Mount Eerie - Now Only (P.W. Elverum & Sun, 2018)

A Crow Looked At Me is regrettably absent from my 2017 best of because I stupidly waited until after the year was done to give it a listen. Didn't think it'd be my thing. I'd never listened to Mount Eerie/The Microphones/Phil Elverum much before. But it knocked me out, of course, was really one of the better things I listened to of the year. Now Only continues in very much the similar vein, less an album per se and more a healing project for Elverum following the death of his wife. These aren't so much songs as acoustic-guitar backed explorations, catharses, musings from a man still trying to find his way out of a nightmare. I think A Crow Looked At Me was better, maybe because it was like getting your head dunked in cold water whereas this is more A Crow Part 2 (the last song on this album, in fact, is titled "Crow Pt. 2"). Moving and heartbreaking and real, there is no question that A Crow and Now Only and what might come next will stand as absolute pillars for decades to come as great music borne out of great grief. Although I can't imagine that offers much solace to Elverum.

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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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