Thumbscrew - The Anthony Braxton Project (avant-garde jazz)
Jon Hassell - Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two) (tribal ambient, jazz fusion)
East Man - Prole Art Threat (grime, UK bass)
Earl Sweatshirt - Feet of Clay (Deluxe) (reissue, abstract hip hop)
Morimoto Naoki - dusk to dawn (ambient, microsound)
Laurence Pike - Prophecy (free improvisation, electronic)
Takahiro Kawaguchi - Three Glasses (sound art, EAI)
Devendra Banhart - Vast Ovoid (EP, freak folk, singer songwriter)

Ben Frost released another soundtrack for tv show Dark. I don’t like that show but I like his music.

Do his soundtracks live up to his earlier work? Seems like a lot of artists do soundtracks to pay rent while putting their best material under their "serious" releases for lack of a better word. I've mentioned that I feel that way about Stetson but he's been improving.

Slaps. Easily my favourite grime artist except for those two Dizzie songs.

This is Feet of Clay with Ghost and Whole World tacked onto the end. Should've been released like this in the first place tbh, but I think Earl wanted to avoid being too feature-heavy.

I can’t answer that authoritatively but he has a lot of soundtracks and I find all of his releases consistently very good. You can tell a lot of it was designed to compliment a scene if that bothers you. I don’t think it would bother you though because he’s so good at it.

Do you have a favorite you think I should pay close attention to?

Really digging this one btw listening right now. It’s like glitch but they take it somewhere new digging deeper into the sounds and the instruments. Remember my complaint about the cryo chambers label? This type of exploratory thinking is what I think they need.

Theory of Machines and By the Throat are the Frost albums that I'm familiar with and pretty fond of. I like his contributions to Hecker's and Swans' work too.

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Eiko Ishibashi - Hyakki Yagyō (experimental, sound collage)

That sent me to wiki where I saw this “ In 2013, in his first directorial role, he premiered a critically acclaimed music-theatre adaptation of the Iain Banks novel The Wasp Factory”

The Wasp Factory is a wild book. Consider Phlebas is intense sci-fi but he may have bitten off a bit more than he can chew there. His descriptions of these incredible space machines were off the chain. You know it was good when you still remember it several years later.

Diamanda Galás - De​-​formation: Piano Variations (EP, avant-garde jazz)
Lana Del Rey - Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass (poetry)
Jessy Lanza - All the Time (synthpop, alt r&b, uk bass)

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The only way that this could be better was if Braxton himself played on it. AOTY.

Mary Halvorson is the best guitarist in the world right now.