I'm glad we can finally agree on something.
Ben Frost - The Centre Cannot Hold (Mute Records)
And now we get the whole thing, inaugurated with a terrifying breath. Surely the second coming is at hand.
Booms and twinkles.
While I'm glad this is an album rather than another soundtrack of sorts, it does make me think we have a missed Blade Runner soundtrack opportunity here (among others, including the one that was dropped).
Anouar Brahem - Blue Maqams (ECM)
Look at the team. Mastered, beautiful cross-cultural ECM music. This group needs to come here. It will be awesome live.
Open Mike Eagle - Brick Body Kids Still Daydream (Mello Music Group)
keep pushing, style and content
Kamasi Washington - Harmony of Difference (Young Turks)
Emotional suite of memorable melodies and a unique sound informed from many directions.
STILL - I (PAN)
weirdo rhythms from everynowhere going hard just look a that coverman
AnD - Social Decay (EDLX)
coarse
Kelela - Take Me Apart (Warp)
90s r&b from the future makes a lot of sense warp records