they are quite complete in the stories they tell. they are not best suited for background music. they are best heard with headphones in solitude and contemplation. and a few of the *major* artists probably should have appeared on other year-end lists, but for some reason were totally overlooked. enjoy listening.
1. hallowed oak (happy family)
2. pontiak - INNOCENCE (thrill jockey)
3. anna tivel - before machines (fluff & gravy)
4. run on sentence - feelings (hush records)
5. black lips - underneath the rainbow (vice records)
6. willie nelson - band of brothers (legacy recordings)
7. strangled darlings - boom stomp king
8. james dean kindle & the eastern oregon playboys - many splendored things
9. thurston moore - the best day (matador records)
10. clarke & the himselfs II (curly cassettes)
11. ryan joseph anderson - the weaver's broom
12. michael eaton - individuation (destiny records)
13. the evangenitals - moby dick; or, the album (fluff & gravy)
14. knobtown skiffle band - knobtown rag
here's a longer list of some of the albums that very well could have made the list, but just did not.
pink floyd – the endless river
ty segall –
manipulator
various artists – self group mixtape (a lot of krist kreuger projects)
afghan whigs – do the beast
jeff bridges &
the abiders – live
lee bains III
& the glory fires –
deconstructed
balvel – ten hand band
kentucky knife
fight – hush hush
edmund wayne – tape no. 1
mehldau &
cuiliana – taming the dragon
tune-yards – nikki nack
moon hooch – this is cave music
the miami dolphins
– feeler
moondog – boogieland
bill frissell – space age
space raft
everyone is dirty – dying is fun
dear rabbit
arjun – core
daniel amedee – climbing
stoney spring – right on heliotrope
blisses b – sea level astronomy
samsel & the skirt – shoebox
mutts – fuel your delusion part 4
kris bowers – heroes & misfits
takuya kuroda – rising son
andre cymone – the stone
tinariwen – emmaar
the new basement
tapes
brushfire stankgrass – microclimates
levi weaver – your ghost keeps finding me
gunash – same old nightmare
chad vangaalen – shrink dust
jefferson
hendricks – given time
sick of it all –
last act of defiance
pat metheny unity
group – kin
string cheese
incident – song in my head
secile mclorin
salvant – woman child
holmes brothers – brotherhood
trita – the narcoma
cutthroats 9 – dissent
spanish gold – south of nowhere
faded paper
figures
morgan treni – the dreamer
neomythics –
more protection
blind willies
ontologics –
something to needle over
memoir – there is a fire in me
various artists – ruckus in the boonies
ruckus in the boonies happens one day every mid summer in heppner, oregon. a listen to the comp makes it seem to be one of the more unique fests in cascadia.
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