Monday, January 1, 2024

2024 Single Listens (unless otherwise noted)

Taj Weekes - Eyes to See
Tucker Zimmerman - Square Dance
Daevid Allen - Banana Moon
Various - Billboard Greatest Christmas Hits (1955-Present)
Ka - The Thief Next to Jesus
Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy - Mam Yinne Wa
Nala Sinephro - Endlessness
Bonga - Angola 72
The Zawose Queens - Maisha
Linkin Park - Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000–2023)
Djrum - Meaning’s Edge
Roc Marciano/The Alchemist - The Skeleton Key
Robert Palmer - Clues
Kassie Krut - Kassie Krut EP
Les Filles de Illighadad - At Pioneer Works [live; (mostly female?) Tuareg]
Singers & Players - Staggering Heights
Awon & Phoniks - Golden Era 2 [Hull A-]
Salum Abdallah and Cuban Marimba Band - Ngoma, Tanzania 1961-1965 [folkloric]
Keith Hudson - Playing It Cool & Playing It Right
Evelyn "Champagne" King - Get Loose
Sophie - Sophie
Linkin Park - From Zero
Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
Rebel MC/Congo Natty - Rebel Music
Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
El Khat - Mute
Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond
Ornette Coleman - Skies of America [2 listens; symphonic]
Sprints - Letter to Self
Elbow - Audio Vertigo
Various - Naya Beat Volume 2: South Asian Dance And Electronic Music 1988​-​1994
Dogo du Togo & The Alagaa Beat Band - Avoude
The Wedding Present - Sea Monsters
Disco Inferno - D. I. Go Pop
Prodigy - Hegelian Dialectic (The Book of Revelation)
Silver Jews - The Natural Bridge
Sonic Youth with Tim Barnes - SYR 6: Koncertas Stan Brakhage prisiminimui [live improv]
David Lynch & Alan R. Splet - Eraserhead [soundtrack]
Jamie xx - In Waves
Gregory Isaacs - Warning [1989]
Serengeti - mixtape [Bandcamp, 2024]
Black Uhuru - Live 84
Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Chain of Light
The Modern Lovers - Live [1977]
Tom Verlaine - Warm and Cool [guitar/instrumental]
Tom Verlaine - Around [guitar/instrumental]
Cabaret Voltaire - Mix-Up
Matthew Sweet - Time Capsule: The Best of Matthew Sweet
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Talk About the Weather [really an EP; New Order rip-off]
The Who - The Kids Are Alright [soundtrack]
Sam Dees - The Show Must Go On [Spex 100; Al Green redux]
Motorpsycho - Demon Box [Spex 100; Norwegian alt-rock; Dinosaur Jr. redux]
Autechre - Tri Repetae [Spex 100; English ambient]
Gas - Zauberberg [Spex 100;  German ambient]
Sun Ra - It's After the End of the World [Spex 100; live 1970 avant-garde jazz]
Nicolette - Now Is Early [Spex 100; Scottish jazz vocals over breakbeat (1992)]
Chico Buarque - Construcao [Spex 100; Brazilian]
Robert Hood - Minimal Nation [Spex 100; “minimal” (?) techno]
Fehlfarben - Monarchie und Alltag [Spex 100; “new German wave”]
Scritti Politti - Songs to Remember [Spex 100]
Van Dyke Parks - Discover America [Spex 100]
Blumfeld - L’Etat et Moi [Spex 100; German indie pop]
Marine Girls - Lazy Ways [Paste top 50 post-punk]
Julie - My Anti-Aircraft Friend
Basic - This is Basic
Bacchae - Next Time
Dylan Hicks - Modern Flora
Ive - Ive Switch
Porches - Shirt
Bembeya Jazz National - Sous la direction de Diaoune Hamidou
Blind Willie McTell - The Devil Can’t Hide From Me
Blind Willie McTell - Kill It, Kid: The Essential Collection [vinyl only anyway]
Gel - Persona [EP]
Horse Jumper of Love - Disaster Trick
Zeal & Ardor - GREIF [first of all, stop shouting at me]
Miles Davis - Volume 1
Matthew Sweet - Catspaw
Jae Skeese and Superior [Stavros Martina?] - Testament of the Times
Black Uhuru - Live at Soledad Prison
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us
Mika - Life in Cartoon Motion
The Bangles - Different Light [all my sources pan, except AllMusic users]
Nino Paid - "Money Problems (feat. Lil Gray)" and "Pain & Possibilities"
The Temptations - Temptations Live! [at the Roostertail - Wayne Kramer #1]
Wand - Vertigo
King Tubby - King Tubby's Special 1973-1976 [2 listens]
The Revolutionaries - Earthquake Dub
Abida Parveen - Raqs-e-Bismil
Fox Green - Light Over Darkness
Everlast - White Trash Beautiful
The Teeth - You're My Lover Now
Kanak - On the Outside
Benjamin Zephaniah - Rasta
Crazy Town - The Gift of Game
Big Black - Sound of Impact [live semi-official bootleg]
Hermanos Gutierrez - Sonido Cosmico
Negativland/Chumbawamba - The ABCs of Anarchism [received freebie CD]
1200 Hobos - Tapes • Skills • Techniques
Gumbo - Stir the Pot
Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard - Skinwalker
Various - Atlantic Jazz Legends, Vol. 1 [5 stars in the RS Jazz & Blues guide] 
Jeb Loy Nichols - Season of Decline [EP]
Various - Now That’s What I Call Yacht Rock
Fellow Travellers - A Few Good Dubs
Various - Congo Funk! - Sound Madness from the Shores of the Mighty Congo River (Kinshasa​/​Brazzaville 1969​-​1982)
Bopol Mansiamina - Belinda
The Dicks - Kill From the Heart + Hate the Police [EP]; These People + Peace? [EP]
Babehoven - Water's Here in You
Hovvdy - Hovvdy
Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Fu##in' Up [this again?]
Bruce Springsteen - The Best of Bruce Springsteen (1CD version)
ZZ Top - Goin' 50 (1CD version)
Big Youth - Reggae Phenomenon (single-disc original Jamaican release)
Various - The Soul of Congo - Treasures of the Ngoma Label (1948-1963)
Kool Keith - The Commi$$ioner 2
Mixmaster Morris/Jonah Sharp/Haruomi Hosono - Quiet Logic
The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy
Trouble Funk - Trouble Over Here, Trouble Over There
Lola Kirk - Country Curious [EP]
Donna Summer - Love to Love You Baby
Various - Punky Reggae Party: New Wave Jamaica 1975-1980 [2 listens]
The Shirelles - 25 All-Time Greatest Hits
1010Benja - Ten Total
Photek - Modus Operandi
Ministry - Hopium for the Masses
Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da
Kool Keith - The Personal Album
Various Artists - The Abyssinians and Friends: Tree of Satta [two listens] [single riddim]
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru [solo Ethiopian classical piano]
The Chantels - The Best of the Chantels
Kool Keith - World Area
La Perla - Callejera
The Upsetters - Return of Django [1969 instrumentals]
Various - The Book of Clarence (The Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Bright Eyes - The People’s Key
The Caretaker - A Stairway to the Stars [2 listens]
Okwy Osadebe and Highlife Soundmakers International - Igbo Amaka [highlife]
Kimi Djabate - Dindin
That Petrol Emotion - Chemicrazy [2 listens]
Various Artists - Note of Hope ["collaboration in [Woody Guthrie's] words and music"]
Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires - The Sound Emporium EP [two songs each]
Kanye West & Ty Dolla Sign - Vultures 1
Nirvana - Live at the Paramount
Meyhem Lauren - Respect the Fly Shit
The Cenobites - The Cenobites LP [2 listens]
The Who - Odds & Sods
Jeff Mills - Live at The Liquid Room - Tokyo
Culture - As Hard as the Rest [two listens]
Sister Zo - Arcana
Bounaly - Dimanche a Bamako
Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope
Kool Keith - Dr. Octagon, Part II [is this even really him??]
Slow Pulp - Yard
Canibus - Rip the Jacker
Ras Kass - Soul on Ice
Culture - Children of Zion [3.5 hours of remixes, versions, etc.]
Stik Figa & The Expert - Ritual [two listens]
Roy Montgomery - Temple IV
Scientist - Dubs Culture into a Parallel Universe [dub of 1999 album Payday]
Johnny Clarke - Creation Rebel [Dreader Dread plus more -- ie, too much]
Various - Trojan Dub Box Set
King Tubby/Scientist - King Tubby's Meets Scientist at Dub Station
The Upsetters - The Good, the Bad and the Upsetters
Jimmy Radway/Various - Keep the Pressure Down [Rough Guide pick]
Harry Mudie/King Tubby - Harry Mudie Meet King Tubby's - In Dub Conference Volume One [Rough Guide pick]
Bushman - Nyah Man Chant [Rough Guide pick]
Pizza Hotline - Level Select
Sleepy John Estes - I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More: 1929-1941

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