This time they’re in ordinal order, as always! I used to be stingy with these, but I’ve stopped doing that. 100 records! Read it and, for preference, do not weep!
The Body – I’ve Seen all I need to See
Low – HEY WHAT
Grouper – Shade
Kowloon Walled City – Piecework
Big|Brave – Vital
Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime
Big|Brave & The Body – Leaving None But Small Birds
Nathan Salsburg – Psalms
Lingua Ignota – Sinner Get Ready
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & London Symphony Orchestra – Promises
SunnO))) – Metta, Benevolence
Midwife – Luminol
Vince Staples – Vince Staples
Pelt – Reticence/Resistance
Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt – Lucy & Aaron
Senyawa – Alkisah
Nick Cave – CARNAGE
Divide and Dissolve – Gas Lit
Year of No Light – Consolamentum
Angel Bat Dawid – Hush Harbor Mixtape Vol. 1: Doxology
Nadja – Luminous Rot
Ka – A Martyr’s Reward
Jeff Parker – Forfolks
Weakened Friends – Quitter
Deafheaven – Infinite Granite
Moor Mother – Black Encyclopedia of the Air
Body/Dilloway/Head – Body/Dilloway/Head
Armand Hammer & The Alchemist – Haram
Yasmin Williams – Urban Driftwood
R.A.P. Ferreira – The Light Emitting Diamond Cutter Scriptures
BACKXWASH – I LIE HERE WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES
Colleen Green – Cool
Fatboi Sharif & Roper Williams – Gandhi Loves Children
Irreversible Entanglements – Open the Gates
Matt Sweeney & Bonnie Prince Billy – Superwolves
Indigo De Souza – Any Shape You Take
Les Filles de Illighadad – At Pioneer Works
JPEGMAFIA – LP!
Sault – Nine
BADBADNOTGOOD – Talk Memory
Chris Brokaw – Puritan
Rachika Nayer – Our Hands Against the Dusk
Gnod – La Mort Du Sens
Theon Cross – Intra I
Arca – Kick (I’m just lumping them all together here, but I like iii the most)
Thalia Zedek Band – Perfect Vision
Felicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Un hiver en plein été
Zelooperz – Van Gogh’s Left Ear
Emma Ruth Rundle- Engine of Hell
Maxo Kream – Weight of the World
The Lasso – 2121
Black Twig Pickers – Friend’s Peace
Black Midi – Cavalcade
Xenia Rubinos – Una Rosa
Bell Orchestre – House Music
The Telescopes – Songs of Love and Revolution
Tyler the Creator – Call Me if You Get Lost
Mono – Pilgrimage of the Soul
Sally Anne Morgan – Cups
G Herbo – 25
Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future
Monolord – Your Time to Shine
Six Organs of Admittance – The Veiled Sea
The Lasso, Jordan Hamilton & The Saxsquatch – Tri Magi
Watchhouse – Watchhouse
Wiki – Half God
Ben Lamar Gay – Open Arms to Open Us
Jessica Moss – Phosphenes
Mach-Hommy – Pray for Haiti
Sarah Neufeld – Detritus
Mandy, Indiana – EP
Hutch Harris – Suck Up All the Oxygen
Kipp Stone – Faygo Baby
Marisa Anderson & William Tyler – Lost Futures
The Armed – ULTRAPOP
Mess Esque – Mess Esque
Bendik Giske – Cracks
Heart Attack Man – Thoughtz & Prayerz
Sarah Louise – Earth Bow
Chester Watson – 1997
Ben Chasny – The Intimate Landscape
Psychic Graveyard – Veins Feel Strange
Biitchseat – I’ll Become Kind
Marissa Nadler – The Path of the Clouds
Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble – NOW
Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark
Jaite – Lowlands
Gerycz/Powers/Rolin – Lamplighter
Fly Pan Am – Frontera
Skyzoo – All the Brilliant Things
Flea Collar – A Hole is a Hole
Isaiah Rashad – The House is Burning
Chromesthetic – Intone
Fresh – The Summer I Got Good at Guitar
Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt – Made Out of Sound
Colleen – The Tunnel and the Clearing
Tele Novella – Merlynn Belle
Mogwai – As the Love Continues
Jazmine Sullivan – Heaux Tales
Human Impact – EP1