Yewande Adeniran
Dean Blunt & Elias Rønnenfelt tears on his rings and chains (World Music)
T5UMUT5UMU Phantom (Bandcamp)
Deftones private music (Reprise)
Dansa Flustra EP (LUCKYME)
Alpha Maid Is this a queue (AD 93)
Lila Tirando A Violeta Dream Of Snakes (Unguarded)
Pearson Sound Zoomies (Timedance)
georg-i Rebuild (Subglow)
ABADIR Kitbashing (SVBKVLT)
Slikback Attrition (Planet Mu)

Vanessa Ague
Amina Claudine Myers Solace Of The Mind (Red Hook)
Titanic Hagen (Unheard Of Hope)
Los Thuthanaka Los Thuthanaka (Self-released)
Water Damage Instruments (12XU)
Ellen Arkbro Nightclouds (Blank Forms)
Raven Chacon Voiceless Mass (New World)
Catherine Lamb x Ghost Ensemble interius/exterius (Greyfade)
Orcutt/Shelley/Miller Orcutt/Shelley/Miller (Silver Current)
Ellen Fullman & The Living Earth Show Elemental View (Room40)
Rafael Toral Traveling Light (Drag City)

Tayyab Amin
Dijon Baby (R&R/Warner)
Jim Legxacy Black British Music (XL)
Oklou choke enough (True Panther)
Panda Bear Sinister Grift (Domino)
Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali At The Feet Of The Beloved (Real World)
aya hexed! (Hyperdub)
Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werliin Ghosted III (Drag City)
Ava Mendoza/gabby fluke-mogul/Carolina Pérez Mama Killa (Burning Ambulance)
Satoko Fujii This is It! Message (Libra)
Chuck Roth watergh0st songs (Palilalia)

Steve Barker
Bhajan Bhoy Summer In St Mary’s (Wormer Bros)
Various Elders Of The Begena: The Harp Of David In Ethiopia (Death Is Not The End)
Life Masks Ornaments & Amulets (105recs)
Ryuuta Takaki Jewels (Kitchen Label)
Pastor Chris Congregation West Virginia Snake Handler Revival: “They Shall Take Up Serpents” (Sublime Frequencies)
Valentina Magaletti & YPY Kansai Bruises (AD 93)
Terry Riley In C (60th Birthday Full Moon Celebration At Kiyomizu-Dera Temple) (Disk Sibasi)
William Basinski & Richard Chartier Aurora Terminalis (Line)
MadTeo Misto Atmospherico E Ad Azione Diretta (Unsure)
The Dwarfs Of East Agouza Sasquatch Landslide (Constellation)

Mike Barnes
Hedvig Mollestad Trio Bees In The Bonnet (Rune Grammofon)
Tim Hill Leviathan Whispers (Buried Treasure)
North Sea Radio Orchestra Special Powers (Believer’s Roast)
Cardiacs LSD (Alphabet Business Concern)
Lea Bertucci The Oracle (Cibachrome Editions)
Richard Dawson End Of The Middle (Weird World)
Kev Hopper XiX (Dimple Discs)
Sheldon Agwu Kintsugi (Sanctum)
Crayola Lectern Disasternoon (Onomatopoiea)
Near Jazz Experience Tritone (Dimple Discs)

Robert Barry
elijah jamal asani ,,, as long as i long to memorise your sky ,,, (AKP Recordings)
Bb Trickz 80’z (Sony Spain)
Stereolab Instant Holograms On Metal Film (Duophonic UHF Disks)
Eiko Ishibashi Antigone (Drag City)
PinkPantheress Fancy That (Warner)
Smerz Big City Life (Escho)
Rafael Toral Traveling Light (Drag City)
Gelli Haha Switcheroo (Innovative Leisure)
Giuseppe Ielasi & Jack Sheen The Vestiga (Black Truffle)
[Ahmed] [Sama'a] (Audition) (Otoroku)

Clive Bell
Bitchin Bajas Inland See (Drag City)
Nicolas Gombert & James Weeks GOMBERT (Another Timbre)
Philip Jeck rpm (Touch Tone)
Betamax Crumbs (Bandcamp)
Klinck Trio My Hair Is Everywhere (Viernulvier)
Katsuya Nonaka Connecting Iki (Ato Archives)
Kev Hopper XiX (Dimple Discs)
Pierre Bastien & Louis Laurain C(or)N(e)T (Rose Hill)
Lea Bertucci The Oracle (Cibachrome Editions)
Cosmic Ear Traces (We Jazz)

Xenia Benivolski
aya hexed! (Hyperdub)
Cosey Fanni Tutti 2t2 (Conspiracy International)
Rainy Miller Joseph, What Have You Done? (Fixed Abode)
CxBxT After (Constructive)
Nourished By Time The Passionate Ones (XL)
Eiko Ishibashi Antigone (Drag City)
Crystabel Efemena Riley Live At Ormside (Infant Tree)
MK Velsorf & Aase Nielsen Opening Night (Awe)
Lyra Pramuk Hymnal (7K!)
Lucy Railton Veil (Ideologic Organ)

Emily Bick
OvO Gemma (Artoffact)
Masma Dream World Please Come To Me (Valley Of Search)
Alpha Maid Is this a queue? (AD 93)
aya hexed! (Hyperdub)
Backxwash Only Dust Remains (Ugly Hag)
Crystabel Efemena Riley Live At Ormside (Infant Tree)
feeo Goodness (AD 93)
Meredith Monk Cellular Songs (ECM)
Pamela Z Simultaneous (Other Minds)
Ellen Fullman & The Living Earth Show Elemental View (Room40)

Claire Biddles
Backxwash Only Dust Remains (Ugly Hag)
Daniel Blumberg The Brutalist (OST) (Milan)
Lucrecia Dalt A Danger To Ourselves (Rvng Intl.)
Kelly Moran Don’t Trust Mirrors (Warp)
claire rousay a little death (Thrill Jockey)
Shabason/Krgovich/Tenniscoats Wao (Western Vinyl)
Alpha Maid Is this a queue (AD 93)
Joanne Robertson Blurrr (AD 93)
Jennifer Walton Daughters (Local Action)
feeo Goodness (AD 93)

DeForrest Brown Jr
Los Thuthanaka Los Thuthanaka (Self-released)
Autechre AE_2022 (Warp)
Mark Fell & Pat Thomas Reality Is Not A Theory (Black Truffle)
Whatever The Weather II (Ghostly International)
Kara-Lis Coverdale From Where You Came/A Series Of Actions In A
Sphere Of Forever/Changes In Air (Smalltown Supersound)
NZO Come Alive (DDS)
Yungwebster II (Sferic)
Rroxymore Juggling Duality (7K!)
xin APPX:XIN01 Wasted (Appendix.files)
Oli XL Lick the Lens – Pt 1 (Warp)

Raymond Cummings
Kevin Drumm Neither Here Nor There (VAAGNER)
Sam Prekop Open Close (Thrill Jockey)
Tortoise Touch (International Anthem)
Vanessa Rossetto Pictures Of The Warm South (Erstwhile)
Various Save The Waves: People For Public Media (PBS Benefit Compilation) (Bandcamp)
The Necks Disquiet (Northern Spy)
Dave Shuford & Pat Murano Sing And Play For The Guru (Daksina)
Primitive Isolation Tactics All Pressures Past (New Forces)
Organs Obsolete Void User (Bandcamp)
Clipse Let God Sort ’Em Out (Roc Nation)

Jon Dale
Fortunato Durutti Marinetti Bitter Sweet, Sweet Bitter (Quindi)
Ingrid Caven Heidschi Bumbeidschi, 16 Moments De Ma Vie (Tricatel)
Engelhardt/Seef/Davis abceefd (Haaki)
HiTech HONEYPAQQ Vol 1 (Loma Vista)
Stereolab Instant Holograms On Metal Film (Duophonic UHF Disks)
U.e. Hometown Girl (28912)
Juana Molina Doga (Sonamos)

Dickon Edwards
Kae Tempest Self Titled (Island)
Sparks Mad! (Transgressive)
Mozart Estate Tower Block In A Jam Jar (West Midlands)
Lambrini Girls Who Let The Dogs Out (City Slang)
Dale Cornish Altruism (The Death Of Rave)
aya hexed! (Hyperdub)
John Francis Quest For Fame – Gone Mad (Intense)
Column258 Interloper: The Workshop Sessions Vol 1 (Property Of The Lost)
Peggy Seeger Teleology (Red Grape)
Edwyn Collins Nation Shall Speak Until Nation (AED)

Phil England
Anna Högberg Attack! Ensamseglaren (Fönstret)
Mark Stewart The Fateful Symmetry (Mute)
Damon Locks List Of Demands (International Anthem)
Quade The Foel Tower (AD 93)
Sopa Boba That Moment (Sub Rosa)
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy featuring John Anderson The Purple Bird (Domino)
Black Eyes Hostile Design (Dischord)
Public Enemy Black Sky Over The Projects: Apartment 2025 (Bandcamp)
Maurice Louca Barĩy (Fera) برٌِي (Simsara)
Ambrose Akinmusire Honey From A Winter Stone (Nonesuch)
Tom Skinner Kaleidoscope Visions (Brownswood/International Anthem)

Misha Farrant
aya hexed! (Hyperdub)
OHYUNG You Are Always On My Mind (Phantom Limb)
Everything is Psychedelic The Beautiful Malaise (Everything is Perfect/Live From The Clinic)
S280F (Bandcamp)
Moesha 13 Jazz Club (Hakuna Kualala)
Girlpusher gatekeep, gaslight, girlpusher (Bandcamp)
Kilbourne If Not To Give A Fantasy (Hammerhead)
Abdullah Miniawy Peacock Dreams أَحْلَامُ الطَّاوُوسِ (PPL Songs/Aghani El Khalq أغاني الخلق)
Biollante J’Espère que tu danseras quelque part (Redux) (Atypeek)
M.I.C Dr Yakub’s Laboratory (AP Life)

Tim Fish
billy woods Golliwog (Backwoodz Studioz)
Open Mike Eagle Neighborhood Gods Unlimited (Auto Reverse)
Doseone & Steel Tipped Dove All Portrait, No Chorus (Backwoodz Studioz)
DJ Haram Beside Myself (Hyperdub)
ShrapKnel & Ohbliv Armature (Fused Arrow)
Little Simz Lotus (AWAL)
Baxter Dury Allbarone (Heavenly)
klwn cat & Mourning Run Smilodon (Pros N Cons)
andrew Warm Weapons In Easy Reach (Fused Arrow)
Fatboi Sharif & Driveby Let Me Out (Deathbomb Arc)

Joe Francis
Oklou choke enough (True Panther Sounds)
XEXA Kissom (Principe)
DJ Haram Beside Myself (Hyperdub)
Los Thuthanaka Los Thuthanaka (Self-released)
James K Friend (AD 93)
Blacksea Não Maya Despertar (Principe)
Blawan SickElixir (XL)
Slikback Attrition (Planet Mu)
Nick Leon A Tropical Entropy (TraTraTrax)
Le Diouck Grace Joke (PAN)

Phil Freeman
Isaiah Collier/William Parker/William Hooker The Ancients (Eremite)
Castrator Coronation Of The Grotesque (Dark Descent)
Neptunian Maximalism Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu (I, Voidhanger)
Masma Dream World Please Come To Me (Valley Of Search)
James Brandon Lewis Quartet Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt)
Ensemble Nist-Nah Spilla (Black Truffle)
Kamasi Washington Lazarus (Milan)
Matthew Shipp The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe Music)
Ancient Death Ego Dissolution (Profound Lore)
Abhorrent Expanse Enter The Misanthropocene (Amalgam)

Noel Gardner
Sublux Disorder In The Machinery (Disforia)
Lavinia Blackwall The Making (The Barne Society)
The Tubs Cotton Crown (Trouble In Mind)
Traidora Una Mujer Trans Sin País (La Vida Es Un Mus)
The Necks Disquiet (Northern Spy)
Sami Galbi Ylh Bye Bye (Bongo Joe)
Sally Potter Anatomy (Bella Union)
Faten Kanaan Diary Of A Candle (Fire)
Haram Why Does Paradise Begin In Hell (Toxic State)
Sopraterra Seven Dances To Embrace The Hollow (Präsens Editionen/La Becque Editions)

Daniel Glassman
Slikback Attrition (Planet Mu)
Los Thuthanaka Los Thuthanaka (Self-released)
billy woods Golliwog (Backwoodz Studioz)
Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werliin Ghosted III (Drag City)
Eliana Glass E (Shelter Press)
Rafael Toral Traveling Light (Drag City)
Valentina Magaletti & YPY Kansai Bruises (AD 93)
Kara-Lis Coverdale A Series Of Actions In A Sphere Of Forever (Smalltown Supersound)
Nourished By Time The Passionate Ones (XL)
Makaya McCraven Off The Record (International Anthem)

Francis Gooding
Cerys Hafana Angel (tak:til)
Mulatu Astatke Mulatu Plays Mulatu (Strut)
billy woods Golliwog (Backwoodz)
Brighde Chaimbeul Sunwise (Glitterbeat)
Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force Khadim (Ndagga)
Dr Madala Kunene & Sibusile Xaba KwaNtu (New Soil)
Jay Electronica A Written Testimony: Leaflets (Roc Nation)
Natural Information Society Perseverance Flow (Eremite)
Various Tsapiky! Modern Music From Southwest Madagascar (Sublime Frequencies)
Roc Marciano & DJ Premier The Coldest Profession (TTT)

Kurt Gottschalk
Anna Thorvaldsdottir Ubique (Sono Luminus)
Wet Ink Ensemble Action, Choice, Thought (Carrier)
Henry Threadgill Listen Ship (Pi Recordings)
Raed Yassin Phantom Orchestra (Morphine)
Mike Cooper When A Screaming Comes Across The Sky (Room40)
clipping Dead Channel Sky (Sub Pop)
Public Enemy Black Sky Over The Projects: Apartment 2025 (MVD)
The New Eves The New Eve Is Rising (Transgressive)
Damon Locks List Of Demands (International Anthem)
Lonny Holley Tonky (Jagjaguwar)

Louise Gray
Éliane Radigue/Rhodri Davies Asymptote Versatile (1963-64) (Amgen)
Beatrice Dillon Seven Reorganisations (HI)
Annea Lockwood On Fractured Ground/Skin Resonance (Black Truffle)
Diamanda Galás De-Formation: Second Piano Variations (Intravenal Sound Operations)
Blixa Bargeld & Nikko Weidemann Blixa Bargeld Sings David Bowie (Bandcamp)
Lucy Railton Blue Veil (Ideologic Organ)
Mari Boine Alva (Norse)
Ailie Ormston Frames That Lean, Pictures That Roam (Akashic)
Cosey Fanni Tutti 2t2 (Conspiracy International)
The Great Learning Orchestra Selected Recordings From Grapefruit By Yoko Ono (Karl)

George Grella
Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble Let The Spirit Out, Live At “Mu” London (Spiritmuse)
Sophie Dunér & Steve Beck Stockhausen Tierkreis (Urlicht Audiovisual)
Ambrose Akinmusire Honey From A Winter Stone (Nonesuch)
The Necks Disquiet (Northern Spy)
Daan Vandewalle Frederic Rzewski: The Road (Passacaille)
Emilio Galante-Tonino Miano Totemgani (Self-released)
Boreal Path Boreal Covenant (Self-released)
Circuit des Yeux Halo On The Inside (Matador)
Bill Brennan & Andy McNeill Dreaming In Gamelan (Self-released)
James McVinnie Dreamcatcher (Pentatone)

James Hadfield
caroline caroline 2 (Rough Trade)
Eiko Ishibashi Antigone (Drag City)
Vanessa Rossetto Pictures Of The Warm South (Erstwhile)
Konrad Sprenger Set (Black Truffle)
Cosmic Ear TRACES (We Jazz)
Miłosz Kędra their internal diapasons (Pointless Geometry)
John Also Bennett Στoν Eλaιώνa/Ston Elaióna (Shelter Press)
KAKUHAN & Adam Golebiewski Repercussions (Unsound)
Robert Turman A Day In The Life (Hanson)
Zosha Warpeha & Mariel Terán Orbweaver (Outside Time)

Andy Hamilton
Sylvie Courvoisier & Wadada Leo Smith Angel Falls (Intakt)
Jeong Lim Yang Synchronicity (Sunnyside)
Hugues Dufourt L'Origine Du Monde (Metier)
Ches Smith Clone Row (Otherly Love)
Raven Chacon Voiceless Mass (New World)
Kjetil Mulelid Trio And Now (Grappa)
The Sleep Of Reason Produces Monsters The Sleep Of Reason Produces Monsters (Corbett vs Dempsey)
Tuomo & Markus, Verneri Pohjola Music For Roads (Grandpop)
Luigi Nono & Omaggio A Luigi Nono (Mode)
Wadada Leo Smith & Vijay Iyer Defiant Life (ECM)

Tony Herrington
petals & rachel kay we dropped the sky ^ while you were sleeping (Bandcamp)
Elaine Mitchener/petals/Neil Charles Elaine Mitchener/petals/Neil Charles (GRAIN)
Audrey Chen/Philipp Eden/Joaquin Ortega Live In Zagreb (scatterArchive)
Larry Stabbins & Mark Sanders Cup & Ring (Discus)
Pat Thomas Sufi Woman (scatterArchive)
Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das SSAC42 (Infinite Machine)
SAROST Aurora (Jazz In Britain/Jazz Now)
Roscoe Mitchell One Head Four People (Hive Mind)
Rex Casswell Blood From A Stone (scatterArchive)
Paul Dunmall Away With Troubles And Anxieties! (Discus)

Miloš Hroch
Jules Reidy Ghost/Spirit (Thrill Jockey)
Nina Garcia Bye Bye Bird (Ideologic Organ)
Gnäw II (Stoned To Death)
Black Eyes Hostile Design (Dischord)
Los Thuthanaka Los Thuthanaka (Self-released)
Cerys Hafana Angel (tak:til)
Frederikke Hoffmeier (Puce Mary) The Girl With The Needle OST (OONA)
caroline caroline 2 (Rough Trade)
DJ Haram Beside Myself (Hyperdub)
Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka Hiareth (Unsound)

Jo Hutton
Maggie Nicols & Geoff Eales Beautiful Love (33 Jazz)
Mari Boine Alva (Norse)
aya hexed! (Hyperdub)
Lucy Railton Blue Veil (Ideologic Organ)
Elaine Mitchener & Theodora Laird Duo (GRAIN)
John Butcher & Angharad Davies Two Seasons (Weight Of Wax)
Lucrecia Dalt A Danger To Ourselves (RVNG Intl)
Nurru Wäna Hand To Earth (Room40)
Charlemagne Palestine & Seppe Gebruers Beyondddddd The Notessssss (Konnekt)
Jacob Kirkegaard Snowblind (The Helen Scarsdale Agency)

Joshua Minsoo Kim
Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force Khadim (Ndagga)
Oklou choke enough (True Panther Sounds)
Los Thuthanaka Los Thuthanaka (Self-released)
Vanessa Rossetto Pictures Of The Warm South (Erstwhile)
Sean McCann The Leopard (Recital)
Sun Yizhou Missing (Sub Jam)
caroline caroline 2 (Rough Trade)
Tara Cunningham Almost – Not Exactly (Nonclassical)
Eliana Glass E (Shelter Press)
Kory Reeder & Apartment House Homestead (Another Timbre)

Biba Kopf
Noor Zehra Kazim The Sound Of Sagar Veena (Old Heaven Books)
Pat Thomas The Bliss Of Bliss (Konnekt)
Sophie Agnel & John Butcher RARE (Les Disques VICTO)
Sylvie Courvoisier & Wadada Leo Smith Angel Falls (Intakt)
IZ Memory (Old Heaven Books)
Ikuro Takahashi far from songs, to the place where I can't even remember (UFO CREAtions)
Raphael Rogiński & Ružičnjak Tajni Bura (Instant Classic)
Neil Charles Dark Days (Jazz In Britain)
Tim Hodgkinson & Atsuko Kamura Haiku In The Wide World (ReR Megacorp)
Sir Richard Bishop Hillbilly Ragas(Drag City)

Steph Kretowitcz
Good Sad Happy Bad All Kinds Of Days (Textile)
Great Area Good Coding (Relaxin)
J Tripp HYLIC (Sagome)
Los Thuthanaka Los Thuthanaka (Self-released)
Vanligt Folk Dischorealism (Ideal)
Joanne Robertson Blurrr (AD 93)
Helen Island Silence Is Priceless (Knekelhuis)
Dale Cornish Altruism (The Death Of Rave)
Hesaitix Noctian Airgap (PAN)
Smerz Big City Life (Escho)

Anla Li
PRAED Orchestra! The Dictionary Of Lost Meanings (Discrepant)
Chicago Underground Duo Hyperglyph (International Anthem)
Rivet aka Grovskopa Peck Glamour (Editions Mego)
Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werliin Ghosted III (Drag City)
Blawan SickElixir (XL)
Polygonia Dream Horizons (Dekmantel)
Iva Bittová Songs Of Tomorrow (Old Heaven Books)
Masaaki Takano Shizukutachi (Art Into Life)
aya hexed! (Hyperdub)
Shropshire Number Stations Recordings Of Covert Shortwave Radio Stations (Shropshire & Mid-Wales) (Death Is Not The End)

Dave Mandl
Stereolab Instant Holograms On Metal Film (Duophonic UHF Disks)
Mary Halvorson About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
Fievel Is Glauque Rong Weicknes (Fat Possum)
Ches Smith Clone Row (Otherly Love)
Viv Corringham Soundwalkscapes (Volume 2) (Flaming Pines)
Pierre Bastien & Lous Laurain C(or)N(e)T (Rose Hill)
Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders Synchronous Orbit (Feeding Tube)
Melvin Gibbs Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 (Hausu Mountain)
Soft Ffog Focus (Is It Jazz?)
Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra Live At The Adler Planetarium (International Anthem)

Peter Margasak
Natural Information Society Perserverance Flow (Eremite)
Anna Högberg Attack! Ensamseglaren (Fönstret)
Chiyoko Szlavnics Memory Spaces (Neu)
Jeong Lim Yang Synchronicity (Sunnyside)
Evan Parker & Bill Nace Branches (Otoroku/Open Mouth)
The Necks Disquiet (Northern Spy)
Ensemble Nist-Nah Spilla (Black Truffle)
Richard Dawson End Of The Middle (Weird World)
Quinie Forefow, Mind Me (Upset The Rhythm)
Maurice Louca Barĩy (Fera) برٌِي (Simsara)

Ryan Meehan
Cory Hanson I Love People (Drag City)
Water From Your Eyes It’s A Beautiful Place (Matador)
Florry Sounds Like… (Dear Life)
Andy Boay You Took That Walk For The Two Of Us (Does Are)
Horsegirl Phonetics On & On (Matador)
The Tubs Cotton Crown (Trouble In Mind)
Cate Le Bon Michaelangelo Dying (Mexican Summer)
Ex Void In Love Again (Tapete)
Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas Totality (Drag City)
Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band New Threats For The Soul (Tough Love/Sophomore Lounge)

Bill Meyer
Damon Locks List Of Demands (International Anthem)
Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas Totality (Drag City)
The Ex If Your Mirror Breaks (Ex)
C Joynes & Mike Gangloff Tom Winter, Tom Spring (VHF)
Sophie Agnel Song (Relative Pitch)
[Ahmed] [Sama’a] (Audition) (Otoroku)
DŽukljev/Weber/Griener Industriesalon (Trouble In The East)
Michael Hurley Broken Homes And Gardens (No Quarter)
Peter Brötzmann/Jason Adasiewicz/Steve Noble/John Edwards The Quartet (Otoroku)
Isaiah Collier/William Parker/William Hooker The Ancients (Eremite)

JR Moores
Richard Dawson End Of The Middle (Weird World)
Kinski Stumbledown Terrace (Comedy Minus One)
Mclusky The World Is Still Here And So Are We (Ipecac)
Melvins Thunderball (Ipecac)
Tortoise Touch (International Anthem)
Hedvig Mollestad Trio Bees In The Bonnet (Rune Grammofon)
Backxwash Only Dust Remains (Ugly Hag)
Sumac & Moor Mother The Film (Thrill Jockey)
Mary Halvorson About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
Kuunatic Wheels Of Ömon (Glitterbeat)

Joe Muggs
Sherelle With A Vengeance (Method 808)
The Bug vs Ghost Dubs Implosion (Pressure)
DJ Haram Beside Myself (Hyperdub)
Lila Tirando A Violeta Dream Of Snakes (Unguarded)
Tony Njoku ALL OUR KNIVES ARE ALWAYS SHARP (Studio Njoku)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith GUSH (Nettwerk)
Black Sites R4 (Tresor)
Wevie Stonder Sure Beats Living (Skam)
Surgeon Shell-Wave (Tresor)
rRoxymore Juggling Dualities (!K7)

Daniel Neofetou
YT OI! (Self-released)
Jung An Tagen Revenge Of The Speaker People (Editions Mego)
Mariam Rezaei Fractured (Heat Crimes)
Rada XO (Self-released)
Jim Legxacy Black British Music (XL Recordings)
Two Weeks Showing Cause (No Rent)
Lise Barkas & Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy Choisir D'épaule (Hideous Replica)
DJ Scotch Egg Scotch Sambal (YES NO WAVE MUSIC)
Kieran Daly My Own Private “Synthesis By Finite Juxtaposed Elements” (Madacy Jazz)
Moses Brown Stone Upon Stone (Post Present Medium)

Louis Pattison
Ben LaMar Gay Yowsers (International Anthem)
Black Eyes Hostile Design (Dischord)
Elkotsh rhlt jdi (Heat Crimes)
Tortoise Touch (International Anthem)
Kim Hiorthoy Ghost Note (Blickwinkel)
Jerskin Fendrix Once Upon A Time... In Shropshire (Self-released)
Abhorrent Expanse Enter The Misanthropocene (Amalgam)
Blod Den Oändliga Historien (Discreet)
Daniel Bachman Moving Through Light (Self-released)
These New Puritans Crooked Wing (Domino)

Olena Pohonchenkova
Ethel Cain Perverts/Willoughby Tucker, I Will Always Love You (Daughters Of Cain)
John Glacier Like A Ribbon (Young)
Purelink Faith (Peak Oil)
Smerz Big City Life (Escho)
Erika de Casier Lifetime (Independent Jeep Music)
Mythologen Eurovision (YEAR001)
Romance Love Is Colder Than Death (Ecstatic)
Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko Гільдеґарда (Unsound)
The Necks Disquiet (Northern Spy)

Antonio Poscic
Blawan SickElixir (Ternesc/XL)
Nina Garcia Bye Bye Bird (Ideologic Organ)
aya hexed! (Hyperdub)
Han-earl Park/Lara Jones/Pat Thomas Juno 3: Proxemics (Buster And Friends)
Fred Moten & Brandon López Revision (TAO Forms)
Giant Claw Decadent Stress Chamber (Orange Milk)
Hieroglyphic Being Dance Music 4 Bad People (Smalltown Supersound)
Sherelle With A Vengeance (Method 808)
Marja Ahti Touch This Fragrant Surface Of Earth (Fönstret)
Kinlaw & Franco Franco Faith Elsewhere (Drowned By Locals)

Emily Pothast
Masma Dream World Please Come To Me (Valley of Search)
Quinton Barnes Black Noise (Watch That Ends The Night)
Various Lider Mit Palestine: New Yiddish Songs Of Grief, Fury, And Love (Bandcamp)
SML How You Been (International Anthem)
Peaces Peaces (Land And Sea)
S’hells Gate S’hells Gate (Cone Shape Top)
Raica The Absence Of Being (Quiet Details)
Forest Floor Hungers Haunt The All Consuming (Anxiety Blanket)
Patricia Wolf HRAFNAMYND (Balmat)
Phipps Pt. Songs We No Longer Sing (Seeland)

Edwin Pouncey
Michael Hurley Broken Homes And Gardens (No Quarter)
Earth WEM Dominator (Fire)
Pissgrave Malignant Worthlessness (Profound Lore)
Stephen O’Malley But Remember What You Have Had (Ideologic Organ)
Bill Nace & Evan Parker Branches (Otoroku/Open Mouth)
Joachim Nordwall & Aaron Turner Malign Seeds (Ash International/SFI)
Caspar Brötzmann Massaker It’s A Love Song (Exile On Mainstream)
Kali Malone & Drew McDowall Magnetism (Ideologic Organ)
SunnO))) Eternity’s Pillars (Sub Pop)
Fuckwolf Boone (Agitated)

John Quin
Panda Bear Sinister Grift (Domino)
Robert Foster Strawberries (Tapete)
Barker Stochastic Drift (Smalltown Supersound)
Tortoise Touch (International Anthem/Nonesuch)
Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O’Rourke Pareidolia (Drag City)
DJ Koze Music Can Hear Us (Pampa)
Djrum Under Tangled Silence (Houndstooth)
Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werliin Ghosted III (Drag City)
Khotin Peace Portal (Khotin Industries)
Sam Prekop Open Close (Thrill Jockey)

Chal Ravens
Smerz Big City Life (Escho)
aya hexed! (Hyperdub)
Water From Your Eyes It’s A Beautiful Place (Matador)
Tracey Tracey (AD 93)
The Necks Disquiet (Northern Spy)
Horse Vision Another Life (Scenic Route)
Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko Hildegard (Unsound)
Anthony Naples Scanners (ANS)
Oklou choke enough (True Panther Sounds)
Davis Galvin Prism (Music To Watch Seeds Grow By)

Mosi Reeves
billy woods Golliwog (Backwoodz Studioz)
Blood Orange Essex Honey (Domino)
Earl Sweatshirt Live Laugh Love (Tan Cressida/Warner)
Anthony Naples Scanners (ANS)
Kirby Miss Black America (Self-released)
Rochelle Jordan Through The Wall (Empire)
PinkPantheress Fancy That (Warner)
Playboi Carti Music (AWGE/Interscope)
Fatboi Sharif & Driveby Let Me Out (Deathbomb Arc)
Open Mike Eagle Neighborhood Gods Unlimited (Auto Reverse)

Paul Rekret
MIKE Showbiz! (10k)
Earl Sweatshirt Live Laugh Love (Warner)
Unspecified Enemies Romance In The Age Of Adaptive Feedback (Numbers)
Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez Revision (TAO Forms)
caroline caroline 2 (Rough Trade)
Joy Guidry Five Prayers (Jaid)
Joanne Robertson Blurrr (AD 93)
Che Rest In Bass (10k)
Boldy James Token Of Appreciation (New 11)
Milkweed Remscéla (Self-released)

Simon Reynolds
Position Normal Modern And Unique 2 (Position Normal)
Lily Allen West End Girl (BMG)
Teresa Winter Birthmark, Guest, A.Childs (Do You Have Peace?)
Deer Park Terra Infirma (Deleted)
Mk.gee Two Star & The Dream Police (R&R)
Bassvictim Basspunk 2 (Bassvictim)
Bird Of Peace Orchestra Bird Of Peace Orchestra (Do You Have Peace?)
Richard Dawson End Of The Middle (Domino)
Mozart Estate Tower Block In A Jam Jar (Cherry Red)
Geese Getting Killed (Partisan)

Tim Rutherford-Johnson
Timothy McCormack mine but for its sublimation (Another Timbre)
Klein sleep with a cane (Parkwuud Entertainment)
Leo Chadburn Sleep In The Shadow Of The Alternator (Library Of Nothing)
Marco Fusi & Evan Johnson Dust Book (Another Timbre)
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith Defiant Life (ECM)
Cheryl Duvall & Linda Catlin Smith The Plains (Redshift)
Kieran Hebden & William Tyler 41 Longfield Street Late 80s (Eat Your Own Ears)
Ash Fure Animal (Smalltown Supersound)
Hannah Kendall Shouting Forever Into The Receiver (NMC)
Ellen Fullman Elemental View (Room40)

Claire Sawers
The Hidden Cameras Bronto (EvilEvil)
Cosey Fanni Tutti 2t2 (Conspiracy International)
Yara Asmar everyone I love is sleeping and I love them so so much (Hive Mind)
Valentina Goncharova Campanelli (Hidden Harmony)
Auntie Flo Birds of Paradise (A State Of Flow)
Kali Malone & Drew McDowall Magnetism (Ideologic Organ)
Various vari/ations: Ode To Oram (Nonclassical)

Dave Segal
HAYWARDxDÄLEK HAYWARDxDÄLEK (Relapse)
SML How You Been (International Anthem)
Glyders Forever (Drag City)
Mondo Lava Utero Dei (Hausu Mountain)
Natural Yogurt Band & The Oracle Nebulous (BMM)
Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta Mapambazuko (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
Valentina Magaletti & YPY Kansai Bruises (AD 93)
Wet Tuna Free Folk Red Hots (Self-released)
The Bug Vs Ghost Dubs Implosion (Pressure)
Melvin Gibbs Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 (Hausu Mountain)
Gwenifer Raymond Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark (We Are Busy Bodies)

Stewart Smith
Ambrose Akinmusire Honey From A Winter Stone (Nonesuch)
billy woods Golliwog (Backwoodz Studios)
Sophie Agnel Learning (Otoroku)
Henry Threadgill Listen Ship (Pi Recordings)
[Ahmed] [Sama’a] (Audition) (Otoroku)
Ben LaMar Gay Yowzers (International Anthem)
Webber/Morris Big Band Unseparate (Out Of Your Heads)
Rafael Toral Traveling Light (Drag City)
Wrens Half Of What You See (Out Of Your Heads)
The Sleep Of Reason Produces Monsters The Sleep Of Reason Produces Monsters (Corbett vs Dempsey)

Rosie Esther Solomon
aya hexed! (Hyperdub)
Lido Pimienta La Belleza (Anti-)
Cerys Hafana Angel (tak:til)
Ujif_notfound Postril (I Shall Sing Until My Land Is Free)
An Abstract Illusion The Sleeping City (Willow Tip)
Laurel Premo Laments (Self-released)
Rafiq Bhatia Environments (Anti-)
VESCH Passport (Incompetence)
Park Jiha All Living Things (Glitterbeat)
Holden & Zimpel The Universe Will Take Care Of You (Border Community)

Daniel Spicer
Sudeshna Bhattacharya & Mosin Khan Kawa Mohini (Motvind)
Oiro Pena Béke (Ultraääni)
Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali At The Feet Of The Beloved (Real World)
Natural Information Society Perseverance Flow (Eremite)
The Necks Disquiet (Northern Spy)
Cosmic Ear TRACES (WeJazz)
Marshall Allen’s Ghost Horizons Live In Philadelphia (Ars Nova Workshop)
Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble Let The Spirit Out: Live At “mu” London (Spiritmuse)
Dun-Dun Band Pita Parka Pt II: Nim Egduf (We Are Busy Bodies)
Zoh Amba Sun (Smalltown Supersound)

Richard Stacey
Everything Is Psychedelic The Beautiful Malaise (Everything Is Perfect/Live At The Clinic)
Terra Slim & Doe Diggla Return To Sender (Bandcamp)
Cappo Houses (Plague)
Afrosurrealist Buy British (Affrosurrealist)
AJ Tracey Don't Die Before You're Dead (Revenge)
Wretch 32 Home? (AWAL)
Melvin Gibbs Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 (Hausu Mountain)
Farma G To Kill A Butterfly (High Focus)
M.I.C Dr Yakub’s Laboratory (AP Life)
Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals A City Drowned In God's Black Tears (Phantom Limb)

Joseph Stannard
aya hexed! (Hyperdub)
DJ Haram Beside Myself (Hyperdub)
Eska The Ordinary Life Of A Magic Woman (Earthling)
Abhorrent Expanse Enter The Misanthropocene (Amalgam)
Ujif_notfound Postulate (I Shall Sing Until My Land Is Free)
HAYWARDxDÄLEK HAYWARDxDÄLEK (Relapse)
Authentically Plastic Rococo Ruine (Hakuna Kulala)
Melvin Gibbs Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 (Hausu Mountain)
Princess Nokia Girls (Artist House)
Fatboi Sharif Goth Girl On The Enterprise (Bandcamp)

Kevin Stewart-Panko
Pelican Flickering Resonance (Run For Cover)
The Young Gods Appear Disappear (Two Gentlemen)
Arabrot Rite Of Dionysus (Dalapop)
Swans Birthing (Mute/Young God)
Koenjihyakkei Live At Club Goodman (Skin Graft)
Krokofant 6 (Karisma)
Mary Ann Hawkins Helsinki Surf City (Svart)
Imperial Triumphant Goldstar (Century Media)
Death SS The Entity (Lucifer Rising)
Melvins Thunderball (Ipecac)

Lucy Thraves
Eiko Ishibashi Antigone (Drag City)
aya hexed! (Hyperdub)
Al Karpenter Greatest Heads (Hegoa/Night School)
Meredith Monk Cellular Songs (ECM)
feeo Goodness (AD 93)
Nadah El Shazly Laini Tani (One Little Independent)
Various Only Sounds That Tremble Through Us | فقط أصوات
ترتعش في أجسادنا (Bilna'es بالناقص)
Stereolab Instant Holograms On Metal Film (Warp)
Los Thuthanaka Los Thuthanaka (Self-released)
billy woods Golliwog (Backwoodz Studioz)

Spenser Tomson
Wevie Stonder Sure Beats Living (Skam)
Nad Spiro Limbo Channel (Rose Hill)
claire rousay a little death (Thrill Jockey)
Cate Le Bon Michelangelo Dying (Mexican Summer)
Mun Sing Frolic EP (Illegal Data)
Home Secretary Things (Chocolate Monk)
Claire M Singer Gleann Ciùin (Touch)
Gonçalo F Cardoso Impressões De Várias Ilhas (Macaronésia) (Discrepant)
Me, Claudius Hush, Suzanne (Artsy)
Labyrinthe Des Esprits The Cosmic Hunt (Spirit Duplicator)

Rob Turner
Dora Bleu/Periklis Tsoukalas/Cedrik Fermont The Dream Border (Syrphe)
Vanessa Rossetto Pictures Of The Warm South (Erstwhile)
Limpe Fuchs & Mark Fell Dessogia/Queetch/Fauch (Black Truffle)
feeo Goodness (AD 93)
Ludwig Berger Crying Glacier (Forms Of Minutiae)
billy woods Golliwog (Backwoodz Studioz)
aya hexed! (Hyperdub)
Che Rest In Bass (10k)
Abhorrent Expanse Enter The Misanthropocene (Amalgam)
Daniel Bachman As Time Draws Near (Bandcamp)

Derek Walmsley
Gajek Cutting Together Apart (Stroom)
Eduardo Manso WOW (QTV Selo)
Ø Sysivalo (Sähkö)
Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta Mapambazuko (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
Joy Guidry Five Prayers (Jaid)
Okkyung Lee just like any other day: background music for your mundane activities (Shelter Press)
Ori Barel Bronze, Beige, Morse (Unseen Worlds)
Mark Fell Psychic Resynthesis (Frozen Reeds)
Joseba Irazoki Gitarra Onomatopeikoa II (Hegoa)
Richard Hronský Pohreb (Mappa)

Marc Weidenbaum
Jan Bang & Arve Henriksen After The Wildfire (Punkt Editions)
Barker Stochastic Drift (Smalltown Supersound)
Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka Hiraeth (Unsound)
Ellen Fullman & The Living Earth Show Elemental View (Room40)
Tim Hecker Shards (Kranky)
Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O'Rourke Pareidolia (Drag City)
Lorelei Ensemble Scott Ordway: North Woods (New Focus)
Loscil Lake Fire (Kranky)
Kali Malone & Drew McDowall Magnetism (Ideologic Organ)
Cole Pulice Land's End Eternal (Leaving)

Shane Woolman
Nadah El Shazly Laini Tani (One Little Independent)
Eska The Ordinary Life Of A Magic Woman (Earthling)
Various Road Fever: New Generation Carnival Riddims From St Lucia And Dominica (Soundway)
aya hexed! (Hyperdub)
Sanam Sametou Sawtan (Constellation)
Grup Ses & Gökalp K Grup Ses & Gökalp K (Souk)
Fadi Tabbal I recognize you from my sketches (Ruptured)
DJ DIESOON My Brothel The Wind (Drowned By Locals)
Everything Is Psychedelic The Beautiful Malaise (Everything Is Perfect/Live At The Clinic)
My Jazzy Child Extracøntinent (Akuphone)

Daryl Worthington
KASAI 〽 (Chinabot)
Weston Olencki Broadsides (Outside Time)
billy woods Golliwog (Backwoodz Studios)
Ursula Sereghy Cordial (Mondoj)
Kuntari Lahar (Artetetra)
Crystabel Efemena Riley Live At Ormside (Infant Tree)
Brìghde Chaimbeul Sunwise (Glitterbeat)
Jung An Tagen Revenge Of The Speaker People (Editions Mego)
Zhang Meng Noising Sheng (Dusty Ballz)
en creux circumference (Brachliegen Tapes)

The full annotated 2025 Releases of the Year chart is featured in The Wire 503/504. Listen to a playlist of tracks from the chart here.