Editor's Choice 2024

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Bladee - COLD VISIONS [Trash Island]

Kim Gordon - The Collective [Matador]

Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - SAVED! / The Index [Perpetual Flame Ministries]

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Editor's Choice 2023

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Jane Remover - Census Designated [deadAir]
2023 AOTY

Graham Lambkin / James Rushford - Gondolas [Erstwhile]

Ben Vida w/ Yarn/Wire and Nina Dante - The Beat My Head Hit [Shelter Press]

Swans - The Beggar [Young God]

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Graham Lambkin - Aphorisms [Blank Forms]

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Liturgy - 93696 [Thrill Jockey]

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BONUS

A conversation with Erstwhile Records and elsewhere music labelheads Jon Abbey and Yuko Zama.

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Editor's Choice 2022

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Quadeca - i didn’t mean to haunt you [deadAir]
Added in 2024

Mabe Fratti - Se ve desde aquí [Unheard of Hope]
Added in 2023

Derek Bailey, Charlie Morrow and Friends - New York 1982 [Recital]

Bloodz Boi, claire rousay, More Eaze - a crying poem [Orange Milk]

Peter Rehberg at GRM [Portraits GRM]

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Ákos Rózmann - MASS/MÄSSA [Ideologic Organ]
2022 AOTY

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Editor's Choice 2021

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Jane Remover - Frailty [deadAir]
Added in 2024

Low - HEY WHAT [Sub Pop]
Added in 2022

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George Harrison - All Things Must Pass [Calderstone Productions]
Admittedly the remaster doesn’t sound as great as it could/should—heavy on the compression, making the welcome mixing changes harder to appreciate. The demos, outtakes, and jams do make up for it though.

Panopticon - .​.​.​And Again Into the Light [Bindrune]

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Keith Rowe - Absence [Erstwhile]
2021 AOTY

Roland Kayn - Matego I-II [RRR]

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Editor's Choice 2020

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Gentle Fire - Explorations (1970-1973) [Paradigm Discs]

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Liturgy - Origin of the Alimonies [YLYLCYN]
2020 AOTY

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Jim O’Rourke - Shutting Down Here [Portraits GRM]

Keiji Haino - 黑​的​意​义​The Meaning of Blackness 礼​节​先​于​义​务 比​一​切​都​要​快 未​曾​诞​生​于​光​中​的​微​笑 [Old Heaven Books]

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Dean Blunt - Roaches 2012-2019 [World Music]
The full $up£r D€lux£ edition is no longer officially available, which is a shame, but any of this comp’s iterations are worthwhile.

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