Thurston's favorite 2021 Albums
 

https://jgthirlwell.tumblr.com/post/...year-in-review


Thirty killer recordings I had the pleasure to come across in 2021, all new performances from a galaxy of inspired lights. Keep on shinin’, friends!
—Thurston Moore / Sonic Life

1. Seafoam Walls - XVI (Daydream Library LP)
2. Xopher Davidson - Lux Perpetua (Daydream Library LP)
3. Wobbly - Popular Monitress (Hausu Mountain cassette)
4. Farida Amadou & Pavel Tchikov - Mal De Terre (Trouble In Mind cassette)
5. Luke Stewart - Works For Electric Bass Guitar (Triptickstapes cassette)
6. Ana da Silva & DJ Mooncup - Shouting Out Loud (Noods Radio cassette)
7. Joseph Nechvatal - Selected Sound Works (1981-2021) (Pentiments cassette)
8. Wharton Tiers - Wharton’s Expanding Jazz Band (self released digital)
9. Moor Mother - Circuit City (Black Quantum Futurism LP w/ Playbill)
10. Michael R. Bernstein - Blind In Sight (self released cassette)
11. Marshall Trammell & Aaron Turner - Experimental Love I & II (Sige cassette)
12. Jaimie Branch - Fly Or Die Live (International Anthem 2XLP)
13. Twig Harper - Classical Electronics (Radical Documents cassette)
14. Ava Mendoza - New Spells (Relative Pitch cassette)
15. Michael Morley - Electric Guitar (Radical Documents cassette)
16. Gerald Cleaver - Griots - (Positive Elevation LP)
17. Title TK - Metallic TK (self released cassette)
18. Sophie Cooper - Goodbye Gemini (Borley Rectory cassette)
19. Co-ed - s/t (Sludgepeople cassette)
20. Gergesenes - Exorcism of the Gerasene Demoniac (Banner Of Blood cassette)
21. Orphan Fairytale - Titania Moon (Ultra Eczema LP)
22. Joe Morris & Damon Smith - Gusts Against Particles (Open Systems LP)
23. The Bohman Brothers - In Their 70s (Fort Evil Fruit cassette)
24. Natalie Beridze - Mapping Debris (Monika Enterprise cassette)
25. Tasos Stamou & Alan Wilkinson - Whenever (Ikuisuus cassette)
26. Irons - Unto The Kingdom (self released digital)
27. Alan Braufman & Cooper-Moore - Live at WKCR May 22, 1972 (Valley Of Search 12”)
28. Nihilist Spasm Band - Nothing Is Hard To Do (But We Try) (We Are Busy Bodies 7”)
29. Gaahls WYRD - The Humming Mountain (Season Of Mist 10”)
30. White People Killed Them - (Sige LP)

Pretty sweet, thanks Moshe. Ava Mendoza's New Spells is really good; it's also available on CD and 24-bit FLAC via Bandcamp.

https://avamendozamusic.bandcamp.com/album/new-spells

https://relativepitchrecords.bandcam...bum/new-spells

https://astralmendoza.bandcamp.com/album/new-spells

2. Xopher Davidson - Lux Perpetua (Daydream Library LP) got this one on vinyl. love it. minimal.