
(A list in perpetual flux, I hope it goes without saying — expect a few additions, maybe some subtractions and plenty of transpositions. I include a couple very-late-in-2021 titles, though release dates in the streaming age can sometimes be amorphous. 2022 Product reports here; I’ve reconsidered some scores. And clearly, the below tally could go longer, but I’m trying to limit myself to A’s, A-‘s and highish B+s.)
- Fulu Miziki Ngbaka (Moshi Moshi UK EP)
- Babes Wodumo Crown (West Ink ’21)
- Cäthe Chill Out Punk (Träum Weiter! Germany)
- Bright Dog Red Under the Porch (Ropeadope)
- The Kahil El’Zabar Quartet A Time For Healing (Spiritmuse ’21)
- Mali Obomsawin Sweet Tooth (Out of Your Head)
- K.O.G.: Kweku T Ghana Zone 6, Agege (Pura Viva France)
- Phelimuncasi Ama Gogela (Nyege Nyege Tapes Uganda)
- Club D’Elf You Never Know (Face Pelt)
- Bas Jan Baby U Know (Lost Map UK)
- Avalanche Kaito Avalanche Kaito (Glitterbeat Europe)
- Horsegirl Versions of Modern Performance (Matador)
- Lady Aicha & Pisco Crane’s Original Fulu Miziki of Kinsasha N’Djila Wa Mudjimu (Nyege Nyege Tapes Uganda)
- Brasil Novo (Musica Macondo UK)
- Moonchild Sanelly Phases (Transgressive)
- David Murray Brave New World Trio with Brad Jones and Hamid Drake Seriana Promethea (Intakt Switzerland)
- The Comet Is Coming Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (Impulse!)
- Sun Ra Arkestra Directed By Marshall Allen Living Sky (Omni Sound)
- Nduduzo Makhathini In the Spirit of Ntu (Blue Note)
- WeFreeStrings Love in the Form of Sacred Outrage (ESP Disk)
- King Stingray King Stingray (Cooking Vinyl Australia)
- The Cloaks: A Cloakwork Orange (Abolano)
- The Mauskovic Dance Band Bukaroo Bank (Les Disques Bongo Joe Europe)
- Black Midi Hellfire (Rough Trade)
- Ibibio Sound Machine Electricity (Merge)
- Deca Smoking Gun (Coalmine)
- Suzi Analogue Infinite Zonez (Disciples)
- The Afrorack The Afrorack (Hakuna Kuala Tapes Uganda)
- SpellBook Deadly Charms (Cruz Del Sur Italy)
- Allen Ravenstine Crossing Daylight (ReR Megacorp)
- La Roche Liye Liye (Nyege Nyege Tapes Uganda)
- Hieroglyphic Being There is No Acid in This House (Soul Jazz UK)
- One More Grain Beans on Toast With Pythagoras (Gunung UK)
- Lola’s Dice Pura Maldad (8192 Netherlands)
- David Krakauer Mazel Tov Cocktail Party! (Table Pounding)
- Panic Shack Baby Shack (Brace Yourself EP)
- Wet Leg Wet Leg (Domino)
- Arre! Arre! We Ride the Universe (PNKSLM)
- Chief and the Doomsday Device Flux Populi (Frownland)
- Oneida Success (Joyful Noise)
- Earthgang Ghetto Gods (Dreamville)
- DJ Travella Mr. Mixondo (Nyege Nyege Tapes Uganda)
- Hieroglyphic Being The Shittest Sounds U Don’t Ever Want 2 Hear With Spiritual Name Titles 2 Prove How Deep I Am (Mathematics Recordings)
- Theo Parrish DJ Kicks Detroit Forward (!K7 Europe)
- The Neptune Power Federation Le Demon de A’Mour (Cruz Del Sur Italy)
- Hook From, Hook (Shimron Tapes)
- Sinkane Cartoons in the Night Vol. 1: Live 2019 (City Slang Europe)
- Edoheart Pandemonium (Edoheart EP)
- Chacon/Nakatani/Santistevan Inhale/Exhale (Other Minds)
- Tomasz Dąbrowski & The Individual Beings (April Denmark)
- Noori & His Dorpa Band Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass from Sudan’s Red Sea Coast (Ostinato)
- Lady Wray Piece of Me (Big Crown)
- Voivod Synchro Anarchy (Century Media)
- Black Space Riders We Have Been Here Before (Black Space Germany)
- Tarbaby feat. Oliver Lake Dance of the Evil Toys (Clean Feed)
- Miranda Lambert Palomino (Vanner/RCA)
- Louis Sclavis Les Cadences Du Monde (JMS France)
- Charlotte Adigéry Topical Dancer (Deewee Belgium)
- El Khat Albat Alawi Op.99 (Glitterbeat Europe)
- Emmanuel Jel Shangah (Gatwitch Canada)
- Sonja Loud Arriver (Cruz Del Sur Italy)
- Tim Berne / Matt Mitchell One More Please (Intakt Switzerland)
- Yard Act The Overload (Zen F.C./Island)
- Linda Ayupuka God Created Everything (Mais Um Discos UK)
- Metrolight Copyright Strike (Tee Pee EP)
- Brötzmann Graves Parker Historic Music Past Tense Future (Black Editions Archive)
- Tower Shock to the System (Cruz Del Sur Italy)
- Ingrid Andress Good Person (Warner Nashville/Atlantic)
- Uffie Sunshine Factory (Company)
- Nightingales The Last Laugh (Tiny Global Productions UK)
- Iara Rennó Oríkì (Dobra Discos/Altafonte)
- Goat Oh Death (Rocket Recodings)
- Saint Abdullah/Eomac Patience of a Traitor (Other People)
- Coughin’ Vicars Ritual Discipline (Akram)
- Raw Poetic/Damu the Fudgemunk Laminated Skies (Def Pressé)
- The Sheepdogs Outta Sight (Warner Canada)
- J.D. Allen Americana Vol. 2 (Savant)
- The Mysterines Reeling (Fiction UK)
- DJ Marz & DJ Jester Made in USA (Djjesterthefilipinofist/Losflyingturntables)
- Eric Wagner In the Lonely Light of Mourning (Cruz Del Sur Italy)
- Priscilla Block Welcome to the Block Party (Mercury Nashville/InDent)
- Abel Selaocoe Where is Home/Hae Ke Kae (Warner Classics)
- Ghost Impera (Loma Vista)
- Messa: Close (Svart Finland)
- Anna Vaus Younger Version of Myself (Longshot EP)
- Confidence Man Tilt (Heavenly)
- Jesters Of Destiny Distorting Everything (Full Contact)
- Funeral Chic Roman Candle (Prosthetic)
- Haunt Windows of Your Heart (Iron Grip)
- Kimberly Kelly I’ll Tell You What’s Gonna Happen (Show Dog Nashville)
- Ashley McBryde Lindeville (Warner Nashville)
- The Young Gods Play Terry Riley in C (Two Gentlemen Switzerland)
- Elzhi/Georgia Anne Muldrow Zhigeist (Nature Sounds)
- Bad Boy Chiller Crew Disrespectful (Relentless UK)
- Phantom Spell Immortal’s Requiem (Wizard Tower UK)
- Black Spell Season of the Damned (Regain Sweden)
- Bekor Qilish Throes of Death From the Dreamed Nihilism (I, Voidhanger Italy)
- La Société Étrange Chance (Les Disques Bongo Joe France)
- J.I.D. The Forever Story (Dreamville)
- Night Demon Year of the Demon (Century Media)
- 700 Bliss Nothing to Declare (Hyperdub)
- Two Shell Icons (Mainframe Audio EP)
- Breland Cross Country (Atlantic)
- Worm Bluenothing (20 Buck Spin)
- Lainey Wilson Bell Bottom Country (Broken Bow)
- Taylor Swift Midnights: 3am Edition (Republic)
- Pillbox Patti Florida (Monument)
- Coco Em Kilumi (InFiné France)
- Alela Diane Looking Glass (Believe)
- Thus Love Memorial (Captured Tracks)
- Special Interest Endure (Rough Trade UK)
- Rose Mercie ¿Kieres Agua? (Jelodanti/Celluloid Lunch France)
- Hoodoo Gurus Chariot of the Gods (Big Time Australia)
- Brennen Leigh feat. Asleep At the Wheel Obsessed With the West (Signaure Sounds)
- Blackhaine And Salford Falls Apart (Head II UK EP)
- Willie Nelson A Beautiful Time (Legacy)
- Guts Estrellas (Heavenly Sweetness France)
- Bragglights End ’22 (Bragghaus EP)
- Wau Wau Collectif Mariage (Sahel Sounds/Sing A Song Fighter)
- Ada Rook Ugly Death No Redemption Angel Curse I Love You (Ada Rook)
