Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Friends of Twist & Shout Pick: the Best Albums of 2020

Andrea Paschal: CIMS/THINKINDIE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

1. Jarv-Is - Beyond the Pale
2. The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You
3. Haim - Women in Music Pt. III
4. Yelle - L’ere Du Versau
5. ARCA - KiCk I
6. Washed Out - Purple Noon
7. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Idiot Prayer
8. Caribou - Suddenly
9. Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
10. Disclosure - Energy

Liz Boger: CIMS SALES & MARKETING

1. Haim - Women in Music Pt. III
2. The Strokes - The New Abnormal
3. Sylvan Esso - Free Love
4. Waxahatchee - St. CLoud
5. Glass Animals - Dreamland
6. Beabadoobee - Fake it Flowers
7. Wray - Stream of Youth/ Blank World
8. Washed Out - Purple Noon
9. Finneas - Blood Harmony
10. Purity Ring - WOMB

Blake Wimberly: CIMS/THINKINDIE DO/KNOW-IT-ALL

1. John Carroll Kirby - My Garden
2. Andras - Joyful
3. Matt Karmil - STS371
4. Paradise Cinema - Paradise Cinema
5. Chip Wickham - Blue To Red
6. Turn On The Sunlight - Warm Waves
7. Roman Flügel - Garden Party
8. Anunaku/DJ Plead - 032
9. Ami Dang - Meditations Mixtape Vol. 1
10. WRAY - Stream of Youth/Blank World

Scott Register: THINKINDIE A&R
1. Kathleen Edwards - Total Freedom
2. Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1: The Butcher Shop Sessions & Cuttin’ Grass
3. Whitney Rose - We Still Go To Rodeos
4. Matt Berninger - Serpentine Prison
5. Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas
6. My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall II
7. Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter
8. Paris Jackson - Wilted
9. Nada Surf - Never Not Together
10. HAIM - Women In Music Pt. III

Russell Cothran: THINKINDIE SALES & MARKETING

1. Afghan Whigs - Black Love & Gentlemen
2. Jellyfish - Bellybutton
3. Brian Eno - Ambient 1 Music For Airports
4. John Coltrane - Blue Train
5. Talk Talk - The Spirit Of Eden
6. Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
7. Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas
8. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
9. Steely Dan - Gold
10. Tame Impala - Lonerism

Nick Campbell: THINKINDIE WAREHOUSE MANAGER

1. Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
2. Choir Boy - Gathering Swans
3. Moaning - Uneasy Laughter
4. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways to New Italy
5. Nation of Language - Introduction, Presence
6. Hum - Inlet
7. Bambara - Stray
8. Wray - Stream of Youth / Blank World
9. Holy Wave - Interloper
10. En Attendant Ana - Juillet

Ashley Vaske: CIMS/THINKINDIE ACCOUNTING

1. Poliça - When We Stay Alive
2. Haim - Women in Music Pt. III Monsters
3. Rhye - Home EP
4. Joe Wong - Nite Creatures
5. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
6. Yelle - L’Ère du Verseau
7. Mourn - Self Worth
8. Run the Jewels - RTJ4
9. Khruangbin - Mordechai
10. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters

Jack Patton-Smith: ACCOUNT REPRESENTATIVE REDEYE

1. Bendrix Littleton - Deep Dark South
2. Rival Consoles - Articulation
3. Wax Machine - Earthsong of Silence
4. Georgia - Seeking Thrills
5. Autechre - SIGN/PLUS
6. Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown
7. Osees - Protean Threat
8. Dead Ghosts - Automatic Changer
9. Dirtbike - Country Club Acres
10. Lance Bangs - Whammy

Alex Ramsay: THIRTY TIGERS

1. Osees - Protean Threat
2. Loving - If I Am Only My Thoughts
3. Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto - Quatermass Seven
4. Jyoti - Mama, You Can Bet!
5. North Americans - Roped In
6. Cut Worms - Nobody Lives Here Anymore
7. John Moreland - LP5
8. The Heliocentrics - Telemetric Sounds
9. Hiroshi Yoshimura - Green (2020 Reissue)
10. Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammed - Jazz Is Dead 001

Thursday, December 3, 2020

Twist & Shout Staff Picks: The Best of 2020

Paul Epstein
New Releases

1. Bob Dylan - Rough & Rowdy Ways
2. Ron Miles - Rainbow Sign
3. Khruangbin - Mordechai
4. Bruce Springsteen - Letter to You
5. John Hurlbut & Jorma Kaukonen - The River Flows
6. Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin' Grass
7. Lucinda Williams - Good Souls Better Angels
8. Jason Isbell - Reunions
9. David Bromberg - Big Road
10. X - Alphabetland

Reissues

1. Joni Mitchell - Archives Vol. 1 (1963-1967)
2. Neil Young - Homegrown
3. Tom Petty - Wildflowers and All the Rest
4. King Crimson - Complete 1969 Recordings
5. The Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup Super Deluxe
6. Lou Reed - New YorkDeluxe
7. Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah UmMobile Fidelity
8. The Doors - Morrison Hotel
9. Paul Kantner/Grace Slick - Blows Against the Empire
10. Grateful Dead - American Beauty and Workingman's Dead 50th Anniversary Edition

Anna Lathem
1. Ruston Kelly - Shape and Destroy
2. X - Alphabetland
3. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
4. Kacey Musgraves - The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show
5. Elizabeth Cook - Aftermath
6. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
7. The Killers - Imploding the Mirage
8. Nathaniel Rateliff - And It's Still Alright
9. Fantastic Negrito - Have You Lost Your Mind Yet
10. Bob Dylan - Rough & Rowdy Ways
11. Ron Miles - Rainbow Sign
12. Matt Berninger - Serpentine Prison
13. Khruangbin and Leon Bridges - Texas Sun (EP)
14. Prince - Sign O' the Times Reissue
15. Sylvan Esso - Free Love
16. The Chicks - Gaslighter

Ben Sumner
1. Janos Starker - Plays Kodaly Cello Sonata
2. Dead Kennedys - "Nazi Punks Fuck Off"
3. Salah Ragab - Cairo Jazz Band
4. Kylie Minogue - Disco
5. Dariush Dolat-Shahi - Electronic Music, Tar and Sehtar
6. Hedzoleh Soundz - Hedzoleh
7. Nadine Shah - Kitchen Sink
8. Moğollar - Moğollar
9. Sarolta Zalatnay - Álmodj Velem...
10. Ottilie Patterson - 3000 Years With Ottilie
11. Folke Rabe - Was??
12. Kamaal Williams - Wu Hen
13. Mort Garson - Music from Patch Cord Productions
14. Henry Jacobs - Highlights from Vortex
15. Ron Cornelius - Tin Luck
16. Debris' - Static Disposal
17. William Basinski - Lamentations
18. Los Lobos - Colossal Head
19. Joni Mitchell - Archive Vol. 1
20. Bill Evans - Symbiosis
21. Bruce Springsteen - Letter to You
22. Ivor Cutler - Dandruff
23. Dave & Toni Arthur - Hearken To The Witches Rune
24. Khruangbin - Mordechai
25. Jack Adkins - American Sunset

Blake Britton
1. Black Market Brass - Undying Thirst
2. Khruangbin - Mordechai
3. Shabaka and the Ancestors - We Were Sent Here By History
4. The Strokes - The New Abnormal
5. Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
6. Angel Olsen - Whole New Mess
7. Beach Bunny - Honeymoon
8. Tengger - Nomad
9. Sylvan Esso - Free Love
10. Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
11. Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter
12. Bohren & der Club of Gore - Patchouli Blue
13. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
14. Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
15. Fontaines D.C. - A Heroe's Death
16. R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages
17. Cold Beat - Mother (DFA Records <3)
18. Dan Deacon - Mystic Familiar
19. Haim - Women In Music Pt. III
20. Osees - Protean Threat

Brian Albright
New Music

1. Jesse Daniel - Rollin' On
2. The Explorer's Club - The Explorer's Club
3. Young Fresh Fellows - Toxic Youth
4. Old 97's - Twelfth
5. Elizabeth Cook - Aftermath
6. The Lickerish Quartet - Threesome Vol. 1
7. X - Alphabetland
8. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways to New Italy

Reissues & Collections

1. Everly Brothers - Down in the Bottom: Country Rock Sessions 1966-'68
2. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Just Coolin'
3. Tom Petty - Wildflowers & All the Rest
4. Van Duren - Are You Serious?
5. Various Artists - Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-87
6. Redd Kross - Phaseshifter
7. Pylon - Chomp
8. Various Artists - Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: The Tears of Technology

Bridget Hartman
1. Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown
2. Ambrose Akinmusire - On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment
3. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
4. Khruangbin - Mordechai
5. Thundercat - It Is What It Is
6. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Chunky Shrapnel
7. Dan Deacon - Mystic Familiar
8. Osees - Protean Threat
9. Nubya Garcia - Source
10. Swamp Dogg - Sorry You Couldn’t Make It Reissue

Chris Bjork
1. Nomadic Homes - Indecision
2. Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Monsters Eating People Eating Monsters
3. Bananagun - The True Story of Bananagun
4. Fleet Foxes - Shore
5. Fuzz - III
6. Beans - All Together Now
7. Osees - Protean Threat
8. Dead Ghosts - Automatic Changer
9. Dirtbike - Country Club Acres
10. Lance Bangs - Whammy

Doug Anderson
1. Bill Frisell Trio - Valentine
2. Artemis - Artemis
3. Run the Jewels - RTJ4
4. Ron Miles - Rainbow Sign
5. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
6. Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown
7. Osees - Protean Threat
8. Dead Ghosts - Automatic Changer
9. Dirtbike - Country Club Acres
10. Lance Bangs - Whammy

Ethan Griggs
1. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
2. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
3. Fleet Foxes - Shore
4. Kevin Morby - Sundowner
5. Khruangbin - Mordechai
6. Osees - Protean Threat
7. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways to New Italy
8. Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown
9. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
10. Lucinda Williams - Good Souls Better Angels

Extra Kool
Vinyl

1. Atmosphere - The Day Before Halloween
2. Nigel - Tantrum
3. Aesop Rock - Spirit World Field Guide
4. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - What It Is
5. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Because Is In Your Mind
6. Ron Miles - Rainbow Sign
7. Makeup & Vanity Set - The Heart of Batman
8. Run the Jewels - RTJ4

DVD & Blu-ray

1. Friday the 13th Box Set
2. Shivers
3. Psycho 60th Anniversary Edition
4. Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits
5. Solid Metal Nightmares: Shinya Tsukamoto box set
6. Batman - A Death in the Family
7. Daughters of Darkness
8. Joker

Jonathan Eagle
Vinyl

1. Neil Young – Homegrown
2. Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou – May Our Chambers Be Full
3. Huey Lewis & the News – Weather
4. Steve Roach – Tomorrow
5. Deerhoof – Love/Lore
6. Blue Öyster Cult – The Symbol Remains
7. Mr. Bungle – The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny
8. Mort Garson – Music from Patch Cord Productions
9. Run the Jewels – RTJ4
10. Hum - Inlet
11. Alicia Keys – Alicia
12. Cirith Ungol – Forever Black
13. Bruce Springsteen – Letter to You
14. Shabaka & the Ancestors – We Are Sent Here by History
15. Elvis Costello – Hey, Clockface
16. Killah Priest – Rocket to Nebula
17. Mary Lattimore – Silver Ladders
18. Oneohtrix Point Never – Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
19. Yves Tumor – Heaven to a Tortured Mind
20. Autechre – Plus / Sign

Film & TV

1. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
2. The Gentlemen
3. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
4. Bill and Ted Face the Music
5. Daddy and Them
6. Fargo Season 4
7. Dear Mr. Watterson
8. The Sopranos (fifth re-watch)
9. The complete shitshow that was the presidential debates + election
10. The Parks and Rec Reunion

Kevin McGrellis
Vinyl

1. Grimes - Miss Anthropocene
2. Lady Gaga - Chromatica
3. Emily A. Sprague - Hill, Flower, Fog
4. Adrianne Lenker - Songs & Instrumentals
5. Moor Mother - Circuit City
6. Touché Amoré - Lament
7. Shamir - Shamir
8. Hilary Woods - Birthmarks
9. Lomelda - Hannah
10. Taylor Swift - folklore.

Linden Jackson
DVD/Blu-ray

1. Color Out of Space
2. Relic
3. Possessor
4. Swallow
5. The Vast of Night
6. The Platform (El Hoyo)
7. His House
8. Beanpole
9. Sea Fever
10. Motel Hell Blu-ray steelbook

(Not) Matt Cobos
Tunes I Jammed in Quar

1. Viagra Boys - all albums & EPs
2. CCR Headcleaner - Tear Down the Wall
3. Emily A. Sprague - Hill, Flower, Fog
4. Sakuran-Zensen - I Am Sakuran-Zensen
5. L.A. Witch - Play With Fire
6. RMFTM - Subversive II(single from upcoming LP)
7. Melvins - I Fuck Around (single from upcoming LP)
8. Osees - Protean Threat

Crap I Watched in Quar

1. Joe’s Apartment
2. Dead Man on Campus
3. Nothing But Trouble
4. My Boyfriend’s Back
5. Multiplicity
6. Hubie Happween
7. Below Deck
8. Below Deck Mediterranean
9. Big Brother UK Season 5
10. The Circle
11. The Circle UK
12. 90 Day Fiance
13. 90 Day Fiance The Other Way
14. The Bachelorette Australia

Max Kaufman
1. Jeff Rosenstock - No Dream
2. Run the Jewels - RTJ4
3. Freddie Gibbs and the Alchemist - Alfredo
4. Disheveled Cuss - Disheveled Cuss
5. Mr. Bungle - Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo
6. King Buzzo & Trevor Dunn - Gift of Sacrifice
7. Mr. Bungle - The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny
8. Nothing - The Great Dismal
9. Run the Jewels - RTJ4
10. Primitive Man - Immersion
11. Cirith Ungol - Forever Black
12. Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full
13. Gorillaz - Song Machine Season 1: Strange Times
14. Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville
15. Open Mike Eagle - Anime, Trauma, & Divorce
16. Thundercat - It Is What It Is
17. Idles - Ultra Mono
18. Metz - Atlas Vending
19. Clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned
20. Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats - Unlocked
21. Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
22. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher

Patrick Brown
MUSIC

1. Lucinda Williams - Good Souls Better Angels
2. Run the Jewels - RTJ4
3. Drive-By Truckers - The Unraveling
4. Serengeti - AJAI
5. Elizabeth Cook - Aftermath
6. Liberty Ellman - Last Desert
7. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
8. X - Alphabetland
9. Tabansi Studio Band - Wakar Alhazai Kano / Mus'en Sofoa
10. Ron Miles - Rainbow Sign
11. Thumbscrew - The Anthony Braxton Project
12. Tim Berne's Snakeoil - The Fantastic Mrs. 10
13. Old 97’s - Twelfth
14. Pet Shop Boys - Hotspot
15. Rolling Blackouts C.F. - Sideways to New Italy

MOVIES

1. Vitalina Varela
2. Pain & Glory
3. Bacurau
4. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
5. Parasite
6. Young Ahmed
7. The House That Jack Built
8. Sorry We Missed You
7. First Cow
8. The Lighthouse

Blu-ray Reissue

1. The Complete Films of Agnès Varda
2. Maya Deren Collection
3. Paris Is Burning
4. Beau Travail
5. There's Always Tomorrow

Quinn Theis
1. Ron Miles - Rainbow Sign
2. E-40 - Give Me 6'
3. Joni Mitchell - Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967)
4. Wire - Mind Hive
5. Bob Dylan - Rough & Rowdy Ways
6. Sparks - A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip
7. Gooch Palms - III
8. Shabaka and The Ancestors - We Are Sent Here by History
9. Deerhoof - Love-Lore
10. Adrianne Lenker - Songs and Instrumentals
11. Autechre - Forever Black
12. Bruce Springsteen - Plus/Sign
13. R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages
14. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
15. Tobe Nwigwe - The Pandemic Project
16. Jen Curtis/Tyshawn Sorey - Invisible Ritual
17. Killah Priest - Music from Patch Cord Productions
18. Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
19. Jhene Aiko - Chilombo
20. Natalia Lafourcade - Un Canto por Mexico, Vol. 1

Reggie Jordan
1. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
2. Sofi Tukker - Dancing on the People EP
3. Grimes - Miss Anthropocene
4. Yelle - L'ere du Verseau
5. Adult. - Perception is/as/of Deception
6. Garmarna - Forbundet
7. Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now
8. Katie Gately - Loom
9. Lady Gaga - Chromatica
10. Mr. Bungle - Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny

Rory Dumas
1. Khruangbin - Mordechai
2. Nick Cave - Idiot Prayer
3. Thundercat - It Is What It Is
4. Yelle - L'ere du Verseau
5. Run the Jewels - RTJ4
6. Budos Band - Long In the Tooth
7. Fuzz - III
8. Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - Texas Sun
9. Lady Gaga - Chromatica
10. Antibalas - Fu Chronicles

Stephanie Rendon
1. Thundercat - It Is What It Is
2. Aminé - Limbo
3. Westside Gunn - Pray for Paris
4. Idles - Ultra Mono
5. Freddie Gibbs & the Alchemist - Alfredo
6. Mac Miller - Circles
7. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
8. Lady Gaga - Chromatica
9. Grimes - Miss Anthropocene
10. Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake
11. Action Bronson - Only for Dolphins
12. Budos Band - Long In the Tooth
13. Alicia Keys - Alicia
14. Butcher Brown - #KingButch
15. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Chunky Shrapnel
16. Khruangbin - Mordechai