POST-ROCK
Swans – To Be Kind
When one of my most favored bands follows up their finest hour with two even more finer hours, there isn’t much I can say. Both The Seer and this year’s To Be Kind are absolutely essential documents of 21st century sonic demolition. And, like the Grateful Dead, whatever is superlative on record is transcendent on the best nights on the road.
NOISE
Scott Walker + Sunn O))) – Soused
EXPERIMENTAL
Brian Eno & Hyde – Someday World
Bing & Ruth – Tomorrow Was the Golden Age
Andy Stott – Faith In Strangers
Bitchin Bajas – Bitchin Bajas
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra – Hang On to Each Other EP
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band – Fuck Off Get Free
VOICE
Aya Nishina – Flora (from 2013; missed it then, but not now!)
Helena Tulve – Arboles lloran por lluvia
Tujiko Noriko – My Ghost Comes Back
Ian William Craig – A Turn of Breath
DRONE
Lawrence English – Wilderness of Mirrors
Kevin Drumm – Trouble
MINIMALIST / POST-CLASSICAL
John Luther Adams – Become Ocean
Trepanning Trio – The Man Killed the Bird
TECHNO/ELECTRO
Aphex Twin – Syro
AMBIENT
Meg Bowles – The Shimmering Land
Steve Roach & Jorge Reyes – The Ancestor Circle
Alio Die and Sylvi Alli – Amidst the Circling Spires
REiSSUE/ARCHIVAL
Charles Cohen – A Retrospective
Muslimgauze – Chasing The Shadow Of Bryn Jones
Jon Hassell – The City – Works In Fiction
1. The original City:Works of Fiction
2. The legendary Wintergarden Concert September 1989
3. Psychogeography