Discovery of the year: Japanese math rock band, tricot
Album of the year: tricot - Fudeki (Bad Job)
Favourite album bought, but not released, this year: It's between Sound Struggle - The Bridge and Pepe Deluxé - Phantom Cabinet Vol. 1
Here's the albums released this year that I acquired:
Dama Scout - Gen Wo Lai (Come With Me)
Deux Furieuses - Songs From Planet Earth
The Dowling Pool - Refuse
Craig Fortnam - Instrumental Music 1
Craig Fortnam - Lunar 1 A-Sides
Craig Fortnam - Lunar 1 B-Sides
Muddy Suzuki - dysTopic
Bill Nelson - Electra (In Search Of The Golden Sound)
Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Art / Empire / Industry
Nova Twins - Supernova
Poppy - Stagger EP
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Night Gnomes
Schnauser - Altra Seccatura
Spacemoth - No Past No Future
The Stargazer Lilies - Cosmic Tidal Wave
tricot - Fudeki (Bad Job)
And here are all the others that I just discovered or got round to:
Aphrodite’s Child - 666 (1971)
Sel Balamir - Swell (2021)
Sel Balamir - ( )rphans (2021)
Bent Knee - Frosting (2021)
David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (1980)
Deerhoof - Actually, You Can (2021)
Elephant Gym - Angle (2014)
Elephant Gym - Underwater (2018)
Elephant Gym - Work EP (2018)
Elephant Gym - Balance EP (2018)
The Fine Constant (Sarah Longfield) - Myriad (2012)
The Fine Constant (Sarah Longfield) - Woven In Light (mini album, 2015)
Gentle Giant - Playing The Fool (live double, 1977)
Gentle Giant - The Missing Piece (1977)
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick (1972)
Kinks - The Ultimate Collection (2002)
Dominique Leone - Abstract Expression (2009)
Dominique Leone - San Francisco (mini album, 2015)
Dominique Leone - Domestic Bliss EP (2018)
Sarah Longfield - Par Avion (2012)
Sarah Longfield - Oneiric EP (2013)
Sarah Longfield - Collapse - Expand (2017)
Sarah Longfield - Disparity (2018)
Joni Mitchell - Shine (2007)
Muddy Suzuki - Hum-Drum (2020)
Pepe Deluxé - Phantom Cabinet Vol. 1 (2021)
Plank - Animalism (2012)
Plank - Hivemind (2014)
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Shyga! The Sunlight Mound (2021)
Sanguine Hum - Archive Vol 2 (2021)
Sound Struggle - The Bridge (double album, 2021)
Spotlight Kid - From The Archives, Part 1 (mini album, 2020)
Spotlight Kid - From The Archives, Part 2 (mini album, 2020)
Spotlight Kid - Covers & Compilations (2020)
Spotlight Kid - Roller Skate Disco EP (2020)
Spotlight Kid - VRHN EP (2021)
Spotlight Kid - Darkwaters EP (2021)
Chris Squire - Fish Out Of Water (1975)
tricot - Bakuretsu tricot San EP (2011)
tricot - THE (2013)
tricot - AND (2015)
tricot - 3 (2017)
tricot - Makkuro (Black) (2020)
tricot - Jodeki (Excellent) (2021)
Voivod - The Outer Limits (1993)
Ultravox - Vienna (1980)
Frank Zappa - Puttin’ On The Ritz (live double, 1981)