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| Lonnie Holley - Oh Me Oh My |
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| Beverly Glenn-Copeland - The Ones Ahead |
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| Sufjan Stevens - Javelin |
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| Two Shell - lil spirits |
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| 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs |
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| Fever Ray - Radical Romantics |
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| boygenius - the record |
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| Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn into You |
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| Liturgy - 93696 |
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| The Mountain Goats - Jenny from Thebes |
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| Mandy, Indiana - i've seen a way |
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| Rae Spoon - Not Dead Yet |
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| ANOHNI and the Johnsons - My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross |
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| Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions |
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| Chad Void - Shotgun |
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| Lankum - False Lankum |
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| Overmono - Good Lies |
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| Kayhan Kalhor & Toumani Diabaté - The Sky Is the Same Colour Everywhere |
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| Michael Scott Dawson - Find Yourself Lost |
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| Lunice - OPEN |
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| Poolblood - mole |
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| Mark Molnar - Divine Horseman |
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| Bat Boy - Fun Machine |
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| Colin Stetson - When We Were That What Wept for the Sea |
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| Sigur Rós - ÁTTA |
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| Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings |
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| Mick Harris - Culvert Dubs Session One |
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| Model／Actriz - Dogsbody |
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| Sore Dream & Hisham Akira Bharoocha - Sore Dream & Hisham Akira Bharoocha |
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| amaarae - Fountain Baby |
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| Sofia Kourtesis - Madres |
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| Hannah Diamond - Perfect Picture |
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| Pas Tasta - Good Pop |
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| Jeremy Dutcher - Motewolonuwok |
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| Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips |
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| Space Camp - Gold Star |
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| The Buttress - Endofunctor |
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| Hania Rani - On Giacometti |
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| Oren Ambarchi - Double Consciousness |
This might be the last year I have the time to follow music so closely. I've been looking at my "best of" lists as a way to summarize a year, and in many ways these lists become a time capsule. A lot of music comes out in any one year and there's always more to discover, so these might be the 40 that are sifted out and carried forward with enthusiasm and emotion.
I listen to albums primarily, but I do let myself delete one or two tracks on an album if they annoy me. Some albums above are on my list with the consideration of a track or two deleted, and I encourage the same. Curate your own space.
