Monday, February 22, 2010

The Best Albums, Lately

A running list of the best and most interesting recent releases & reissues. They're in no particular order, but I'm seperating them into 2 categories: Confirmed- Albums that I can say firsthand are good and interesting, and Unconfirmed- Those that seem potentially good, but that I don't have yet, or haven't had time to hear. This list will continue to be a work in progress until it seems like the time has come to start another one. Your input is highly encouraged.

Confirmed
1. V/A- The Sound of Wonder
2. V/A- Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas
3. Ngozi Family- 45,000 Volts
4. V/A- Psych Funk 101
5. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou- Echos Hypnotiques
6. V/A- Legends of Benin
7. V/A- Ghana Special
8. Peaking Lights- Imaginary Falcons
9. Moon Duo- Killing Time EP
10. V/A- Light on the South Side
11. Mortika: Recordings from the Greek Underworld
12. V/A- A Orillas del Magdalena
13. V/A- Mata La Pena
14. V/A- Local Customs Downriver Revival
15. 39 Clocks- Zoned
16. Oneohtrix Point Never- Rifts
17. Group Doueh- Treeg Salaam
18. Michael Hurley- Parsnip Snips
19. She- Outta SIght
20. Demon Fuzz- Afreaka
21. Matrix Metals- Flamingo Breeze
22. Group Bombino- Guitars from Agadez Vol. 2
23. V/A- 1970s Algerian Proto Rai Underground
24. Clara Rockmore- Theremin LP
25. Little Ann- Deep Shadows
26. Pax Nicholas & the Nettey Family- Na Teef Know The Road of Teef
27. Strong Arm Steady- in Search of Stoney Jackson
28. Ofege- Try and Love
29. Mebusas- Blood Brothers
30. V/A- Fire in My Bones
31. An Evening With Rev. Louis Overstreet
32. V/A- Nigeria Special Vol. 2
33. V/A- Nigeria Afrobeat Special
34. Beach House- Teen Dream

Unconfirmed
1. V/A- Forge Your Own Chains
2. Jack Rose- Luck In The Valley
3. Kurt Vile- Childish Prodigy
4. V/A- Nigeria Afrobeat Special
5. 24 Carat Black- Gone: The Promises of Yesterday
6. Animal Hospital- Memory
7. V/A- The Minimal Wave Tapes
8. Sun City Girls- Napoleon & Josephine: SIngles Vol. 2
9. V/A- Pomegranates: Persian Pop, Funk and Pysch of the 60s & 70s
10. Ursula Bogner- Recordings 1969-1988
11. Leyland Kerby- Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was
12. The Hunches- Exit Dreams
13. Demdike Stare- Symbiosis
14. King Midas Sound- Waiting For You
15. Mayfair Set- Young One
16. Blank Dogs- Captured Tracks Vol. 1
17. V/A- Freedom, Rhythm & Sound
18. V/A- Dancehall 2: The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture
19. Efterklang- Magic Chairs
20. Pantha Du Price- Black Noise
21. Four Tet- There Is Love In You
22. Moon Duo-Escape
23. Yeasayer- Odd Blood
24. Owen Pallett- Heartland
25. The Low Anthem- Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
26. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions- Through The Devil Softly
27. V/A- Good God! Born Again Funk
28. V/A- Singapore A-Go-Go Vol. 1
29. V/A- Lagos Disco Inferno
30. The XX- XX
31. Bill Orcutt- A New Way To Pay Old Debts
32. V/A- Thai Funk Zudrangma Vol 1 & 2
22. V/A- Raks! Raks! Raks!
23. Irmin Schmidt & The Inner Space- Kamasutra
24. V/A- Luk Thunk! The roots of Thai Funk
25. V/A- Lagos Disco Inferno

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