2021

Wire 15 (9)
Israel Vines - And Now We Know Nothing (Interdimensional Transmissions)
Venus Ex Machina - Lux (AD 93)
Futari - Beyond (Libra)
Various - Miniatures 2020 (The 62nd Gramophone Company)
Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Ding Dong. You’re Dead (Rune Grammofon)
Paranoise - Noizu / The 2nd Act (Skank Bloc) +#447
Lauren Sarah Hayes - Embrace (Superpang)
Emma-Jean Thackray - Yellow (Movementt)
Dal:um - Similar & Different (tak:til)
Siderean - Lost on Void’s Horizon (Edged Circle) +#450
Consorts - Distinctions (Spoonhunt)
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 (Black Truffle)
Phew - New Decade (Mute)
Threshing Floor - Threshing Floor (El Studio 444 / Reboot) +#453
Gordan - Down in the Meadow (Morphine)

record of the year
Phew - New Decade (Mute)

#454

Gordan - Down in the Meadow (Morphine)

The songs here emanate from deep Serbian tradition, sometimes using modes and ornaments so rare that they belong to just a single village or singer; Spajić’s dread performance is gripping, like something ancient being born. — Francis Gooding