ALBUMS – no particular order
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (2021, Luaka Bop)
- Mid-Air Thief – Gongjoong Doduk (orig 2015, reissued 2021 on bandcamp) <from South Korea>
- neutrals – Bus Stop Nights 7″ E.P. (2022, Static Shock) <from Oakland>
- Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp – We’re OK. But We’re Lost Anyway (2021, Les Disques Bongo Joe) <from Geneva, Switzerland>
- Women – Public Strain (2010, Jagjaguwar) <from Calgary, Canada>
- Artsick – Fingers Crossed (2022, Slumberland)
- Suburban Lawns – Suburban Lawns (originally 1981 release on Capitol, reissued 2021 by Superior Viaduct) <a recent discovery for me, check out if you like Devo>
- Afro Yaqui Music Collective – Maroon Futures (2021, Neuma) <from Pittsburgh, PA>
- Body Double – Milk Fed (2020, Zum Audio) <from Oakland>
- Orquesta Akokán – 16 Rayos (2021, Daptone) <from Havana>
- Kim Gordon – No Home Record (2019, Matador)
- Wayne County & The Electric Chairs – The Safari Years CD boxset (2020, Captain Oi!) <music from 1977-79>
- Silk Sonic – An Evening with Silk Sonic (2021, Atlantic/Aftermath) <duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak>
- Phuong Tam (Phương Tâm) – Magical Nights: Saigon Surf Twist & Soul (1964-1966) (2021, Sublime Frequencies) <another great collection from Bay Area legend Mark Gergis>
- Idles – Ultra Mono (2020, Partisan)
- Fake Fruit – Fake Fruit (2021, Rocks In Your Head) <from Oakland>
- Sons Of Kemet – Black To The Future (2021, Impulse!)
- Beynelmilân – Yeraltı Oyun Havaları (2020, Korsan Plakçılık) <from Turkey>
- Whateverglades – Don’t Call Me Baby / I Watch Over Me (2020, No Egrets Records, 7″ single)
- Fatty Cakes and the Puff Pastries – Fatty Cakes and the Puff Pastries (2018, Emotional Response) <produced by Alice Bag>
- Bobby Ramone – Rocket to Kingston (2020, Guerilla Asso) <Bob Marley songs in da Ramones stylee. And the cover art…chefs kiss>
- VARIOUS ARTISTS – A Kaleidoscope Of Sounds: Psychedelic & Freakbeat Masterpieces (2018, 7×7″ boxset, Mercury/Decca/Polydor) <includes The Wimple Winch>
- VARIOUS ARTISTS – Venezuela 70 (Cosmic Visions Of A Latin American Earth: Venezuelan Experimental Rock In The 1970s) (2018, Soul Jazz)
- VARIOUS ARTISTS – Saigon Rock & Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968-1974 (Sublime Frequencies, 2012)
SONGS – no particular order
- TEKE::TEKE – “Yoru Ni” – Shirushi (2021, Kill Rock Stars) <from Montreal Québec>
- Seamus Fogarty – “Johnny K” – A Bag Of Eyes (202, Domino) <from London>
- Johnny Cash – “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” – American V: A Hundred Highways (2006, American) <Shocked that I hadn’t listened to this album until now. Burma, you’re fired>
- Big Thief – “Spud Infinity” – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (2022, 4AD)
- Model Zero – “Leather Trap” – Little Crystal b/w Leather Trap 7″ Single (2022, Third Man) <from Memphis, TN>
- Obongjayar – Message in a Hammer (2021 single, 3:38 version) <Nigerian artist living in London>
- Lonnie Holley – “So Many Rivers (The First Time)” – National Freedom (2020, Jagjaguwar) <from Atlanta, GA>
- Natacha Atlas – “I Put A Spell On You” – Ayeshteni (2001, Mantra) <creative interpretation of the classic>
- The Spook School – “I Want To Kiss You” – Try to be Hopeful (215, Fortuna Pop!) <from Edinburgh, Scotland>
- The Bobby Lees – “Dig Your Hips” – Hollywood Junkyard EP (2022, Ipecac)
- Fireflies – “She’s My Witch (VDCR Remix)” – The Machine Stops (2021, Bandcamp)
- Mattiel – “Count Your Blessings” – Mattiel (2017, Heavenly) <from Atlanta>
- The Donkeys – “Don’t Go” – Don’t Go/Living Legends (1981, MCA, 7 inch single)
- The Chats – “6L GTR” – Get Fucked (2022, Bargain Bin Records)
- School Damage – “Sick Of You” – Break Up 7″ (2014, Detonic)
- Sprints – “Im In a Band” – A Modern Job EP (2022, Nice Swan)
- Medicine Singers – “Sunset” – Medicine Singers (2022, Mothland) <supergroup of Ikue Mori, Jaimie Branch, Laraaji, and members of Swans>
- Lola Flores – “A Tu Vera” – La Inimitable (1990, Perfil, Spain)
- Kelly Stoltz – “Dodged a Bullet” – Ah! (etc) (2020, Agitated)
- Algiers – “Dispossession” – There Is No Year (2020, Matador)
- Cable Ties – “Sandcastles” – Far Enough (2020, Merge)
- NOV3L – “Untouchable” – Non-Fiction (2021, Flemish Eye) <from Vancouver, BC, Canada>
- Snooper – “Running” – Music For Spies 7″ (2020, Computer Human Records) <from Nashville>
