You're probably looking at something like:

Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
Holly Herndon - Platform
Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt
Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire
Lonelady - Hinterland
Blanck Mass - Cruel Sport
Viet Cong - S/T
Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again
Kamasi Washington - The Epic

I know most of you here are American so you won't know much about Lonelady but seriously, check that record out!

Spray Paint- Punters On A Barge LP/ Dopers LP
Bjork - Vulnicura LP
Frau - Mira 7"
Ivy - Cat's Cause(...)7"
CCTV - 7"
Broken Water- Wrought LP
Shopping- Why Choose LP
L.O.T.O.I.O.N. - Digital Control And Man's Obsolescence LP
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect LP
Cuntz - Force The Zone LP
Gun Outfit - Dream All Over LP
Wymyns Prysyn - Head In A Vice LP
Nurse - 7"/ Demo cs
Uniform - Demo cs
The Bug - Demo cs
Acrylics - Lovely's Slideshow cs
Mystic Inane - Ode to Joy 7"/ Eggs on a Plate 7"
Slum of Legs - Doll Like 7"

this neighba know what he talkin bout

Nice list overall, though there's no way Eearl S. is going to be one of my top picks.

That Viet Cong LP is even better now than it was at the beginning of the year.

But regarding Blank Mass, why pick the cruel sport EP over the Dumb Flesh LP? Just curious.

AE_LIVE_DUBLIN_191214
Lambkin/Pisaro - Schwarze Riesenfalter
Eva-Maria Houben - Air - works for flutes and organ
Timekeepers by Marcus Schmickler and John Tilbury
Jürg Frey - Grizzana and other pieces 2009-2014
Michael Pisaro - A Mist is a Collection of Points
I hope you like the universe by Joda Clément
Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
Sneeuwstorm by Rutger Zuydervelt
The Quantum Loonyverse by Cylob
Nice Weather for War (Kye 38)
Fraufraulein - Extinguishment
Eric La Casa - Soundtracks
Jazz Jaguars: Twilite
Pole - Wald

Tracks:

AFX "umil 25-01"
AFX "oberheim blacet1b"
Laurel Halo "Nebenwirkungen"
Ron Morelli "A Gathering Together"
user18081971 "5 7z [sole transfer]"
Greg Stuart & Ryoko Akama "e.a.c.d."
Aphex Twin "Diskhat ALL prepared1mixed 13"
Joseph Kudirka "Beauty and Industry"
Earl Sweatshirt "Solace"


still too early for a definitive list... it takes years to discover and spend time with everything released over the course of a year.

Hell yeah Richard D James songs!
I'm oddly fond of "midi pipe1c sds3time cube/klonedrm" from the Orphaned Deejay Selek record. Also "bonus EMT beats" and "serge Fenix rendered 2"...
And the computer controlled acoustic experiments EP is just full of deliciously weird ass shit, but it's hard to pick a single track from that one.

I actually had a song list I was pretty stoked about, but I somehow deleted it over the summer, and it's been difficult to replicate.

But as far as song go, these are a few of the ones I've jotted down since lapping the original list:

DJ Koze - XTC
Joanna Newsom - "Sapokanikan"
Joanna Newsom - "Anecdotes"
Cities Aviv - "Isolation Quarters"
Caural - "I grab the microphone & Fuck it up"
Botany - "Bad CGI"
Four Tet - "Evening Side"
Oneohtrix Point Never - "I Bite Through it"
Sleater-Kinney - "Price Tag"
Todd Terje - "Strandbar (Eric Duncan remix)"
Todd Terje - "Inspector Norse (Pepe Bradock remix)"
The Flaming Lips - "Atlantis" (Donovan cover)
Kanye West - "All Day"
Wilco - "EKG"
Wilco - "You Satellite"
Hudson Mohawke - "Scud Books"
Hudson Mohawke - "Ryderz"
Drake - "6man"
Kool Keith & L'Orange - "Twenty Fifty Three (feat. Mr. Lif)"
A$AP Rocky - "Excuse Me"
Viet Cong - "Continental Shelf"
Viet Cong - "Pointless Experience"
Hot Chip - "Huarache Lights"
Siskiyou - "Deserter"
Lupe Fiasco - "Mural"
AFX / Aphex Twin - "midi pipe1c sds3time cube/klonedrm"
Deerhunter - "Snakeskin"
A$AP Rocky - "Lord Pretty Flacko Jodye 2"

i picked Diskhat ALL prepared because it's the most fully fleshed-out track on the album, and it's got a dope, brooding vibe.

Orphaned Deejay Selek is super playable, I'd def. choose another couple tracks from it, "simple slamming" and "NEOTEKT72" are my other two favorites, along with the opening track.

but the AE_LIVE shit is just insanely good. super fluid and CHOCK full of details... it really sounds alive. can't get over it

Dammit! I still haven't sat down for a good listen to AE_LIVE. I keep getting distracted by other shit. It's going on my to do list for TODAY though.

I'm also starting to obsess over what my end of the year list is going to look like. There's been some recent activity (specifically from Joanna Newsom and Oneohtrix Point Never) that has forced me to rethink what I assumed my top 10 would look like.

No ultra clear number 1 album either. Very strange for me, that. I almost always know what's going to take the top spot before starting the list.

probably best to not stress over a well-defined/ultimate list... you're always gonna hear something later on that will change your perspective, placing albums in order is sorta ridiculous. there's still a month to go, in my experience some of the best stuff comes to light months, even years later.

it's nice to have a list for reference, however.

I know but it's really a labor of love for me. Yeah, it stresses me way the fuck out sometimes, and there's no rational explanation for that other than that I'm kind of a crazy neurotic.

So i liked Planet of the Gods and especially No Cities To Love otherwise this wasn't much of a a year for me for new releases. I DID make it to some really kick ass shows this year.. strong possibility i will be going to see the Dead ON NEW YEAR'S EVE at the house that Magic and Kareem buily

Man, the year is turning out to be much less thrilling in hindsight than it was at the start. If I had to draw up a top 10 for the year right now it would probably be:

Hudson Mohawke - Lantern
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - A Year With 13 Moons
Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
Viet Cong - Viet Cong
Joanna Newsom - Divers
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Perfuse 73 - Rivington Não Rio
Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated at Last
Eric Holm - Andøya
Botany - Dimming Awe, The Light Is Raw

... Or some other obvious choices like Jim O'Rourke's Simple Songs, Squarepusher's Damogen Furies, Deerhunter's Fading Frontier or the latest S-K. All great records, but I was hoping for something to really put my balls in a vice here in the home stretch.

Kasami Washington's the Epic deserves a spot too.

But what's irritating is that I could have made this list (with the exception of Newsome and Oneohtrix) back in the first half of the fucking year!

Björk - Vulnicura
Lady Lamb - After
Julia Holter - Have you in my wilderness

Marianne Nowottny - Dark Souls Need Light

http://feedingtuberecords.com/releas...ls-need-light/

I forgot:

Heather Woods Broderick - Glider
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (not usually a big fan but this album is pretty great)

Hecks yeah! Also, if you ever see her wearing a beautiful bracelet which has blue stones on it, ask her who gave it to her...

You're like the only person I've heard talk about Disappears here (apart from the obvious SY connection).

I have been a big fan of their since the start, but I didn't get into Irreal for some reason. I need to go back to it. And I haven't heard the Live record, but I'm dying to.

Would you mind terribly telling me the names of a couple of these? Most of them are obvious, but two in particular look very familiar and yet I can't place them.

The one with the weird plastic covered hand coming up from under the water?
The one with the cow skull and the flowers coming out from its head?

I swear I know what these are, but I can't place either one.