Dusted Mid-Year 2023, Part Three (The Lists)
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Swapping records is fun, but when it comes down to it, we like what we like. What’s that? Glad you asked. Read on for our writers’ mid-year favorites.
Jennifer Kelly
Meg Baird — Furling (Drag City)
Robert Forster — The Candle and the Flame (Tapete)
The Drin — Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom (Feel It)
En Attendant Ana — Principia (Trouble in Mind)
Stella Kola—S-T (Self-Release)
Mudhoney — Plastic Eternity (Sub Pop)
Sleaford Mods — UK Grim (Domino)
The Tubs — Dead Meat (Trouble in Mind)
Nighttime — Keeper Is the Heart (BaDaBing)
Purling Hiss — Drag on Girard (Drag City)
Lonnie Holley — Oh Me Oh My (Jagjaguwar)
The Toads—In the Wilderness (Upset the Rhythm)
Dan Melchior—Welcome to Redacted City (Midnight Cruiser)
James and the Giants—S-T (Kill Rock Stars)
Ben Chasny and Rick Tomlinson—Waves (VOIX)
Bill Meyer
Natural Information Society — Since Time Is Gravity (Eremite)
Elkhorn — On the Whole Universe in All Directions (Centripetal Force)
Meg Baird — Furling (Drag City)
Robert Forster — The Candle and the Flame (Tapete)
The Necks — Travel (Northern Spy)
Milford Graves — Children of the Forest (Black Editions)
Peter Brötzman Heather Leigh — Naked Nudes (Trost)
Yo La Tengo — This Stupid World (Matador)
Magic Tuber Band — Tarantism (Feeding Tube)
Drew Gardner — Flowers in Space (Feeding Tube)
Jozef Van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch — American Landscapes (Incunambulum)
Dave Rempis/Elisabeth Harnik/Tim Daisy — Earscratcher (Aerophonic)
Alasdair Roberts — Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall (Drag City)
Jonathan Shaw
BIG BRAVE — nature morte (Thrill Jockey)
Wound Man — Human Outline (Iron Lung)
Gel — Only Constant (Convulse)
Home Front — Games of Power (La Vida Es Un Mus)
Sleaford Mods — UK Grim (Domino)
Spirit Possession — Of the Sign… (Profound Lore)
Bryon Hayes
Yo La Tengo — This Stupid World (Matador)
Big Blood — First Aid Kit (Feeding Tube / BaDaBing)
Meg Baird — Furling (Drag City)
Califone — Villagers (Jealous Butcher)
M. Sage — Paradise Crick (RVNG Intl.)
The Reds, Pinks & Purples — The Town That Cursed Your Name (Slumberland)
John Atkinson — Energy Fields (AKP Recordings)
Joseph Allred — What Strange Flowers Grow in the Shade (Feeding Tube)
The Far Sound — The Far Sound (Centripetal Force)
Ulaan Khol — Milk Thistle (Desastre)
Powers / Pulice / Rolin — Prism (Cached Media)
Lia Kohl — The Ceiling Reposes (American Dreams)
Tim Clarke
Jana Horn — The Window Is The Dream (No Quarter)
Arrowounds — In The Octopus Pond (Lost Tribe Sound)
Meg Baird — Furling (Drag City)
Pile — All Fiction (Exploding In Sound)
Tim Hecker — No Highs (Kranky)
Califone — Villagers (Jealous Butcher)
King Krule — Space Heavy (XL/Matador)
This Is The Kit — Careful Of Your Keepers (Rough Trade)
Cory Hanson — Western Cum (Drag City)
Andy Shauf — Norm (Anti-)
Patrick Masterson
Pile — All Fiction (Exploding in Sound)
Yves Tumor — Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) (Warp)
Wednesday — Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans)
Jayda G — Guy (Ninja Tune)
Ryuichi Sakamoto — 12 (Milan)
Malla — Fresko (Solina)
Skech185 — He Left Nothing for the Swim Back (Backwoodz Studioz)
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru — Jerusalem (Mississippi)
Meg Baird — Furling (Drag City)
Andrea — Due in Color (Ilian Tape)
Memphis LK — Too Much Fun EP (Remote Control)
BigXthaPlug — Amar (United Masters)
Andrew Forell
Algiers — Shook (Matador)
King Vision Ultra — Shook World (Hosted by Algiers)
Asher Gamedze — Turbulence & Pulse (International Anthem)
99LETTERS — Makafushigi (Disciples)
The Drin— Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom (Drunken Sailor)
Comet Gain — The Misfit Jukebox (Tapete)
billy woods & Kenny Segal — Maps (Backwoodz Studioz)
Kevin Richard Martin — Above the Clouds (self-released)
SQÜRL — Silver Haze (Sacred Bones)
The Murder Capital — Gigi’s Recovery (Human Season)
Parasite Jazz — Paradise Jazz (Disques de la Spirale)
Christian Carey
The Reds, Pinks, and Purples — The Town that Cursed Your Name (Slumberland)
Aaron Cassidy — A Way of Making Ghosts (Kairos)
Arrowounds — In the Octopus Pond (Settled Scores)
V/A – Red Hot and Ra: Nuclear War LP (Red Hot)
Oval — Romantiq (Thrill Jockey)
Meg Baird — Furling (Drag City)
Black Duck — S/T (Thrill Jockey)
Mother, Sister, Daughter — Musica Secreta (Lucky Music)
Natural Information Society – Since Time is Gravity (Eremite)
Alasdair Roberts — Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall (Drag City)
Fever Ray — Radical Romantics (Mute)
James Romig — Spaces (Sawyer Editions)
Brad Mehldau — Your Mother Should Know (Nonesuch)
Nina Berman and Steve Beck — Milton Babbitt: Works for Treble Voice and Piano (New Focus)
Marc Ducret — Palm Sweat (Out of Your Head)
Jennifer Grim — Through Broken Time (New Focus)
Erkki — Sven Tüür: Canticum Canticorum Caritatis (Alpha Classics)
James Ilgenfritz — #entrainments (Frequent Seams)
Brandon Lopez — vilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevile (TAO Forms)
Lonnie Holley — Oh Me Oh My (Jagjaguwar)
John Liberatore — Catch Somewhere (New Focus Recordings)
Sebastian Rochford, Kit Downes — A Short Diary (ECM Records)
Frederic Rzewski — Late Piano Works (Naxos)
Rebecca Saunders — Skin (NMC)
Guided by Voices — La La Land (self— released)
Susan Narucki and Donald Berman — This Island (Avie)
Chamber Music From Hell — Chris Opperman (Purple Cow)
Elkhorn — On the Whole Universe in All Directions (Centripetal Force)
Purling Hiss — Drag on Girard (Drag City)
Caterina Barbieri — Myuthafoo (light-years)
Yo La Tengo — This Stupid World (Matador)
Ian Mathers
Fifteen, in alphabetical order:
Aarktica — Paeans (Projekt)
Acid King — Beyond Vision (Blues Funeral)
ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT — “Darling the Dawn” (Constellation)
Avalon Emerson — & the Charm (Another Dove)
Brìghde Chaimbeul — Carry Them With Us (Tak:til)
The Drin — Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom (Feel It)
Ladytron — Time’s Arrow (Cooking Vinyl)
loscil // Lawrence English — Colours of Air (Kranky)
Meg Baird — Furling (Drag City)
Mute Duo — Migrant Flocks (American Dreams)
The National — First Two Pages of Frankenstein (4AD)
Tacoma Park — Tacoma Park (Self Released)
Tørrfall — Tørrfall (De Pene Inngang)
Yo La Tengo — This Stupid World (Matador)
Yves Tumor — Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) (Warp)
Derek Taylor
New releases
Kirk Knuffke & Joe McPhee Quartet + 1 — Keep the Dream Up (Fundacja Sluchaj)
Natural Information Society — Time is Gravity (Eremite/Aguirre)
Aruán Ortiz — Serranias — Sketchbook for Piano Trio (Intakt)
Mark Dresser — Tines of Change (Pyroclastic)
Andrew Cyrille — Music Delivery/Percussion (Intakt)
Steve Millhouse — The Undwinding (Steeplechase)
Archival Releases
The Jazz Doctors — Intensive Care/Prescriptions Filled: The Billy Bang Quartet Sessions 1983/1984 (Cadillac)
Milford Graves w/ Arthur Doyle & Hugh Glover — Children of the Forest (Black Editions)
Abdul Wadud — By Myself (Bisharra/Gotta Groove)
Sirone — Artistry (Of the Cosmos/Moved By Sound)
Marion Brown — Mary Ann: Live in Bremen 1969 (Moosicus)
Steve Swell’s Fire Into Music — For Jemeel: Fire From the Road (2005-2006) (RogueArt)
Margaret Welsh
Wheatie Mattiasich — Old Glow (Open Mouth)
Rozi Plain — Prize (Memphis Industries)
Glass Triangle — Blue and Sun-lights (Relative Pitch)
Andy Shauf — Norm (Anti)
Yo La Tengo — This Stupid World (Matador)
Horse Jumper of Love —Heartbreak Rules (Run for Cover)
Bill Orcutt — Jump On It (Palilalia)
Lana Del Rey — Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (Interscope)