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Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Twist & Shout Staff Picks: the Best of 2021

Paul Epstein’s list - Did I Dream This? 2021

New Releases
1) Steve Gunn - Other You
2) Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders - Promises
3) Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
4) Robert Plant/Alison Krauss - Raise The Roof
5) Nathaniel Rateliff - Red Rocks 2020
6) Daniel Lanois - Heavy Sun
7) Los Lobos - Native Sons
8) Goose - Shenanigans Nite Club
9) John Hurlbut and Jorma Kaukonen - The River Flows II
10) Chrissie Hynde - Standing In The Doorway
11) Wanda Jackson - Encore
12) Billy Strings - Renewal
13) Lucinda Williams - Runnin’ Down A Dream
14) Sturgill Simpson - Ballad Of Dood & Juanita
15) Valerie June - Moon & Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers


Reissues
1) Jefferson Airplane - Acid, Incense And Balloons
2) Can - Doko E: Live In Cologne
3) Neil Young - Way Down In The Rust Bucket
4) Bruce Springsteen - The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concert
5) Tim Buckley - Bear’s Sonic Journals: Merry-Go-Round At The Carousel
6) Grateful Dead - Light Into Ashes
7) Bob Dylan - Springtime In New York 1980-1985
8) Joni Mitchell - Archives Vol. II
9) Rolling Stones - Tattoo You - 40th Anniversary
10) Ali Akbar Khan - Bear’s Sonic Journals: That Which Colors The Mind

Hello, my name is Patrick Brown and these are my top things of 2021.

MUSIC RELEASES:
1. Claire Chase – Density 2036
2. Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime
3. No-No Boy – 1975
4. Tim Berne / Chris Speed / Reid Anderson / Dave King – Broken Shadows
5. Sons of Kemet – Black To The Future
6. Julius Hemphill – The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (archival)
7. Tune-Yards – Sketchy.
8. Courtney Barnett – Things Take Time, Take Time
9. Star Feminine Band – Star Feminine Band
10. Henry Threadgill Zooid – Poof
11. Electric Jalaba – El Hal
12. Parquet Courts – Sympathy for Life
13. Wild Up – Julius Eastman, Vol. 1: Femenine
14. Todd Snider – First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder
15. Yola – Stand For Myself
16. Goat – Headsoup
17. Sun Ra – Egypt 1971 (archival)
18. Wau Wau Collectif – Yaral Sa Doom
19. Vijay Iyer Trio – Uneasy
20. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & London Symphony Orchestra – Promises


BLU-RAY RELEASES:
1. Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
2. World of Wong Kar-Wai box set
3. After Life
4. The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggs
5. Satantango
6. Celine and Julie Go Boating
7. Memories of Murder
8. Devi
9. Nightmare Alley
10. Judas and the Black Messiah

Adam Reshotko’s two years of tunes for pandemic times

All Them Witches - Nothing As the Ideal
Belle & Sebastian - What to Look For In Summer
Can - Live in Stuttgart 1975
Angel Bat Dawid - Live
Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series Vol. 16: Springtime in New York
Bob Dylan - Rough & Rowdy Ways
Goat - Headsoup
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead 50th Anniversary
Green Druid - At the Maw of Ruin
The Heliocentrics - Telemetric Sound
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Chunky Shrapnel
King Woman - Celestial Blues
Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
Phish - Sigma Oasis
John Prine - Crooked Piece of Time
Sons of Kemet - Black to the Future
Stereolab - Electrically Possessed (Switched On Vol. 4)
Sun Ra - Egypt 1971
The Third Mind - The Third Mind
Fantastic Negrito - Have You Lost Your Mind Yet
Richard & Linda Thompson - Hard Luck Stories 1972-1982
Trees - Trees: 50th Anniversary Edition
Various Artists - Spiritual Jazz 13: NOW! (Parts 1 & 2)
Amy Winehouse - Live at the BBC
Neil Young - Way Down in the Rust Bucket
Frank Zappa - Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show

Hello, my name is Amy and these are my top things of 2021:

1. Skee Mask - Pool
2. Black Midi - Cavalcade
3. Senyawa - Alkisah
4. Genesis Owusu - Smiling With No Teeth
5. Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix
6. Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
7. Black Country, New Road - For the First Time
8. Kessler - Ambivalent EP
9. Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - Made Out of Sound
10. Iglooghost - Lei Line Eon
11. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATES END!
12. Floating Points/Pharoah Sanders - Promises
13. Kučka - Wrestling
14. Ad Nauseum - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
15. Blanck Mass - In Femeaux
16. Turnstile - Glow On
17. Yu Su - Yellow River Blue
18. Ross From Friends - Tread
19. Rochelle Jordan - Play With the Changes
20. Panopticon - …And Again Into the Light
21. Leon Vynehall - Rare, Forever
22. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince
23. Andy Stott - Never the Right Time
24. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
25. Yves Tumor - The Asymptomatical World EP
26. Spelling - The Turning Wheel
27. Maria Arnal i Marcel Bagés - Clamor
28. Papangu - Holoceno
29. Aesop Rock & Blockhead - Garbology
30. Ka - A Martyr’s Reward

Howdy! My name is Anna Lathem and these (in no particular order but kinda also a lil bit in a particular order) are my top things of 2021:

1. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass 50th Anniversary
2. Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed
3. Durand Jones & the Indications - Private Space
4. Magic Castles - Sun Reign
5. Leon Bridges - Gold-Diggers Sound
6. Yola - Stand For Myself
7. Valerie June - The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers
8. Brittany Howard - Jaime (Reimagined)
9. Curtis Harding - If Words Were Flowers
10. Olivia Rodrigo - Sour
11. Silk Sonic - An Evening With Silk Sonic
12. Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime
13. The Killers – Pressure Machine
14. Electric Six – Streets of Gold
15. Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant
16. The Vaccines – Back in Love City
17. Parquet Courts – Sympathy for Life
18. Jose Gonzales – Local Honey
19. The Beatles – Let it Be 50th Anniversary
20. St. Vincent – Daddy’s Home
21. Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams
22. Bo Burnham – Inside
23. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Butterfly 3000
24. Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color (Deluxe Edition)
25. Spiritualized – Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (Reissue)

Ben's Top Musical Items of 2021

1. Elton John - Regimental Sgt. Zippo (RSD reissue of 1968 album)
2. Wau Wau Collectif - Yaral Sa Doom
3. Bill Fay - Time Of The Last Persecution (UK RSD reissue)
4. El Michels Affair - Yeti Season
5. Tintern Abbey - Beeside - Complete Recordings (CD only)
6. Star Feminine Band - Star Feminine Band
7. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
8. Salah Ragab - Egypt Strut (RSD reissue)
9. Toumani Diabaté - Kôrôlén
10. Damon Albarn - The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows
11. Makaya McCraven – Deciphering the Message
12. Adele – 30
13. Tony Allen - There Is No End
14. Durand Jones & the Indications - Private Space
15. La Luz - La Luz
16. Imelda May - 11 Past The Hour
17. Pharoah Sanders & Floating Points - Promises
18. James Taylor - Dad Loves His Work (40th Anniversary Super Deluxe Box Set with personalized welding gear)

My name is Blake Britton and this is a list of stuff I enjoyed this year.

Vinyl:
1. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - I Told You So
2. El Michels Affair - Yeti Season
3. Orquesta Akokán - 16 Rayos
4. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
5. The Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - Expansions
6. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
7. Can - Live in Stuttgart 1975
8. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
9. Museum of Love - Life of Mammals
10. Faye Webster - I Know I'm Funny haha


CD/digital:
1. Ilyas Ahmed & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - You Can See Your Own Way Out
2. Les Filles de Illighadad - At Pioneer Works
3. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince
4. Tony Allen - There Is No End
5. Skee Mask - Pool
6. Wau Wau Collectif - Yaral Sa Doom
7. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
8. CHAI - WINK
9. Madlib - Sound Ancestors
10. The Velveteers - Nightmare Daydream


DVD/Blu-ray (not all of these are new, but they were new to me):
1. Rear Window (1954)
2. Touch of Evil (1958)
3. Love & Mercy (The Life, Love, and Genius of Brian Wilson) (2014)
4. Vampyr (1932)
5. タンポポ [Tampopo] (1985)
6. She’s Gotta Have It (1986)
7. El ángel exterminador [The Exterminating Angel] (1962)
8. North by Northwest< (1959)
9. Born in Flames (1983)
10. Bo Burnham: Inside (2021)

Hello, my name is Brian Albright and these are my top things of 2021.

New Music:
1. Cheap Trick – In Another World
2. Steve Almaas – Everywhere You’ve Been
3. Los Lobos – Native Sons
4. Legal Matters – Chapter Three
5. Jesse Daniel – Beyond These Walls


Reissues/Collections:
1. Various Artists – Rockets of Love: Power Pop Gems
2. The dB’s – I Thought You Wanted To Know 1978-1981
3. The Beat Farmers – Tales of the New West - Deluxe
4. Tom Petty – Angel Dream
5. KISS – Destroyer 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe

Hello, my name is Brian W and these are my top things of 2021:

Not in any order:
Kikagaku Moyo - live at levitation
Menahan Street Band - exciting sounds
John Dwyer - endless garbage
Sonic Boom - almost nothing is nearly enough
Reining Sound - a little more time with
Magic Castles - sun reign
Night Beats - Outlaw R&B
Link Wray - Sings and Plays guitar
Murlocs - bittersweet demons
Monophonics - it’s only us
Rugged Nuggets - odds and ends
Amyl and the Sniffers - comfort to me
King Gizz - butterfly 3000
Jr. Thomas and the Volcanos - beware
Goat - headsoup
La luz - s/t
Orquesta Akokan - 16 rayos
Various - soul slabs vol. 3
Tony Allen - there is no end
King Woman - celestial blues (that’s for you Squirrel)


Reissues/Collections:
Digital Underground - Sex Packets
Upsetters - return of django
Spiritualized - J. Spaceman reissue series
Digable Planets – reachin’
Frankie & the Witch Fingers - brain telephone
Kashmere Stage Band - our thing
BJM audiophile series continues….


Don’t hurt ‘em Steph.


Hello, my name is Chris Bjork and these are my top things of 2021:

1. Good Morning – Barnyard
2. Fleet Foxes – Shore
3. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – Shyga! The Sunlight Mound
4. Black Midi – Calavcade
5. Meatbodies – 333
6. Let Your Hair Down – Waiting Room
7. Hoovenii – Water For the Frogs
8. Oriens Belte – Villa Amorini
9. Kit Sebastian – Melodi
10. Silver Synthetic – Silver Synthetic
11. Badbadnotgood – Talk Memory
12. Babe Rainbow – Changing Colours
13. Good Morning TV – Small Talk
14. The Murlocs – Bittersweet Dreams
15. Menahan Street Band – The Exciting Sounds of Menahan Street Band
16. Triptides – Alter Echoes
17. Monophonics – It’s Only Us
18. Maston & L’Clair – Souvenir
19. Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band – Music Is Dead
20. Hello, I’m Sorry – Buddy


Hello, my name is Eric Curley and these are my top things of 2021:

1. Menahan Street Band - The Exciting Sounds Of (2/26)
2. Hail the Sun - New Age Filth (4/16)*
*---> Fun Fact: one of our former LA roommates is the bass player. :-)
3. The Black Keys - Delta Kream (5/14)
4. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000 (6/11)
5. Steve Gunn - Other You (8/27)
6. The Bronx - VI (8/27)
7. Various Artists - The Daptone Super Soul Revue LIVE at the Apollo (10/1)
8. Between the Buried and Me - Colors II (10/8)
9. Every Time I Die - Radical (10/22)
10. Mastodon - Hushed and Grim (10/29)

Ethan’s Top albums/reissues (alphabetically by artist):

Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - Expansions
Beatles – Let It Be (Super Deluxe)
dB’s – I Thought You Wanted To Know 1978-1981
El Michels Affair – Yeti Season
Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra – Promises
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – G-d’s Pee at State’s End
Steve Gunn – Other You
Idles - Crawler
Durand Jones & the Indications – Private Space
La Luz – La Luz
Menahan Street Band – The Exciting Sounds Of Menahan Street Band
Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime
My Bloody Valentine – Isn’t Anything/Loveless/mbv Remasters
R.E.M. – New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Remember Sports – Like a Stone
Replacements – Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out the Trash
40th Anniversary Remaster Rolling Stones – Tattoo You
(40th Anniversary super deluxe vinyl box, specifically) Spirit of the Beehive – ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH
Stereolab – Electrically Possessed (Switched On Vol. 4)
Various – The Daptone Super Soul Revue Live! At The Apollo
War on Drugs – I Don’t Live Here Anymore
Lucinda Williams – Bob’s Back Pages: A Night of Bob Dylan Songs


Movies I saw and liked (alphabetically by title)
Annette (Leos Carax)
Nomadland (Chloé Zhao) RELEASED IN U.S. THEATERS JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2021
Roadrunner: A Film about Anthony Bourdain (Morgan Neville)


BEST SHOW I SAW: ROLLING STONES “NO FILTER” TOUR @ THE DOME AT AMERICA’S CENTER ST. LOUIS, MO on SEPTEMBER 26TH

Extra Kool’s Best of 2021 in no particular order:

Top 10 albums:
1. DJ Muggs – Dies Occidendum (my album of the year)
2. Atmosphere – Word?
3. Hide – Interior Terror
4. Dark Time Sunshine – Lore
5. Atmosphere – God’s Bathroom Floor 7”
6. Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever
7. John Carpenter / Cody Carpenter – Halloween Kills
8. Digital Underground – Sex Packets (vinyl reissue)
9. Aesop Rock & Blockhead – Garbology
10. DJ Abilities – Photograph Phoenix


Top 12 Blu-rays:
1. Witching & Bitching
2. Elvira’s Haunted Hills
3. Scanner Cop 1&2 box set
4. Batman: The Long Halloween Parts 1&2
5. Born For Hell
6. Jakob’s Wife
7. The House on Sorority Row
8. Delirium
9. The Suicide Squad
10. The Day of the Beast
11. Saint Maud
12. Sacrifice

Hello, my name is Harrison Mains and these are my top things of 2021.

Vinyl
1. Backxwash – I Lie Here Buried With My Rings And My Dresses
2. Viagra Boys – Welfare Jazz
3. Kero Kero Bonito – Civilisation
4. Silk Sonic – An Evening With Silk Sonic
5. Space Afrika – Honest Labor
6. Spellling – The Turning Wheel
7. Black Dresses – Forever In Your Heart
8. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
9. Sturgill Simpson – The Ballad of Dood and Juanita
10. Czarface & MF Doom – Super What?
11. Amyl & the Sniffers – Comfort to Me


Hello, my name is Jack Brown and these are my top things of 2021.

1. Porter Ricks – Biokinetics
2. Porter Ricks – Porter Ricks
3. Menahan Street Band – The Exciting Sounds of
4. El Michels Affair – Yeti Season
5. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band – Expansions
6. DJ Muggs – Dies Occidenium
7. Alan Vega – Mutator
8. Mort Garson – Music From Patch Cord
9. Seefeel – Rupt & Flex 94-96
10. Bug – Fire

Hello, my name is James Mabry and these are my top things of 2021.

CD:
1. Girl In Red – If I Could Make It Go Quiet
2. Paul Weller – Fat Pop
3. Chai – Wink
4. La Luz – La Luz
5. Devlon Lamarr Organ Trio – I Told You So


DVD/Blu-ray:
1. Summer of Soul
2. Sparks Brothers
3. Annette

Hello, my name is Jase Jones and these are my top things of 2021.

1. Shakey Graves – Roll the Bones X
2. Zeal and Ardor – Zeal and Ardor
3. Zero 7 – Shadows EP
4. The Drums – Portamento
5. Radiohead – Kid A Mnesia
6. Various Artists – The Daptone Super Soul Revue Live at the Apollo
7. Madlib – Sound Ancestors
8. Madlib – Bad Neighbor
9. The Velveteers – Nightmare Daydream

Hello, my name is JEagle and I’m an alcoholic…. Er, sorry, wrong meeting. This is my favorite shit from 2021

New Albums
1. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders + the London Symphony Orchestra – Promises
2. Fire! – Defeat
3. Payroll Giovanni & Cardo – Another Day Another Dollar
4. Mike Lust – Demented Wings
5. Chris Corsano + Bill Orcutt – Made Out of Sound
6. The Flatlanders – Treasure of Love
7. Noga Erez – Kids
8. Reigning Sound – A Little More Time with Reigning Sound
9. Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime
10. Hayes Carll – You Get It All
11. Electric Boys – Upside Down
12. Flying Lotus – Yasuke
13. Poets of Rhythm – Discern/Define
14. L.A. Guns – Checkered Past
15. Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg
16. El Michels Affair – Yeti Season
17. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Carnage
18. Steve Roach + Serena Gabriel – Temple of the Melting Dawn
19. Whit Dickey, William Parker + Matthew Shipp – Village Mothership
20. Jim O’Rourke + Elliott Sharp – Sakuraza


Films
1. Nobody (Ilya Naishuller)
2. Dune (Denis Villeneuve)
3. No Sudden Move (Steven Soderbergh)
4. The Sparks Brothers (Edgar Wright)
5. Respect (Liesl Tommy)
6. Once Upon a Time in Queens (Nick Davis)
7. Judas and the Black Messiah (Shaka King)
8. The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes)
9. Pig (Michael Sarnoski)
10. Violet (Justine Bateman)


Hello, my name is Kevin McGrellis and these are my top things of 2021

1. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
2. Snail Mail – Valentine
3. Lingua Ignota – Sinner Get Ready
4. Nick Waterhouse – Promenade Blue
5. Buck Meek – Two Saviors
6. Patrick Paige II – If I Fail Are We Still Good?
7. Grouper – Shade
8. Genghis Tron – Dream Weapon
9. Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee
10. Jon Hopkins – Music For Psychedelic Therapy

Hello, my name is Linden Jackson and these are my top things of 2020.

CD:
1. Turnstile – Glow On
2. Amyl & the Sniffers – Comfort To Me
3. Every Time I Die – Radical
4. Mastodon – Hushed and Grim
5. Poppy – Flux
6. The Bronx – Bronx VI
7. Manchester Orchestra – Million Masks of God
8. Idles – Crawler
9. Architects – For Those That Wish to Exist
10. Vaccines – Back in Love City

Hello, my name is Maggie and these are my top things of 2021.

Vinyl:
1. Nirvana – Nevermind 30th Anniversary Reissue
2. Lorde – Solar Power
3. Echo & the Bunnymen – Ocean Rain Reissue
4. PJ Harvey – Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea Reissue
5. ABBA – Voyage
6. Duran Duran – Future Past
7. Brandi Carlile – In These Silent Days
8. Adele – 30
9. Jackson Browne – Downhill From Everywhere

CD:
1. Original Soundtrack – The Velvet Underground: A Documentary Film by Todd Haynes
2. Taylor Swift – Red (Taylor’s Version)

DVD/Blu-Ray:
1. The Night House (d. David Bruckner)
2. Old (d. M. Night Shyamalan)
3. Judas and the Black Messiah (d. Shaka King)
4. Malignant (d. James Wan)
5. The Green Knight (d. David Lowery)
6. Nomadland (d. Chloé Zhao)
7. Zola (d. Janicza Bravo)
8. Saint Maud (d. Rose Glass)
9. Spiral (d. Darren Lynn Bousman)
10. Candyman (d. Nia Da Costa)

Matt Spivack's 2021 Top 10 (in order of release)

CD/Vinyl:
Soen – Imperial – 01/29/21
Transatlantic – The Absolute Universe: Forevermore – 02/05/21
Black Midi – Cavalcade – 05/27/21
Neal Morse Band – Innocence & Danger – 08/27/21 CD – 09/17/21 Vinyl
Iron Maiden – Senjutsu – 09/03/21
Steve Hackett – Surrender of Silence – 09/10/21
Caravan – It's None of Your Business – 10/15/21 CD – 11/19/21 Vinyl
Dream Theater – A View From the Top of The World – 10/22/21
P. F. M. - I Dreamed of Electric Sheep – 10/22/21 CD – 11/12/21 Vinyl
Mastodon – Hushed & Grim – 10/29/21

Honorable Mention for Reissues:
Jethro Tull – A (A La Mode) 40th Anniversary Stereo/5.1 Remix by Steven Wilson
Jethro Tull – Benefit 50th Anniversary Stereo/5.1 Remix by Steven Wilson
Gentle Giant – Free Hand Stereo/5.1 Remix by Steven Wilson

Highly Anticipated 2022 Releases:
Porcupine Tree – Closure/Continuation – 06/24/22
Jethro Tull – The Zealot Gene – 01/28/22

Hello, my name is Max Kaufman and these are my top things of 2021.

Top 3 Albums of 2021 (in no order):
King Woman – Celestial Blues
Black Midi – Cavalcade
Floating Points/Pharoah Sanders – Promise

Other things that came out in 2021 that are amazing (in no order):
Genghis Tron – Dream Weapon
The Armed – Ultrapop
Carcass – Torn Arteries
Converge w/ Chelsea Wolfe & Stephen Brodsky – Bloodmoon:1
La Luz – La Luz
Emma Ruth Rundle – Engine of Hell
Xenia Rubinos – Una Rosa
Wau Wau Collectif – Yaral Sa Doom
Madlib – Sound Ancestors
Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime
Porter Robinson – Nurture
Silk Sonic – An Evening With Silk Sonic feat. Bruno Mars & Anderson.Paak
Vince Staples – Vince Staples
Injury Reserve – By the Time I Get to Phoenix
Viagra Boys – Welfare Jazz
Squid – Bright Green Field
Turntstile – Glow On
The Descendents – 9th & Walnut
Various Artists – The Daptone Super Soul Revue Live at the Apollo
Jeff Rosenstock – Ska Dream

Reissues:
Eugene McDaniels – Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse
Bad Brains – Bad Brains & Pay to Cum 7”
KMD – Mr. Hood RSD tri-color vinyl
My Bloody Valentine – catalog The Mars Volta – Deloused in the Creamtorium(VMP version)

Favorite Movie of the Year:
Last Night in Soho – dir. Edgar Wright

Quinn Theis – List 2021

Flaco Jimenez - Los Recuerdos del Troquero
Vivien Goldman - Next is Now
Karen Black - Dreaming of You (1971-76)
Nas - King’s Disease II
Wau Wau Collectif - Yaral Sa Doom
Terravault - Terravault (cassette)
Shirley Collins - Crowlink
Gift of Gab - Finding Inspiration Somehow
Yves Tumor - The Asymptotical World
Carcass - Torn Arteries
Bill Fay/Steve Gunn - Dust Filled Room (single)
Esperanza Spalding - Triangle
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme, Live In Seattle
Deerhoof - Actually, You Can
Nubya Garcia - Source ⧺ We Move
Grouper - Shade
Xiu Xiu - Oh No
Georgia Anne Muldrow - VWETO III
William Parker - Migration Of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World
Jane Birkin - O! Pardon tu dormais
Pharoah Sanders/Floating Points/LSO - Promises
Vijay Iyer Trio - Uneasy
Skee Mask - Pool
Kessler - Ambivalent
Roscoe Mitchell and Mike Reed - The Ritual and the Dance
Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
St. Vincent - Daddy’s Home
John Prine - John Prine and Friends live at Newport Folk 2017
Can - Live in Stuttgart 1975
Tricky - Lonely Guest

Reggie's top ten 2021

1. Noga Erez – Kids 03/26/21
2. Royal Blood – Typhoons 04/30/21
3. El Michels Affair – Yeti Season 03/26/21
4. Sleigh Bells – Texis 10/08/21
5. Piroshka – Love Drips & Gathers 07/23/21
6. Marina – Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land 06/11/21
7. DJ Muggs – Dies Occidendum 03/12/21
8. Garbage – No Gods No Masters 06/11/21
9. Freezepop – Fantasizer 05/14/21
10. St. Vincent – Daddy's Home 05/14/21


* Hide – Interior Terror 06/04/21
* Jane Weaver – Flock 03/05/21
* Space Afrika – Honest Labour 08/27/21
* Anika – Change 07/23/21
* John Grant – Boy From Michigan 06/25/21

Steph’s 2021 Jams

Idles – Crawler
Bia – For Certain
Amyl and The Sniffers – Comfort to Me
The Alchemist – This Thing Of Ours
Mannequin Pussy – Perfect
Doja Cat – Planet Her
Madlib – Sound Ancestors
Kari Faux – Lowkey Superstar
Isaiah Rashad – The House Is Burning
Turnstile – Glow On
BADBADNOTGOOD – Talk Memory
Goat – Headsoup
Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee
Angel Olsen – Aisles
The Velveteers – Nightmare Daydream
MIKE – Disco!
Vince Staples – Vince Staples
Mac Miller – Faces
Nightmares On Wax – Shout Out! To Freedom…
Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Twist and Shout Staff Picks: The Best Albums of 2019 (Pt. 4)


Extra Kool 

Albums:
1. Kool Keith (Psycho Les on beats!) - Keith
2. Billie Eilish - When We Fall Asleep Where Do We Go?
3. Awareness - Sushi Wave
4. Epic Beard Men - This Was Supposed To Be Fun
5. Murs & the Grouch - Thees Handz
6. Czarface Meets Ghostface - Czarface Meets Ghostface
7. Snoop Doggy Dogg - I Wanna Thank Myself
8. John "Spooky" Carpenter - Halloween OST

Movies:
1. Joker
2. Midsommar
3. Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark
4. Us
5. Haunt
6. It: Chapter Two
7. Child's Play (2019)
8. Happy Death Day 2U
9. The Banana Splits Movie
10. Satanic Panic



Clay Adams-Berger

CD:
1. Left Behind - No One Goes to Heaven
2. Kublai Khan TX - Absolute
3. Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Bandana
4. black midi - Schlagenheim
5. Sunn 0))) - Life Metal
6. Moodymann - Sinner: KDJ-48
7. Uniform and the Body - Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back
8. JPEGMAFIA - All My Heroes Are Cornballs
9. Kim Gordon - No Home Record
10. Various Artists - The Time for Peace is Now


Vinyl:
1. Floating Points - Crush
2. Danny Brown - uknowwhatimsayin?
3. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
4. FKA Twigs - Magdalene
5. Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
6. Andy Stott - It Should Be Us
7. Swans - Leaving Meaning.
8. Black Marble - Bigger Than Life
9. Big Thief - Two Hands
10. Kamaal Williams - DJ Kicks

DVD/Blu-ray
1. It's A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
2. Parasite
3. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
4. Joker
5. Uncut Gems
6. John Wick 3
7. MidSommar
8. The Lighthouse
9. Honeyboy
10. Knives Out


Rory Dumas 

1. Battles – Juice B Crypts
2. Elbow – Giants Of All Sizes
3. Tool – Fear Inoculum
4. Oh Sees – Face Stabber
5. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Infest the Rats' Nest
6. Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band – Nightmare Forever
7. Flying Lotus – Flamagra
8. Tyler the Creator – IGOR
9. Devendra Banhardt – Ma
10. Sturgill Simpson – Sound and Fury




Matt Spivack

Vinyl:
The Neal Morse Band – The Great Adventure – 01/25/19
Soen – Lotus – 02/01/19
The Claypool Lennon Delirium – South of Reality – 02/22/19
Martin Barre – Roads Less Traveled – 03/22/19
Baroness – Gold & Grey – 06/14/19
Bent Knee – You Know What They Mean – 10/11/19
Opeth – In Cauda Venenum – 10/22/19
The Flower Kings – Waiting For Miracles – 11/15/19
Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band – Nightmare Forever – 12/06/19
Eloy – The Vision, the Sword, & the Pyre (Pt. 2) – 12/13/19

CD:
The Neal Morse Band – The Great Adventure – 01/15/19
Soen – Lotus – 02/01/19
Amalgam Effect – Sketches – 03/08/19
Baroness – Gold & Grey – 06/14/19
Tool – Fear Inoculum – 8/30/19
Opeth – In Cauda Venenum – 09/27/19
Bent Knee – You Know What They Mean – 10/18/19
The Flower Kings – Waiting For Miracles – 11/15/19
Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band – Nightmare Forever – 11/22/19
Eloy – The Vision, the Sword, & the Pyre (Pt. 2) – 12/13/19

Honorable Mention for Reissues:
Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused to Sing CD/BluRay Audio Set – 09/20/19
Jethro Tull – Stormwatch 40th Anniversary 4 CD/2 DVD Box – 10/18/19




Ethan Griggs

2019 CDs:
1. Big Thief - Two Hands
2. Crumb - Jinx
3. black midi - Schlagenheim
4. Bon Iver - i,i
5. Nilüfer Yanya - Miss Universe
6. Jessica Pratt - Quiet Signs
7. Thom Yorke - Anima
8. Cate Le Bon - Reward
9. FKA twigs - MAGDALENE
10. Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains


2019 Vinyl:
1. Stereolab - all 2019 reissues
2. Deerhunter - Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? (Grey vinyl)
3. Various Artists - The Rolling Stones Rock And Roll Circus (3xLP boxset)
4. The Beatles - The Singles Collection
5. Big Thief - U.F.O.F. (Orange vinyl)
6. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow (Blue vinyl)
7. R.E.M. - Monster (25th Anniversary 2xLP)
8. Angel Olsen - All Mirrors (Clear vinyl)
9. Cate Le Bon & Bradford Cox - Myths 004
10. Miles Davis - The Complete Birth Of The Cool (2xLP)



Quinn Theis

1. Jamila Woods - Legacy! Legacy!
2. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis
3. Kim Gordon - No Home Record
4. Salami Rose Joe Louis - Zdenka 2080
5. Pauline Oliveros - Reverberations 1
6. Cosey Fanni Tutti - Tutti
7. Eliane Radigue - Occam Ocean 2 
8. Paranoyds - Carnage Bargain
9. Georgia Anne Muldrow - VWETO II 
10. Amandititita - Pinche Amor
11. Mega Bog - Dolphine
12. The Coathangers - The Devil You Know
13. Caterina Barbieri - Ecstatic Computation 
14. Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
15. Rosie Flores - Simple Case Of The Blues
16. Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
17. Ellen Arkbro - Chords  
18. Laurie Anderson/Tensin Choegyal/Jesse Paris Smith - Songs From The Bardo
19. Holly Herndon - Proto
20. Lizzo - Cuz I Love You 
21. Martha Argerich/J.S. Bach - Toccata BWV 911/Partita BWV 826/English Suite No. 2 BWV 807 (LP reissue)
22. Zeena Parkins - Captiva (released in December, 2018)
23. Y La Bamba - Mujeres
24. Maryanne Amacher - Petra (posth.)
25. Hilary Hahn/Anton Garcia Abril - 6 Partitas
26. Spellling - Mazy Fly
27. Lafawndah - Ancestor Boy
28. Jenny Hval - The Practice Of Love
29. Felicia Atkinson - The Flower And The Vessel
30. Laurie Spiegel - Unseen Worlds (CD and 2xLP reissue)



Stephanie Rendon

Vinyl
1. Solange - When I Get Home
2. Freddie Gibbs/Madlib - Bandana
3. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
4. Anderson.Paak - Ventura
5. Beach House - 7
6. Tyler, The Creator - Igor
7. Lizzo - Cuz I Love You
8. Various Artists - The Daisy Age
9. Wu-Tang Clan - Of Mics & Men
10. Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka


CDs
1. Screaming Females - Singles Too
2. Snail Mail - Habit
3. FEA - No Novelties
4. Danger Doom - The Mouse & The Mask
5. Melissa Aldana - Visions
6. Los Piranas - Historia Natural
7. Kim Gordon - No Home Record
8. Allah-Las - LAHS
9. Desert Sessions - Vols. 11 & 12
|10. Oh Sees - Face Stabber
11. Floating Points - Crush
12. Torche - Admission
13. DAM - Ben Haana Wa Maana
14. Schoolboy Q - Crash Talk
15. Jimmy Eat World - Surviving
16. Miles Davis - Rubberband
17. Ezra Furman - Twelve Nudes
18. Gang Starr - One Of The Best Yet
19. Nas - The Lost Tapes II
20. Murs - The Iliad Is Dead & The Odyssey Is Over

Saturday, December 28, 2019

Twist and Shout Staff Picks: The Best Albums of 2019 (Pt. 2)


Brian Wyatt

1.  L'epee – Diabolique
2. The Brian Jonestown Massacre – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
3. Robert Johnson – Kind Hearted Woman / Terraplane Blues (RSD)
4. Frankie & The Witch Fingers – Zam
5. Babe Rainbow – Today
6. Death And Vanilla – Are You A Dreamer?
7. Gang Starr – One Of The Best Yet
8. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Fishing For Fishies
9. Wooden Shjips – Shjips In The Night (RSD)
10. Mystery Lights – Too Much Tension
11. The Murlocs – Manic Candid Episode
12. Oh Sees – Face Stabber
13. Freddie Gibbs/Madlib – Bandana
14. Reigning Sound – Abdication...For Your Love
15. Los Destellos – Sicodelicos (RSD)
16. Allah-Las – Lahs
17. Cosmonauts – Star 69
18. Black Mountain – Destroyer
19. Dead Meadow – Feathers (Reissue)
20. Follakzoid – I
21. Night Beats – Myth Of A Man
22. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Infest The Rats' Nest
23. Stray Cats – 40
24. Lorelle Meets The Obsolete – De Facto
25. Big K.R.I.T. - K.R.I.T. Iz Here
26. The Time Quinn Knocked His Bottle Over At The Meeting.
27. The Time Eagle Discovered You Could Make A Corndog Out Of A Tijuana Mama And Ordered A 'Tres Hombres' Gatefold Beach Towel.
28. The Time Cobos Came In On Time (I Should Talk)
29. The Time Spivack Picked A Prog Record
30. The Time Paul And Leo Discussed The Finer Points Of What 'Grindin' Is.




Jack Brown

1. Rhiannon Giddens - There Is No Other
2. Stephen Mallinder - Um Dada
3. Come Organisation - Box
4. Clipping. - There Existed An Addiction To Blood
5. Mike Patton/Jean Claude Vannier - Corpse Flower
6. Kaada - Zombielars OST
7. Melvins/Al Cisneros - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
8. Meat Beat Manifesto - Opaque Couche
9. Battles - Juice B Crypts
10. Zonal - Wrecked



Kevin McGrellis

1. Lingua Ignota - Caligula
2. Aldous Harding - Designer
3. Jamila Woods - Legacy! Legacy!
4. Little Simz - Grey Area
5. Nick Waterhouse - Nick Waterhouse
6. Pharmakon - Devour
7. Big Thief - Two Hands
8. Marissa Nadler and Stephen Brodsky - Droneflower
9. Nivhek - After Its Own Death/Walking In A Spiral Towards The House
10. The Twilight Sad - It Won't Be Like This All the Time




Bridget Hartman


1. FKA Twigs - Magdalene
2. Tyler the Creator - Igor
3. Solange - When I Get Home
4. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rats' Nest
5. Alfa Mist - Structuralism
6. Y La Bamba - Entre Los Dos
7. Kiefer - Superbloom
8. Flying Lotus - Flamagra
9. Anderson.Paak - Ventura
10. Melissa Aldana - Visions



Madden Ott

1. Lingua Ignota - Caligula
2. Have A Nice Life - Sea of Worry
3. Black Midi - Schlagenheim
4. DIIV - Deceiver
5. Interpol - A Fine Mess (EP)
6. Chelsea Wolfe - American Darkness
7. Drab Majesty - Modern Mirror
8. Clipping. - There Existed an Addiction to Blood
9. FKA Twigs - Magdalene
10. Sunn o))) - Life Metal



Josh Eidler

Albums:
1. Toro y Moi - Outer Peace
2. Marvin Gaye - You're the Man
3. Anderson.Paak - Ventura
4. Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
5. Young Thug - So Much Fun
6. Babymetal - Metal Galaxy
7. Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka
8. Doja Cat - Hot Pink
9. FKA Twigs - Magdalena
10. Patsy Cline - Sweet Dream: the Complete Decca Masters 1960-1963

DVD/Blu-ray
1. Donnybrook
2. Shazam!
3. Long Shot
4. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
5. Brightburn
6. Rocketman
7. Biggest Little Farm
8. Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark
9. Booksmart
10. Spiderman: Far From Home




Ace Stanley

1. The Coathangers - The Devil You Know
2. The Paranoyds - Carnage Bargain
3. Control Top - Covert Contracts
4. Laura Stevenson - The Big Freeze
5. Zig Zags - They'll Never Take Us Alive
6. PUP - Morbid Stuff
7. Stereo Total - Ah! Quel Cinema!
8. Cosmonauts - Star 69
9. Tyler the Creator - Igor
10. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Thursday, December 26, 2019

Twist and Shout Staff Picks: The Best Albums of 2019 (Pt. 1)

At the end of every year, we ask our employees to share their favorite releases of the year. Herein are the results of our end of year employee poll. We gave each employee a sheet suggesting ten titles on different formats but weren’t strict about how the numbers broke down and also weren’t strict about what format, whether titles were new, or whether it was even music, so there’s a lot of variety here.

Our Number One Winner with 9 votes:
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rats' Nest

Our Number Two Placer with 7 votes:
FKA Twigs - Magdalene

Our Number Three Showers with 6 votes each:
Mdou Moctar – Ilana: The Creator
Oh Sees - Face Stabber
Tyler the Creator - Igor

Fourth Place Mentions with 5 votes each:
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Bandana
L’épée ‎– Diabolique
Lizzo - Cuz I Love You
Anderson.Paak - Ventura
Solange - When I Get Home
Jamila Woods - Legacy! Legacy!

Fifth Place Mentions with 4 votes each:
Big Thief - Two Hands
Black Midi – Schlagenheim
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Floating Points - Crush
Flying Lotus - Flamagra
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Fishing for Fishies
Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka
Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
Sturgill Simpson ‎– Sound & Fury
Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars
Sunn O))) – Life Metal

Sixth Place Mentions with 3 votes each:
The Beatles - Abbey Road (50th Anniversary Edition)
Black Marble - Bigger Than Life
Bon Iver - i,i
Danny Brown - uknowwhatimsayin¿
Clipping. - There Existed An Addiction To Blood
The Dukes Of Stratosphear ‎– Psurroundabout Ride (reissue)
Bob Dylan - Rolling Thunder Review 1975 Live Recordings
Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Frankie & the Witch Fingers - Zam!
Kim Gordon - No Home Record
Karl Hector and the Malcouns - Non Ex Orbis
Robyn Hitchcock/Andy Partridge - Planet England
Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
Thom Yorke - Anima




Paul Epstein

1. Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars/Western Stars Soundtrack
2. Prefab Sprout - I Trawl The Megahertz
3. Steve Gunn - The Unseen In Between
4. Robyn Hitchcock / Andy Partridge - Planet England
5. Mercury Rev - Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited
6. Sturgill Simpson - Sound & Fury
7. Raphael Saadiq - Jimmy Lee
8. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Colorado
9. Van Morrison - Three Chords And The Truth
10. Santana - Africa Speaks

2019 Reissues
1. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks original acetate (RSD 2019 LP)
2. The Beatles - Abbey Road Super Deluxe 50th Anniv. CD
3. Neil Young - Tuscaloosa
4. The Dukes Of Stratosphear - Psurroundabout Ride
5. John Coltrane - 1963: New Directions
6. Bobby Gentry - Girl From Chicksaw County
7. Allman Brothers - Fillmore West ‘71
8. Grateful Dead - Giants Stadium '87 '89 '91
9. Bob Dylan - Rolling Thunder Revue
10. The Yardbirds - Live & Rare



Patrick Brown

Music:
1. Mdou Moctar - Ilana (The Creator)
2. Todd Snider - Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3
3. Negativland - True False
4. Los Wembler’s de Iquitos - Visión del Ayahuasca
5. Anthony Braxton - Quartet (New Haven) 2014
6. Raphael Saadiq - Jimmy Lee
7. Chuck Cleaver - Send Aid
8. Abdullah Ibrahim - The Balance
9. Lizzo - Cuz I Love You
10. Michael Formanek/Tim Berne/Mary Halvorson - Even Better
11. Imperial Teen - Now We Are Timeless
12. Bantou Mentale - Bantou Mentale
13. Fea - No Novelties
14. Tank & the Bangas - Green Balloon
15. Yola - Walk Through Fire

New non-box set blu-ray of 2019:
1. The Image Book
2. Parasite (early 2020 release)
3. Birds Of Passage
4. Ash Is Purest White
5. Midsommar
6. The Dead Don't Die

Archival/catalog Blu-ray releases of 2019:
1. Wanda
2. Polyester
3. 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days
4. Criss Cross
5. Bob Le Flambeur
6. Cruising
7. The Stuff
8. Obsession
9. Death In The Garden




Ben Sumner

1. Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars
2. Michael Kiwanuka ‎– Kiwanuka
3. Prefab Sprout ‎– I Trawl The Megahertz (reissue)
4. The Beatles - Abbey Road (50th Anniversary Edition)
5. The Residents - B.S. (reissue)
6. The Residents - Not Available (deluxe reissue)
7. Mike Cooper ‎– Distant Songs Of Madmen
8. Sturgill Simpson ‎– Sound & Fury
9. Cosey Fanni Tutti ‎– Tutti
10. Moon Duo ‎– Stars Are The Light
11. FKA Twigs - Magdalene
12. Robyn Hitchcock / Andy Partridge ‎– Planet England
13. Rupa - Disco Jazz (reissue)
14. The Dukes Of Stratosphear ‎– Psurroundabout Ride (reissue)
15. Mdou Moctar ‎– Ilana: The Creator
16. Prince - Originals
17. Kate Bush - Other Sides (b-sides compilation)
18. Alex Cameron - Miami Memory
19. Gong - Live Au Bataclan 1973
20. Johann Sebastian Bach ‎– Cello Suites (Alban Gerhardt)
21. Robert Ashley ‎– Private Parts (reissue)
22. Henryk Górecki / Beth Gibbons / Krzysztof Penderecki ‎– Symphony No. 3 (Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs)
23. Janáček - Piano Works (Jan Bartoš)
24. Hawkwind - The '1999' Party (Live in Chicago, 1974)
25. Gene Clark - No Other (expanded reissue)
26. John Coltrane ‎– Blue World
27. Akiko Yano - Iroha Ni Konpeitou (reissue)
28. Karl Hector And The Malcouns ‎– Non Ex Orbis
29. L’épée ‎– Diabolique
30. Popol Vuh ‎– The Essential Album Collection Vol.1

Brian Albright


1. Long Ryders - Psychedelic Country Soul
2. Meat Puppets - Dusty Notes
3. Sacred Paws - Run Around the Sun
4. Anderson Council - Worlds Collide
5. Drab Majesty - Modern Mirror
6. Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars
7. Redd Kross - Beyond the Door
8. The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble - Build Bridges
9. Robyn Hitchcock/Andy Partridge - Planet England
10. The Minus 5 - Modern Mirror


Anna Lathem

1. The Beatles - Abbey Road 50th Anniversary
2. Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka
3. Jenny Lewis - On the Line
4. Brian Jonestown Massacre - Brian Jonestown Massacre
5. L'epee - Diabolique
6. Bob Dylan - Rolling Thunder Review 1975 Live Recordings
7. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks Test Pressing
8. Lizzo - Cuz I Love You
9. Maggie Rogers - Heard It In A Past Life
10. Bleached - Don’t You Think You’ve Had Enough?
11. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Fishing for Fishies
12. The National - I Am Easy to Find
13. Joe Strummer - The Rockfield Studio Tracks
14. Spaceman 3 - Live In Europe 1989
15. Oh Sees - Face Stabber
16. Mercury Rev - Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited
17. Brittany Howard - Jaime
18. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
19. Sasami - Sasami
20. Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
21. FKA Twigs - Magdalene
22. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rats’ Nest
23. Link Wray - "Vernon's Diamond"/"My Brother, My Son" (7" single)
24. Various Artists - Stax Does The Beatles
25. Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
26. Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars
27. Thom Yorke - ANIMA
28. Mdou Moctar - Ilana: The Creator
29. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - O.S.T.
30. Jamila Woods - Legacy! Legacy!



Jonathan Eagle

1. Sunn O))) – Life Metal
2. Meat Puppets – Dusty Notes
3. Fire! Orchestra – Arrival
4. Arrington de Dionyso – Honey & Poison
5. Black Midi – Schlagenheim
6. Bartosz Kruczinski & Poly Chain – Pulses
7. Cherubs – Immaculada High
8. Lightning Bolt – Sonic Citadel
9. Danny Brown - uknowwhatimsayin¿
10. Bill Orcutt – Odds Against Tomorrow
11. Fennesz – Agora
12. L.A. Guns – The Devil You Kno
13. KK Null – Abiogenesis / Quantum Pulsation
14. Joe McPhee / John Butcher – At the Hill of James Magee
15. Mdou Moctar – Ilana: The Creator
16. Not Waving / Jim O’Rourke – Side A / Side B
17. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Ghosteen
18. Swans – Leaving Meaning.
19. The Comet is Coming – Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
20. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Bandana

Films
1. Them That Follow
2. Murder in the Front Row: The Bay Area Thrash Metal Story
3. Rolling Thunder Revue
4. The Irishman
5. Ken Burns’ Country Music
6. Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
7. The Dead Don’t Die
8. Dolemite is My Name
9. Sword of Trust
10. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood



Marley Schwartz

1. Goldlink - Diaspora
2. Earthgang - Mirrorland
3. IDK - Is He Real?
4. Flying Lotus - Flamagra
5. Mahalia - Love and Compromise
6. AJ Tracey - AJ Tracey
7. Solange - When I Get Home
8. Tyler the Creator - Igor
9. James Blake - Assume Form
10. Anderson.Paak - Ventura