2019 Single Listens (unless otherwise noted)

Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog [twice]
Bob Mould - Sunshine Rock
Dandy Warhols - Why You So Crazy
Aceyalone & DJ Fat Jack - 43rd & Excellence
Czarface & Ghostface Killah - Czarface Meets Ghostface
Alan Vega - Dujang Prang [a Henry Rollins favorite]
Matthew Shipp - Harmony and Abyss [abstract piano jazz beyond me]
The Mighty Diamonds - Ice on Fire
Various Artists - African Scream Contest ["psychedelic" 70s sounds from Benin/Togo] [twice]
Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna [embarrassed to say I thought a couple of the hits were FM songs]
Gil Scott-Heron - Real Eyes; Reflections
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson ‎- Secrets; From South Africa to South Carolina
Lou Reed - Animal Serenade [live, drummer-less, with cello and "Anohni"]

Lou Reed - The Raven [theater piece/dramatic readings]
Dizzy Gillespie - Night in Tunisia: The Very Best of Dizzy Gillespie
Atmosphere - Sad Clown Bad Summer 9
John Parish and Polly Jean (PJ) Harvey - Dance Hall at Louse Point
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
Dave Alvin - The Best of the Hightone Years
Control Top - Covert Contracts [two listens]
Si Kahn - New Wood [proxy for Home, which got A- from Xgau and B+ from Hull - reverse of this]
Jason Ringenberg - Stand Tall
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Nightingales and Bombers
Lee Scratch Perry - The Black Album [twice]
Moby - Ambient
Neil Young - Tuscaloosa
Mica Levi - Under the Skin [soundtrack]
Twinkle Brothers - Rasta Pon Top
Ray Charles - The Genius Sings the Blues [Leonard Cohen fave]
Matthew Sweet - Earth [Robert Quine/Richard Lloyd on guitar]
Amazing Rhythm Aces - Too Stuffed to Jump
The Alpha Band - The Alpha Band
Big Youth - Isaiah First Prophet of Old [with the great Tony Chin on rhythm guitar]
Jesse Malin - Sunset Kids
Tool - Fear Inoculum
Tropical Fu*k Storm - Braindrops
Black Uhuru - Tear It Up--Live [so terrible on first listen + Xgau's C- = I’m done]
Black Uhuru - Liberation: The Island Anthology [alternate tracks (ie, about 1/2)]
Car Seat Headrest - Commit Yourself Completely

Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 13: Trouble No More 1979–1981
Grace Jones - The Best of Grace Jones: The Millennium Collection [2 listens]
Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again [#90 on Pitchfork’s 200 Best Albums of the 2010s]
Wu Lyf - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain [#199 on Pitchfork’s 200 Best Albums of the 2010s]
Fatima Al Qadiri - Genre Specific Xperience [#197 on Pitchfork’s 200 Best Albums of the 2010s]
Ratking - So It Goes [#200 on Pitchfork’s 200 Best Albums of the 2010s]
Downtown Boys - Full Communism [#195 on Pitchfork’s 200 Best Albums of the 2010s]
Waka Floka Flame - Flockaveli [#110 on Pitchfork’s 200 Best Albums of the 2010s]
Helado Negro - This Is How You Smile [#103 on Pitchfork’s 200 Best Albums of the 2010s]
Meek Mill - Dreamchasers 2 [#163 on Pitchfork’s 200 Best Albums of the 2010s]
Rick Ross - Rich Forever [#141 on Pitchfork’s 200 Best Albums of the 2010s]
The Exbats - E is 4 Exbats
Maze featuring Frankie Beverly - Maze featuring Frankie Beverly (1977 debut)
Maze featuring Frankie Beverly - Silky Soul
Maze featuring Frankie Beverly - Live in Los Angeles
Maze featuring Frankie Beverly - Live in New Orleans [like this a hair better than the LA set]
Mike - tears of joy
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Darkside - Psychic
Whitney - Light Upon the Lake [two listens]
DJ Shadow - Reconstructed: The Best of DJ Shadow [two listens]
DJ Shadow - Live in Manchester
Earl Sweatshirt - Feet of Clay
Sly & Robbie - Riddim: The Best of Sly & Robbie in Dub 1978-1985 [two listens]
Sly & Robbie - In Good Company [Ultimate Collection]
Jonas Hellborg, Shawn Lane, and V. Selvaganesh - Good People in Times of Evil
Mamane Barka - Introducing (bonus disc for Rough Guide Sahara)
Ras G & The Afrikan Space Program - Dance of the Cosmos
Guy Clark - Texas Cookin'
Bill Orcutt - Odds Against Tomorrow [solo experimental electric guitar]
Grieves - Winter & the Wolves