****1/2
charles gayle trio – streets
**** – ****1/2
howth – newkirk
stephanie hladowski & c joynes – the wild wild berry
simon joyner – ghosts
josephine foster – blood rushing
aine o’dwyer – music for church cleaners
black motor – juhmehniemi
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horse feathers – cynic’s new year
angel olsen – half way home
pelt – effigy
mariee sioux – gift for the end
mount eerie – clear moon
father john misty – fear fun
damien jurado – maraqopa
laura gibson – la grande
bowerbirds – the clearing
of montreal – paralytic stalks
michael hurley – back home with drifting woods
expo ’70 – hovering resonance
***1/2 – ****
gunn-truscinski duo – ocean parkway
sharon van etten – tramp
mirroring – foreign body
swans – the seer
sons of noel and adrian – knots
apollo ghosts – landmark
woods – bend beyond
great lake swimmers – new wild everywhere
bears – greater lakes
aidan baker – the spectrum of distraction
hear hums – opens
heidi harris – dream fodder
jessica bailiff – at the down-turned jagged rim of the sky
conveyor – s/t
frankie rose – interstellar
desmadrados soldados de ventura – untitled
black to comm – earth
black twig – paper trees
***1/2
lower dens – nootropics
burning hearts – extinctions
moon duo – circles
dakota suite – an almost silent life
mv & ee – space homestead
cutleri – we sink ships
pool whales – s/t
amandine – s/t
mairi morrison and alasdair roberts – urstan
dreamend – and the tears washed me, wave after cowardly wave
rm hubbert – thirteen lost & found
anais mitchell – young man in america
o emperor – hither thither
julia holter – ekstasis
stealing sheep – into the diamond sun
wild nothing – nocturne
first aid kit – the lion’s roar
songs of green pheasant – soft wounds
me and oceans – the pond
peasant – bound for glory
soko – i thought i was an alien
bear in heaven – i love you, it’s cool
rozi plain – joined sometimes unjoined
klinke auf cinch – highs and hills
the fresh and onlys – long slow dance
andrew bird – break it yourself
dirty three – towards the low sun
hurray for the riff raff – look out mama
nive nielsen & the deer children – nive sings!
mossy nolan – s/t
david daniell and douglas mccombs – versions
turnstile junkpile – everything is cheaper than it looks
gareth dickson – quite a way away
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white birds – when women played drums
liars – wixiw
cats on fire – all blackshirts to me
whistle peak – half asleep upon echo falls
staring girl – sieben stunden und vierzig minuten
jason urick – i love you
windy & carl – we will always be
kristofer aström – from eagle to sparrow
pacific uv – weekends
jon porras – black mesa
sophia knapp – into the waves
good old war – come back as rain
silent whys – our rook
smoke fairies – blood speaks
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beth orton – sugaring season
mount washington – s/t
tindersticks – the something rain
dry the river – shallow bed
the pines – dark so gold
peter broderick – itstartshear
dr. dog – be the void
xiu xiu – always
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hanuman 5 – ethereo
marissa nadler – the sister
neil young – americana
shearwater – animal joy
heartless bastards – arrow
oddfellow’s casino – the raven’s empire
the ragbirds – travelin‘ machine
old man winther – bedroom country volume 2