SPARKLE MOTION’S FAVE ALBUMS OF 2021 in no particular order
MUSIC WITHOUT WORDS (mostly)
- Vijay Iyer Trio [with Linda May Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey] – Uneasy (ECM)
- Dr. Lonnie Smith [ft. Iggy Pop] – Breathe (Blue Note)
- Tyshawn Sorey & King Britt – Tyshawn & King (The Buddy System)
- Chuck Johnson – The Cinder Grove (Vin du Select Qualitite)
- Molly Herron [with Science Ficta] – Through Lines (New Amsterdam)
- Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (Luaka Bop)
- Toumani Diabate & London Symphony Orchestra – Korolen EP (World Circuit)
- Nik Bartsch – Entendre (ECM)
- Peter Manning Robinson – Double Helix (Heart Dance)
- Benoit Delbecq – The Weight of Light (Pyroclastic)
- Hannah Peel – Fir Wave (My Own Pleasure)
- Tomaga – Intimate Immensity (Hands in the Dark)
- Lea Bertucci – A Visible Length of Light (S/R)
- Buke and Gase and So Percussion – A Record Of (Brassland)
- Chris Liebing – Another Day (Mute)
- John Dwyer and Bent Arcana – Moon Drenched (Castle Face)
MUSIC WITH WORDS
- Nathan Salsburg – Psalms (No Quarter)
- The Weather Station – Ignorance (Fat Possum)
- Rosalie – No Medium (Spinster)
- Lana Del Rey – Chemtrails Over the Country Club (Interscope)
- Cassandra Jenkins – An Overview on Phenomenal Nature (Ba Da Bing)
- Yasmin Williams – Urban Driftwood (Spinster)
- Rhiannon Giddens – They’re Calling Me Home (Nonesuch)
- Le Ren – Leftovers (Secretly Canadian)
- Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams (Transgressive)
- Lady Blackbird – Black Acid Soul (Foundation Music)
- L’Rain – Fatigue (Mexican Summer)
- Arooj Aftab – Vulture Prince (Verve)
- Sault – Nine (Forever Living Originals)
- Tirzah – Colourgrade (Domino)
- Lost Girls [Jenny Hval & Havard Volden] – Menneskekollektivet (Smalltown Supersound)
- Low – Hey What (Sub Pop)
- Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg (4AD)
- Shame – Drunk Tank Pink (Dead Oceans)
- Mega Bog – Life, And Another (Paradise of Bachelors)
- Squid – Bright Green Field (Warp)
- Colleen – The Tunnel and The Clearing (Thrill Jockey)
- Jane Weaver – Flock (Fire Records)
- Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds – Swing From the Sean DeLear EP (In The Red)
- Vanishing Twin – Ookii Gekkou (Fire Records)
- Parquet Courts – Sympathy for Life (Rough Trade)
- Suuns – The Witness (Joyful Noise)
- Field Music – Flat White Moon (Memphis Industries)
- Goat Girl – On All Fours (Rough Trade)
- Viagra Boys – Welfare Jazz (YEAR0001)
- RE -ISSUES/COMPS
- Karen Black – Dreaming of You 1971-1976 (Anthology Recordings)
- Akiko Yano – Ai Ga Nakucha Ne (WeWantSounds)
- Lee Morgan – The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (Blue Note)
- Jennifer Castle – Castlemusic 2011(Flemish Eye)
- Leslie Winer – When I Hit You – You’ll Feel It (Light in the Attic)
- ‘Blue’ Gene Tyranny – Out of the Blue 40th Anniversary Remaster (Unseen Worlds)
- Van Der Graaf Generator – The Charisma Years 1970-1978 (Charisma)
- Willie Dunn – Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology (Light in the Attic)
- Seefeel – Rupt and Flex (1994-96) and St/Fr/Sp Eps (Warp)
- Various Artists – Eins Und Swei Und Drei Und Drei Und Vier: Deutsche Experimentelle Pop-Musick 1980-86 (Bureau B)
