Albums of the Year so far 2026

i thought maybe we could start this thread for 2026 even though it's a lot earlier than when Michael B started last year's thread. i loved having it around to look into things outside of my awareness that other people found excellent. and i wanted an excuse to post about this synth / sax ambient-ish album that came out last week to a wider group of people, which is deeply, wildly beautiful and only after a few listens i feel will be in my top 10 this year.

caterina barbieri, bendik giske - at source
https://caterinabarbieri.bandcamp.com/album/at-source

ty, bookmarked

I loooove this new Esplendor Geometrico album

https://www.rotordiscos.com/catalogo/el-pulso-del-acero-shinkansen/5177/

and this thing

https://passepartoutduo.bandcamp.com/album/pieces-from-places

It's still very early, but this is the best thing I've heard overall so far this year:

https://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/aqu-ticos

So far this year, I'm straight repping my city of Toronto with a new EP by my fave new band, Potions, and their debut EP, potions95:
https://potionspotionspotions.bandcamp.com/album/potions95

RIYL Grizzly Bear, Sam Amidon, two-singer song-for-song tradeoffs, young jazz guys playing freak-folk with a touch o' Gastr

Sending the batsignal out to my friend fgti since if he hasn't heard this group yet he needs to--his old bandmate Matt "Prince Nifty" Smith mixed it

Tomeka Reid, Pat Thomas & XT, Wendy Eisenberg, Ivo Perelman’s albums with Nate Wooley & Wadada Leo Smith, Sunn O))), More Eaze, Bill Orcutt…

I havent listened to many new albums this year but Ive liked these

Dry Cleaning
Mod Lang
Gumshoes

maara - “ultra villain”

Natural Magic - II
https://naturalmagic.bandcamp.com/album/ii

^ the last record that Stirmonster was involved in before we lost him, kind of like Neu doing cosmic rustic psych with a bit of a dubby groove. very organic music to let your mind wander to. yes there are probably a lot of other records out there that would also fit that description (Peaking Lights maybe?), but this is really well done

Top tier:

Jill Scott
Floorplan - Fabric mix

Good:
Dry Cleaning
Momoko Gill
Courtney Marie Andrews
Charli XCX
Iron & Wine
Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore

didn’t realize the momoko gill was out yet!

an album i will plug:
gena (liv.e & karriem riggins) - the pleasure is yours

maara - “ultra villain”

― ||||||||, Wednesday, March 4, 2026 7:10 AM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes

also:

ratboys: singin' to an empty chair
picture: eeeeeee

placid angles: canada

i love that courtney marie andrews album too

florian hecker - natural selection
xaviersobased - xavier
joyce manor - i used to go to this bar
i promised the world - s/t ep
roc marciano- 656

The Jill Scott's wonderful.

also love shane parish’s new album of finger style autechre covers (appropriately titled autechre guitar)

also love shane parish’s new album of finger style autechre covers (appropriately titled autechre guitar)

Tomeka Reid

^^^^ I haven't heard the full album yet but the Bandcamp preview tracks are incredible.

Currently extremely into:

The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis - Deface the Currency
The Ruins of Beverast - Tempelschlaf

The new Bill Frisell record 'In My Dreams' with his trio + a string trio (live, although it does not sound like a live record) is def on there.

And Ron Carter's album with a giant modern gospel group, 'Sweet, Sweet Spirit'.

stuff I've enjoyed so far:

Ben Vince - Street Druid
Shackleton - Euphoria Bound
Daniel Bachman - Revolutions
PVA - No More Like This
Velv.93 - Maidstone
DJ Sundae - Mirrors
Running Out of Time - Cash Back

Natural Magic - II
https://naturalmagic.bandcamp.com/album/ii

^ the last record that Stirmonster was involved in before we lost him, kind of like Neu doing cosmic rustic psych with a bit of a dubby groove. very organic music to let your mind wander to. yes there are probably a lot of other records out there that would also fit that description (Peaking Lights maybe?), but this is really well done

― Reggaeton Sax (NickB)

Oh this is how I just found out stirmonster passed away. :( He was a legend. So sad to hear this.

also enjoyed John T. Gast - Infant but that's technically 2025 i guess

co-signing the Natural Magic and Fabiano do Nascimento/Eddie Ruscha albums as well

oh shit moka, i'm sorry. it is heartbreaking :(

enjoying the maara

xps also loving the ben vince and velv.93 records

Tomeika Reid is my fav of the year so far

dance! skip! hop! | Tomeka Reid | Out Of Your Head Records https://share.google/IJqkIzPg7A6RaydeZ

this is a terrific new post-punk album from the folks behind Aussie punk bands Total Control and R.M.F.C.:

https://staticshockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/station-model-violence

oh hell yeah, thanks!

Really enjoying the Station Model Violence album so far (as someone pretty divorced from the Aussie 'egg punk' scene/who is unfamiliar with the bands, beyond Mikey Young mastering all the interrelated projects, so it seems)--am esp enjoying how both it as well as R.M.F.C.'s catalogue use 12-string guitar as a textural poppy post-punky secret weapon

totally, the 12-string rules (usually played by Mikey afaict)

Looks like Buz the R.M.F.C. guy is on 12-string, at least if this first SMV gig from 2024 that I just watched is any indication fwiw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6hJvnbJl5M

ah ok! Buz was drumming when I saw them (and his sister (I think) played sax, it ruled)

(them = RMFC)

Perhaps I'll use this thread to spotlight Pieni exit which is the new album by Finnish artist Malla. I chucked a vote at lead single "Toista tilaisuutta ei ehkä tuu" in last year's trax poll, which is broadly representative of the album as a whole: clubby, slightly wintry, lovelorn pop. There's a track with a refrain that sounds so much like peak Luomo ("Resepti") and I think my favourite track of all might be "<3 sanaa", an echo-y high BPM raveup.

other favourites thus far would include:

Girlfriend - Honey Water (accomplished R&B)
Hemlocke Springs - the apple tree under the sea (refer to the thread I started)
Charli XCX - Wuthering Heights (predisposed to love this as a True Romance truther)
Maria Arnal - AMA (Catalan post-Rosalía artpop album)

Melissa Aldana - Filin
Tomeka Reid Quartet - Dance! Skip! Hop!
The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis - Deface the Currency
Rob Zombie - The Great Satan
Teratoma - Longing Voracity
Immolation - Descent

And I gotta throw in a plug for something that's coming out on my own label:

Ava Mendoza - Alive Alone, Alive Together (a live album, half solo material and half duos with Hamid Drake; coming out 5/22)

Oh, one more:

Melvins with Napalm Death, Savage Imperial Death March

Glad to hear that Melvins/Napalm Death record is good!

Station Model Violence absolutely rules

Early favorites for me:

Barry Walker Jr - Paleo Sol
Wet Tuna - VAST
Blackwater Holylight - Not Here Not Gone
Hallas - Panorama
Eximperitus - Meritoriousness of Equanimity
Ratboys - Singin' to an Empty Chair
Converge - Love is Not Enough

(haven't played the new Messthetics or Cryptic Shift yet, but expect good things)

caterina barbieri, bendik giske - at source
https://caterinabarbieri.bandcamp.com/album/at-source

― map, Tuesday, March 3, 2026 8:18 PM (one week ago)

I'm moving slowly this year, but this is fantastic

Co-sign on the new Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis. Better, weirder and fiercer than before.

new sideshow album tigray funk absolutely lives up to the hype. been a fan of his for a while, and this is his best work by far.

enjoying barbieri/giske and tomeka reid bunches, thankin u ilx

fans of long hypnotic cosmic drone-y electronica: i recommend giving Nathan Dawidowicz - Fluff a spin

this is a terrific new post-punk album from the folks behind Aussie punk bands Total Control and R.M.F.C.:

https://staticshockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/station-model-violence

― alpine static, Thursday, 5 March 2026 17:44 (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is fantastic

^ The Bandcamp description is great. Listening to "Heat" now.

"Heat" is an insanely good song. I'll probably linger on it for a while before checking out the whole album.

Natural Magic and Station Model Violence pair together well, I'm down with the 2026 motorik revival

my kinda funny experience checking out new releases this year from 'aging indie' artists who i haven't kept up with is as follows

black bananas - wtf jennifer herrema is a national treasure
lambchop - ewwwwwwww

okay I'm digging this Superpitcher Axel Boman collab album, but hot damn if the track Side Quest isn't a pretty blatant "homage" to Aphex Twin's On. Nearly the identical lead melody with delay fx. Drums on it are seriously fire though

I often love rob's recommendations and this Kaiso Power album is no different.

Which Roy Montgomery album - Guitars Infernal or Nebular w/ Martha Skye Murphy?

the first one, gotta hear the other

Seconding the praise above for:
Akusmi - Terra Incognita (jazzy minimalism, reminds me of Amaro Freita's Y'Y from '24)
K Wata - Give U Space (file next to Andy Stott)
Underscores - U (Hyperpop landing at a interesting equilibrium point)
Slayyter - Wor$t Girl in America (catchy, perhaps less to say than Starfucker, but the promotional cycle of videos is capturing this moment)
Boards of Canada - Inferno (Dante as wayward impressionist. Won't convert those who weren't beguiled by their early works)
SML - Spontaneous Music Live ("You got Can in my The Necks", "No, you got The Necks in my Can". Great ideas, but too few per piece. Window into the inputs for the post-production edits in their prior two albums)

Unmentioned above:
Metropolis Ensemble / Erik Hall / Sandbox Percussion - Canto Ostinato (Hall again interpreting Holt, this time with an ensemble. For those who wonder if Music for 18 Musicians could accommodate darker moments)
Miryam Saleh - Syrr (Egyptian avant folk. Can't understand a word, but the production is clean and the emotion is strong.)
Kinshasha in Action - Kinact (better that the last 5 Tradi-moderne congolais albums, wish it wasn't so brief (35 mins))
Kiss Facility - Khazna (Arabic art pop bumps into the same limits English language art pop has been bumping into for decades)'
Jessie Ware - Superbloom (still good, but lower highs, and the 3rd album of this approaches pandering)

Nice to see further love for Akusmi (and indeed SML, though that seems to have a higher profile generally AFAICT)!

Tim, have you heard jennifer herrema / black bananas? i think there's a chance you'll like bad bunch.

I often love rob's recommendations and this Kaiso Power album is no different.

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, October 6, 2026 7:41 PM (yesterday)

That's nice to hear PBKR! I'm glad you like it. On that note, I really like the Martyn album, thanks tabes. I haven't gotten around to the others I noted yet; adding Miryam Saleh to the queue too.

Saleh did a collab record a few years ago that would have absolutely made my EOY list if i did things like that back then— it’s called ‘Lekhfa’ and also features Maurice Louca and Tamer Abu Ghazaleh. she is incredible, will have to check the new one

The new Marina Herlop record is insanely ambitious and beautiful. So many styles, sounds and dynamics at play, it's quite the journey.

Thirding Akusmi, is exceedingly likely to end up as my #1. Weirdly it reminds me of the Lounge Lizards at points? Probably both drawing on a specific source tradition I'm not familiar with.

The new Marina Herlop record is insanely ambitious and beautiful. So many styles, sounds and dynamics at play, it's quite the journey.

― octobeard, Sunday, 11 October 2026 12:06 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

This album is a lot. In every sense.

These first two albums I have listened to nearly every day (sometimes multiple times a day) — the last time I felt this strongly ‘possessed’ by a new record was with Caroline Polachek’s ‘Desire, I Want To Turn Into You’ (which is still my favorite ‘pop’ album of the 21st century.)

Charli xcx: Music, Fashion, Film (Atlantic)
Ben Vida: The Oblivion Seekers (Shelter Press)

++++++++++++++++++++++

And in no order (although the Black Bananas album is striving to break out of the general list to join the Charli and Ben Vida records above — there are a few late 2025 records included, mostly from October 2025 or later, i.e. a year ago.)

Black Bananas: Bad Bunch (Not On Label/Self-released)
Beth Orton: The Ground Above (Partisan)
Souled American: Sanctions (Jealous Butcher Records)
Charli xcx: Wuthering Heights (Atlantic)
Martha Skye Murphy / Roy Montgomery: Nebular
Mark Fell / Pat Thomas: Reality Is Not A Theory (late 2025)
John Tilbury: At Home (Another Timbre)
Feldman: For Bunita Marcus - John Tilbury piano (True Blanking)
Feldman: Palais de Mari - John Tilbury piano (True Blanking)
Anthony Moore with AKA & Friends: On Beacon Hill (Drag City, late 2025)
Mozart Estate: Tower Block in a Jam Jar (Cherry Red, late 2025)
Prolapse: I Wonder When They’re Going To Destroy Your Face (Tapete, late 2025)
Prolapse: Mary Anne Hobbs Sessions 97-98 (Precious)
Dave Tucker & Hannah Marshall: Lawns (Scatter Archive)
Spratleys: BLOOM (Alphabet BC)
Cardiacs: LSD (Alphabet BC, late 2025)
Sharpie Smile: The Staircase (Drag City, late 2025)
Chris Weisman: Distant Fastness (Cadential Windfall)
Natalie Beridze: Fernweh (Bandcamp)
Kory Reeder: We Are Done For In The Most Remarkable Ways (Atari)
Ming Tsao: Plus or Minus - GrauSchumacher Piano Duo (NEOS)
Hen Ogled: Discombobulated (Domino)
Francis Comyn / Adam Fairhall: Metalurgia (Confront)
Alex Mincek: Images of Duration - Yarn/Wire 10
Mark Fell: Psychic Resynthesis (Frozen Reeds)
Schoenberg: Four String Quartets - performed by The Webern Quartet (Etcetera)
Tyshawn Sorey: Members … Don’t (Pi)
Tyshawn Sorey: Monochromatic Life (Afterlife) (Dacamera Editions)
Matthew Shipp: The Cosmic Piano (late 2025)
Tricky: Different When It’s Silent (False Idols)
John McCowen: Pressure Chords w/ Lucy Railton, Weston Olencki (Hallow Ground)
Christian Kobi / Taku Sugimoto: Forgotten Objects in Musahina (Ftarri)
Werner Dafeldecker / Eliad Wagner: Fray Field (Room 40)
Betsy Jolas: Femme le soir, perf. Nicolas Hodges etc (Bastille Musique)
AMM: Phlegm (Matchless)
AMM With Sachiko M: Testing (Matchless, late 2025)

++++++++++++++++++++++++++

PLUS: All of the La Musica Series reissues from Black Editions, but especially:

Black Tape II –– Ohkami No Jikan
Doo Dah Nean — Nean
Rotting Telapathies: Rotting Tapes II
You Ishihara: Formula (Deluxe Edition)
You Ishihara: Passivité

Looking through the credits of Akumsi's Terra Incognito, I see Sarathy is a contributor. This makes perfect sense in terms of the overlapping sounds and 'vibe' between Terra Incognito and Korwar's There Is Beauty, There Already

Mine in no order:

Beth Orton - The Ground Above
Imarhan – Essam
Kelela - new avatar
Ratboys - Singin’ to an Empty Chair
Kehlani - Kehlani
Megan Moroney - Cloud 9
Charli XCX - Wuthering Heights and MFF
Tinashe - Popstar
Jill Scott – To Whom This May Concern
Ari Lennox - Vacancy
A$AP Rocky – Don’t Be Dumb
Dry Cleaning – Secret Love
Underscores - U
Grace Ives – Girlfriend
Mr Fingers - Leev Yr Mynd
Ravyn Lenae - Blue Island
Genesis Owusu - REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE
Ashley McBryde – Wild
Isaiah Rashad – It’s Been Awful

The picks on this thread that I haven't heard of / haven't yet heard are going to keep me busy catching up until well into 2027 -- until October '27 at the earliest! Very much appreciated: these are the kind of threads that keep us lurkers lurking, taking notes, and planning for Bandcamp Friday shopping sprees.

just in chronological order of how I got them:

Searows - Death in the Business of Whaling
Earth Tongue - Dungeon Vision
Ratboys - Singin' to an Empty Chair
Worm - Necropalace
Converge - Love is Not Enough/Hum of Hurt
Cryptic Shift - Overspace & Supertime
Bill Callahan - My Days of 58
Johnny Blue Skies & The Dark Clouds - Mutiny After Midnight
Weedpecker - V
Ovven - Gnawing at the Cord
Sunn O))) - Sunn O)))
Sluice - Companion
Brown Horse - Total Dive
MEMORIALS - All Clouds Bring Not Rain
My New Band Believe - My New Band Believe
National Photo Committee - Red Hot Photo Committee
Setting - Setting
Primitive Ring - Primitive Ring
Kevin Morby - Little Wide Open
Jeff Parker ETA IVtet - Happy Today
Elder - Through Zero
Boards of Canada - Inferno
Neurosis - An Undying Love for a Burning World
Slift - Fantasia
Panopticon - Det hjemsokte hjertet
Gun Outfit - Process and Reality
Ahmed - Play Monk
Basic - Basic
Stormkeep - The Nocturnes of Iswlym
Wendy Eisenberg - Wendy Eisenberg
Horse Lords - Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive
Vorhex Angel - Drain
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - A ? of When
Ultra Lights - Pleasure's All Yours
Eartball - Actual Earth Music: Volume 3 & 4
Beth Orton - The Ground Above
Swapmeet - Mount Zero
Parts & Labor - Set of All Sets
John R. Miller - The Great Unknowing
Rezn - Cycles in the Infinite Dream
Shearwater - The New World
Ty Segall - Chrome
Giraffe - The Towering Inferno with Bongos
Wild Pink - Still Coming Down
Dinosaur Jr - There Near
Kiwi Jr. - Blowin' Up
Mastodon - Marrow Deep
Billy Strings - So Much For Goodbyes
Lily Seabird - Lightspheres on Their Way
Sigh - Goh-Ka
The Tubs - Hard Life
Chat Pile - Who Loves The Sun
Green Lung - Necroplitan
Russian Circles - Nine
Krallice - Scour Order
Oren Ambarchi - Cooked
Osees - Off Course
Rhododendron - Ascent Effort
Early Moods - Ready for the Grave
Black Bananas - Bad Bunch
Neil Young & The Chrome Hears - Second Song
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Shapes of Midnight
Westside Cowboy - It Goes On
Dungen - Vidrig Var
Dissimulator - Artifice Dissolves
The Machine - Another Sun
Protomartyr - Hotel Usona
Greg Freeman - All Set the Bone

damn, yeah, I loved a lot of stuff this year!

I never though I'd give a fuck about a Neil Young album in 2026 but y'all have got pretty persuasion.

it's so good

is neil on bandcamp (ponocamp?)

sadly not, I ripped it from Youtube

Not a big albums guy these days, but here's what I've been digging:

Maxime Denuc - Club Imperiale
Sarah Davachi - Will Of Tongues
Antropoceno - No Ritmo da Terra
Various Artists - Art Form I / Art Form II
Frankie Archer - The Dance Of Death
Cola - Cost Of Living Adjustment
QRTR - ONDAS
Hatchback - Phaser For The Ocean, Chorus For The Moon
Struktur - Levitation
Stovfigur - Stovfigur
Gradient - Random Layers
ZENA - TEMESGEN
Neurosis - An Undying Love
JeGong - Gomi Kuzu Can
Remote Viewing - State Violence
Nochi - Sinergia
Tara Clerkin Trio - Somewhere Good
Boards Of Canada - Inferno
Serokolo 7 - Maramfa Musik Pro
Eric Cantona - Perfect Imperfection
Ari Bragi Karason - Unclear Family

I gotta say I'm having a hard time buying in fully with the Akusmi album, everything feels a bit too on-the-nose, on the grid, in the box.

Trá Pháidín's Cloch’s Claí is killing me this week

my current eoy shortlist

Air Vespera - Formless
Al Khair - Oman Bagpipe Singers: Songs of returning and leaving
Alessandro Cortini - Memorie
Alex Smalley - Contrastive Canopy
Alexander Eldefors - Vivel
Almøst Silent - Kaizen
Androctonyx - AXISTE PAS
Ángeles Rojas - Open the Windows and Let the Spirits in and Out
Antropoceno - No Ritmo da Terra
Arovane,Taylor Deupree - Enth
Asha Patera - The Sacred Ground
Austin Williamson,Blanket Swimming - Horizons
Bali Gamelan Sound - Selonding, Vol. IV (Live)
Blue Chemise - Mothers of All
Bob Bellerue - Chaos Is A Law
Chantal Michelle - All Things Might Spill
Charbel Haber - May a soft sun bless your sky while you wait for the inevitable
Concepción Huerta - No Queda Nada, Todo Resuena
Concrete Gazebo - Acid Heath
Craven Faults - Sidings
Dane Law,Chants - Bonded Pairs
David Cordero - Más Allá De Las Palabras
Dialect - Full Serpent
DJ Jeff the Lastborn - KADODI SEASON
DJ Lag - Mzansi Bass
Earth Trax - Everlasting Flame
ELEH - Floating Frequencies/Intuitive Synthesis 1
Evil Graham Lee - I Think I'm Alone Now
Fennesz - The Last Days of May
Giulio Aldinucci - Materia
Heathered Pearls - Window
Hipwell - Culte Voyeuriste
Janel Leppin - Slowly Melting
JC Leisure - Low Tide, Hi Grypus!
Joel Noct Brinson - the politics of being
John Beltran,Placid Angles - Canada
Khun Narin - III
KMRU - Kin
Le Motel,Arthur Brouns - Music for Runways
Leila Bordreuil,Kali Malone - Music for Intersecting Planes
Luigi Tozzi - Deep Blue: Volume 4
Lukas Harding - greenhouse glassceiling
Lusine - Melting Days
LXV - Colloidal
Marta Salogni & Stefano Pilia - Phren
Matti Bye - The Sea
Max Corbacho - The Gentle Continuum
Max Kutner - Rogue Lash
Maxime Denuc - Club Imperiale
Miriam Adefris - Eleven Harps
miska lamberg - Evening, window
Mondoriviera - La Laguna Dei Bei Sogni
Music Within - abstractions
Nathan Dawidowicz - FLUFF
Nicolini - Quita Maldicion
Ocoeur - Greener grass, clearer water
Olivier Alary - Vestiges
Ondness - I Can Only Put So Much Into A Song
Or Sobre Blau,Ubaldo,Kiran Leonard - Making Friends
Pallette - Singapore Changi Airport
Pan-American - Fly the Ocean in a Silver Plane
Pharoah Chrome - Chronicles from the Arab Cold War
PT Musik - Consumação
Pullman - III
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Points of Inaccessibility
rat - Home
Resavoir - Themes for Dreams
Robert Henke - Signal To Noise, Vol. II
Rosenau & Sanborn - Two
Rump State - Psychic Sidekick
Saba Alizadeh - Rituals of the Last Dawn
Salamanda - Music To Watch Seeds Grow By 008: Salamanda (Basil)
Sarah Davachi - The Will of Tongues
Schatterau - Wir gingen durch leere Stunden
SML - Spontaneous Music Live
Spyros Polychronopoulos,Nikos Veliotis - Position
Stephen Holliger - Fives and Sixes
Stephen O'Malley - Spheres Collapser
sunn O))) - sunn O)))
Tape Loop Orchestra - Slow, Slow Spectres
The Field - Now You Exist
The Sprigs - For Red Riverbank
Tomasz Bednarczyk - Catbient 2026, Pt. 1
Turning Jewels Into Water - Morning Birds and Distant Drums
Wil Bolton - Concrete Botany
xàr num - Remember The Garden
zakè - Cantus for Winter in Six Parts
zakè - HH
Zoltan Fecso,Anna Morley - Desire Path

Charlotte Cornfield - Hurts Like Hell

No dud tracks. Great songwriting. Beautifully produced with some excellent musicians involved (including Adam Brisbin who plays guitar on Cassandra Jenkins' records).

I was unaware of her previous albums until this one. But it's blown me away.

Good to see a few mentions of Antropoceno ITT. Sounds like nothing I could conceive in my mind until I hear it

Space Ghost - Back to Reality

glad to see another FLUFF fan, amazing record. lotsa other stuff in your list i wanna check out, nxd!

one more for the Akusmi (new to me). lovely freely. i can hear the lizards ref, too

marina herlop, wow. admiring more than enjoying, wow tho

Charlotte Cornfield - Hurts Like Hell

this is great, thanks!

good list, jon

Right now my top 3 is

Angine de Poitrine
Neurosis
Florian Hecker

and the rest is kind of a crapshoot

Oh man, I totally meant to include Charlotte Cornfield on my list, love that record.

xp - thanks!

Wild Pink - Still Coming Down

this is a pretty fantastic guitar album. it and the new dino jr. have been my go-tos when i want to hear some indie shredding

Top albums by artists over seventy:

* Chip Taylor: Words from Holy Gardens [died in March, age 86]. No “Wild Thing” here. Stark and bleak acoustic home recording created at the end of Taylor and his wife’s lives.
* Hawkwind: Psychedelic Selection [with Dave Brock, 85].
* Marty Wilde: Let’s Rock This Place [87]. Rock & roll.
* Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts: Second Song [80].
* Peter Hammill: Tears in Time [77].
* Richard Thompson: Hippies, Thugs and Heroes [77].
* Ringo Starr: Long Long Road [Ringo, 86, and T-Bone Burnett, 78].
* Sparks: Live On the Moon [Ron, 81, and Russell, 77]. Live album with a full band.
* The Residents: Eskimo Folk Tales (2026 ep) [The Singing Resident, possibly 81].
* The Third Mind: Spellbinder! [with Dave Alvin, 70]. Psychedelic guitar rock.
* Van Morrison: Somebody Tried to Sell Me a Bridge [81]. Blues.
* Willie Nelson: Dream Chaser [93].

TAGABOW - KOOL FAITH / LOOSIES II
God of War - molly picture
GENA - The Pleasure is Yours
L'Rain - fata morgana
Lee Scratch Perry and Mouse on Mars - Spatial No Problem
Boards of Canada - Inferno
Autechre in Liege if that counts

The new TAGABOW stuff is my favorite of the year and it just came out yesterday. It's a junked-up grungy shoegaze mixtape that sounds like it comes from the Interzone. Almost every song is a collaboration with another band from the Philly scene which gives the album's 29 songs a good deal of variety. Can't stop playing it rn.

Not sure if we can count Autechre's most recent performances since they haven't been released on AE_2022 yet, but their Liege set brings to the fore all my favorite things about them. Moments of crepuscular synth beauty and an all-out percussive assault, though this performance is a lot more rhythmically pleasing to me.

how are you hearing the autechre set?

Adding Jorge Drexler - Taraca to my list.

Drexler combines Afro-Uruguayan candombe rhythms with Spanish language indie-rock & pop & some Brazilan samba influences on his latest album. Back in 2005 his song "Al Otro Lado del Río" from the movie The Motorcycle Diaries won the Academy Award for Best Original Song

xpost downloaded of slsk.

It's also up on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDeeHcX8-F8

cool thx

Cheers m8

This Spike Fuck album on Sacred Bones is getting under my skin. Who knew I was craving late 70s NYC roots punk like Robert Gordon? A real sense of tragedy and hard knocks coming through in their singing. Like with Twisted Teens, I'm surprised how much basic r'n'r albums are resonating with me this year. Or slightly askew basic rock 'n' roll? Or it is roots music that's reanimating the askewness that made r'n'r invigorating in the first place?

sounds great to my ears too

i enjoy the person clapping along at the very beginning as if they're expecting Ae to burst in with "We Will Rock You"

Fine - Jazz Dreams

Obsessed with this. I adored Rocky Top Ballads but this record feels like a huge leap forward.

Fontaines DC - Dopamine Chamber

Took my time with this but it's sucked me in. The Rosalía duet is monumental.

And I'll echo the shout for Trá Pháidin, Cloch 's Claí. A vital, angry take on Ireland in 2026.

First half of the Raye album is sensational and I can’t believe more people on here aren’t talking about it.

lol at mine as I'm so unhip.

Not in order outside #1:

Ratboys - Singin' to an Empty Chair

Jessie Ware - Superbloom
Tove Lo - Estrus
Olivia Rodrigo - you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
Arab Strap - Half-Told Tales
Blondshell - Violins
Shearwater - The New World
Olof Dreijer - Loud Bloom
Carly Rae Jepsen • DAY and NIGHT
Death Cab for Cutie - I Built You a Tower

Charli XCX - Music, Fashion, Film

Not sure about the other one tho