OK, it's time for my favourite records of the year. I was going to wait until Jan. 1 but just couldn't. So... here we go.
2/ Backxwash I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND DRESSES @backxwash
@backxwash 3/ Badge Époque: Scroll badgeepoque.bandcamp.com/album/badge-ep…
5/ black midi: Cavalcade ("John L" was one of the densest pieces of pop madness this year, just glorious) bmblackmidi.bandcamp.com/album/cavalcade
7/ Breeze Brewin, Juggaknots: Hindsight @Breezebrewin @juggaknots juggaknots.bandcamp.com/album/breeze-b…
8/ Bruce Russell: 21st Century Field Hollers and Prison Songs brucerussell.bandcamp.com/album/21st-cen…
9/ Carlos Niño & Friends: More Energy Fields, Current (pure bliss!) @intlanthem intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/more-ene…
10/ Chad VanGaalen: World's Most Stressed Out Gardener (there were many this year) @subpop chadvangaalen.bandcamp.com/album/worlds-m…
11/ Chef Mike: AEGIS (check out: To the Devil a Daughter) commonandnormal.bandcamp.com/album/aegis
12/ Curly Castro: Little Robert Hutton @BackwoodzHipHop @CurlyCastro (not one ounce of fat on this beast!) curlycastro.bandcamp.com/album/little-r…
13/ Damon Locks, Black Monument
Ensemble: NOW @intlanthem (surreal masterpiece) intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/now
Ensemble: NOW @intlanthem (surreal masterpiece) intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/now
15/ Dax Pierson: Nerve Bumps (A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction) @DaxPiersonMusic (probably maybe kinda my favourite record of the year) daxpierson.bandcamp.com/album/nerve-bu…
16/ Defcee & Messiah Musik: Trapdoor (holy shit, @BackwoodzHipHop had a good 2021!) @defcee @theMessiahMusik defcee.bandcamp.com/album/trapdoor
17/ Downer Canada: Environmental Dubs roundbalerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/environm…
19/ Emeka Ogboh: Beyond the Yellow Haze a-ton.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-t…
20/ Genghis Tron: Dream Weapon @RelapseRecords @GenghisTronBand (just so much damn fun, this one) genghistron.bandcamp.com/album/dream-we…
22/ Hainbach: Schwebungssummer @Hainbach101 (as he says, "Cosmic mud.") misc-works.bandcamp.com/album/schwebun…
23/ Irreversible Entanglements: Open the Gates @intlanthem (and you know the next's going to be better still) intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/open-the…
25/ Lea Bertucci: A Visible Length of Light leabertucci.bandcamp.com/album/a-visibl…
26/ Lil Ugly Mane: Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern liluglymane.bandcamp.com/album/volcanic…
27/ Moin: Moot! (Lungs! so help me, god!) m-o-i-n.bandcamp.com/album/moot
28/ Monolord: Your Time to Shine (if there was ever a year when we needed a dose of doom, this was it) @RelapseRecords @MonolordSweden monolord.bandcamp.com/album/your-tim…
29/ Moor Mother: Black Encyclopedia of the Air @moormother (jumpin' stairs seven at a time, never misses) moormother.bandcamp.com/album/black-en…
31/ Muadeep: Honeymoon (EP) muadeep.bandcamp.com/album/honeymoo…
32/ Osees: Levitation Sessions II (I swear, there were moments in 2021 where this record was the only thing between me and madness) ohsees.bandcamp.com/album/levitati…
33/ Parquet Courts: Sympathy for Life @RoughTradeRecs (you remember 1998, right?) parquetcourts.bandcamp.com/album/sympathy…
34/ Prem Rock: Load Bearing Crow's Feet @PlanetPremRock @BackwoodzHipHop (nothing less than profound) planetpremrock.bandcamp.com/album/load-bea…
35/ Print Head: Happy Happy & Hardcore Pop (I read somewhere that this guy's from Alberta. Not sure if that is true, but this is one weirdly amazing record) discosperoquebien.bandcamp.com/album/happy-ha…
36/ (and more) PRINT HEAD: IDKWTFimdoing (more 4-track marvels) printhead.bandcamp.com/album/idkwtfim…
37/ Scorn: the only place ohmresistance.bandcamp.com/album/the-only…
39/ Spiral Wave Nomads: First Encounters (first record I bought in 2021 was one of its most radiant) twinlakesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/first-en…
41/ The Deep Dark Woods: Changing Faces thedeepdarkwoods.bandcamp.com/album/changing…
43/ Various: Somewhere between: Mutant pop. electronic minimalism & shadow
sounds of Japan 1980-1988 @lightintheattic lightintheattic.bandcamp.com/album/somewher…
sounds of Japan 1980-1988 @lightintheattic lightintheattic.bandcamp.com/album/somewher…
44/ Various: No Photos on the Dancefloor aboveboardprojects.bandcamp.com/album/no-photo…
45/ Willie Dunn: Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology @lightintheattic williedunn.bandcamp.com/album/creation…
The End.
47/ Except, I also really enjoyed Jesu's Terminus in 2021, because I missed it in 2020. jesu.bandcamp.com/album/terminus
48/ I also realize that this year's list has a number of albums from several of the same labels: @BackwoodzHipHop, @intlanthem, @RelapseRecords. I could have included @TwatterLord, @Glitterbeat_Rec, and @lightintheattic, all releasing great music, consistently.
49/ And there were MANY other great releases this year, too many to list them all. Other standouts included records from @altingunband, @CorpseOfficial, @FatRayMotorBoy, @Horndal_Band, @Muslimgauze, @RedFang, Slikback, @teketekeband, and @CurlyCastro (Wrecking Crew).
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