Best of 2017

A year of nonsense and intolerable global happenings... musically it has also been lacklustre but a few releases captured my audial attention to make this year bearable...

Keiji Haino/Jim O'Rourke/Oren Ambarchi - This Dazzling, Genuine "Difference" Now Where Shall It Go?

 
Damien Dubrovnik - Great Many Arrows



Run The Jewels - 3

 

Bjork - Utopia




Die Krupps - Stahlwerk Requiem

 

Godflesh - Post Self



Jasss - Weightless




My Top 3:

3. Tanya Tagaq - Retribution



2. Converge - The Dusk In Us

 

1. Pan Daijing - Lack




These are my two favourite record labels for the past, maybe, 18 months or so?

Buh Records (Peru)



Modern Sky Records (China)


Re-issues of the Year:
3. Brother Ah








2. Lou Reed


1. Cosey Fanni Tutti


1. Husker Du