Records of the Year (via ILM):
1 Broadcast & The Focus Group – Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
2 Oneohtrix Point Never – Rifts
3 Bill Orcutt – A New Way To Pay Old Debts
4 Alasdair Roberts – Spoils
5 Sunn 0))) – Monoliths & Dimensions
6 David Sylvian – Manafon
7 Group Doueh – Treeg Salaam
8 Jim O’Rourke – The Visitor
9 Ben Frost – By The Throat
10 King Midas Sound – Waiting For You
11 Harappian Night Recordings – Glorious Gongs of Hainuwele
12 Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
13 Shackleton – Three EPs
14 Sa-Ra Creative Partners – Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love
15 AtomTM – Liedgut
16 Mordant Music – SyMpToMs
17 Masayuki Takayanagi – Archive 1
18 Matias Aguayo – Ay Ay Ay
19 Hecker – Acid In The Style Of David Tudor
20 William Basinski – 92982
21 The xx – xx
22 Flower-Corsano Duo – The Four Aims
23 Gary War – Horribles Parade
24 Courtis/Moore – Brokebox Juke
25 Leyland Kirby – Sadly The Future Is No Longer What It Was
26 Group Bombino – Guitars From Agadez Vol 2
27 Peter Evans – Nature/Culture
28 Kevin Drumm – Imperial Horizon
29 Dam Funk – Toeachizown
30 Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
31 Pan Sonic & Keiji Haino – Shall I Download A Blackhole And Offer It To You?
32 Moritz Von Oswald Trio – Vertical Ascent
33 MEV – MEV 40
34 Black Dice – Repo
35 Emeralds – What Happened
36 Position Normal – Position Normal
37 Belbury Poly – From An Ancient Star
38 Julie Tippetts & Martin Archer – Ghosts of Gold
39 Billy Bao – ay 08
40 Sun Araw – Heavy Deeds
41 Richard Youngs – Under Stellar Stream
42 Subway – Subway II
43 Lionel Marchetti & Oliver Capparos – Equus
44 The Stooges – You Don’t Want My Name You Want My Action (Box-Set)
45 Eliane Radigue – Triptych
46 Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
47 Glenn Jones – Barbecue Bob In Fishtown
48 Black To Comm – Alphabet 1968
49 Cold Cave – Love Comes Close
50 Hildur Gudnadottir – Without Sinking
Avant Rock:
Billy Bao – May 08
Brainbombs – Fucking Mess
Evangelista – Prince of Truth
Jandek – Portland Thursday
The One Ensemble – Other Thunders
Julian Lynch – Orange You Glad
The Mantles – The Mantles
Bill Orcutt – A New Way To Pay Old Debts
Yasushi Ozawa – Some Fragments Of Bass Performance
Trembling Bells – Carbeth
Kurt Vile – Constant Hitmaker
Gary War – Horribles Parade
Wolf Eyes – Always Wrong
Richard Youngs – Beneath The Valley Of The Ultrahits
Zola Jesus – New Amsterdam
Electronica:
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Utp
Cindytalk – The Crackle Of My Soul
Clark – 6 Tracks
Nathan Fake – Hard Islands
Fennesz & Sparklehorse – In The Fishtank
Lawrence English – It’s Up To Us To Live
Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country
Hell – Teufelswerk
Klimek – Movies Is Magic
Stephan Mathieu & Taylor Dupree – Transcriptions
Mountains – Choral
Redshape – The Dance Paradox
Silkie – City Limits
Telefon Tel Aviv – Immolate Yourself
Tu m‘ – Monochromes Volume One
Outer Limits:
Astral Social Club – Octuplex
Blood Stereo – Your Snakelike King
Lucio Capece & Mika Vainio – Trahnie
Raymond Dijkstra – L’Opus Ch
Emeralds – What Happened
Richard Garet & Brendan Murray – Of Distance
Grasslung/Pulse Emitter – Grasslung/Pulse Emitter
Russell Haswell – Wild Tracks
Kommissar Hjueler & Mama Baer – Asylum Lunaticum
Lee Patterson – Seven Vignettes
Keith Rowe – Untitled
Ghedalia Tazartes – Repas Froid
Aluk Tolodo – Finistirnis
Mika Vainio – Black Telephone
John Wiese – Circle Snare
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