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Default MusicBanter's Top Albums of 2021

Since I'm probably done checking out new music for this year, I might as well get this year's picks off my chest.
Similarly to last year, I'm not ranking, just listing this year's releases that I think are cool and deserve a listen. This year I'm even too lazy to add genres. As usual with me there's a whole bunch of so-called experimental stuff, like Free Jazz/Improv and AvantProg, also some more "normal" Jazz and Prog, as well as Psych/Kraut, Metal, Hip-Hop, Pop, Punk, Electronica and various other styles and genres.

I also found quite a few 2020 albums this year that weren't included in my original list, so I'm including them here as well.

Looking forward to other members' picks.
Take care and enjoy the holidays!

Spoiler for 2021:
3H Company - 8 Zhizney
Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt - Lucy & Aaron
Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
Aesop Rock & Blockhead - Garbology
Agusa - En Annan Varld
Ahmed - Nights On Saturn (Communication)
ALEPH - Ego Death
Alex Henry Foster - Standing Under Bright Lights
Alex Ward - Gated
Alice Coltrane - Kirtan-Turiya Sings
Altin Gün - Yol
Amon Tobin - How Do You Live
Angel Ontalva - Angel On A Tower
Anne Bourne - Wave
Aquaserge - The Possibility Of A New Work For Aquaserge
Archspire - Bleed The Future
Art Zoyd - Et Avec Votre Esprit-La Foret De Samplers
Backxwash - I Lie Here Buried With My Rings and My Dresses
BadBadNotGood - Talk Memory
Bastarda & Joao de Sousa - Fado
Bela Fleck - My Bluegrass Heart
Ben Goldberg - Everything Happens To Be
Benjamin Mork & Arve Henriksen - The Valleys
Benoit Delbecq - The Weight Of Light
Bill Laswell, Keiji Haino, Yoshihide Otomo & Tatsuya Nakamura - Tokyo Rotation 4-Day 1 Set 1
Bill Laswell, Keiji Haino, Yoshihide Otomo & Tatsuya Nakamura - Tokyo Rotation 4-Day 1 Set 2
Bill Laswell, Toshinori Kondo & Karsh Kale - Tokyo Rotation 1-Day 2 Set 1
Bill Laswell, Toshinori Kondo, DJ Krush & Hideo Yamaki with DJ Sara & DJ Ryusei - Tokyo Rotation 4-Day 3
Bill Laswell, Toshinori Kondo, Karsh Kale & Naruyoshi Kikuchi - Tokyo Rotation 1-Day 2 Set 2
Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
Billy Strings - Renewal
Black Dresses - Forever In Your Heart
Black Midi - Cavalcade
Black Midi - Live-Cade
Blu - The Color Blu(e)
Bob Drake - Planets And Animals
Brii - Sem Proposito
Bruno Pernadas - Private Reasons
Burnt Belief - Mutual Isolation
Can - Live In Brighton 1975
Can - Live In Stuttgart 1975
Chloe Herington - Silent Reflux
Ciccada - Harvest
Clarence Clarity - Vanishing Act I-No Nouns
Clarence Clarity - Your Wrong
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Blue Caprice
Concrete Winds - Nerve Butcherer
Consider The Source - Hybrid Vol. 1-Such As A Mule
CZN - Commutator
Danielle DeGruttola, Henry Kaiser, Benedicte Maurseth & Stein Urheim - Be Here Whenever
Darkside - Spiral
Das Rad - Laik Tors
Death's Dynamic Shroud - Faith In Persona
Death's Dynamic Shroud - Monument To The Architect
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - I Told You So
Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
Edredon Sensible - Vloute Panthere
Electric Orange - Psi-Hybrid
Elephant9 - Arrival Of The New Elders
Eli Keszler - Icons
Embryo - Auf Auf
Esoctrilihum - Dy'th Requiem For The Serpent Telepath
Ethereal Shroud - Trisagion
Evan Parker & Matthew Shipp - Leonine Aspects
Evan Parker Quartet - All Knavery And Collusion
Faust - Punkt (only as part of the 1971-1974 box set)
Fire! - Defeat
First Fragment - Gloire Eternelle
Five The Hierophant - Through Aureate Void
Fred Frith & Ikue Mori - A Mountain Doesn't Know It's Tall
Fred Frith Trio - Road
Frontierer - Oxidized
Full Of Hell - Auditory Trauma
Gas - Der Lange Marsch
Genesis Owusu - Smiling With No Teeth
Giant Claw - Mirror Guide
GoGo Penguin - GGP-RMX
Gyan Riley - Silver Lining
Helene Vogelsinger - Reminiscence
Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant
Horsey - Debonair
Iglooghost - Lei Line Eon
Ikue Mori, Brian Marsella & Sae Hashimoto - Archipelago X
Ill Considered - Liminal Space
IOSONOUNCANE - IRA
Irreversible Entanglements - Open The Gates
Isildurs Bane & Peter Hammill - In Disequilibrium
Jack O' The Clock - Leaving California
Jakob Bro, Arve Henriksen & Jorge Rossy - Uma Elmo
Jason Nazary - Spring Collection
Jaubi - Nafs At Peace
Jo Berger Myhre - Unheimlich Manoeuvre
John Butcher & Eli Kezler - First Meeting
John Medeski - Crawlspace
John Zorn - Chaos Magick
John Zorn - Gnosis-The Inner Light
John Zorn - Heaven And Earth Magick
John Zorn - John Zorn's Bagatelles
John Zorn - Meditations On The Tarot
John Zorn - New Masada Quartet
John Zorn - Nostradamus (The Death Of Satan)
John Zorn - Parables
John Zorn - Teresa De Avila
John Zorn - The Ninth Circle
Jon Durant & Stephan Thelen - Crossings
Jordsjo - Pastoralia
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society with Evan Parker - Descension (Out Of Our Constrictions)
JÜ - III
Jucara Marcal - Delta Estacio Blues
Julian Lage - Squint
Jute Gyte - Mitrealität
Kaatayra - Inpariquipe
Kaeshidome - Kaeshidome
KALI Trio - Loom
Kamikichi - Lucky God
Kanaan - Earthbound
Karkhana - Al Azraqayn
Karoline Wallace - Stiklinger
Keiji Haino & The Hardy Rocks - Keiji Haino & The Hardy Rocks
Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi - Each Side Has a Depth of 5 Seconds / A Polka Dot Pattern in Horizontal Array / A Flickering That Moves Vertically
Kikagaku Moyo - Live At Levitation
King Crimson - Music Is Our Friend
Kino - Kino V Sevkabele
KOAN Sound - Full Circle
Koma Saxo - Live
Korekyojinn - Mesopotamia
Kosmogon - Mässan
Krokofant - Fifth
Kujo - The Rebels Have No King
Kuzu - All Your Ghosts In One Corner
Kuzu - The Glass Delusion
L'Imperatrice - Tako Tsubo
Lindsheaven Virtual Plaza & SkyTwoHigh - Imaginary Pathways
Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
LLNN - Unmaker
Logistic Slaughter - Lower Forms Of Life
Lord Apex - Smoke Sessions Vol. 3
Love-Songs & U. Schütte - [Spannende Musik]
Mach-Hommy - Pray For Haiti
Magma - Eskähl 2020 (Bordeaux-Toulouse-Perpignan)
Malignant Altar - Realms Of Exquisite Morbidity
Mare Cognitum - Solar Paroxysm
Marissa Nadler - The Path Of The Clouds
Martha Rabbit - Phonolith
Maryam Chemirani, Sylvain Barou, Bijan Chemirani & Keyvan Chemirani - Hal
Matthew Halsall - Salute To The Sun (Live At Halle St. Peter's)
McKinley Dixon - For My Mama And Anyone Who Look Like Her
Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
Michael Bisio, Kirk Knuffke & Fred Lonberg-Holm - The Art Spirit
Monobody - Comma
Muito Kaballa Power Ensemble - Mamari
Mule Jenny - All These Songs Of Love And Death
MUST DIE! - CRISIS VISION
Nate Wooley - Mutual Aid Music
Nebulous Sun - First Tale
Needlepoint - Walking Up That Valley
Neptunian Maximalism - Solar Drone Ceremony
Neupink - Seaweed Jesus
Neurosenblüte - Hallo Frühling
Nicolas Jaar - Live In The Hague
Niklas Wandt - Solar Müsli
Nils Petter Molvaer - Stitches
Obscura - A Valediction
Old Time Relijun - Musicking
Olie Brice, Binker Golding, Henry Kaiser, N.O. Moore & Eddie Prevost - The Secret Handshake With Danger, Vol. One
Omie Wise - Wind And Blue
Ophidian I - Desolate
Palo Alto - Difference And Repetition
Papangu - Holoceno
Parcels - Day-Night
Pat Metheny - Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV)
Pino Palladino & Blake Mills - Notes With Attachments
Plebeian Grandstand - Rien Ne Suffit
Portal - Avow
Portico Quartet - Monument
Portico Quartet - Terrain
Pupil Slicer - Mirrors
Rachika Nayar - Our Hands Against The Dusk
Radio Supernova - Takaisin
Ransom & Rome Streetz - Coup De Grace
Red Kite - Apophenian Bliss
Remi Wolf - Juno
Richard Dawson & Circle - Henki
S280F - 28
Samo Salamon & Hasse Poulsen - String Dancers
Sarah Neufeld - Detritus
Sex Magick Wizards - Your Bliss My Joy
Sha - Monbijou
Shai Maestro - Human
Shamblemaths - Shamblemaths 2
Shame - Drunk Tank Pink
Silk Sonic - An Evening With Silk Sonic
Silkie - Panorama
Simon Steensland - Let's Go To Hell
Ske - Insolubilia
Skyzoo - All The Brilliant Things
So Hideous - None But A Pure Heart Can Sing
Soup with John Zorn - Shinjuku Pit Inn
Spectral Wound - A Diabolic Thirst
Spellling - The Turning Wheel
Springtime - Springtime
Squid - Bright Green Field
Stephan Thelen - Fractal Guitar 2
Stone Giants - West Coast Love Stories
Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin' Grass Vol. 2 (The Cowboy Arms Sessions)
Suburban Savages - Demagogue Days
Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning
Sunless - Ylem
Susan Alcorn, Leila Bordreuil & Ingrid Laubrock - Bird Meets Wire
Terry Riley - Archangels
The Flying Luttenbachers - Negative Infinity
The Holy Family - The Holy Family
The Rempis Percussion Quartet - Sud Des Alpes
The Zone - The Zone
Three-Layer Cake - Stove Top
Thumbscrew - Never Is Enough
Tillison Reingold Tiranti - Allium-Una Storia
Tim Hecker - The North Water
Toboggan - Premiere Descente
Tricot - Jodeki
Trifecta - Fragments
Ulver - Hexahedron
Vauruva - Manso Queimor Dacordado
Vespero - Songo
Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz
Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey - Uneasy
Virtual Dream Plaza - 解放感
Wadada Leo Smith, Jack DeJohnette & Vijay Iyer - A Love Sonnet For Billie Holiday
Wadada Leo Smith, Milford Graves & Bill Laswell - Sacred Ceremonies
Will Guthrie - Live Ateliers Claus
Will Guthrie & James Rushford - Real Real World
William Parker - Mayan Space Station
William Parker - Painters Winter
Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood
Yautja - The Lurch
Your Old Droog - TIME
Zeena Parkins, Mette Rasmussen & Ryan Sawyer - Glass Triangle



Spoiler for 2020 addendum:
A Love Supreme Electric - A Love Supreme & Meditations
Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol.4
Andromelos2 - Electric Reincarnation
Anil Eraslan, Fred Frith, Tom Malmendier & Clara Weil - There Or Here And That
Ben Goldberg - Symphony No. 9
Bergisch-Brandenburgisches Quartett - Free Postmodernism (BBQ With Fred Frith USA 1982)
Bill Laswell, Toshinori Kondo, DJ Krush & Hideo Yamaki - Japan Rise
Blaer - Yellow
Brii - Entre Tudo Que E Visto E Oculto
Burnt Friedman & Mohammad Reza Mortazavi - Yek 2
Cambion - Conflagrate The Celestial Refugium
Causa Sui - Szabodelico
Charles Lloyd - 8-Kindred Spirits
Christy Doran's Sound Fountain - Lift The Bar
Chrome Hill - This Is Chrome Hill
ChuffDRONE - Actio
ChuffDRONE - Re-actio
City Weezle - No 2
Clarence Clarity - Aerobic Exorcise
Colter Wall - Western Swing & Waltzes And Other Punchy Songs
cv313 - Satosphere Sessions [Transmission III]
Daimonji - Eutopia
Darkside - Psychic Live July 17 2014
Dave Bessell - Reality Engine
Dave Rempis, Jeff Parker, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten & Jeremy Cunningham - Stringers And Struts
Dave Rempis, Terrie Ex & Tim Daisy - Sugar Shack
Dolphy Kick Bebop - Briefvisit
Drab City - Good Songs For Bad People
Ech - Ech
Evohe - 77-81
Fred Frith, Sudhu Tewari & Cenk Ergün - Lock Me Up, Lock Me Down
Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra - If You Listen Carefully The Music Is Yours
GoGo Penguin - GoGo Penguin
GoGo Penguin - Live From Studio 2
Gryphon - Get Out Of My Father's Car!
Gyan Riley - Shelter In Space
Helene Vogelsinger - Contemplation
HHY & The Macumbas - Camouflage Vector
Huntsville - Bow Shoulder
Isabelle Olivier & Rez Abbasi - Oasis
Jonathan Wilson - Dixie Blur
Jorge Roeder - El Suelo Mio
Kaatayra - So Quem Viu o Relampago A Sua Direita Sabe
Kaatayra - Toda Historia Pela Frente
Kanaan - Double Sun
Kanaan - Odense Sessions
Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music III
Ketil Bjornstad & Guro Kleven Hagen - The Personal Gallery
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Live In San Francisco '16
Kuzu - Purple Dark Opal
Lucian Ban, John Surman & Mat Maneri - Transylvanian Folk Songs
Mammal Hands - Captured Spirits
Mark Fell & Will Guthrie - Infoldings-Diffractions
Mats Gustafsson & Otomo Yoshihide - Duo-Timing
Mats​​-Morgan - Live Stream Duo
Matteo Ciminari - Fried Hippocampus
Matthew Halsall - Salute To The Sun
Maya Beiser, Evan Ziporyn & Ambient Orchestra - Bowie Cello Symphonic-Blackstar
Men I Trust - Forever Live Sessions
Method Of Defiance - Sons D'Hiver
Moor Mother & Billy Woods - BRASS
Neupink - Swordflower Hills Killer
Nicolas Jaar - Cenizas
Oh Sees - Weirdo Hairdo
Okapi - Kids Selection
Okapi - Otis. Vertical Tales
Omnipotent Youth Society - Inside The Cable Temple
Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet - Hat And Beard
Paisiel - Unconscious Death Wishes
Parcels - Live Vol. 1
Pascal Comelade & Richard Pinhas - Le Plan De Paris
Peter Brötzmann & Fred Lonberg-Holm - Memories Of A Tunicate
Plastic Dogs - Growl
Praed Orchestra! - Live In Sharjah
Prins Thomas - Traens
Pulled By Magnets - Rose Golden Doorways
Rebuig - Mort I Futur
Rich Halley, Matthew Shipp, Michael Bisio & Newman Taylor Baker - The Shape Of Things
Rudresh Mahanthappa - Hero .Trio
Rustin Man - Clockdust
Seaorm - Olkhon
SkyTwoHigh - 歌舞伎町冒険
Sonata Islands Kommandoh - Quasar Burning Bright
Stephan Thelen - World Dialogue
Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin' Grass Vol​.​ 1 (The Butcher Shoppe Sessions)
Sunda Arc - Tides
Susan Alcorn Quintet - Pedernal
Tamikrest - Tamotait
Tashi Dorji & Tyler Damon - To Catch A Bird In A Net Of Wind
Taumel - There Is No Time To Run Away From Here
Terje Rypdal - Conspiracy
The Sorcerers - In Search Of The Lost City Of The Monkey God
Thomas Köner - Motus
Tom Doncourt And Mattias Olsson's Cathedral - Tom Doncourt And Mattias Olsson's Cathedral
Tyshawn Sorey - Unfiltered
Unquiet Music Ltd - In The Name Of... (A Prayer For Our Times)
uSSSy - Po Krugu
Watt - Recorded In Miami 1989-1991
Will Guthrie - For Stephane
Yosuke Yama****a - Quiet Memories
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These 12 were my favorites released and re-released in 2021...





Dead Otter - No Sleep Till Kozfest

Earthless - Live in the Mojave Desert (Volume 1)

Papir - Jams

Experience Unlimited - Free Yourself

Manzanita y Su Conjunto - Trujillo - Perú 1971​-​1974

Rose City Band - Earth Trip

Richard Thompson - Live from London

Ryley Walker And Kikagaku Moyo - Deep Fried Grandeur

Sun Ra and His Arkestra - Omniverse

Tommy Guerrero - Sunshine Radio

The Residents - Ozark (The Missing Bunny Boy Songs)

The Rugged Nuggets - Odds & Ends
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Here's my top ten copied from another thread which I didn't even realize was a journal. It's better off here anyway...

1. San Salvador - La Grande Folie
2. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle
3. Black Midi - Cavalcade
4. Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8
5. Vanishing Twin - Ookii Gekkou
6. Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix
7. BADBADNOTGOOD - Talk Memory
8. TEKE::TEKE - Shirushi
9. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
10. La Femme - Paradigmes

I'll add some honorable mentions...

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises - This BARELY missed the top ten. I just get too sleepy listening to it.
Black Country, New Road - For the First Time
Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few - Cosmic Transitions
Darkside - Spiral
Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant
Panopticon - ...and Again Into the Light
Squid - Bright Green Field
TEKE::TEKE - Shirushi
Kayo Dot - Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike
Spirit of the Beehive - Entertainment, Death
Brandee Younger - Somewhere Different
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Uh, you put TEKE thing on both your top ten and your honourable mentions?
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Top 10 Albums

1. Don Zilla - Ekizikiza Mubwengula (Deconstructed Club/Gqom)
2. Acetantina - Carmen Winstead (Vaporwave/IDM)
3. Porter Robinson - Nurture (Electropop/EDM)
4. Andor - Go! Go! Year of the Cow (Breakbeat/Outsider House)
5. Mucoid - Maestro (Plunderphonics/Downtempo)
6. Croatian Amor & Varg2TM - Body of Content (Alternative R&B/Post-Industrial)
7. For Your Health - In Spite Of (Scramz/Metalcore)
8. GreesyGeazer - Late Night Sessions (Acid Techno/IDM)
9. Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix (Experimental Hip Hop/Experimental)
10. Këkht Aräkh - Pale Swordsman (Black Metal/Dark Folk)

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An album so nice I listed it twice...

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Hmmmm......I think the only 2021 album I really enjoyed was 'Talk Memory' from BADBADNOTGOOD. Lorde's latest sucked. Lana's latest was underwhelming. Lordi had a new release but I didn't listen to it. Oh yeah, Donda kinda sucked too. Credit to Sonny Fodera for his latest, 'Wide Awake' - lots of great tunes, but like many a house album, it just doesn't benefit with the format.And don't get me started on the Manic Street Preachers 2021 album....
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Since I'm probably done checking out new music for this year, I might as well get this year's picks off my chest.
Similarly to last year, I'm not ranking, just listing this year's releases that I think are cool and deserve a listen. This year I'm even too lazy to add genres. As usual with me there's a whole bunch of so-called experimental stuff, like Free Jazz/Improv and AvantProg, also some more "normal" Jazz and Prog, as well as Psych/Kraut, Metal, Hip-Hop, Pop, Punk, Electronica and various other styles and genres.

I also found quite a few 2020 albums this year that weren't included in my original list, so I'm including them here as well.

Looking forward to other members' picks.
Take care and enjoy the holidays!

Spoiler for 2021:
3H Company - 8 Zhizney
Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt - Lucy & Aaron
Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
Aesop Rock & Blockhead - Garbology
Agusa - En Annan Varld
Ahmed - Nights On Saturn (Communication)
ALEPH - Ego Death
Alex Henry Foster - Standing Under Bright Lights
Alex Ward - Gated
Alice Coltrane - Kirtan-Turiya Sings
Altin Gün - Yol
Amon Tobin - How Do You Live
Angel Ontalva - Angel On A Tower
Anne Bourne - Wave
Aquaserge - The Possibility Of A New Work For Aquaserge
Archspire - Bleed The Future
Art Zoyd - Et Avec Votre Esprit-La Foret De Samplers
Backxwash - I Lie Here Buried With My Rings and My Dresses
BadBadNotGood - Talk Memory
Bastarda & Joao de Sousa - Fado
Bela Fleck - My Bluegrass Heart
Ben Goldberg - Everything Happens To Be
Benjamin Mork & Arve Henriksen - The Valleys
Benoit Delbecq - The Weight Of Light
Bill Laswell, Keiji Haino, Yoshihide Otomo & Tatsuya Nakamura - Tokyo Rotation 4-Day 1 Set 1
Bill Laswell, Keiji Haino, Yoshihide Otomo & Tatsuya Nakamura - Tokyo Rotation 4-Day 1 Set 2
Bill Laswell, Toshinori Kondo & Karsh Kale - Tokyo Rotation 1-Day 2 Set 1
Bill Laswell, Toshinori Kondo, DJ Krush & Hideo Yamaki with DJ Sara & DJ Ryusei - Tokyo Rotation 4-Day 3
Bill Laswell, Toshinori Kondo, Karsh Kale & Naruyoshi Kikuchi - Tokyo Rotation 1-Day 2 Set 2
Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
Billy Strings - Renewal
Black Dresses - Forever In Your Heart
Black Midi - Cavalcade
Black Midi - Live-Cade
Blu - The Color Blu(e)
Bob Drake - Planets And Animals
Brii - Sem Proposito
Bruno Pernadas - Private Reasons
Burnt Belief - Mutual Isolation
Can - Live In Brighton 1975
Can - Live In Stuttgart 1975
Chloe Herington - Silent Reflux
Ciccada - Harvest
Clarence Clarity - Vanishing Act I-No Nouns
Clarence Clarity - Your Wrong
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Blue Caprice
Concrete Winds - Nerve Butcherer
Consider The Source - Hybrid Vol. 1-Such As A Mule
CZN - Commutator
Danielle DeGruttola, Henry Kaiser, Benedicte Maurseth & Stein Urheim - Be Here Whenever
Darkside - Spiral
Das Rad - Laik Tors
Death's Dynamic Shroud - Faith In Persona
Death's Dynamic Shroud - Monument To The Architect
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - I Told You So
Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
Edredon Sensible - Vloute Panthere
Electric Orange - Psi-Hybrid
Elephant9 - Arrival Of The New Elders
Eli Keszler - Icons
Embryo - Auf Auf
Esoctrilihum - Dy'th Requiem For The Serpent Telepath
Ethereal Shroud - Trisagion
Evan Parker & Matthew Shipp - Leonine Aspects
Evan Parker Quartet - All Knavery And Collusion
Faust - Punkt (only as part of the 1971-1974 box set)
Fire! - Defeat
First Fragment - Gloire Eternelle
Five The Hierophant - Through Aureate Void
Fred Frith & Ikue Mori - A Mountain Doesn't Know It's Tall
Fred Frith Trio - Road
Frontierer - Oxidized
Full Of Hell - Auditory Trauma
Gas - Der Lange Marsch
Genesis Owusu - Smiling With No Teeth
Giant Claw - Mirror Guide
GoGo Penguin - GGP-RMX
Gyan Riley - Silver Lining
Helene Vogelsinger - Reminiscence
Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant
Horsey - Debonair
Iglooghost - Lei Line Eon
Ikue Mori, Brian Marsella & Sae Hashimoto - Archipelago X
Ill Considered - Liminal Space
IOSONOUNCANE - IRA
Irreversible Entanglements - Open The Gates
Isildurs Bane & Peter Hammill - In Disequilibrium
Jack O' The Clock - Leaving California
Jakob Bro, Arve Henriksen & Jorge Rossy - Uma Elmo
Jason Nazary - Spring Collection
Jaubi - Nafs At Peace
Jo Berger Myhre - Unheimlich Manoeuvre
John Butcher & Eli Kezler - First Meeting
John Medeski - Crawlspace
John Zorn - Chaos Magick
John Zorn - Gnosis-The Inner Light
John Zorn - Heaven And Earth Magick
John Zorn - John Zorn's Bagatelles
John Zorn - Meditations On The Tarot
John Zorn - New Masada Quartet
John Zorn - Nostradamus (The Death Of Satan)
John Zorn - Parables
John Zorn - Teresa De Avila
John Zorn - The Ninth Circle
Jon Durant & Stephan Thelen - Crossings
Jordsjo - Pastoralia
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society with Evan Parker - Descension (Out Of Our Constrictions)
JÜ - III
Jucara Marcal - Delta Estacio Blues
Julian Lage - Squint
Jute Gyte - Mitrealität
Kaatayra - Inpariquipe
Kaeshidome - Kaeshidome
KALI Trio - Loom
Kamikichi - Lucky God
Kanaan - Earthbound
Karkhana - Al Azraqayn
Karoline Wallace - Stiklinger
Keiji Haino & The Hardy Rocks - Keiji Haino & The Hardy Rocks
Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi - Each Side Has a Depth of 5 Seconds / A Polka Dot Pattern in Horizontal Array / A Flickering That Moves Vertically
Kikagaku Moyo - Live At Levitation
King Crimson - Music Is Our Friend
Kino - Kino V Sevkabele
KOAN Sound - Full Circle
Koma Saxo - Live
Korekyojinn - Mesopotamia
Kosmogon - Mässan
Krokofant - Fifth
Kujo - The Rebels Have No King
Kuzu - All Your Ghosts In One Corner
Kuzu - The Glass Delusion
L'Imperatrice - Tako Tsubo
Lindsheaven Virtual Plaza & SkyTwoHigh - Imaginary Pathways
Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
LLNN - Unmaker
Logistic Slaughter - Lower Forms Of Life
Lord Apex - Smoke Sessions Vol. 3
Love-Songs & U. Schütte - [Spannende Musik]
Mach-Hommy - Pray For Haiti
Magma - Eskähl 2020 (Bordeaux-Toulouse-Perpignan)
Malignant Altar - Realms Of Exquisite Morbidity
Mare Cognitum - Solar Paroxysm
Marissa Nadler - The Path Of The Clouds
Martha Rabbit - Phonolith
Maryam Chemirani, Sylvain Barou, Bijan Chemirani & Keyvan Chemirani - Hal
Matthew Halsall - Salute To The Sun (Live At Halle St. Peter's)
McKinley Dixon - For My Mama And Anyone Who Look Like Her
Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
Michael Bisio, Kirk Knuffke & Fred Lonberg-Holm - The Art Spirit
Monobody - Comma
Muito Kaballa Power Ensemble - Mamari
Mule Jenny - All These Songs Of Love And Death
MUST DIE! - CRISIS VISION
Nate Wooley - Mutual Aid Music
Nebulous Sun - First Tale
Needlepoint - Walking Up That Valley
Neptunian Maximalism - Solar Drone Ceremony
Neupink - Seaweed Jesus
Neurosenblüte - Hallo Frühling
Nicolas Jaar - Live In The Hague
Niklas Wandt - Solar Müsli
Nils Petter Molvaer - Stitches
Obscura - A Valediction
Old Time Relijun - Musicking
Olie Brice, Binker Golding, Henry Kaiser, N.O. Moore & Eddie Prevost - The Secret Handshake With Danger, Vol. One
Omie Wise - Wind And Blue
Ophidian I - Desolate
Palo Alto - Difference And Repetition
Papangu - Holoceno
Parcels - Day-Night
Pat Metheny - Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV)
Pino Palladino & Blake Mills - Notes With Attachments
Plebeian Grandstand - Rien Ne Suffit
Portal - Avow
Portico Quartet - Monument
Portico Quartet - Terrain
Pupil Slicer - Mirrors
Rachika Nayar - Our Hands Against The Dusk
Radio Supernova - Takaisin
Ransom & Rome Streetz - Coup De Grace
Red Kite - Apophenian Bliss
Remi Wolf - Juno
Richard Dawson & Circle - Henki
S280F - 28
Samo Salamon & Hasse Poulsen - String Dancers
Sarah Neufeld - Detritus
Sex Magick Wizards - Your Bliss My Joy
Sha - Monbijou
Shai Maestro - Human
Shamblemaths - Shamblemaths 2
Shame - Drunk Tank Pink
Silk Sonic - An Evening With Silk Sonic
Silkie - Panorama
Simon Steensland - Let's Go To Hell
Ske - Insolubilia
Skyzoo - All The Brilliant Things
So Hideous - None But A Pure Heart Can Sing
Soup with John Zorn - Shinjuku Pit Inn
Spectral Wound - A Diabolic Thirst
Spellling - The Turning Wheel
Springtime - Springtime
Squid - Bright Green Field
Stephan Thelen - Fractal Guitar 2
Stone Giants - West Coast Love Stories
Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin' Grass Vol. 2 (The Cowboy Arms Sessions)
Suburban Savages - Demagogue Days
Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning
Sunless - Ylem
Susan Alcorn, Leila Bordreuil & Ingrid Laubrock - Bird Meets Wire
Terry Riley - Archangels
The Flying Luttenbachers - Negative Infinity
The Holy Family - The Holy Family
The Rempis Percussion Quartet - Sud Des Alpes
The Zone - The Zone
Three-Layer Cake - Stove Top
Thumbscrew - Never Is Enough
Tillison Reingold Tiranti - Allium-Una Storia
Tim Hecker - The North Water
Toboggan - Premiere Descente
Tricot - Jodeki
Trifecta - Fragments
Ulver - Hexahedron
Vauruva - Manso Queimor Dacordado
Vespero - Songo
Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz
Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey - Uneasy
Virtual Dream Plaza - 解放感
Wadada Leo Smith, Jack DeJohnette & Vijay Iyer - A Love Sonnet For Billie Holiday
Wadada Leo Smith, Milford Graves & Bill Laswell - Sacred Ceremonies
Will Guthrie - Live Ateliers Claus
Will Guthrie & James Rushford - Real Real World
William Parker - Mayan Space Station
William Parker - Painters Winter
Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood
Yautja - The Lurch
Your Old Droog - TIME
Zeena Parkins, Mette Rasmussen & Ryan Sawyer - Glass Triangle



Spoiler for 2020 addendum:
A Love Supreme Electric - A Love Supreme & Meditations
Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol.4
Andromelos2 - Electric Reincarnation
Anil Eraslan, Fred Frith, Tom Malmendier & Clara Weil - There Or Here And That
Ben Goldberg - Symphony No. 9
Bergisch-Brandenburgisches Quartett - Free Postmodernism (BBQ With Fred Frith USA 1982)
Bill Laswell, Toshinori Kondo, DJ Krush & Hideo Yamaki - Japan Rise
Blaer - Yellow
Brii - Entre Tudo Que E Visto E Oculto
Burnt Friedman & Mohammad Reza Mortazavi - Yek 2
Cambion - Conflagrate The Celestial Refugium
Causa Sui - Szabodelico
Charles Lloyd - 8-Kindred Spirits
Christy Doran's Sound Fountain - Lift The Bar
Chrome Hill - This Is Chrome Hill
ChuffDRONE - Actio
ChuffDRONE - Re-actio
City Weezle - No 2
Clarence Clarity - Aerobic Exorcise
Colter Wall - Western Swing & Waltzes And Other Punchy Songs
cv313 - Satosphere Sessions [Transmission III]
Daimonji - Eutopia
Darkside - Psychic Live July 17 2014
Dave Bessell - Reality Engine
Dave Rempis, Jeff Parker, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten & Jeremy Cunningham - Stringers And Struts
Dave Rempis, Terrie Ex & Tim Daisy - Sugar Shack
Dolphy Kick Bebop - Briefvisit
Drab City - Good Songs For Bad People
Ech - Ech
Evohe - 77-81
Fred Frith, Sudhu Tewari & Cenk Ergün - Lock Me Up, Lock Me Down
Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra - If You Listen Carefully The Music Is Yours
GoGo Penguin - GoGo Penguin
GoGo Penguin - Live From Studio 2
Gryphon - Get Out Of My Father's Car!
Gyan Riley - Shelter In Space
Helene Vogelsinger - Contemplation
HHY & The Macumbas - Camouflage Vector
Huntsville - Bow Shoulder
Isabelle Olivier & Rez Abbasi - Oasis
Jonathan Wilson - Dixie Blur
Jorge Roeder - El Suelo Mio
Kaatayra - So Quem Viu o Relampago A Sua Direita Sabe
Kaatayra - Toda Historia Pela Frente
Kanaan - Double Sun
Kanaan - Odense Sessions
Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music III
Ketil Bjornstad & Guro Kleven Hagen - The Personal Gallery
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Live In San Francisco '16
Kuzu - Purple Dark Opal
Lucian Ban, John Surman & Mat Maneri - Transylvanian Folk Songs
Mammal Hands - Captured Spirits
Mark Fell & Will Guthrie - Infoldings-Diffractions
Mats Gustafsson & Otomo Yoshihide - Duo-Timing
Mats​​-Morgan - Live Stream Duo
Matteo Ciminari - Fried Hippocampus
Matthew Halsall - Salute To The Sun
Maya Beiser, Evan Ziporyn & Ambient Orchestra - Bowie Cello Symphonic-Blackstar
Men I Trust - Forever Live Sessions
Method Of Defiance - Sons D'Hiver
Moor Mother & Billy Woods - BRASS
Neupink - Swordflower Hills Killer
Nicolas Jaar - Cenizas
Oh Sees - Weirdo Hairdo
Okapi - Kids Selection
Okapi - Otis. Vertical Tales
Omnipotent Youth Society - Inside The Cable Temple
Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet - Hat And Beard
Paisiel - Unconscious Death Wishes
Parcels - Live Vol. 1
Pascal Comelade & Richard Pinhas - Le Plan De Paris
Peter Brötzmann & Fred Lonberg-Holm - Memories Of A Tunicate
Plastic Dogs - Growl
Praed Orchestra! - Live In Sharjah
Prins Thomas - Traens
Pulled By Magnets - Rose Golden Doorways
Rebuig - Mort I Futur
Rich Halley, Matthew Shipp, Michael Bisio & Newman Taylor Baker - The Shape Of Things
Rudresh Mahanthappa - Hero .Trio
Rustin Man - Clockdust
Seaorm - Olkhon
SkyTwoHigh - 歌舞伎町冒険
Sonata Islands Kommandoh - Quasar Burning Bright
Stephan Thelen - World Dialogue
Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin' Grass Vol​.​ 1 (The Butcher Shoppe Sessions)
Sunda Arc - Tides
Susan Alcorn Quintet - Pedernal
Tamikrest - Tamotait
Tashi Dorji & Tyler Damon - To Catch A Bird In A Net Of Wind
Taumel - There Is No Time To Run Away From Here
Terje Rypdal - Conspiracy
The Sorcerers - In Search Of The Lost City Of The Monkey God
Thomas Köner - Motus
Tom Doncourt And Mattias Olsson's Cathedral - Tom Doncourt And Mattias Olsson's Cathedral
Tyshawn Sorey - Unfiltered
Unquiet Music Ltd - In The Name Of... (A Prayer For Our Times)
uSSSy - Po Krugu
Watt - Recorded In Miami 1989-1991
Will Guthrie - For Stephane
Yosuke Yama****a - Quiet Memories
Gotta ask, what is it that you do that allows you to listen to that much music?
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