2017: favorites

Albums:

1. William Parker Quartets: Meditation / Resurrection (AUM Fidelity)
2. Angles 9: Disappeared Behind the Sun (Clean Feed)
3. Harriet Tubman (feat. Wadada Leo Smith): Araminta (Sunnyside Records)
4. IDLES: Brutalism (Balley Records)
5. Trio 3 (Andrew Cyrille, Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman): Visiting Texture (Intakt Records) 
6. Matt Mitchell: A Pouting Grimace (Pi Recordings)
7. Jaimie Branch: Fly or Die (International Anthem)
8. Eric Revis: Sing Me Some Cry (Clean Feed)
9. Aki Takase & David Murray: Cherry - Sakura (Intakt Records)
10. Cortex: Avant-Garde Party Music (Clean Feed)
11. Khalid: American Teen (Right Hand Music) 
12. Jens Lekman: Life Will See You Now (Secretly Canadian)
13. Akmee: Neptun (Nakama Records)
14. Kate Gentile: Mannequins (Skirl Records) 
15. Vijay Iyer Sextet: Far From Over (ECM) 
16. Alex Lahey: I Love You Like a Brother (Dead Oceans)
17. Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity: Live In Europe (Clean Feed)
18. Re-TROS: Before the Applause (Modern Sky Entertainment)
19. Waxahatchee: Out In the Storm (Merge Records)
20. Mike Reed, Flesh & Bone (482 Music)
21. Nate Wooley: Knknighgh (Minimal Poetry for Aram Saroyan) (Clean Feed) 
22. Emperor X: Oversleepers International (Tiny Engines) 
23. Team Hegdal: Vol. 4 (Particular Recordings Collective)
24. Arto Lindsey:  Cuidado Madame (Northern Spy Records)
25. Alexander Hawkins: Unit[e] (self-released) 
26. Randy Newman: Dark Matter (Nonesuch) 
27. Hegge: Vi är ledsna men du får inte längre vara barn (Particular Recordings)
28. Lisa Mezzacappa: avantNOIR (Clean Feed) 
29. Matthew Shipp Trio: Piano Song (Thirsty Ear)
30. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever: The French Press (Sub Pop)
31. Brockhampton: Saturation II (Qustion Everythin)
32. Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: Fukushima (Libra Records) 
33. Håvard Wiik Trio: This Is Not a Waltz (Moserobie Music Productions)
34. Large Unit: Fluku (PNL)
35. Craig Taborn: Daylight Ghosts (ECM) 
36. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit: The Nashville Sound (Southeastern Records)
37. David S. Ware Trio: Live in New York 2010 (AUM Fidelity) 
38. Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo: Peace (Libra Records)
39. Pereservation Hall Jazz Band: So It Is (Legacy)
40. CP Unit: Before the Heat Deadth (Clean Feed) 
41. Tyshawn Sorey: Versimilitude (Pi Recordings)
42. Eivind Opsvik Overseas: Overseas V (Loyal Label) 
43. Saint Etienne: Home Counties (Heavenly Recordings) 
44. Kirk Knuffke: Cherryco (SteepleChase)
45. Atomic: Six Easy Pieces (Odin)
46. Lithics: Borrowed Floors (Water Wing Records, 2016)
47. Orchestra Baobab: Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng (World Circut Records)
48. Wire: Silver /Lead (pinkflag) 
49. The Mountain Goats: Goths (Merge Records)
50. JD Allen: Radio Flyer (Savant) 
51. Goncalo Almeida-Rodrigo Amado-Marco Franco: The Attic (NoBusiness)
52. Priests: Nothing Feels Natural (Dischord Records)
53. Steve Coleman: Morphogenesis (Pi Recordings) 
54. Miguel Zenón: Típico (Miel Music) 
55. LCD Soundsystem: American Dream (DFA/Columbia) 
56. Sunny Sweeny: Trophy (Aunt Daddy Records)
57. Nicole Mitchell: Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE Records)
58. Angelica Sanchez Trio: Float the Edge (Clean Feed)
59. Harris Eisenstadt Canada Day Quartet: On Parade in Parede (Clean Feed) 
60. Brandon Seabrook: Die Trommel Fatale (New Atlantis)
61. Spoon: Hot Thoughts (Matador)
62. Bardo Pond: Under the Pines (Fire Records)
63. Tresspass Trio: The Spirit of Pitesti (Clean Feed)
64. The Microscopic Septet: Been Up So Long it Looks Like Down to Me: The Micros Play the Blues (Cuneiform Records) 
65. Diet Cig: Swear I'm Good at This (Frenchkiss Records) 
66. Syd: Fin (Columbia)
67. Amor Amok: We Know Not What We Do (Intakt Records) 
68. Led Bib: Umbrella Weather (RareNoise Records)
69. Nnamdi Ogbonnaya: DROOL (Father/Daughter Records) 
70. The Necks: Unfold (Ideologic Organ) 
71. Low Cut Connie: Dirty Pictures (Part 1) (Contender)
72. Ross Hammond: Follow Your Heart (Prescott Recordings)
73. Jeremy Pelt: Make Noise (High Note)
74. Julia Ulehla & Aram Bajakian/Dálava: The Book of Transfigurations (Songlines Recordings)
75. Noah Perminger: Meditations on Freedom (self released)
76. Benjamin Brooker: Witness (Rough Trade) 
77. Cloud Nothings: Life Without Sound (Carpark Records)
78. Ahmad Jamal: Marseille (Jazz Village)

Reissues and vault music:

• Dave Holland: Conference of the Birds (ECM)
• Thelonious Monk: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1960) (Sam Records) 
• Prince: Purple Rain (Deluxe, Expanded Edition) (NPG Records/Warner)
• Soundgarden: Ultramega OK (Sub Pop)

Songs/singles:

• Skrap: "Marianna" (Fanfare)
• Sun-EL Musician feat. Samthing Soweto: "Akanamali"
• Stormzy: "Big For Your Boots"
• Ibibio Sound Machine: "Give Me a Reason" (Merge)
• Body Count: "No Lives Matter"
• Pink: "What About Us"