| Cover | Information |
|---|---|
 | Airlands – So Much To Keep (Self-released) |
 | ASC – Trans-Neptunian Objects (Auxiliary) ASC keeps putting out wonderful dark spacey ambient and I keep adding it to my top lists. He’s very prolific, so this was basically just the first one I listened to. |
 | Ben Lukas Boysen & Sebastien Plano – Everything (Soundtrack) (Erased Tapes) A soundtrack to a game about literally everything. Somber and overwhelmingly lovely. |
 | Bicep – Bicep (Ninja Tune) Artificial Intelligence-style club music. |
 | Casey Dienel – Imitation of a Woman To Love (Paddle Your Own Canoe Society) Singer of White Hinterland’s solo debut, not so different from the WH stuff. |
 | Feed Me – Feed Me’s Existential Crisis (Mau5trap Recordings) Just a bunch of electro-house bangers |
 | David Fray – Chopin: Piano Works (Erato/Warner Classics) Gorgeously produced impeccably played versions of some of my favorite piano music. |
 | Goldfrapp – Silver Eye (Mute) You know, just another album of dark synthpop to poke my inner goth. |
 | GQ – E 14th (Jamla) Literate slightly political boom bap hip-hop produced by 9th Wonder. |
 | Grails – Chalice Hymnal (Temporary Residence) Wall of sound post-rock, very melodic and soundtrack-y. |
 | Jeremy Enigk – Ghosts (Lewis Hollow Records) Finally some Fire Theft-type output from the SDRE frontman |
 | Julien Baker – Turn Out The Lights (Matador) Julien bleeds her heart out onto an album and offers it up to you, teary-eyed and hopeless. Plus strings. Jeff Buckley vibes. |
 | Matthäus – Effigy (Ears And Eyes) Pretty electronic-tinged chamber pop is basically my cryptonite. |
 | Partner – In Search Of Lost Time (You’ve Changed Records) The best wryly funny Canadian queer indie rock album of 1994 except, you know, came out this year. |
 | Peter Bradley Adams – A Face Like Mine (Self-Released) One of like three guy-with-guitar artists that pretty much shortcut to my feels. |
 | Rainer Maria – Rainer Maria (Polyvinyl) The best indie grungey shoegaze album of 1992, except, you know… came out this year. A welcome return. |
 | Starsailor – All This Life (Cooking Vinyl) Another welcome return |
 | Stumbleine – Static Bloom (Self-Released) Slightly Burial-y atmospheric house. |
 | SW. – The Album (Sued / Apollo) |
 | Úlfur Eldjárn – The Aristokrasia Project (One of the members of the Apparat Organ Quartet which is exactly as weird as it sounds) |
 | Waaktaar & Zoe – World of Trouble (Drabant Music) – The main dude from a-ha and the daughter of Jimmy Gnecco from Ours make lovely pop together) |
| Singles, EPs and such | |
 | Sasha – Scene Delete Remixes 3 (Late Night Tales) Plaid remixes can do no wrong in my book, even if I’ve always found Sasha to be boring. |
 | SubtractiveLAD – Ritual (n5MD) |
 | SUMS – SUMS (Berlin Atonal) Side project of Barry from Mogwai and Kangding Ray |
 | Lamb – Illumina (Self-Released) Always look forward to more from this duo. |
 | Nine Inch Nails – Add Violence EP (Nothing) |
