Gibbs' Picks Vol. 1 (2020 redux):
A cherry-picked selection from RxGibbs' 2020 Spotify Best Of list -- a mix of new nostalgia and wheelhouse ambient as well as unexpectedly queer new pleasures. Still fresh. looking forward...
Only the good stuff:
Growing - HUMMING AMPS VOL. 4 Melodies In Dilapidated States (self released bandcamp) august 2021
Growing + Mary Lattimore - GAINER (self released bandcamp) November 2021
VA - Touch Displacing Series (Touch V33.50) november 2021
Shuttle358 – Frame (20th Anniversary Vinyl Edition) (12k 2051) june 2021
Moss – Moss (Recur) (12k 2049) march 2021
Arovane – Reihen (12k 2053) November 2021
Delmer Darion – “Genoa (Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Remix)” november 2021
Lightning Bug – “A Color of the Sky (Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Remix)” September 2021
Eli Keszler – Icons+ (LuckyMe 82) November 2021
Sarah Davachi & Sean McCann – Mother Of Pearl (Recital 92) November 2021
Beach House - Once Twice Melody Chapter 1 (Bella Union) November 2021
Ben Chasny - The Intimate Landscape (Drag City 810) november 2021
Twenty One Pilots - Scaled and Icy (Fueled By Ramen 2-659072) may 2021
Pelt – Reticence/ Resistance (Three Lobed Recordings 137) October 2021
Bitchin Bajas – Switched On Ra (Drag City 851) October 2021
Andrew Pekler & Giuseppe Ielasi - Palimpsests (Shelter Press 135) October 2021
VA – I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to The Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve) September 2021
VA - The Velvet Underground: A Documentary Film By Todd Haynes (Polydor) October 2021
Jan Jelinek - The Raw and the Cooked (Faitiche 24) September 2021
Byron Westbrook - Mirror Views (Ash International 13.8) September 2021
Black Dice - Mod Prog Sic (Four Four 441) October 2021
Primal Scream – Demodelica (Columbia EU) October 2021
Kiln – Tungsten (Ghostly International) october 2021
David Grubbs & Ryley Walker - A Tap On the Shoulder (Husky Pants) September 2021
Steve Gunn – Other You (matador) august 2021
Grouper - Shade (Kranky) august 2021
Ben Vida – Rhythm Fields (Dasa Tapes 04) august 2021
Ora Clementi – Sylva Sylvarum (Black Truffle 77) July 2021
VA - The Harmonic Series Volume 2 (Important Records 500DI) august 2021
Alice Coltrane - Kirtan; Turiya Sings (Impluse 1982) july 2021
Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime (Matador 1614) may 2021
Low - Hey What (Sub Pop) September 2021
Spiritualized – Pure Phase (Dedicated, 1995/ Fat Possum July 2021)
Six Organs of Admittance - The Veiled Sea (Three Lobed 132) june 2021
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Ilyas Ahmed – You Can See Your Own Way Out (Devotion 02) may 2021
Growing – Diptych (Silver Current 44) may 2021
Spiritualized – Lazer Guided Melodies (Fat Possum 1751) april 2021
Sonic Boom – Almost Nothing Is Nearly Enough (Carpark 151) April 2021
Iceage – Seek Shelter (Mexican Summer 290) may 2021
Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Superwolves (Drag City 1121/ Palace 71) April 2021
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I'm planning on posting a two-part 2020 Q4 mix super-soon, as well as an overall, parsed-down 2020 mix from an old friend's Spotify year-end playlist... please stay tuned!
Leftovers, bandcamps:
April 2021:
Moss – Moss (Recur) (12k 2049) April 2021
Nikolaienko – Rings (Faitiche 23) April 2021
M. Sage w/ The Spinnaker Ensemble – The Wind of Things (Geographic North 65) April 2021
Alan Licht – A Symphony Strikes the Moment You Arrive
March 2021:
Koen Holtkamp – Atmosfera (Love All Day 22) march 2021
Andrew Weathers/ Hayden Pedigo – Big Tex, Here We Come (Debacle) march 2021
Dialect – Under~Between (Rvng Intl 67) march 2021
Floating Points/ Pharoah Sanders/ The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (Luaka Bop 97) march 2021
Chris Corsano/ Bill Orcutt – Made Out of Sound (Palilalia 63) march 2021
Lost Girls – Menneskekollektivet (Smalltown Supersound 384) march 2021
Bobby Lee – Origin Myths (self-released / Thompkins Square) march 2021
Willie Dunn – Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: the Willie Dunn Anthology (Light in the Attic 164) March 2021
February 2021:
Byron Westbrook – Distortion Hue (Hands In The Dark 055) February 2021
Black Country, New Road – For The First Time (Ninja Tune 269) February 2021
Thurston Moore – Screen Time (bandcamp, self-released) February 2021
MV/ EE – Alpha Lyrae (Child Of Microtones 41) February 2021
Pauline Anna Strom – Angel Tears In Sunlight (Rvng Intl 69) February 2021
January 2021:
Matt LaJoie – Paraclete Tongue (Flower Room 60) January 2021
Free Dust (M. Sage) – Woo’d Early (mastered by Stephan Mathieu) (Past Inside The Present v13) January 2021
Jon Mueller – Family Secret (American Dreams 14) January 2021
Sleaford Mods – Spare Ribs (Rough Trade 197) January 2021
Speed Stick (Ash Bowie) – Volume One (Don Giovanni Records 213) January 2021
Beachwood Sparks – Beachwood Deluxe (Curation 005) January 2021
Jim O’Rourke – Steamrooms (53)
Andrew Chalk/ Timo van Lujik – Skagafjördur (Faraway Press 35) January 2021
Bitchin Bajas – Live Ateliers Claus (Les Albums Claus) January 2021
2020:
Matthew ‘Doc’ Dunn – Rain, Rain, Rain (Cosmic Range 20) October 2020
Adrianne Lenker – Songs (4AD 0302) October 2020
MV/EE – Cap Trips (Child Of Microtones 58) November 2020
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Love Is A Stream (2020 ed.) (remastered by Stephan Mathieu) (bandcamp, self-released) October 2020
Week 15, 2021:
Crys Cole – Other Meetings (Boomkat Editions Documenting Sound 39) April 2021
Thomas Fehlmann - Böser Herbst (Kompakt 167CD) April 2021
Bill MacKay/ Nathan Bowles – Keys (Drag City 784) April 2021
Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg (4AD 0254) April 2021
Taylor Deupree – Mur (Dauw 017) April 2021
Matt Rösner - No Lasting Form (Room40 96) April 2021
TM404 – Endor Trico (Kontra-Musik white label 11) November 2018
PDP III – Pilled Up on A Couple Of Doves (Shelter Press 125) April 2021
New Bums – Last Time I Saw Grace (Drag City 809) march 2021
Vladislav Delay – Rakka II (Cosmo Rhythmatic 14) April 2021
Week 12, 2021:
Taylor Deupree - Chorus (Dusk_Dawn) (12k 3028) march 2021
Tuluum Shimmering - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (December 2020)
Crys Cole/ Oren Ambarchi – Gallivant (The Black Dot 003) february 2021
Simon Scott – Apart (12k 2048) December 2020
Mark Fell/ Rian Treanor - Last Exit To Chickenley (Boomkat Editions 37) march 2021
Perila – Everything Is Already There (Boomkat Editions 26v) march 2021
Anne Guthrie – Gyropedie (Students of Decay 125) march 2021
Mark Fell/ Will Guthrie – Infoldings Diffractions (Nakid 102) December 2020
Ryley Walker - Course In Fable (Husky Pants) April 2021
Chuck Johnson – The Cinder Grove (Vin Du Select Qualitite 27) February 2021
Mark Templeton – Western Sunset (Superpang 53) march 2021
Four Tet – Parallel (Text 16) December 2020
Ryley Walker – Covers (July 2020)
Week 8, 2021:
Mapstation – My Frequencies, When We (Bureau B) february 2021
Stereolab – Electrically Possessed [Switched On Vol. 4] (Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks 42) February 2021
Sam Prekop - Spelling (Longform Editions 69) February 2021
TM404 – Syra (Kontra Musik 58) January 2021
Week 4, 2021:
Loren Connors/ Oren Ambarchi - Leone (Family Vineyard 110) January 2021
Week 52, 2020:
Cleared – They Key (Touch 116) october 2020
Barry Walker Jr. – Shoulda Zenith (Holy Mountain 2000) november 2020
Simon Scott – Apart (12k 2048) December 2020
Maarja Nuut/ Sun Araw – Fantasias For Violin And Guitar (MIDA 01) ocotober 2020
Matt Lajoie – Light Emerging (Trouble In Mind Explorers Series v2) august 2020
Working Men’s Club – Working Men’s Club (Heavenly 179) October 2020
Ilyas Ahmed/ Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Torch Songs EP (shining skull studio bandcamp) December 2020
VA – New Neighborhoods (Freedom To Spend 15) October 2020
Hideki Umezawa Andrew Pekler – Two Views of Amami Oshima (Edicoes Cn 30) December 2020
Peel Dream Magazine – Modern Meta Physic (Slumberland 234) october 2018
Peel Dream Magazine - Agitprop Alterna / Moral Panics EP (Slumberland 251/256) April / december 2020
VA - Pop Ambient 2021 (Kompakt 161CD) November 2020
Andrew Chalk – Incidental Music (Faraway Press) October 2020
Monogoto – Partial Deletion of Everything (Vol 1) (12k 3027) November 2020
Kiln – Astral Welder (Ghostly International 373) November 2020
Tuluum Shimmering – Brown Rice (self-released) December 2020
Week 48:
Emily A. Sprague – Hill, Flower, Fog (Plancha 142) November 2020
VA – Southeast of Saturn (Third Man 629) November 2020
Week 45:
Autechre – Plus JAP (Warp 338) October 2020
Pole – Fading (Mute 457) November 2020
Stephan Mathieu/ Ekkehard Ehlers – Heroin (Keplar Rev03) October 2020
Growing - Tired Tubes Sigh Like Old Men - Humming Amps and Broken Strings Sing Vol. 1 (bandcamp, July 2020)
I'm planning on posting a two-part 2020 Q4 mix super-soon, as well as an overall, parsed-down 2020 mix from an old friend's Spotify year-end playlist... please stay tuned!
Leftovers, bandcamps:
April 2021:
Moss – Moss (Recur) (12k 2049) April 2021
Nikolaienko – Rings (Faitiche 23) April 2021
M. Sage w/ The Spinnaker Ensemble – The Wind of Things (Geographic North 65) April 2021
Alan Licht – A Symphony Strikes the Moment You Arrive
March 2021:
Koen Holtkamp – Atmosfera (Love All Day 22) march 2021
Andrew Weathers/ Hayden Pedigo – Big Tex, Here We Come (Debacle) march 2021
Dialect – Under~Between (Rvng Intl 67) march 2021
Floating Points/ Pharoah Sanders/ The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (Luaka Bop 97) march 2021
Chris Corsano/ Bill Orcutt – Made Out of Sound (Palilalia 63) march 2021
Lost Girls – Menneskekollektivet (Smalltown Supersound 384) march 2021
Bobby Lee – Origin Myths (self-released / Thompkins Square) march 2021
Willie Dunn – Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: the Willie Dunn Anthology (Light in the Attic 164) March 2021
February 2021:
Byron Westbrook – Distortion Hue (Hands In The Dark 055) February 2021
Black Country, New Road – For The First Time (Ninja Tune 269) February 2021
Thurston Moore – Screen Time (bandcamp, self-released) February 2021
MV/ EE – Alpha Lyrae (Child Of Microtones 41) February 2021
Pauline Anna Strom – Angel Tears In Sunlight (Rvng Intl 69) February 2021
January 2021:
Matt LaJoie – Paraclete Tongue (Flower Room 60) January 2021
Free Dust (M. Sage) – Woo’d Early (mastered by Stephan Mathieu) (Past Inside The Present v13) January 2021
Jon Mueller – Family Secret (American Dreams 14) January 2021
Sleaford Mods – Spare Ribs (Rough Trade 197) January 2021
Speed Stick (Ash Bowie) – Volume One (Don Giovanni Records 213) January 2021
Beachwood Sparks – Beachwood Deluxe (Curation 005) January 2021
Jim O’Rourke – Steamrooms (53)
Andrew Chalk/ Timo van Lujik – Skagafjördur (Faraway Press 35) January 2021
Bitchin Bajas – Live Ateliers Claus (Les Albums Claus) January 2021
2020:
Matthew ‘Doc’ Dunn – Rain, Rain, Rain (Cosmic Range 20) October 2020
Adrianne Lenker – Songs (4AD 0302) October 2020
MV/EE – Cap Trips (Child Of Microtones 58) November 2020
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Love Is A Stream (2020 ed.) (remastered by Stephan Mathieu) (bandcamp, self-released) October 2020
Week 15, 2021:
Crys Cole – Other Meetings (Boomkat Editions Documenting Sound 39) April 2021
Thomas Fehlmann - Böser Herbst (Kompakt 167CD) April 2021
Bill MacKay/ Nathan Bowles – Keys (Drag City 784) April 2021
Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg (4AD 0254) April 2021
Taylor Deupree – Mur (Dauw 017) April 2021
Matt Rösner - No Lasting Form (Room40 96) April 2021
TM404 – Endor Trico (Kontra-Musik white label 11) November 2018
PDP III – Pilled Up on A Couple Of Doves (Shelter Press 125) April 2021
New Bums – Last Time I Saw Grace (Drag City 809) march 2021
Vladislav Delay – Rakka II (Cosmo Rhythmatic 14) April 2021
Week 12, 2021:
Taylor Deupree - Chorus (Dusk_Dawn) (12k 3028) march 2021
Tuluum Shimmering - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (December 2020)
Crys Cole/ Oren Ambarchi – Gallivant (The Black Dot 003) february 2021
Simon Scott – Apart (12k 2048) December 2020
Mark Fell/ Rian Treanor - Last Exit To Chickenley (Boomkat Editions 37) march 2021
Perila – Everything Is Already There (Boomkat Editions 26v) march 2021
Anne Guthrie – Gyropedie (Students of Decay 125) march 2021
Mark Fell/ Will Guthrie – Infoldings Diffractions (Nakid 102) December 2020
Ryley Walker - Course In Fable (Husky Pants) April 2021
Chuck Johnson – The Cinder Grove (Vin Du Select Qualitite 27) February 2021
Mark Templeton – Western Sunset (Superpang 53) march 2021
Four Tet – Parallel (Text 16) December 2020
Ryley Walker – Covers (July 2020)
Week 8, 2021:
Mapstation – My Frequencies, When We (Bureau B) february 2021
Stereolab – Electrically Possessed [Switched On Vol. 4] (Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks 42) February 2021
Sam Prekop - Spelling (Longform Editions 69) February 2021
TM404 – Syra (Kontra Musik 58) January 2021
Week 4, 2021:
Loren Connors/ Oren Ambarchi - Leone (Family Vineyard 110) January 2021
Week 52, 2020:
Cleared – They Key (Touch 116) october 2020
Barry Walker Jr. – Shoulda Zenith (Holy Mountain 2000) november 2020
Simon Scott – Apart (12k 2048) December 2020
Maarja Nuut/ Sun Araw – Fantasias For Violin And Guitar (MIDA 01) ocotober 2020
Matt Lajoie – Light Emerging (Trouble In Mind Explorers Series v2) august 2020
Working Men’s Club – Working Men’s Club (Heavenly 179) October 2020
Ilyas Ahmed/ Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Torch Songs EP (shining skull studio bandcamp) December 2020
VA – New Neighborhoods (Freedom To Spend 15) October 2020
Hideki Umezawa Andrew Pekler – Two Views of Amami Oshima (Edicoes Cn 30) December 2020
Peel Dream Magazine – Modern Meta Physic (Slumberland 234) october 2018
Peel Dream Magazine - Agitprop Alterna / Moral Panics EP (Slumberland 251/256) April / december 2020
VA - Pop Ambient 2021 (Kompakt 161CD) November 2020
Andrew Chalk – Incidental Music (Faraway Press) October 2020
Monogoto – Partial Deletion of Everything (Vol 1) (12k 3027) November 2020
Kiln – Astral Welder (Ghostly International 373) November 2020
Tuluum Shimmering – Brown Rice (self-released) December 2020
Week 48:
Emily A. Sprague – Hill, Flower, Fog (Plancha 142) November 2020
VA – Southeast of Saturn (Third Man 629) November 2020
Week 45:
Autechre – Plus JAP (Warp 338) October 2020
Pole – Fading (Mute 457) November 2020
Stephan Mathieu/ Ekkehard Ehlers – Heroin (Keplar Rev03) October 2020
Growing - Tired Tubes Sigh Like Old Men - Humming Amps and Broken Strings Sing Vol. 1 (bandcamp, July 2020)
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