Category: Albums of the Year

It took a while, but here is the records of the year list. I wanted to carefully listen to several records that were released late last years, several of which only reach me this year. There are 30 records in the list, ordered alphabetically. 

Bill Rivers – my autumn is on its way (Self Release)

Bill Rivers – Sings the Words of Simon Hayward (Self Release)

Bill Stone – Stone (Drag City)

Bobby Gillespie & Jehnny Beth – Utopian Ashes (Third Man Records)

Castle Theater – Characters (Self Release)

Dean Wareham I Have Nothing To Say to The Mayor of L.A. (Double Feature Records)

Ed Clayton-Jones – Jackdaw (Self-Release)

Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds – Swing From The Sean DeLear (In The Red Records)

J.P. Shilo – Jubjoté (Heavy Machinery Records)

James Johnston | Steve Gullick – We Travel Time (God Unknown Records)

Johanna Samuels – Excelsior! (Mama Bird Recording)

José Valente e Orquestra Filarmónica Gafanhense – Trégua (9 MUSAS)

Jonathan Richman – Want To Visit My Inner House? ((Reprise)

Marco Franco – Arcos (Revolve)

Marianne Faithfull w/ Warren Ellis – She Walks in Beauty (BMG)

Nick Walters & The Paradox Ensemble – Implicate Order (D.O.T. Records)

Old Jerusalem – Certain Rivers (Self Release/Sony)

New Bums –  Last Time I Saw Grace (Drag City)

Raoul Vignal – Years in Marble (Talitres)

Robert Levon Been – The Card Counter OST (BMG)

Rui Gaio – 365 everydays (X​.​P​.​) 

Sam Anning – Oaatchapai (Earshift Music)

Simon Linsteadt –  Gualala (Stormy Deep Records)

Teenage Fanclub – Endless Arcade (Merge/PeMa)

Thalia Zedek Band – Perfect Vision (Thrill Jockey)

The Natvral – Tethers (Kanine Records)

Terry Gross – Soft Opening (Thrill Jockey)

Tomahawk – Tonic Immobility (Ipecac)

Ty Segall  – Harmonizer (Drag City)

Various – Sabor Surf (El Palmas Music)

Raquel Pinheiro’s 25 Albums of the Year in alphabetical order:

Alasdair Roberts – The Fiery Margin (Drag City Records)
Bill Pritchard – Midland Lullabies (Tapete Records)
Bobkat 65 – Back Off Me (Get Hip Recordings)
Calexico and Iron & Wine – Years To Burn (Sub Pop Records)
Damien Jurado – In The Shape of A Storm (Mama Bird Recording/Loose)
Edwin Collins – Badbea (Self-release)
Graham Day and The Forefathers – Good Things (Damaged Good Records)
Guitar Wolf – Love & Jett (Third Man Records)
Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch – An Attempt To Draw Aside The Veil (Sacred Bones Records)
Lightning Bolt – Sonic Citadel (Thrill Jockey Records)
Little Friend – A Substitute For Sadness (Planalto Records)
METZ – Automat (Sub Pop)
Neutrals – Kebab Disco (Emotional Response)
O Bom, O Mau E O Azevedo – O Bom, O Mau e O Azevedo (O Bom, O Mau e O Azevedo & Louie Louie-Loja de Discos)
Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains (Drag City Records)
Royal Trux – White Stuff (Fat Possum Records)
Sereias – País a Arder (Lovers & Lollypops)
Solar Corona – Lightning One (Lovers & Lollypops)
Steve Gunn – The Unseen In Between (Matador Records)
Swans – Leaving Meaning (Young God Records/Mute)
The Monochrome Set – Fabula Mendax (Tapete Records)
Townes Van Zandt – Sky Blue (Fat Possum Records)
Vetiver – Up On High (Mama Bird Recording/Loose)
Wilco – Ode To Joy (dBpm Records)
Wives – So Removed (City Slang)

It was long due, an albums of the year list. Here it is alphabetical order:

Alasdair Roberts, Amble Skuse, David McGuinness – What’s New (Drag City Records)
Cavalheiro – Falsa Fé (Leitura Tropical)
Corte – Trinta e Nove (EXPLX)
Damien Jurado – The Horizon Just Laughed (Secretly Canadian)
Dead Combo – Odeon Hotel (Sony Music Entertainment)
Father John Misty – God’s Favourite Costumer (Sub Pop Records)
Filho da Mãe – Água-Má (Lovers & Lollypops)
Francisco Oliveira – On The Art Of Reminding (Edições Fauve)
Grant-Lee Phillips – Widdershins (Yep Roc Records)
Iron & Wine – Weed Garden (Sub Pop Records)
J Mascis – Elastic Days (Sub Pop Records)
Jeff Tweedy – Warm (dBpm Records)
John Coltrane – Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Impulse! Records)
Liz Hogg – Liz Hogg (Mouca)
Marisa Anderson – Cloud Corner (Thrill Jockey Records)
Minami Deutsch – With Dim Light (Guruguru Brain)
Old Jerusalem – Chapels (Self-Release)
Palm Unit – Hommage à Jef Gilson (Super-Sonic Jazz Records)
Snakes – No More Songs About Wild Flowers (Grimoire Records)
Space Quartet (Rafael Toral, Hugo Antunes, João Pais Filipe, Ricardo Webbens) – Space Quartet (Clean Feed)
Tasos Stamou – Musique con Créte (Discrepant)
Thalia Zedek Band – Fighting Season (Thrill Jockey Records)
The Necks – Body (Northern Spy)
The Sea & Cake – Any Day (Thrill Jockey Records)
Wooden Shjips – V (Thrill Jockey Records)