For those without the time or inclination to wade through over 500 albums from across the year (and who can blame you?), of if you are in any way curious as to which have stayed with me the most, here is a shorter selection of 50 from the year. I won't necessarily claim they are the best, some are very personal (and predictable, if you know me) choices. They are loosely ordered with favourites at the top, but I care less and less for ranking or standouts these days!
First of all, I'm going to cheat and introduce an award for Artist of the Year - which will go to Moor Mother, for having the sheer audacity to play a major role in (at least) six great albums this year. If I had to pick a favourite of them, it would probably be the Irreversible Entanglements record.
Andrew Tuttle - Alexandra
Maria Schneider - Data Lords
Bob Dylan - Rough & Rowdy Ways
Mourning [A] BLKstar - The Cycle
Daniel Blumberg - On&On&On&On&On...
Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman
Speaker Music - Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry
Frazey Ford - U Kin B The Sun
Rob Luft - Life Is The Dancer
Pulled By Magnets - Rose Golden Doorways
Bruce Springsteen - Letter To You
Armand Hammer - Shrines
The Necks - Three
Tyshawn Sorey - Unfiltered
Jeff Parker - Suite For Max Brown
Nathan Salzburg - Landwerk Vol 1/Landwerk Vol 2
Junk Magic - Compass Confusion
Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra - Dimensional Stardust
Shabason, Krgovich & Harris - Philadelphia
Nate Wooley - Seven Storey Mountain VI
Starebaby - Natural Selection
Hiss Golden Messenger - Forward, Children/School Daze
Jeremy Cunningham - The Weather Up There
MoonMot - Going Down The Well
Horse Lords - The Common Task
Tatsuhisa Yamamoto - Ashioto
Okkyung Lee - Yeo-Neun
Greg Fox - Contact
North Americans - Roped In
Krononaut - Krononaut
Irreversible Entanglements - Who Sent You?
Aesop Rock - Spirit World Field Guide
Mary Halvorson - Artlessly Falling
Martin Pyne - Spirit Of Absent Dancers
Gregoire Maret, Romain Collin, Bill Frisell - Americana
H.C. McEntire - Eno Axis
Pretty Sneaky - Pretty Sneaky
William Tyler - New Vanitas
Michael Wollny - Mondenkind
Caleb Dolister - Daily Thumbprint Collection 3: The Wandering
Seafarers - Seafarers
Shabaka & The Ancestors - We Were Sent Here By History
Eli Winter - Unbecoming
Pink Siifu - Negro
Matthew 'Doc' Dunn - Rain, Rain, Rain
Coriky - Coriky
David Torn - Fur/Torn
Jasper Høiby - Planet B
Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - All The Good Times
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