2021: Your favourite music

[scumtron]

It's still a month to go, but start posting those gems other might have missed.

I'm using my rateyourmusic-score to sort. 

4.5 stars

LOW-Hey What

4 stars

Tim Hecker-The North Water

Hainbach-Home Stories

Lunar Orbit Rendezvous-Faith/Reason

The Black Dog-Music for Photographers

Helene Vogelsinger-Reminiscence

Motorpsycho-Kingdom of Oblivion

Modeselector-Extended

Erlend Ropstad-Da Himmelen Brant var alle hunder stille

Amulets-Blooming

Taylor Deupree-MUR

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis-Carnage

The Weather Station-Ingorance

The Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu - Come Down Dawn

Pye Corner Audio-

 

3.5 stars (some will probably be upgraded)

Andy Stott-Never The Right time

Pendant-To all sides...

The War on Drugs-I don't live here anymore

µ-ziq & Mrs Jynx -Secret Garden

Alva Noto-HYbr:ID I

Hoavi-Music for six rooms

Hand-Habits-Fun House

Rachika Nayar-Fragments

Ulla-Limitless Frame

Loscil-Clara

Colleen-The Tunnel and the clearing

Murcof-The Alias Sessions

KMRU-Logue

Dinosaur Jr-Sweep it into space

Abul Mogard-In immobile Air

The KLF-The White Room

Seefeel-St/Fr/Sp (reissue)

Mogwai-As the love continues

The Notwist-Vertigo Days

 

[YangYing]

 

[beerwolf]

Excellent! I do enjoy reading and Spotifying all the end of year lists from watmm and other publications. Mines not a vast list as I listen to mostly older music but I’ll post a few things a bit later.
 

 

[Nil]

Synalegg - Computer Series
Core Alter - m-Realizable
William Fields - Fluidity
Calum Gunn - Excessive Step
Notein - Salire
Kindohm - VR Sunset
Nebulo - Borders
Sebastian Camens - Asymmetry
Barker - 002
Cam Deas & Jung An Tagen - Presentism
SOPHIE - BIPP (Autechre Mx) / UNISIL
Mosca - The Whole Place Was Crawling
Alva Noto - HYbr:ID I
DJ Stingray 313 - Molecular Level Solutions
[~]

Edited November 30, 2021 by Nil

[Rubin Farr]

Film Maker - VLAD TAPES

Agonis - Neutropia

GCOM - E2-XO

Everyday Dust - Black Water/Lost Cues

Temple Ov Saturn - Meditations II

sm - Pistachio Sessions

A Year in the Country - The Shildam Hall Tapes

FSOL - We Have Explosive 2021

Ministry - Moral Hygiene 

Danny Elfman - Big Mess

Pessimist - All Hope Lost

Lunasol - Remixes Vol. 1&2

Lo Five - Open World

KLF - Come Down Dawn

Mixmaster Morris - Chill Out Revisited

Ian Humberstone - Cornwall Folklore Tapes Vol. I

Xela & Jake Muir - Safe

[Amen Lare]

Bill Orcutt - Empire of Hurt Feelings (acoustic guitar manic minimal repetition)
dave phillips - to death (one-man choir dork hypnoscapes)
drreic - trcde (glitch rivers of beat)
Kuzma Palkin - Stadion Sever (displaced technoidal plateau)
Melted_Self - Distants (post-braindance)
Rime Trails - The Tunings of a Voice Divine (loopy melanchombient)
tsrono - eyeseye (moody eclectropatterns)

+ cheers to 3OP, tsrono+melted_self+eczem collabs, ignatius et al

[beerwolf]

Mogwai - As The Love Continues

Deafheaven - Infinite Granite

black midi - Cavalcade 

Skee Mask - Pool

Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8 (a jazz LP? Wow!)

SOPHIE - BIPP (Autechre remix)

Late but maybe great contenders

Blawan - Woke Up Right Handed

Holy Other - Lieve

 

 

Edited December 1, 2021 by beerwolf

[d-a-m-o]

In no particular order :

Core Alter - m-Realizable

Nil Hartman - [~]

Zuli - All caps

Topdown Dialectic -Vol.3

Hoavi - Invariant

Calum Gunn - Excessive Step

DJ Stingray 313 - Molecular Level Solutions

William Fields - Fluidity

Skee Mask - Pool

Cam Deas/Jung An Tagen - Presentism

Rian Treanor - Obstacle Scattering

Mantle Of Gets - Caveat Emptor

Client_03 - User Viewport

Synalegg - Computer Series

Edit : Overmono - Diamond Cut / Bby

Edited December 10, 2021 by d-a-m-o

[Enthusiast]

Vijay Iyer / Linda May Han Oh / Tyshawn Sorey - Uneasy 

Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Dissent Chapter 1-10

Lee Gamble - Flush Real Pharynx

Madlib - Sound Ancestors

Mastodon - Hushed and Grim

Alva Noto-HYbr:ID I

Edited December 1, 2021 by Enthusiast

[six]

Biosphere - Angel's Flight

Eomac - Cracks

Jean Michel Jarre - Amazonia

Machinedrum - Psyconia EP

Mild High Club - Going Going Gone

µ-Ziq & Mrs Jynx - Secret Garden

Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Flying Fish Ambience / Jellyfish Reproduce Black Magic / Seashell Altars

Skee Mask - Pool

Splitradix - Philatelic Diethylamide / 51º53'43"Nord 8º25'09"Waldorf EPs

Tyler, the Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost

Xeno & Oaklander - Vi/deo

[Ivan Ooze]

 

boldy james and the alchemist - bo jackson

cerebral rot - excretion of motality

madlib - sound ancestors

zuli - all caps

last days of humanity - horrific compositions of decomposition

skee mask - pool

current value - the all attracting

the bug - fire

djevel - tanker som rir natten

kanyo - donda

dean blunt - bm2

tyler the creator - call me if you get lost

 

Edited December 1, 2021 by Ivan Ooze

[sidewinder]

Soooo many things I'm not familiar with. I've listened to plenty of new stuff this year but tbh very little has really impressed me.

[species8472]

love reading through these threads every year - will start assembling my list

[joshuatxuk]

1 hour ago, species8472 said:

love reading through these threads every year - will start assembling my list

Same here, y'all increasingly bring me up to speed with the best in electronic music every year. My old ass is more and more reliant on what I hear on the local public radio station, spotify recs, and skimming r/indieheads. That is if I'm not just re-listening to old favorites.

[dr lopez]

OOOOH MY GOOOODDD IM GONNA LIIIIIISSTTTT

[beerwolf]

Need to check out that Grouper album.

 

[Boxus]

On 12/1/2021 at 7:33 AM, beerwolf said:

black midi - Cavalcade 

 

 

 

[xyrofen]

On 11/30/2021 at 12:46 PM, Stickfigger said:

Phoenecia - MD.SLVG

I completely forgot to pick this up, it's a great listen.

I've only bought two albums that came out this year, oops:

Danny L Harle - Harlecore

bye2 - Teeth Restoration

[aencre]

Some stuff that helped out and hasn't been mentioned yet:

Aaron Diloway & Lucrecia Dalt — Lucy & Aaron

Aidan Girt (1-Speed Bike)'s series of monthly EPs.

Sam Gendel — Fresh Bread

 

[beerwolf]

10 hours ago, Boxus said:

 

I think a lot of watmm folks would enjoy this if they pressed play 

[d-a-m-o]

On 11/30/2021 at 11:40 AM, Nil said:

Synalegg - Computer Series
Core Alter - m-Realizable
William Fields - Fluidity
Calum Gunn - Excessive Step
Notein - Salire
Kindohm - VR Sunset
Nebulo - Borders
Sebastian Camens - Asymmetry
Barker - 002
Cam Deas & Jung An Tagen - Presentism
SOPHIE - BIPP (Autechre Mx) / UNISIL
Mosca - The Whole Place Was Crawling
Alva Noto - HYbr:ID I
DJ Stingray 313 - Molecular Level Solutions
[~]

That Mosca track is fire  

[watmmisdead]

here we go, best thread of the year.

its always at the end of the year that i really begin the journey to find the best music of the year so this list is very provisionary:

 

Ben Howard- Collections from the white out

Big red Machine- HLDYTIGL

Lone- always inside your head

Ross From Friends- tread

Danny L Harle - Harlecore

Earth House Hold- daybreak basement

Beltran- Aestethe

Innigo Kennedy- eyes close in the sun

Porter robinson- nurture

skee mask- pool

Bladee- the fool

Joy Orbison- still slipping vol 1

Daniel Avery- together in static

Loess- totems

Placid angels- touch the earth

Laxcity- disconnect

Calibre- feeling normal

Sasha mix- Luzoscura

All the Perala stuff

conway and big ghost- if it bleeds it can be killed

conway the machine- la maquina

Dj seinfeld- mirrors

Viggo dyst- everything else is secondary

Madlib- Sound Ancestors

 

Added:

Iglew- Light armour

DJ Seinfeld- Mirrors

Edited December 28, 2021 by Ayya Khema

[springymajig]

I listen to very little new music... but what I have enjoyed that came out this year:

Sungazer - Perihelion

Danny L Harle - Harlecore

Low - HEY WHAT

Clown Core - 1234

Sedibus/The Orb - The Heavens

OSS/The Orb - Enter the Kettle

 

[Roo]

I've been listening almost exclusively to 1982 stuff the past couple months, so I'm just going to publish this early for what it's worth.

 

1. Aspects - STR4TA

2. Solar Power - Lorde

3. Smiling With No Teeth - Genesis Owusu

4. Call Me If You Get Lost - Tyler, the Creator

5. Moodswings in This Order - DPR Ian

6. Cavalcade - black midi

7. Deep States - Tropical Fuck Storm

8. Bright Green Field - Squid

9. Juntos ahora - Nair Mirabrat

#10 would probably be out of Hushed & Grim (Mastodon), Times (SG Lewis) or possibly Sycco's First EP (Sycco), but yeah 9 standouts.

[Key]

Pan Daijing  - Jade

Celestial - I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night

Grouper - Shade

Jana Rush - Painful Enlightenment

Pendant - To All Sides They Will Stretch Out Their Hands

Shackleton - Departing Like Rivers

Ulla - Limitless Frame

Sky H1 - Azure

RP Boo - Established!

Not Waving/Romance - Eyes of Fate

Edited December 4, 2021 by Key