Korolen EP (World Circuit)
• Nik Bartsch - Entendre (ECM)
• Peter Manning Robinson - Double Helix (Heart Dance)
• Benoit Delbecq - The Weight of Light (Pyroclastic)
• Hannah Peel - Fir Wave (My Own Pleasure)
• Tomaga - Intimate Immensity (Hands in the Dark)
• Lea Bertucci - A Visible Length of Light (S/R)
• Buke and Gase and So Percussion - A Record Of (Brassland)
• Chris Liebing - Another Day (Mute)
• John Dwyer and Bent Arcana - Moon Drenched (Castle Face)

MUSIC WITH WORDS

• Nathan Salsburg - Psalms (No Quarter)
• The Weather Station - Ignorance (Fat Possum)
• Rosalie - No Medium (Spinster)
• Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club (Interscope)
• Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview on Phenomenal Nature (Ba Da Bing)
• Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood (Spinster)
• Rhiannon Giddens - They’re Calling Me Home (Nonesuch)
• Le Ren - Leftovers (Secretly Canadian)
• Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams (Transgressive)
• Lady Blackbird - Black Acid Soul (Foundation Music)
• L’Rain - Fatigue (Mexican Summer)
• Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince (Verve)
• Sault - Nine (Forever Living Originals)
• Tirzah - Colourgrade (Domino)
• Lost Girls [Jenny Hval & Havard Volden] - Menneskekollektivet (Smalltown Supersound)
• Low - Hey What (Sub Pop)                                                         
• Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg (4AD)
• Shame - Drunk Tank Pink (Dead Oceans)
• Mega Bog - Life, And Another (Paradise of Bachelors)
• Squid - Bright Green Field (Warp)
• Colleen - The Tunnel and The Clearing (Thrill Jockey)
• Jane Weaver - Flock (Fire Records)
• Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds - Swing From the Sean DeLear EP (In The Red)
• Vanishing Twin - Ookii Gekkou (Fire Records)
• Parquet Courts - Sympathy for Life (Rough Trade)
• Suuns - The Witness (Joyful Noise)
• Field Music - Flat White Moon (Memphis Industries)
• Goat Girl - On All Fours (Rough Trade)
• Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz (YEAR0001)
• RE -ISSUES/COMPS
• Karen Black - Dreaming of You 1971-1976 (Anthology Recordings)
• Akiko Yano - Ai Ga Nakucha Ne (WeWantSounds)
• Lee Morgan - The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (Blue Note)
• Jennifer Castle - Castlemusic 2011(Flemish Eye)
• Leslie Winer - When I Hit You - You’ll Feel It (Light in the Attic)
• ‘Blue’ Gene Tyranny - Out of the Blue 40th Anniversary Remaster (Unseen Worlds)
• Van Der Graaf Generator - The Charisma Years 1970-1978 (Charisma)
• Willie Dunn - Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology (Light in the Attic)
• Seefeel - Rupt and Flex (1994-96) and St/Fr/Sp Eps (Warp)
• Various Artists - Eins Und Swei Und Drei Und Drei Und Vier: Deutsche Experimentelle Pop-Musick 1980-86 (Bureau B)

Squyd

Squyd - Best of 2021

Best Albums of 2021:

• Driftmachine - Spume & Recollection (Umor Rex)
• Craven Faults - Enclosures (Nov. 2020 - Leaf)
• Renaldo & the Loaf - Hardly Gurning While the World is Turning (Klanggalerie)
• Terror/Cactus & Guazú - Botanas: Guazú & Terror Cactus EP (Shika Shika)
• Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp - We're OK. But We're Lost Anyway (Les Disques Bongo Joe)
• LNS & DJ Sotofett - Sputters (Tresor)
• Blectum From Blechdom - DeepBone (Deathbomb Arc)
• Anna von Hausswolff - All Thoughts Fly (Sept 2020 - Southern Lord)
• Jessica Moss - Phosphenes (Constellation)

Notable Mention 2021:

• Damiana - Vines (Hausu Mountain)
• D’Eon - Rhododendron (Hausu Mountain)
• Meridian Brothers, Conjunto Media Luna - Paz En La Tierra (Les Disques Bongo Joe)
• Fresnel Lens - EP#2 (Fresnel Lens)
• Smoke Bellow - Open For Business (Trouble In Mind)
• Zombi - Liquid Crystal EP (Relapse)
• El Búho - Cumbias Imaquinarias EP (Earthly Measures)
• Unknown Me - Bishintai (Not Not Fun)
• Sarah Neufeld - Detritus (Paper Bag)
• Low - Hey What (Sub Pop)
• Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime (Matador)
• Suryummy - Polynators (Constellation Tatsu)

THE ALMIGHTY KABALLA-BONGA

The Almighty Kaballa-Bonga Top Ten of 2021

• William Basinski - Watermusic
• Cabaret Voltaire - Shadow of Fear
• The Clash - Sandinista!
• Miles Davis - “He Loved Him Madly”
• Lana del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club
• John Hassell RIP
• Sylvere Lotringer RIP
• Jim O’Rourke - Sleep Like It’s Winter
• Taylor Swift - Evermore
• Tex and the Horseheads - “Oh Mother”