Miles Davis & John Coltrane - The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6 (Columbia/Legacy/Sony, 2018)

I love the Bootleg Series. The first four at least are stunningly invaluable. The fifth one was a bit of a divergence, more along "The Complete..." album series as it took a look at mostly the making of the Miles Smiles record. This one is of course also invaluable in its own right, documenting the final tour with a reluctant John Coltrane in tow, himself set to explode into his own new creative realms. These 5 concerts from 1960 indeed showcase the band as a whole stretching into something bigger - the Miles standards here like "On Green Dolphin Street", "Oleo" and "Bye Bye Blackbird" along with tunes from the newly minted Kind of Blue like "So What" (a monster here) "All Blues". There's a few tracks where you can hear Coltrane getting the Bronx cheer for some of his more...adventurous solos. For me this isn't as classic as the first four in the series, it's an interesting document of a turning point in the careers of these giants, but since we're talking 5 concerts from the same period there's a lot of repetition in here too.

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Eartheater - IRISIRI (Pan, 2018)

Eartheater first came on my radar (and many others) with 2 Hausu Mountain tapes in 2015. She makes glitchy, disorienting music, combining electronics and synthesized percussion with voice, guitars and who knows what else. The whole thing is a confusing stew, kind of reminiscent of Inga Copeland but I would say even more detached from "song". Didn't do much for me.

Kevin Drumm - Jury Prize (Karl Schmidt Verlag, 2018)

Here's a new kd album on Tom Smith's Karl Schmidt Verlag label that's very much the opposite of some of the kd we've heard earlier this year - namely, it's loud as fuck. There's one 53-minute track here, "Schmickedtwice (Jury Prize)" and it sounds as chaotic and unhinged as anything from Drumm, certainly a return to the noisy Sheer Hellish Miasma days but sonically on par with analog Merzbow. Recorded this year though so not an old recording. It sounds like there's vocals buried way deep, somebody screaming through the TV static, maybe even some percussion? This one's a heater.

Albums of the Year 2017 // New Releases

//40 Migos Culture (300 Entertainment) //39 Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein Stranger Things 2: A Netflix Original Series Soundtrack (Lakeshore) //38 Unsane Sterilize (Southern Lord) //37 Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch Blade Runner 2049: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Epic/ASG) //36 Ricardo Villalobos Empirical House ([a:rpi:r]) //35 Brockhampton Saturation II (Question Everything Inc./Empire) //34 Fire-Toolz Drip Mental (Hausu Mountain) //33 Clams Casino Instrumental Mixtape 4 (no label) //32 Yves Tumor Experiencing the Deposit of Faith (no label) //31 Lil Yachty Teenage Emotions (Virgin/EMI) //30 Thriftworks The Feather and the Sword (no label) //29 Paul White & Danny Brown Accelerator (R&S) //28 Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi This Dazzling, Genuine "Difference" Now Where Shall It Go? (Black Truffle) //27 Nazoranai Beginning to Fal...

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