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✰ BEST REASONS TO WRITE FUCKIN’ RECORD REVIEWS IN 2017 ✰
✰✰✰✰✰ 5th ANNIVERSARY ✰✰✰✰✰
It’s time to feast from the grapevine of 2017 with 103 (+ 171 more) of the…
✰ BEST REASONS TO WRITE FUCKIN’ RECORD REVIEWS IN 2017 ✰
(all long playing records unless otherwise noted; also, this list was created with links to every item, but the links aren’t appearing, so you’ll have to direct your web browser searches the old fashioned way)
✰✰ TAIWAN HOUSING PROJECT Veblen Death Mask (Kill Rock Stars) ✰✰
✰ HAND & LEG Hand & Leg (Black Gladiator)
✰ MARCIA BASSETT & SAMARA LUBELSKI Live NYC (Feeding Tube)
✰ CHROMASTHETIC Gold Sound cassette (Time Release)
✰ ANTIETAM Intimations of Immortality (Motorific)
✰ girlSperm gSp (Thrilling Living)
✰ CHUCK JOHNSON Balsams (VDSQ)
✰ RODENTICIDE Rodenticide (Self Sabotage)
✰ ANGIE Shyness (Rice Is Nice/DERO Arcade, Australia)
✰ BLOODY SHOW Let America Pay cassette (Superdreamer)
✰ MICHAEL BEACH Gravity/Repulsion (Spectacular Commodity)
✰ ANTHONY PASQUAROSA Abbandonato Da Dio Nazione (VDSQ)
✰ ALBERT DEMUTH Corporate Rights 7″ (self-released)
✰ MOUNTAIN MOVERS Mountain Movers (Trouble In Mind)
✰ X-POP Alphabet Cereal ep cassette (Chemical Imbalance., Australia)
✰ DANA Dana (Heel Turn)
✰ GOSPEL OF MARS Gospel Of Mars (Amish)
✰ PRIVATE SORROW Fake Lions (Mystery Plane, U.K.)
✰ JUDY & THE JERKS 3 Songs cassette (Earth Girl) & Alive At The Skatepark cassette (Earth Girl)
✰ PIERRE & BASTIEN Musique Grecque (sdz, France)
✰ XETAS The Tower (12XU)
✰ JAIMIE BRANCH Fly Or Die (International Anthem Recording Company)
✰ STEFAN CHRISTENSEN Shake Off The Village (C/Site Recordings) & Open Day 7″(I Dischi Del Barone, Sweden)
✰ LISE BARKAS & LISA KAÜFFERT Lo Becat cd-r (Soleis Bleus, France)
✰ USA/MEXICO Laredo (12XU)
✰ PREGNANCY Urgency (Emotional Response)
✰ FULLY GLAZED Full Glazed cassette (The Loki Label)
✰ DARK TEA Dark Tea cassette (self-released) & Bright Flame (bandcamp DL)
✰ SYLVIA COURVOISIER & MARY HALVORSON Crop Circles (Relative Pitch)
✰ KAY ODYSSEY What’s A Woman To Do? (Little Bit)
✰ THE DOLL/STEFAN NEVILLE 1974 8″ lathe (stabbies etc, NZ)
✰ CLARINETTE The Now Of Then (Feeding Tube)
✰ ERIK KRAMER A House, Floating In The Middle Of A Lake cassette (Anthropocene Recordings)
✰ AKI ONDA/TASHI DORJI/CHE CHEN ‘HAZ-,BINS cassette (Black Pollen Press)
✰ KATE CARR The Story Surrounds Us cassette (The Helen Scarsdale Agency) & From A Wind Turbine To Vultures (And Back) cassette (Flaming Pines, U.K.)
✰ BLACK TRUMPETS Blue Blew It cassette (Ikuisuus, Finland)
✰ SUSPIRIANS Ti Bon Ange (Super Secret Records)
✰ YEAR OF BIRDS White Death To Power Alan (Odd Box, U.K.) & Stanhill Wonder 7″ (Third Uncle)
✰ DAVID WEST with TEARDROPS Cherry On Willow (Tough Love, U.K.)
✰ WILLIAM PARKER QUARTETS Meditation/Resurrection double cd (AUM Fidelity)
✰ the CAVEMEN Banned In B.C. 7″ (Weirdly)
✰ MICHAEL FOSTER & BEN BENNETT In It cassette (Astral Spirits)
✰ PLATES OF CAKE Let’s Not Deprive Each Other cassette (Unblinking Ear)
✰ ZAÏMPH Transverse Presence cassette (No Rent)
✰ WURLD SERIES Air Goofy cassette (Melted Ice Cream, New Zealand)
✰ HEADROOM Head In The Clouds (Trouble In Mind)
✰ LORDS OF THYME The Future Of Things Past (Feeding Tube/Shagrat, U.K.)
✰ SEX TIDE Possession Sessions (Feeding Tube)
✰ MARAUDEUR Maraudeur (bruit direct disques, France)
✰ LES FILLES DE ILLIGHADAD Eghass Malan (Sahel Sounds)
✰ BRANDY Laugh Track cassette (self-released)
✰ LEILA BORDREUIL & ZACH ROWDEN Hollow cassette (No Rent)
✰ RAYS Rays (Trouble In Mind)
✰ ANDY REPTOID & THE HUMANOIDS Refridgerator 7″ (Total Punk) & Kill The Comma 7″(Emotional Response) & Pee-Pee EP (Goodbye Boozy, Italy)
✰ GUN SHY Gun Shy cassette (Cheat Prick)
✰ MARK EITZEL Hey Mr. Ferryman (Merge)
✰ E42. A8 Niobium cassette (Tanuki, Belgium)
✰ BLAU BLAU Kiss Kiss (bandcamp DL)
✰ THE COWBOY The Cowboy (Fashionable Idiots)
✰ MARCELO DOS REIS & EVE RISSER Timeless cd (JACC, Portugal)
✰ LIZ DURETTE Four Improvisations On Electric Piano (Ehse)
✰ MIDNIGHT MINES Since My Baby Left Me cassette & We Are The Primitives Of A New Era cassette (both The Loki Label)
✰ JENNY & JADE Day Release 12″ lathe ep (stabbies etc, NZ)
✰ FEMME Chroma (bruit direct disques, France)
✰ PRIVATE ANARCHY Private Anarchy cassette (Round Bale Recordings)
✰ ERIC ARN Orphic Resonance (Feeding Tube)
✰ PILL Aggressive Advertising cassette (Dull Tools)
✰ GAMARDAH FUNGUS Fairytales cd (Flaming Pines, U.K.)
✰ JON COLLIN Water And Rock Music, Volume I cd-r & The Nature (both Early Music, U.K. )
✰ Killed By Meth #2: Rust Belt Rockers comp (It’s Trash!)
✰ the TERMINALS Antiseptic (Ba Da Bing)
✰ SOURDURE Mantras triple cassette (Standard in-Fi, France)
✰ The Hired Hands: A Tribute to Bruce Langhorne double cd (Scissor Tail)
✰ GLEN SCHENAU Addressing The Scar cassette (Tropical Cancer, Australia)
EKIN FIL Inflame: Original Soundtrack cassette & Ghosts Inside (both The Helen Scarsdale Agency)
✰ TARA CLERKIN Hello (Stolen Body Records, U.K.)
✰ LEE KONITZ Frescalalto cd (impulse!, France)
✰ the STROPPIES The Stroppies cassette & It’s A Hit 7″ (Hobbies Galore, Australia)
✰ DELPHINE DORA & MOCKE Le Corps Défendant (Okraïna, Belgium)
✰ QUIN GALAVIS The Battery Line (Super Secret Records)
✰ HOUSE AND LAND House And Land (Thrill Jockey)
✰ C.I.A. DEBUTANTE We Will Play For Spirits cassette (sdz, France)
✰ AILBHE NIC OIREACHTAIGH Oreing (Fort Evil Fruit, Ireland)
✰ the BISCUITS Albatross 7″ (Ilk Ither, New Zealand)
✰ SYLVIA MONNIER Stock Shot & Addictive Sling cassette (Sacred Phrases)
✰ the GOLDEN BOYS Better Than Good Times (12XU)
✰ PALACE LIDO Concrete cassette (Czaszka Records, U.K.)
✰ MARK FEEHAN M.F. II (Richie Records)
✰ OBNOX Murder Radio (ever/never) & Niggative Approach (12XU)
✰ ALEXANDER Alexander (self-released) & ROB NOYES/ALEXANDER split 7″ (C/Site Recordings)
✰ TRIO 3: ANDREW CYRILLE/REGGIE WORKMAN/OLIVER LAKE Visiting Texture cd (Intakt, Switzerland)
✰ BARON SATURDAY Concrete Poetry cassette (Mystery Plane, U.K.)
✰ NINA HARKER Nina Harker cassette (Le Syndicat Des Scorpions, France)
✰ DAVID NANCE Do The Negative Boogie (Ba Da Bing)
GOLDEN PELICANS Disciples Of Blood (Goner)
ÆTHER JAG Amaranthine Stretch cassette (No Rent)
GAD WHIP In A Room (ever/never)
YANNICK DAUBY Magicien Rouch cassette (Tanuki, Belgium)
MAX LODERBAUER & JACEK SIENKIEWICZ End cd (Recognition, Poland)
VÁR By Ghost And Tape (Home Normal, Japan)
ANGELICA SANCHEZ TRIO Float The Edge cd (Clean Feed, Portugal)
LECH NIENARTOWICZ Nici cassette (Dinzu Artefacts)
EKMAN & OWEN Ekman & Owen 7″ (Goodbye Boozy, Italy)
POU Dimonis (Metadona, Spain)
HANS CHEW Open Sea (At The Helm)
DALIA RAUDONIKYTÉ WITH Solitarius cd (New Focus Recordings)
GŪTARA KYŌ Gütara Kyō 10″ (Slovenly/Mondo Mongo)
TUCKER THEODORE Lady Hope cassette (Antiquated Future)
MIA SCHOEN Golden Hour (Albert’s Basement, Australia)
THE STRANGER The Void (bandcamp dl)
LAKES Silver Thorns 12″ EP (Paradise Daily, Australia)
Horrendous New Wave comp (Lumpy)
CHRIS FORSYTH & THE SOLAR MOTEL BAND Dreaming The Non-Dream (No Quarter)
TASHI DORJI & DAVID GRUBBA Fixed Entrance Derivatives cassette (Sky Lantern)
SAMUEL TRUITT Thorns cassette (Melters)
HELTA SKELTA Nightclubbin’ 7″ (Deranged, British Columbia, Canada)
UV-TV Glass (Deranged, British Columbia, Canada) & Go Away 7″ (Emotional Response
HASH REDACTOR Demo Tape 2017 (self-released bandcamp DL)
LEE NOBLE The Hell You Come In cassette (No Kings)
PRETTY PRETTY Demo II cassette (Superdreamer)
AGUSTÍ MARTÍNEZ/EDUARD ALTABA/QUICU SAMSÓ On The Nature Of Will (Discordian bandcamp DL, Spain)
the TRENDEES We Are Sonic Art (Melted Ice Cream, NZ/Albert’s Basement, Australia)
GREG ASHLEY Pictures of Saint Paul Street (Trouble In Mind)
DAVE REMPIS Solo cd (Aerophonic)
TIN FOIL Tin Foil (Almost Ready)
HACO Qoosui cd (Room40, Australia)
PETER LEWIS Just Like Jack (Shagrat, U.K./Hookah)
PROSTITUTES Live At Cookout (TRAM Planet)
ANTENES Shifting Zones 12″ (Silent Season, Canada)
LOFT Three Settlements Four Ways 12″ (Wisdom Teeth, U.K.) & Turn My Built Dances (The Astral Plane)
NEUTRALS Promotional Cassette 2 cassette (Neutrals)
JOE MORRIS/BRAD BARRETT/ERIC STILLWELL Value (Glacial Erratic bandcamp DL)
DARLINGCHEMICALIA Off Blonde (self-released bandcamp DL)
WV WHITE House Of The Spiritual Athletes (Anyway)
CHAVEZ Cockfighters 12″ (Matador)
RYAN GARBES Living Ether cassette (Post-Materialization Music, Russia)
TRAMPOLINE TEAM Drug Culture 7″ (Space Taker Sounds/Pelican Pow Wow) & Trampoline Team/Mama split 7″ (Giveaway)
LAURA BAIRD I Wish I Were A Sparrow (Ba Da Bing)
MAREIKE SAUER The Tension and the Body of the Woman of Mystery cd (Karl Schmidt Verlag, Germany)
FNU CLONE Binary Or Die (Total Punk)
DAN MELCHIOR Road Not Driving (ever/never)
$UN $KELETONS GET IT UP YERS TRIO R.I.P. Music & Absolutely Fucked In & Rust Belt UK cd-rs (Double Dot Dash!?, U.K.)
VIOLENCE CREEPS Ease The Seed Bag 7″ (Drunken Sailor, U.K.) & The Gift Of Music + Singles cassette (Total Punk) & Northwest Tour Tape 2017 (self-released)
ERIC COPELAND Courtesy, Professionalism, Respect (L.I.E.S.)
WIREHEADS Lightning Ears (Tenth Court, Australia)
DANIEL LEVIN Living (Smeraldina-Rima, Belgium)
the COWBOYS Vol. 4 (Drunken Sailor, U.K.)
IRENE KEPL SololoS cd (Fou, France) & Superstring Theory bandcamp download (SoundOut, Australia)
VIDEO DUCT Small Pets And Kitchenettes cassette (Maple Death, Italy)
SCUPPER Some Gauls (Blue Cheese Toothpaste)
MOSQUITOES Mosquitoes one sided 12″ (self-released, U.K.)
BLUE CHEMISE Influence On Dusk (Gravity Ventilator, Australia) & “The Music Lesson”/”Watcher At The Window” 7″ (I Dischi Del Barone, Sweden)
CONTRIBUTORS Contributors (Monofonus Press)
NICOLE MITCHELL Awakening II: Emerging Worlds cd (FPE)
KALEIDOSCOPE Volume 3 (Feel It Records)
Ladyfest Boston 2017 cassette comp (Ladyfest)
BRIDGET HAYDEN Incantations From Yin Valley cassette (Fort Evil Fruit, Ireland)
MIKE COOPER Raft (Room40, Australia)
MAZOZMA Heavy Death Head (Feeding Tube)
SUSS CUNTS Suss Cunts 7″ ep (Emotional Response) & “Newby” (Suss Cunts bandcamp DL)
MATT JENCIK Weird Times (Hands In The Dark)
somesurprises serious dreams cassette (Eiderdown Records)
CIGGIE WITCH Mad Music (Lost & Lonesome, Australia)
SUN VALLEY Black Canyons (bandcamp DL)
MORDECAI Abstract Recipe (Richie Records)
JANTAR Panisperna (MIE Music, U.K.)
SARAH DAVACHI All My Circles Run (Students Of Decay)
KÜKEN Küken (Drunken Sailor, U.K.)
ULAAN PASSERINE The Landscape of Memory (Worstward)
MY TEENAGE STRIDE Living In The Straight World cassette (Unblinking Ear)
SLOW TONGUED BEAUTY The Absolution Of Royalty cassettes (No Rent)
DAVID FIRST Same Animal, Different Cages Vol. 3: Civil War Songs (for Solo Harmonica) (Fabrica)
REBEKAH HELLER Metafagote (New Focus Recordings)
DIANETICS Booked Learned 7″ (Weirdly) & And Psycho Horse cassette (Gut Freak)
SPARROW STEEPLE Steeple Two (Richie Records) & A Aardvark (ever/never)
WEATHER WEAPON II (self-released bandcamp DL)
KRISTY & THE KRAKS Snakes On The Phone 7″ (Fettkakao, Austria)
STEPHAN CRUMP/INGRID LAUBROCK/CORY SMYTHE Planktonic Finales cd (Intakt, Switzerland)
NAG “Motorcycle Blue” + 2 7″ (Third Uncle/Chunklet) & False Anxiety 7″ (Total Punk) & No Flag + 2 7″ (Space Taker Sounds)
ROSS MANNING Reflex In Waves (Room40, Australia) &
Both Sides of the Cocoon cassette (Chemical Imbalance., Australia)
DANIEL LEVIN QUARTET Live At Firehouse 12 cd (Firehouse 12)
RAKTA Oculto Pelos Seres 7" (La Vida Es Un Mus Discos, U.K.)
MARBLED EYE EP II 7" (Melters/Digital Regress)
RIK & THE PIGS Blue Jean Queen 7″ (Feel It) & A Child’s Gator (Total Punk)
US WEEKLY US Weekly (Night Moves)
KEN IKEDA + DAVID TOOP Skin Tones cd (Home Normal, Japan)
L$D FUNDRAISER Drones On Lap Steel (self-released, NZ) + like, 30 others
MDOU MOCTAR Sousoume Tamachek (Sahel Sounds)
CHIHEI HATAKEYAMA Mirage (Room40, Australia)
the DREAM SYNDICATE How Did I Find Myself Here? (Anti-)
DAY CREEPER A Mirror To The Fire (Heel Turn/Superdreamer)
LITTLE MAZARN Little Mazarn (Self Sabotage)
BAUS Secret Bathroom Recordings (self-released bandcamp DL)
MARK CONE Now Showing (Neck Chop)
LÉONIE RISJETERRE Tresseterre cd (Soleils Bleus, France)
ENDLESS BOOGIE Vibe Killer (No Quarter)
MCHY I PORØSTY Hypnagogic Polish Music For Teenage Mutants cd (Recognition, Poland)
DAG Benefits Of Solitude (Bedroom Suck, Australia)
ANGEL DUST Excavatum cassette (Dinzu Artefacts)
MAXIMUM ERNST with DANIEL CARTER Maximum Ernst cd (ever/never)
BALLISTER: REMPIS/LONGBERG-HOLM/NILSEN-LOVE Slag cd (Aerophonic)
RABBIT U.S. Rabbit U.S. lathe 7″ (Third Uncle)
INSTITUTE Subordination (Sacred Bones)
RUBBER MATE Cha Boi 7″ (Total Punk) & Tour Tape MMXVII cassette (self-released)
MARY LATTIMORE Collected Pieces cassette (Ghostly International)
VERY MENTAL (Total Punk)
UNITED WATERS The Narrows (Drawing Room)TYSHAWN SOREY Verisimilitude (Pi Recordings)
A GIANT DOG Toy (Merge)
DREAM WEAPON RITUAL The Uncanny Little Sparrows (Boring Machines, Italy)
SMALL WORLD EXPERIENCE Soft Knocks (Tenth Court, Australia)
DIRTY & HIS FISTS Dirty & HIs Fists 7″ (Feel It)
ABBY LEE TEE Hebert’s Archive cassette (Dinzu Artefacts)
BLANK STATEMENTS Signs Are Rampant cassette (Hobbies Galore, New Zealand)
NOTS“Cruel Friend"/"Violence" 7″ (Goner) & Live At Goner Records (Goner)
LEA BERTUCCI All That Is Solid Melts Into Air cassette (NNA Tapes)
SICK THOUGHTS Songs About People You Hate (Neck Chop)
MOHLAO Landforms (Silent Season, Canada)
ISOTOPE SOAP Piñata Chaos 12" (Levande Begravd Records, Sweden) & The WOW! Signal EP 7" (Levande Begravd Records, Sweden)
JIM HAYNES Tiny Portraits 3″ cd-r (Flaming Pines, U.K.)
ISS (Endless Pussyfooting) (Erste Theke Tonträger, Germany)
PREENING Beeters 7″ (Digital Regress)
MIKE MAJKOWSKI Days And Other Days cassette (Astral Spirits)
RANGERS Texas Rock Bottom cd (Doom Trip)
KNOWSO Look At The Chart (Neck Chop)
CIRCUIT DES YEUX Reaching For Indigo (Drag City)
WHIT DICKEY/MAT MANERI/MATTHEW SHIPP Vessel In Orbit cd (Aum Fidelity)
SWEET APPLE Sing The Night In Sorrow (Tee Pee)
LEDA Gitarrmusik III-X (Förlag För Fri Musik, Sweden)
TROPICAL TRASH Decisions' Empty Nest 7″ ep (Sophomore Lounge) & A Dent In The Forever Can cassette (The Loki Label)
GUILHEM LACOUX La Traversée double cassette (Standard in-Fi, France)
IAN WILLIAM CRAIG Slow Vessels 12″ ep (130701, U.K.)
MOZART Nasty 7″ep (Iron Lung)
TREASURE HUNT with DENNIS WARREN’S FULL METAL REVOLUTIONARY ENSEMBLE Space Jam cassette (Moon Glyph)
CENTURY PALM Meet You (Deranged, British Columbia, Canada)
GATE Highway Ghosts (self-released, New Zealand)
the FEELIES In Between (Bar None)
SCHIZOS Fuck Iggy Pop 7″ (Neck Chop)
VIOLENT QUAND ON AIME Violent Quand On Ame 7″ (Le Syndicat des Scorpions, France)
HONEY New Moody Judy (Wharf Cat)
ANXIETY Wild Life 7″ (La Vida Es Un Mus Discos, U.K.)
EARTH GIRL HELEN BROWN Mercury & Mars & Saturn cassettes (all Empty Cellar)
the BLINDS The Blinds cassette (Hobbies Galore, Australia)
FRENCH VANILLA French Vanilla cassette (Danger Collective)
HEAVY METAL LP 2 (Static Age Musik, Germany) & LP 3 (Harbinger Sound, U.K.)
fEEDTIME Gas (In The Red)
REESE McHENRY w/ SPIDER BAGS Bad Girl (Sophomore Lounge)
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✰ 2018 PREDICTION: LONG HOTS! ✰
AHOE-AHOEA "True Love never dies" (LP. 2016 / rec. 1983) [NL]
V/A "Domestic Sampler UMYU" (LP. 2017 / rec. 1982) [ES/UK]
John COLTRANE, Alice COLTRANE "Cosmic Music" (LP. 2017 / rec. 1966) [US]
JUJU "A Message from Mozambique" (LP. ? / rec. 1972) [US]
Luc MARIANNI "D.G. Portrait" (LP. 1982) [FR]
Jean-Claude RISSET "Mutations" (LP. 1978) [FR]
Louis JORDAN & His TIMPANI FIVE "G.I. Jive 1940-47" (LP. 1983 / rec. 1940-47) [US]
Ron Warren GANDERTON / SOUND CEREMONY "Guitar Star" (LP. 1978) [UK]
Jean-Louis CADEE "Création spontanée" (LP. ?) [FR]
Les PERCUSSIONS De STRASBOURG "En Concert" (LP. 1983) [FR]
Herbert EIMERT "Einführung in die elektronische Musik" (LP. ? / rec. 1963) [DE]
Marianne SCHROEDER "Braxton & Stockhausen" (2xLP. 1984) [CH]
[unknown artist] "Buddhist Drums, Bells and Chants" (LP. ?) [JP]
LOOK DE BOUK "Lacrimae Rerum" (LP. 1985) [FR]
Lee RANALDO / L'ORCHESTRE INHARMONIQUE De NICE "Lee Ranaldo conduit l'Orchestre inharmonique de Nice" (LP. 2015 / rec. 2014) [US/FR]
Albert DeMUTH "Haircare for Assholes" (LP. 2016) [US]
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