Living My Life

...remembering dear friend and selfless soul, Scott Herbert...

Possibilities:

Richard Skelton – A Channel For Water (Aeolian) june 2018
Rafael Toral – Sound Mind Sound Body (30th Anniversary Edition) (Drag City 701) june 2018
Cam Deas – Time Exercises (The Death Of Rave 022) April 2018
Mark Templeton – Distorted Tourist (Graphical) july 2018
Foresteppe -Maeta (Eilean) July 2018
Primal Scream – Give Out But Don’t Give Up (The Original Memphis Recordings) (Sony 19075815741) October 2018

Bandcamps:

Samara Lubelski – Joy Rides (Nov 2016), The Gilded Raid (June 2016)
Nick Malkin – Slow Day on Brilliant Drive (Geographic North) september 2018

Suggestions:

Autechre – NTS Session 1 (Warp 364-1) April 2018
Autechre – NTS Session 2 (Warp 364-2) April 2018
Sarah Davachi - Let Night Come On Bells End The Day (Recital 45)
Sarah Davachi – All My Circles Run – Boomkat Edition/ bonus CD – (April 2018/ February 2017)
Autechre – NTS Sessions 3 (Warp 364-3) April 2018
Autechre – NTS Sessions 4 (Warp 364-4) April 2018
Brian Eno with Kevin Shields – The Weight of History/ Only Once Away My Son (Opal 12-1) april 2018
Grouper – Grid of Points (Kranky 217) April 2018
Mike Donovan – How To Get Your Record Played In Shops (Drag City 709) April 2018
Beach House – 7 (Sub Pop) April 2018
Andreas Tilliander & Elin Franzen – Japan (Repeatle 204) September 2018
Blank Realm – Last Seen (Hobbies Galore 10) April 2018
Innerst Inne – Solen Träffar Topparna Först (Further) March 2018
Mokira – Chill Out (Kontra 50) March 2018
Jan Jelinek – Zwischen (Faitiche 17) may 2018
DJ Koze – Knock Knock (Pampa 13) may 2018
Amen Dunes – Freedom (Sacred Bones 195) April 2018
Eleanor Friedberger – Rebound (Frenchkiss 91) may 2018
Joe Talia – Tint (Black Truffle 37) may 2018
Kyle Bobby Dunn / Wayne Robert Thomas – The Searchers b/w Voyevoda (Whited Sepulchre) may 2018
The Sea and Cake – Any Day (Thrill Jockey 459) may 2018
Fennesz – Station One (Touch Tone 61D) may 2018
Robert Lippok – Applied Autonomy (Raster 181) may 2018
GAS – Rausch (Kompakt CD145) may 2018
Samara Lubelski – Flickers at the Station (Drawing Room Records 30) may 2018
Jackie-O Motherfucker – Bloom (Textile 27) may 2018
Skee Mask – Compro (Ilian Tape 04) may 2018
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Sparkle Hard (Matador 1328) may 2018
Portable – A Life Without Notifications (Dial 75) may 2018
Ride – Waking Up In Another Town: Weather Diaries Remixed (Witchita 530) April 2018
Deerhunter – Double Dream Of Spring (4AD 90MC) may 2018
Brendon Anderegg - June (Thrill Jockey 467) may 2018
Marcus Fischer & Simon Scott – Shape Memory (12k 88) june 2018
Mazzy Star – Still EP (Rhymes Of An Hour 006) june 2018
Oren Ambarchi/ Kassel Jaeger/ James Rushford – Face Time (Black Truffle 38) june 2018
Jim O’Rourke – Sleep Like It’s Winter (NewHere Music 002) june 2018
Arp – Zebra (Mexican Summer 254) June 2018
Eartheater – IRISIRI (PAN 86) june 2018
David Sylvian & Holger Czukay – Plight & Premonition Flux & Mutability (Groenland 193) june 2018 (1988/ ’89)
Ian William Craig – A Turn Of Breath [Extended Edition] (recital) june 2018
Lee Noble - Q (Longform Editions 03) July 2018
Francis Plagne & Crys Cole - Two Words (Black Truffle 35) July 2018
Forma – Semblance (Kranky 218) July 2018
Bitchin Bajas / DSR Lines - The Encyclopedia of Civilizations Vol. 2: Atlantis (Abstrakce 05) June 2018
Pausal – Volume Flow (Hibernate 66) august 2018
Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt (Fat Possum 1675) STREAM august 2018
Stephan Mathieu - Trace. Recordings of Entropic Systems 1998-2018 (Schwebung)
Oren Ambarchi/ Konrad Sprenger/ Phillip Sollmann – Panama/ Suez (A-Ton EP01) august 2018
Catherine Christer Hennix – Selected Early Keyboard Works (Blank Forms 002/ Empty Ed. 005) September 2018
Blue Chemise – Daughters of Time (Students of Decay 120) august 2018
Thomas Fehlmann – Los Lagos (Kompakt CD148) September 2018
Low – Double Negative (Sub Pop 1250) September 2018
Sarah Davachi – Gave In Rest (Ba Da Bing! 137) September 2018
Felt – A Decade In Music V2 (Cherry Red) September 2018
Field, The - Infinite Moment (Kompakt CD149) September 2018
William Basinski & Lawrence English - Selva Oscura (Temporary Residence 312) october 2018
Papa M – A Broke Moon Rises (Drag City 715) august 2018
Ensemble Economique - Radiate Through You (Denovali 295) September 2018
Foodman - Aru Otoko No Densetsu (Sun Ark 055) September 2018
Ipek Gorgun - Ecce Homo (touch 106) september 2018
Kurt Vile – Bottle It In (Matador 1146) October 2018
Ryley Walker - The Lillywhite Sessions (Dead Oceans 170) October 2018
Matthew Revert/ Vanessa Rossetto – Everyone Needs A Plan (Erstwhile 087) august 2018
VA – Don’t Look Now Aural Apparitions From The Geographic North (Geographic North) October 2018
VA – Total 18 (Kompakt CD 147) august 2018
Rafael Anton Irisarri - El Ferrocarril Desvaneciente (Umor Rex 114) September 2018
Stereolab - Switched On Volumes 1-3 (Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks CD39) September 2018
Yves Tumor - Safe In The Hands Of Love (Warp 293) September 2018
Tim Hecker - Konoyo (Kranky 219) September 2018
Janek Schaefer (for Robert Wyatt) – What Light There Is Tells Us Nothing (Temporary Residence 305) October 2018
Emily A. Sprague – Mount Vision (self released) September 2018
VA - A Decade Deeper (Mexican Summer) October 2018

Surripere

Possibilities:

Tint – Ricochet Screen (Root Strata) march 2018
Sarah Davachi – Let Night Come On Bells End The Day (Recital) April 2018
GAS – Rausch (Kompakt)
Jan Jelinek – Zwischen (Faitiche)
Grouper – Grid Of Points (Kranky)
Samara Lubelski – Flickers At The Station (Drawing Room) may 2018


Bandcamps:

Brett Naucke – The Back of The Garden (Unifactor) february 2018
Derek Piotr + VA – Underlined (Line 94) march 2018
Jim O’Rourke – Steamroom(s) (starting at 38? March)
Matt Christensen


Suggestions:

A.A.L. (Against All Logic) – 2012-2017 (Other People 340537) February 2018
The Breeders – All Nerve (4AD 0035) March 2018
Felt – A Decade In Music (Cherry Red) March 2018
Yo La Tengo – There’s a Riot Going On (Matador) march 2018
Kenneth James Gibson – In The Fields Of Nothing (Kompakt 143CD) march 2018
Brett Naucke – The Mansion (Spectrum Spools 045) march 2018
Fun Years, The – A Heart To Heart About Our Values (Spring Break Tapes 37) march 2018
Rafael Anton Irisarri – Sirimiri (Umor Rex 109) march 2018
Andrew Chalk & Daisuke Suzuki – Yama To Nashi (Siren 27) February 2018
Anne Guthrie – Brass Orchids (Students of Decay 119) march 2018
Byron Westbrook – Confluence Patterns (Umor Rex 106) march 2018
Drinks – Hippo Lite (Drag City 696) April 2018
Mouse On Mars – Dimensional People (Thrill Jockey 461) march 2018
Cavern of Anti-Matter – Hormone Lemonade (Duophonic 38) march 2018
Eric Copeland – Beat It (DFA 2581) march 2018
Ryley Walker – Deafman Glance (Dead Oceans) april 2018
Félicia Atkinson – Coyotes (Geographic North 49) April 2018

88 Seconds in Greensboro

Possibilities:

Drinks – Hippo Lite (drag city)

Suggestions:

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Glass (Noton 044) February 2018
Monster Rally - Flight To The Jungle (Gold Robot) February 2018
Ride - Tomorrow's Shore (Wichita 523) February 2018
Frank Bretschneider - Lunik (Shitkatapult 168) february 2018
France Jobin – Intrication (No. 916) February 2018
Taylor Deupree – Fallen (Spekk 37) February 2018
Go-Kart Mozart – Mozart Estate Present Go-Kart Mozart in Mozart’s Mini-Mart (West Midlands Records 5) February 2018
No Joy / Sonic Boom – No Joy / Sonic Boom (Joyful Noise 254) February 2018
U.S. Girls – In A Poem Unlimited (4AD 46) February 2018
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Async – Remodels (Milan 36932) February 2018
Kassel Jaeger – Retroactions (Moving Furniture/ Eliane 01) February 2018
VA – Hexadic III (Drag City 695) February 2018
Quicksails – The Bright (Gang of Ducks 002) February 2018
Rafael Anton Irisarri – Midnight Colours (Geographic North 48) February 2018

Older:

Emily A. Sprague - Water Memory (bandcamp, self-released) December 2017

Come Down Softly To My Soul

An attempt at a regularly monthly update of what I've been interested in/ listening to. Cheers!

Forthcoming:

Brett Naucke (Spectrum Spools)
Yo La Tengo – There’s A Riot Goin’ On (Matador)
Mouse On Mars – Dimensional People (Thrill Jockey)
The Sea and Cake – Any Day (Thrill Jockey)
Brother JT (Thrill Jockey)

Bandcamps:

тпсб - Sekundenschlaf (Blackest Ever Black 67) january 2018 Dark Past Bright Future
Emily A. Sprague – Water Memory (self-released) December 2017
Matt Christensen - various

Suggestions:

Panda Bear - A Day with The Homies (Domino RUG882) January 2018
Schlammpeitziger – Damenbartblick auf Pregnant Hill (Bureau B 276) January 2018
ADT – Insecurities (Hausu Mountain) January 2018
Keith Fullerton Whitman ‎– Amposta Generators b/w Lleida Generators (Protracted View 517) january 2018
Ty Segall & Freedom Band – Freedom’s Goblin (Drag City 675) January 2018
Silvia Kastel – Air Lows (Blackest Ever Black 69) January 2018
Dedekind Cut – Tahoe (Kranky 213) January 2018
Ilyas Ahmed – Closer To Stranger (MIE 48) January 2018
No Age – Snares Like A Haircut (Drag City 694) January 2018
Alvin Lucier – Criss-Cross / Hanover (Black Truffle 33) february 2018
Shuttle358 – Field (12k 2039) February 2018

Older:

Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up (Nonesuch 558777) june 2017
Cosmic & Phill Musra Group, Michael – Cosmic Paradise/ Peace In the World/ Cosmic Records (Now-Again 5155) December 2017
Stephen Vitiello & Taylor Deupree - May 18 b/w Loop To Clouds (Champion Version 11, 2016 / 12k bandcamp) july 2017

Youth Worshipper

Ah, one of the many best songs ever from The Church. Anyway, been cranking out the 2017 year-end best-ofs, figured I should copy my remaining 2017 finds since it's practically mid-January at this point.

Suggestions:

Alexis Georgopoulos + Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Fragments of a Season (Emotional Response 33) October 2017
King Krule – The Ooz (True Panther Sounds 126) October 2017
Byron Westbrook – Body Consonance (Hands In The Dark 35) October 2017
Errorsmith – Superlative Fatigue (PAN 81) October 2017
Lee Gamble – Mnestic Pressure (Hyperdub 37) October 2017
Aquarelle – Leave Corners (Debacle 104) September 2017
Sugai Ken – UkabazUmorezU (Rvng Intl. 40) October 2017
Oren Ambarchi – Stacte Karaoke II (Black Truffle 32) October 2017
Elodie – Vieux Silence (Ideologic Organ 27) October 2017
Thomas Brinkmann – Retrospektiv (Third Ear Recordings BOX 01) October 2017
Beast – Vols. One & Two (Pre-Echo Press 007/8) October 2017
Gregg Kowalsky – L’Orange, L’Orange (Mexican Summer 246) October 2017
M.E.S.H. – Hesaitix (PAN 82) October 2017
Peaking Lights – The Fifth State of Consciousness (Two Flowers 003) june 2017
Gunn-Truscinski Duo – Bay Head (Three Lobed 124) November 2017
Roger Eno – This Floating World (Recital 38) November 2017
VA – Pop Ambient 2018 (Kompakt 142) November 2017
Billy Gomberg – A Changed Meaning (Strange Rules 145) October 2017
Bitchin Bajas – Bajas Fresh (Drag City 678) November 2017
F.S. Blumm – Welcome (Karaoke Kalk 102) November 2017
The Fall – Singles 1978-2016 (Cherry Red BOX30) November 2017
Oh Sees – Orc (Castle Face 93) august 2017
Barnett & Kurt Vile, Courtney – Lotta Sea Lice (Matador 1148) October 2017
Koen Holtkamp – Gong Solo (Cassauna 40) January 2017
Saint Etienne – Home Counties (Heavenly 139) june 2017
Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band – Dreaming In The Non-Dream (No Quarter 55) august 2017
L. Pierre – 1948 (Melodic 110) april 2017
Burnt Friedman & Mohammad Reza Mortazavi – Yek (Nonplace 44) November 2017
Burnt Friedman – The Pestle (Latency 10) January 2017
Olli Aarni – Nielu (Florabelle 003) October 2017
Ian William Craig – Slow Vessels (130701 26) may 2017
Inward Circles, The – And Right Lines Limit And Close All Bodies/ Scaleby (Corbel Stone Press) april 2017
Richard Skelton – Towards A Frontier/ Hánefsstaðafjall (Corbel Stone Press 006) December 2017
Burnt Friedman – Anthology (1980-2017) (Nonplace 45) December 2017
Maxwell August Croy & Sean McCann – II (Recital) December 2017
Monster Rally – Flowering Jungle (Gold Robot 53) December 2017
Mackay & Ryley Walker, Bill – Spiderbeetlebee (Drag City 688) November 2017