A CLOSER LISTEN weekly #67
New Sounds and a load of reviews
Dear Listeners, Joseph coming to you once again, squeezing in a week at the beach before fall really kicks off. But over on the blog proper, we’re already in the middle of our annual Fall Music Previews, which I’ll collect and send out next week in a dedicated newsletter. I’m also finishing up the copy to accompany the latest episode of Sound Propositions, this time with the great saxophonist, improvisor, composer and storyteller Matana Roberts. You can subscribe to Sound Propositions wherever you get your podcasts, but of course it will be up on the blog next week. To celebrate the release of this episode, I’ve also put together a special newsletter collecting our writing on their work. We’ve got our usual selection of mini-reviews of new and upcoming releases as well as nine selections from full reviews that have run on the blog in the past two weeks. But first, some news.
LISTEN UP
Our friends at SecretThirteen have uploaded some gems from their mix archive to Soundcloud, including mixes by Rrose, Pinkcourtesytelephone, Peter Rehberg, Dadub, and so many others. The complete archives will be available soon, after some successful crowdsourcing, so make sure to follow and dig in to some of the best mixes on the interwebs. (I myself did a mix for S13 in 2014, which is still available on our own page.)
Guitarist and singer Ilyas Ahmed (Grails) has posted a series of covers of formative songs to his bandcamp: The Velvet Underground’s “Candy Says,” Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” and The Rolling Stones’ “No Expectations.” And while you’re at it, revisit A DREAM OF ANOTHER, his excellent solo album released on Geographic North late last year.
Celer + Forest Management’s 2018 tape Landmarks has been remastered for vinyl, now available. I spoke with John Daniel (Forest Management) for an early episode of the podcast, GOING HOME AGAIN, one I was particularly proud of at the time.
CASSETTE BATCHES
Our friends at Dinzu Artefacts recently announced a new batch of three tapes from Lea Bertucci, Marco Baldini, and Henry Fraser, which sold out so quickly that Joe has already ordered a special second edition, so get them while you can.
Paris-based, multigenre post-internet music label Global Pattern has also just released their first new batch of three tapes after a year’s hiatus, but physical copies of two of the three have already sold out. But if you’re quick you can still cop a physical of Bux O'Tulz & Sleeparalysis’s Solar Plexus, and there’s always digitals of yourdiscovery & Cyber Surfer 3D’s Ξ X O F O R Ξ S T and ∑ V ∑ R Y T H I N G’s Super Liminal.
Mini-Reviews
Short highlights
anthéne ~ cloudburst
I wrote about Brad Deschamps aka anthéne’s collaboration with James Bernard for Past Inside the Present last year, finding a delicate and successful pairing of unusual bass and guitar duets for the ambient set. Here anthéne grants us a remarkable solo album released by our old friends at Home Normal. Made while in a temporary apartment while his family home was being renovated, Deschamps’ limited himself solely to a six-string electric bass guitar with some pedals and post-processing in Ableton, but as always the results are far more than the sum of their parts.
Associated Sine Tone Services ~ Associated Sine Tone Services
The debut from conceptual sine-wave supergroup comprised of Nicolas Bernier, Jeremy Young (Sontag Shogun), and Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek). With nothing but analog oscillators and filters, the trio sculpt an impressive variety of compositions. Great stuff.
Glauco Salvo ~ Field Studies Vol. 7
I reviewed Glauco Salvo’s debut LP 5 Haiku for ACL back in 2016, as well as his collaborative tape with Giovanni Lami in 2019, and have been quietly supporting his Field Studies series since it began, which often pairs evocative field recordings with subtle synth tones. This latest installment was made during a residency in Lisbon, treating riverside field recordings with tape, processing, and a Serge synth.
Ka ~ The Thief Next to Jesus
Originally a member of Natural Elements in the early ‘90s, since going solo the Brownsville rapper (and firefighter) Ka has been one of the critical lights of truly independent hip hop, releasing record after critically-acclaimed record since his feature on the GZA’s Pro Tools, and his own solo debut Iron Works, both in 2008. Ka’s records are entirely self-produced and exquisitely lyrical, pressed up on his own Iron Works Records, often selling physicals via pop-ups with lines around the block. On The Thief Next to Jesus, Ka returns to the theme of Christianity present on earlier records, this time sparing no one in his examination of the complex relationship black Americans have with the religion.
Navy Blue ~ Memoirs In Armour
I’ve been a fan of Sage Elsesser’s Navy Blue, as both a rapper and producer, since he first popped up on Earl Sweatshirt’s some rap songs (2018). He’s since self-released a number of great tapes, including Song of Sage (2020) (with features from Yasiin Bey and billy woods), produced records for AKAI SOLO and WIKI, and appeared as rapper and producer on records by Armand Hammer, Tha God Fahim, Mach-Hommy, and The Alchemist. His Budgie produced debut for DefJam, Ways of Knowing, left me a bit cold, and apparently the label felt the same as they quickly dropped him. But Sage won’t be stopped, back in prime form with the surprise release of Memoirs In Armour, featuring production from Child Actor, Budgie, Chuck Strangers, Nicholas Craven, and more, including some beats by Sage himself.
Roger Eno ~ the skies: rarities
English composer Roger Eno is prepping the release of his new mini-album, to be released on September 27 via the eminent Deutsche Grammophon. He debuted in 1983’s Apollo (by his brother Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois), with his solo debut Voices following in 1985. While continuing to collaborate with his brother, as well with Laraaji, Harmonia Ensemble, and many others, he’s enjoyed a prolific career as a solo artist, with music often used in films. On this forthcoming mini-album, the English composer revisits and reinterprets material from 2023’s the skies, they shift like chords. Inspired by the open skies and landscapes of his native East Anglia, these eight tracks range from solo piano to wordless choir and electronics, all gentle and tender explorations of nostalgia for the natural landscape.
Stefan Christoff & Aidan Girt ~ Protest on the mountain (remixes)
Shimmering Moods presents 20 artists reworking improvisations between Montreal’s Stefan Christoff on guitar and Aidan Girt (Godspeed) on drums. Includes tracks by Swaya, Barnacales, Martín Rodriguez, Jeremy Young, Copcarbonfire, and many more. [Full disclosure: I’ve got a remix included in the digital version of the album.]
SUMAC ~ The Healer
It’s been a decade since the debut from this doom metal supergroup trio, including members of ISIS, Botch, and Genghis Tron, and they’ve only gotten better with each subsequent record. Increasingly incorporating moments of improvisation into their dense and complex compositions, honed from years of studio-practice and road dogging, The Healer, released earlier this summer is their best yet.
Various Artists ~ Harkening Critters
The forms of minutiae label specializes sonic ecologies, attuned listenings, and electroacoustic music, working with many of our favorite contemporary field recordists. They will soon release their second non-profit compilation of field recordings and soundscape compositions, documenting the incredible variety of animal sounds. Includes tracks from KMRU, Felix Blume, Felicity Mangan, Alyssa Moxley, Andrew Pekler, and more, 33 in total, and comes with a detailed PDF booklet.
RECENT REVIEWS
Reviews are at the heart of ACL. Here are selections from a few of my favorite reviews we posted on the blog in the last few weeks.
Francesco Leali ~ Let Us Descend
Halloween is still more than two months away, but it arrives early on this release. Considering the fact that Christmas flyers are already landing in our mailboxes, it seems fair game. Not everyone is a child of summer, and this album allows listeners to celebrate their inner darkness. The presence of Satan on the cover (or one of his friends) only highlights the fact that the album was born from Until Riots founder Francesco Leali‘s obsession with cults and cultish behavior, a topic made all the more relevant these days by the expansion of such ideas to political movements.
Glacier ~ A Distant, Violent Shudder
A camera crew captures an astonishing moment. At first there is the large, imposing mass, shattering all sense of scale. Then, by a stroke of serendipity, the glacier cleaves, a huge segment, as wide as tall as a skyscraper, falls into the sea. The crew is momentarily elated, until a giant wall of water and ice comes rushing toward the ship. They are nearly capsized, fortunate to be alive. After the brush with death, an engulfing silence. This is the sound of Glacier. The album’s intensity never wanes; the only way to slow it down is to reach the end of a side of vinyl. “Distant/Violent” is a lurker, a stalker tracking its prey. By the time the album reaches its twelve-minute finale, “Sand Bitten Lungs,” there’s no doubt that giant and dangerous things are coming. We’re on the ship, and the glacier has just cleaved; we’re out on the highway, in the path of the storm. The distant, violent shudder is now a clear and present danger.
Johnny Bell ~ Field Trips
“Banjo drone” is the very definition of a micro-genre, currently so small we’re not aware of any other album in it. This is the solo territory of New Mexico’s Johnny Bell, who approaches music with a collector’s ear and offers an album rich in timbre and sonically distinct. Ironically, the album’s most intriguing moments arrive not in the American Primitive banjo or in the drones themselves, but in the curious textures and field recordings that populate the album’s nooks and crannies. The album is titled Field Trips not only because of these field recordings, but because actual field trips were needed to gather them: the base of an Arizona mountain, the cool California coast. To the listener, these trips now become journeys of the mind. The album begins with such a recording, the twittering of birds, the rustling of a stream, before Bell jumps in swiftly and brightly. This is confident, toe-tapping music, nary a hint of the advertised drone. But then at 2:24, something shifts: backward masking, tape loops, a dissolution of tempo. And then thick, gentle mulch. “Forest Floor” begins with stutter, static, radio transmissions and crows. There’s clearly more going on here than banjo, although Bell’s playing is consummate: perhaps more banjo and drone than banjo drone, but close enough. Voices drift in, as from an unattended TV; then a recording of an old country song, sputtering through the sonic debris.
Lambert ~ Actually Good
The first time I went to see Lambert play live, I got more than I bargained for. It was one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen, and not just because of the music. Nowadays, when I go to watch Lambert live, part of why I go is because I want to hear him talk. Lambert is an absolute master of the shaggy dog story. He’s brilliant at them. He can ramble on for several minutes, deadpan and wry, via several apparently (and sometimes actually) irrelevant detours. Like all good shaggy dog stories, they could be true, but at times they are so absurd that you’re not sure whether you’ve been had. If they are true, they’re a beautiful testament to how wonderfully weird life can be… or maybe he’s just pulling your leg.
Laurence Pike ~ The Undreamt-of Centre
While many great requiems have been written over the years, their form has remained staid. How might one inject new life into an old musical form about death? Can a modern requiem be both unique and reverent? After losing his father-in-law, Laurence Pike began to ask himself such questions, which are answered in The Undreamt-of Centre. The title is taken from Rilke’s “Sonnets to Orpheus,” the album’s starting point the Latin Mass. And yet, this is unlike any Latin mass anyone has ever heard. The Vox Sydney Philharmonia Choir provides the comforting, traditional tone while Pike’s percussion contributes something new: a hint of the unexpected that matches the human reaction in the face of the great unknown. Hearing the same old songs and the same old forms may be comforting, but it is no longer mysterious. The artist’s conclusion that “all life is a constant transition of states” is brought to bear on his music, fittingly recorded in a 19th century Gothic church.
Marie Awadis ~ Études Mélodiques
“The moment you accept yourself, doors open”, says Marie Awadis, explaining the origins of new album Études Mélodiques. It’s a powerful message, and a powerful album, right from the thundering opening chord of the first Étude, “Playing Games”. It’s also the expression of a complex identity. Born to members of the Armenian diaspora in war-torn Lebanon, Awadis now lives in Germany, but remains keenly aware of the fragility of the world in which we live. Her foundational musical knowledge is the Armenian music of her heritage, but it was followed by intensive classical training. Perhaps too intense; discouraged, she briefly stopped playing and composing. Her return to composition was an attempt to make sense of her identify, an ongoing process that sees her trying to reconcile her heritage, her classical training, and her wide-ranging musical interests that includes jazz, neoclassicism, minimalism, the music of her roots and other “world” musics. The resulting album is a fascinating blend—a powerful alloy—and one that only she could make.
Masayoshi Fujita ~ Migratory
The widely esteemed vibraphonist and marimba player Masayoshi Fujita has enlisted the aid of some astonishing collaborators on Migratory, but the greatest guest star may go unnoticed by those who only stream the recording. Renowned travel writer Pico Iyer (A Beginnier’s Guide to Japan) contributes the sleeve notes, transcribing “the Japan that he hears as he sits down and listens to the music.” The image of Iyer, one of our favorite authors, listening to Fujita while simultaneously discovering (if he had not already) Hatis Noit and Moor Mother, fills us with wonder. The travel writer is perfectly matched to the theme. On the surface, Migratory is about the journey made every spring and fall by our avian neighbors: the sounds they hear, the sights they see, the absence of national boundaries. Below the surface, the album speaks to Fujita’s return to Japan after 13 years in Berlin, echoing his parents’ own sojourn in Thailand. Deepening the association, his musical collaborators share similar stories.
Max Richter ~ In a Landscape
Max Richter would not mind at all if you curled up with a good book while listening to his music. His new album is intended to be a bookend to The Blue Notebooks, one of the artist’s earliest and best loved recordings. Well-loved, waterlogged paperbacks are displayed on the cover of In a Landscape and reading features prominently in the album’s first video. Keats, Wordsworth and Anne Carson are listed as influences, while lines from literary works have been translated into track titles. One of the main themes – the “quiet pleasures of living” – is illuminated by nine brief “Life Studies” interspersed between the compositions: field recordings that seem humble on the surface, yet speak volumes: wooded footsteps, sizzling eggs, a trolley in motion, whistling and light conversation.
Michael Scott Dawson ~ The Tinnitus Chorus
The Tinnitus Chorus is the second tinnitus-themed album we’ve reviewed this year, following Lola de la Mata’s Oceans on Azimuth. de la Mata had been advised to abandon her musical career. In Michael Scott Dawson‘s case, “The clicks, ringing tones, and hiss in his ears had been drowning out the ringing tones, clicks, and hiss in his studio.” Each composer tackles the affliction in a different recording manner: de la Mata by diving into the heart of the imposing sounds, and Dawson by enlisting the help of friends. Ten guests appear on The Tinnitus Chorus, one twice. A wide variety of influences is fused into a seamless set, in the same manner as white noise cancels out tinnitus. In the cover photo, the peaceful pink of the house establishes the tone, while two smokestacks loom in the background: a visual metaphor.
UPCOMING RELEASES
(complete list with Bandcamp links here)
Hundreds of amazing fall albums have already been announced, with many linked below, more in our Fall Music Preview and even more to come. Fall is the best season for music, a consolation for the end of summer. We’re particularly excited about this year’s crop, as it has as much color as the soon-to-fall leaves. From big names to fresh discoveries, there’s always something new on the horizon; we’re adding new albums daily, and hope you’ll find your next favorite album right here! Happy autumn, everyone!
Ontzeiling ~ All These Moments Will Be Lost (esc.rec., 5 September)
amelia courthouse ~ broken things (S P I N S T E R, 6 September)
Ant ~ Collection of Sounds Vol. 1 (Rhymesayers Entertainment, September 6)
Arsenal Mikembe ~ DRUM MACHINE (Nyege Nyege Tapes, 6 September)
Blurstem ~ Silence Spoken (Bigo & Twigetti, 6 September)
Daniel Carter, Leo Genovese, William Parker, Francisco Mela ~ Shine Hear, Vol. 2 (577 Records, 6 September)
Daniel K Karlsson ~ Towards A Music For Large Ensemble (Fönstret, 6 September)
Destro ~ Night of Vengeance (Avantgarde Music, 6 September)
DHÆÜR ~ Supercinema 05 (Supercinema, 6 September)
Ernesto Longobardi + Demetrio Cecchitelli ~ Maloviento (LINE, 6 September)
400 Lonely Things ~ The New Twilight (Cold Spring, 6 September)
Hidden Rivers ~ Always Somewhere Else (Serein, 6 September)
Isak Hedtjärn ~ Kvarpan (fönstret, 6 September)
Francesco Leali ~ Let Us Descend (UNTIL RIOTS, 6 September)
Glacier ~ A Distant, Violent Shudder (Post. Recordings, 6 September)
Heli Hartikainen ~ CHRONOVARIATIONS (6 September)
Henrik Pultz Melbye ~ Drømmene (Wetware, 6 September)
Jeff Snyder ~ Loom (Carrier, 6 September)
Kilometre Club ~ Earnest Tub (Imaginary North, 6 September)
Laurence Pike ~ The Undreamt-Of Centre (Leaf, 6 September)
Lukas de Clerck ~ The Telescopic Aulos of Atlas (Ideological Organ, 6 September)
Luke Sanger ~ Dew Point Harmonics (Lapsus, 6 September)
Mads Emil Nielsen ~ Heartbeats (arbitrary, 6 September)
Masayoshi Fujita ~ Migratory (Erased Tapes, 6 September)
Michael Scott Dawson ~ The Tinnitus Chorus (We Are Busy Bodies, 6 September)
Miki Yui ~ AS IF (Hallow Ground, 6 September)
Milio ~ Invisible Lands (Atomnation, 6 September)
Monolake ~ Studio (6 September)
Ocoeur ~ Breath (n5MD, 6 September)
Oneironaut ~ Alien Gnosis (Avantgarde Music, 6 September)
Party Dozen ~ Crime in Australia (Temporary Residence Ltd., 6 September)
Purple Decades ~ Fraction of Centuries (Beacon Sound, 6 September)
Setting ~ at Eulogy (DOSed, 6 September)
Solars ~ A Fading Future (Ripcord, 6 September)
Teleporter Scape Orchestra ~ The Draft of a Ball (TELESKOP, 6 September)
Timothy Archambault ~ Onimikìg (Ideologic Organ, 6 September)
Zimoun ~ Dust Resonance (Room40, 6 September)
Ábris Gryllus ~ Relent (EXILES, 7 September)
CZIGO ~ Actant Theory (Machine, 7 September)
Build Buildings ~ Ecotone (LAAPS, 9 September)
Peggy Lee, Julien Wilson, Theo Carbo, Dylan van der Schyff ~ Open Thread (Earshift Music, 10 September)
Saviet/Houston Duo ~ a clearing (Marginal Frequency, 10 September)
zakè & Tyresta ~ The Worlds We Leave Behind (Past Inside the Present, 10 September)
ARIGTO ~ Selfloss (12 September)
Dextro ~ Respire (12 September)
Ümlaut ~ An Auxiliary View (Audiobulb, 12 September)
Aidan Baker & Dead Neanderthals ~ Cast Down and Hunted (Moving Furniture, 13 September)
Allan Gilbert Balon ~ The Magnesia Suite (Recital, 13 September)
David Fulmer ~ immaculate sigh of stars (New Focus, 13 September)
FORM NULL ~ Drone Diaries I (Dead Letters Archive, 13 September)
Henry Fraser ~ Breath Line (Dinzu Artefacts, 13 September)
Jos Smolders ~ Testur 1 (Moving Furniture, 13 September)
Lea Bertucci ~ Hold Music (Dinzu Artefacts, 13 September)
Marco Baldini ~ Fuochi (Dinzu Artefacts, 13 September)
Max Jaffe ~ Reduction of Man (Whited Sepulchre, 13 September)
Michael Serian ~ Life at Cliff Bell’s (Shifting Paradigm, 13 September)
New York City Guitar Orchestra ~ Spectra: New Music for Guitar Orchestra (New Focus, 13 September)
Nídia & Valentina ~ Estradas (Latency, 13 September)
Paradise Cinema ~ returning, dream (Gondwana, 13 September)
Ross McHenry ~ Waves (Earshift Music, 13 September)
Sarah Davachi ~ The Head as Form’d in the Crier’s Choir (Late Music, 13 September)
Transatlantic Trance Map ~ Marconi’s Drift (False Walls, 13 September)
Tulpas ~ Atisbo (Astral Spirits, 13 September)
Unregistered Lodges ~ A Gift from Upper Management (13 September)
V/A ~ Dekmantel Ten: A Decade of Dekmantel Festival (Dekmantel, 13 September)
We Are Winter’s Blue and Radiant Children ~ “No More Apocalypse Father” (Constellation, 13 September)
Zeno van der Broek, HIIIT, Gagi Petrovic & Machines ~ Relatum (Moving Furniture, 13 September)
harte echtzeit ~ ji kū kan (Call It Anything, 14 September)
V/A ~ Batch 2024B (33 releases from Inner Demons Records, 18 September)
f5point6 ~ A Random Sequence of Events (See Blue Audio, 19 September)
Johan Carøe ~ The Great Silence (19 September)
Alaskan Tapes ~ Something Ephemeral (Nettwek, 20 September)
Alan Licht ~ Havens (VDSQ, 20 September)
Alex Henry Foster ~ A Measure of Shape and Sounds (20 September)
Anthony Vine ~ Sound Spring (kuyin, 20 September)
Arthur Levering ~ OceanRiverLake (New Focus, 20 September)
Başak Günak ~ Rewilding (Subtext, 20 September)
DEFTR ~ Run Away (npm, 20 September)
DJ Stingray 313 ~ Industry 4.o EP (Tresor, 20 September)
Erjos ~ The Presence (Bigo & Twigetti, 20 September)
Ibukan Sunday ~ Harmony / Balance (Phantom Limb, 20 September)
Malcolm Pardon ~ The Abyss (Leaf, 20 September)
MF Clarke ~ Arrays (Oxtail Recordings, 20 September)
more eaze ~ lacuna and parlor (Mondoj, 20 September)
Nico van Wersch ~ Psychose (Naked, 20 September)
Otay.onii ~ True Faith Ain’t Blind (No-Gold, 20 September)
Rhombus Index ~ hycean (See Blue Audio, 20 September)
Various Artists ~ harkening critters (forms of minutiae, 20 September)
White Poppy ~ Ataraxia (Not Not Fun, 20 September)
Farewell Phoenix ~ The Angels in These Fields (Ceremony of Seasons, 22 September)
Felbm & Louis Reith ~ G, A & D (Objects & Sounds, 23 September)
Quoth ~ Terminal (23 September)
Bruce Brubaker ~ Eno Piano 2 (InFiné, 25 September)
Duo Extempore ~ Ordinary Places (26 September)
Black Brunswicker ~ Been Around Here Before (Nettwerk, 27 September)
Hiroshi Ebina ~ Into the Darkness of the Night (Kitchen, 27 September)
In the Sun ~ Dawn (Chinabot, 27 September)
Ireen Amnes ~ Forbidden Memories (KR3, 27 September)
Iván Muela ~ Ether (27 September)
Klara Lewis ~ Thankful (Editions Mego, 27 September)
the Man from Atlantis ~ Spirits Align (Ramble, 27 September)
mu tate ~ wanting less (Warm Winters Ltd., 27 September)
Peter Gall ~ Love Avatar (Compost, 27 September)
Sandy Evans Trio ~ The Running Tide (27 September)
Sharp Veins ~ People Pleaser (27 September)
Tam Lin ~ Mutant Tangle (27 September)
Telekaster ~ Lontano (Empanada Music, 27 September)
Tiago Sousa ~ A Thousand Strings (Discrepant, 27 September)
Twin Talk ~ Twin Talk Live (Shifting Paradigm, 27 September)
Sarine ~ Asas Terrenas (Futura Resistenza, 30 September)
Jessie Kleemann & Søren Gemmer ~ Lone Wolf Runner (2 October)
Gaudi Kosmisches Trio ~ Torpedo Forward (Curious Music, 3 October)
Cape Canaveral ~ Ghost Rips (Machine Records, 4 October)
Guentner | Spieth ~ Overlay Reworks Pt. 2 (by Pole and Abul Mogard) (Affin, 4 October)
mHz ~ Material Prosody (Room40, 4 October)
Leo Genovese ~ Forward (577 Records, 4 October)
Nicholas Maloney & Yama Yuki ~ Live at Parking Lots (Flaming Pines, 4 October)
Nichunimu ~ Calados (577 Records, 4 October)
Nonconnah ~ Nonconnah vs. the Spring of Deception (Absolutely Kosher, 4 October)
Unicorn Ship Explosion ~ There’s a Rhinoceros in the Mega Church (Sound Records, 4 October)
V/A ~ Cybernetics, Or Ghosts? (Subtext, 6 October)
Brad Shepik ~ Human Activity: Dream of the Possible (Shifting Paradigm, 11 October)
B.Visible ~ Life Is My Hobby (Matches Music, 11 October)
eldritch Priest ~ Dormitive Virtue (Halocline Trance, 11 October)
Prawit Siriwat ~ Blueberry (11 October)
Qais Essar ~ Echoes of the Unseen (Worlds Within Worlds, 11 October)
Trem 77 ~ Eyelid Movie EP (11 October)
Gianluca Ceccarini, Alessandro Ciccarelli, Tetsuroh Kinishi ~ Yugen (Disasters by Choice, October 14)
Bryan Perri ~ Few Words (18 October)
Chihei Hatakeyama & Shun Ishiwaka ~ Magnificent Little Dudes, Volume 02 (Gearbox, 18 October)
Kinkajous ~ Nothing Will Disappear (Running Circle, 18 October)
Marysia Osu ~ harp, beats & dreams (Brownswood Recordings, 18 October)
Nzʉmbe – Ardor or Entropy (Drowned by Locals, 18 October)
Oliver Coates ~ throb, shiver, arrow of time (RVNG Intl., 18 October)
Pat Thomas ~ This Is Trick Step (577 Records, 18 October)
SO SNER ~ The Well (TAL, 18 October)
Svaneborg Kardyb ~ Superkilen (Gondwana, 18 October)
Ueno Takashi ~ ARMS (Room40, 18 October)
Black Aleph ~ Apsides (Art As Catharsis/Dunk, 25 October)
Body Meπa ~ Prayer in Dub (Hausu Mountain, 25 October)
Daniela Huerta ~ Soplo (Elevator Bath, 25 October)
Eunhye Jong ~ End of Time / KM-53 Project, Volume 2 (577 Records, 25 October)
Felicia Atkinson ~ Space As An Instrument (Shelter Press, 25 October)
Hammock ~ From the Void (Hammock Music, 25 October)
Righteous Rooster ~ Fowl Play (Shifting Paradigm, 25 October)
SUUMHOW ~ 5ILTH (n5MD, 25 October)
Toma Kami ~ missed heaven (mb studio, 25 October)
V/A ~ Resistance: Compilation of experimental music from Ukraine (Flaming Pines, 26 October)
Diaries of Destruction ~ DoD II (31 October)
Rich God ~ Unmade (Somewherecold, 31 October)
Alan Lamb ~ Night Passage (Room40, 1 November)
Andert Tysma ~ Hana (Apollo, 1 November)
Dean Drouillard ~ Mirrors and Ghosts (1 November)
Mike Cooper ~ Slow Motion Lighning (Room40, 1 November)
Sarah Neufeld, Richard Reed Perry, Rebecca Foon ~ First Sounds (Envision, 1 November)
Lifting Gear Engineer ~ Recovery (Machine, 2 November)
Black Rain ~ Neuromancer (Room40, 8 November)
Vazesh ~ Tapestry (Earshift Music, 8 November)
Murcof ~ Twin Color (vol. 1) (InFiné, 15 November)
Zacc Harris ~ Chasing Shadows (Shifting Paradigm, 15 November)
Ben Lukas Boysen ~ Alta Ripa (Erased Tapes, 29 November)
Rikuko Fujimoto ~ Distant Landscapes (FatCat/130701, 30 November)