Neil Campbell - in Fort Banal, through Port Dismal

https://theneilcampbell.bandcamp.com...gh-port-dismal

Really great - the best recording I've heard from him this year so far (and he's put out a lot of good stuff!).

Sam Prekop - Comma
- instrumental modular music like Old Punch Card only Aphexy.

Hum - Inlet
- that 90s space rock band is back! 1st song okay. I don't know about the rest because it all sounds the same.

100 gecs - 1000 gecs and The Tree of Clues
- huge disappointment. At least we got a studio version of Came to My Show.

Animal Collective - Bridge to Quiet
- AC have made a bit of a return to form in recent years. This one is in the vein of ODDSAC.

Magik Markers, Julianna Barwick, Matthewdavid's Mindflight, and Eiko Ishibashi are all good too

Honestly I kinda disagree. I mean, I'll still always prefer the regular album, but a few of the remixes are pretty good (especially the Eurodance one of that track with the Myspace name [you know, I'm too lazy]). And yes, Came to My Show wrecks.

The good stuff had already been released.

This one is fantastic! It has this Murray Street vibe

https://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-walks

The new Daniel Blumberg album is pretty great. Featuring Jim White from Dirty Three.

https://youtu.be/IwsLFy52MsU

Anna Von Hausswolff - All Thoughts Fly!

18th. of Sept. (on my b-day)...new Sarah Davachi and new Vatican Shadow are coming out.

Can not wait for new William Fowler Collins record which should be coming out as well this year.

thanks. will check it out.

Agree with your take on Inlet. I'll certainly give it another go one day.

Watched the premiere of "Microphones in 2020" on YouTube today. Really enjoyed it with the photographs. A 44-minute song is a lot to digest, but Phil has plenty of other accessible stuff out there. Definitely a cool concept.

Land of Talk's "Indistinct Conversations" came out last week. Can see myself coming back to this all the time. Love the playful strumming and minimal production. Liz's voice hits me deep.

Seconded on Land of Talk. It's understated but like all her work there's a lot beneath the surface

Microphones - “Microphones in 2020”
Very, very good.

From Bandcamp Daily:

An In-Depth Guide to the Microphones

No mention of Michelle Williams, though. ;)

I’m glad that’s provided because a first-time listener would have a hard time with all the references and stuff in the new track.

But I guess it’s one of the best rated albums of the year on that album-rating social media thing I hate. Can’t remember if it’s AOTY or RYM. Both kinda drive me nuts with their little fandoms.

Very little just listening for the sake of enjoying music anymore. On the interweb, so much of it is performative. It irks me.

That gives a serious trigger to discover. Thanks !

Holy Molly Parker Posey...




https://store.newwestrecords.com/collections/pylon

Also https://pylonband.bandcamp.com/album/pylon-box

The new Throwing Muses is great. Kristin Hersh has such a presence

I gotta listen to that one ASAP, sure enough...

Wow!




WOW! :eek: Hey, how come I had to find out via The Wire? This should be ready to pre-order on Bandcamp. Not that I have any money. But I gotta do sum'!

Mary H is becoming one of the 21st century's most important artists. Very much looking forward to the next release

The Archives Vol. II: 1972-1976 Box Set

Release date : November 20

Neil, you son of a gun you. :)

I'm psyched about Archives Vol. I... by Joni Mitchell!



Right now her version of "House Of The Rising Sun" is above Dylan's and The Animals' for me. Listen here: https://jonimitchell.com/

Now available for preorder. Listen to "The Lemon Tree", with the voices of Robert Wyatt, Amirtha Kidambi and Maria Grand - POSITIVELY CELESTIAL. It's a crime that we have to wait a month to hear the full album. :)

The Food House LP is pretty good, definitely grows on you as it gets on. A fair bit of diversity, too.

https://nilsfrahm.bandcamp.com/album...ith-nils-frahm




trailer

Recent goods:
M Geddes Gengras
Ana Roxanne
Drew McDowell
William Basinski
Profligate (former board member!)
Eiko Ishibashi
Yelle
AG Cooke
Charlemagne Palestine
Jim O'Rourke

I just got Fetch The Bolt Cutters (Fiona Apple) a few days ago, and I cannot listen to anything else. It's brilliant.

On another note: King Gizzard are starting to bore me.

Now that we're into the last 10% of the year, it's time to start crowning our AOTYs, no?

For me, it's @@@@@ by Arca. While technically a single, I think a 62-minute mixtape should be able to count as an album, especially when it's as adventurous yet coherent as this one was. Alternating between manic deconstructed club and more ambient songs about identity and self-image, it's definitely one to set the tone for the 2020s.

If it doesn't count, then SIGN by Autechre.

Fetch The Bolt Cutters gets my vote*. :)

Edit: *Unless something even better comes out in the next 32 days.

More power to ya (and to Fiona), but it's not even December yet. I still remember when you got Rolling Stone's best-of-the-year list in, like, the March issue (of the next year, you follow). Today it's all NOW NOW NOW, so actual physical magazines need to have their shit ready by late September or something if they want it to appear in the December issue. It's degenerate and I will not have it!

I added an asterisk.

Anyway, it may be blasphemy to say this at the Sonic Youth board, but here goes:

Trump Is Right!!!

KIDDING!!!

I meant to say: I love the new Taylor Swift.

Taylor Swift is garbage. Come on. There was a time when everyone of us would agree on that point. That’s commercial bullshit.

I never bought a Swift album in my life, until folklore. I couldn't even whistle one of her songs until this year. She was this Great Big Pop Sensation that had seemingly been around forever, and surely I have no interest in that.

But folklore is fucking good!!!

I haven't listened to folklore. I've heard plenty of Swift singles thanks to my mother being a fan, and based on that I'm willing to go into bat for Red as one of the great pop albums. 'I Knew You Were Trouble' is an all timer.

Apparently one of the criticisms of folklore is that she was trying to have one foot in both camps as mainstream pop and indie folk, and it would've been better if she'd gone all the way in either direction. But I should probably not trust what Internet randoms say about Taylor Swift.

Fiona made a gem this year indeed.
And yeah, King Gizzard is boring :(