2017: favorites
Albums:
- William Parker Quartets: Meditation / Resurrection (AUM Fidelity)
- Angles 9: Disappeared Behind the Sun (Clean Feed)
- Harriet Tubman (feat. Wadada Leo Smith): Araminta (Sunnyside Records)
- IDLES: Brutalism (Balley Records)
- Trio 3 (Andrew Cyrille, Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman): Visiting Texture (Intakt Records)
- Matt Mitchell: A Pouting Grimace (Pi Recordings)
- Jaimie Branch: Fly or Die (International Anthem)
- Eric Revis: Sing Me Some Cry (Clean Feed)
- Aki Takase & David Murray: Cherry - Sakura (Intakt Records)
- Cortex: Avant-Garde Party Music (Clean Feed)
- Khalid: American Teen (Right Hand Music)
- Jens Lekman: Life Will See You Now (Secretly Canadian)
- Akmee: Neptun (Nakama Records)
- Kate Gentile: Mannequins (Skirl Records)
- Vijay Iyer Sextet: Far From Over (ECM)
- Alex Lahey: I Love You Like a Brother (Dead Oceans)
- Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity: Live In Europe (Clean Feed)
- Re-TROS: Before the Applause (Modern Sky Entertainment)
- Waxahatchee: Out In the Storm (Merge Records)
- Mike Reed, Flesh & Bone (482 Music)
- Nate Wooley: Knknighgh (Minimal Poetry for Aram Saroyan) (Clean Feed)
- Emperor X: Oversleepers International (Tiny Engines)
- Team Hegdal: Vol. 4 (Particular Recordings Collective)
- Arto Lindsey: Cuidado Madame (Northern Spy Records)
- Alexander Hawkins: Unit[e] (self-released)
- Randy Newman: Dark Matter (Nonesuch)
- Hegge: Vi är ledsna men du får inte längre vara barn (Particular Recordings)
- Lisa Mezzacappa: avantNOIR (Clean Feed)
- Matthew Shipp Trio: Piano Song (Thirsty Ear)
- Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever: The French Press (Sub Pop)
- Brockhampton: Saturation II (Qustion Everythin)
- Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: Fukushima (Libra Records)
- Håvard Wiik Trio: This Is Not a Waltz (Moserobie Music Productions)
- Large Unit: Fluku (PNL)
- Craig Taborn: Daylight Ghosts (ECM)
- Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit: The Nashville Sound (Southeastern Records)
- David S. Ware Trio: Live in New York 2010 (AUM Fidelity)
- Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo: Peace (Libra Records)
- Pereservation Hall Jazz Band: So It Is (Legacy)
- CP Unit: Before the Heat Deadth (Clean Feed)
- Tyshawn Sorey: Versimilitude (Pi Recordings)
- Eivind Opsvik Overseas: Overseas V (Loyal Label)
- Saint Etienne: Home Counties (Heavenly Recordings)
- Kirk Knuffke: Cherryco (SteepleChase)
- Atomic: Six Easy Pieces (Odin)
- Lithics: Borrowed Floors (Water Wing Records, 2016)
- Orchestra Baobab: Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng (World Circut Records)
- Wire: Silver /Lead (pinkflag)
- The Mountain Goats: Goths (Merge Records)
- JD Allen: Radio Flyer (Savant)
- Goncalo Almeida-Rodrigo Amado-Marco Franco: The Attic (NoBusiness)
- Priests: Nothing Feels Natural (Dischord Records)
- Steve Coleman: Morphogenesis (Pi Recordings)
- Miguel Zenón: Típico (Miel Music)
- LCD Soundsystem: American Dream (DFA/Columbia)
- Sunny Sweeny: Trophy (Aunt Daddy Records)
- Nicole Mitchell: Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE Records)
- Angelica Sanchez Trio: Float the Edge (Clean Feed)
- Harris Eisenstadt Canada Day Quartet: On Parade in Parede (Clean Feed)
- Brandon Seabrook: Die Trommel Fatale (New Atlantis)
- Spoon: Hot Thoughts (Matador)
- Bardo Pond: Under the Pines (Fire Records)
- Tresspass Trio: The Spirit of Pitesti (Clean Feed)
- The Microscopic Septet: Been Up So Long it Looks Like Down to Me: The Micros Play the Blues (Cuneiform Records)
- Diet Cig: Swear I'm Good at This (Frenchkiss Records)
- Syd: Fin (Columbia)
- Amor Amok: We Know Not What We Do (Intakt Records)
- Led Bib: Umbrella Weather (RareNoise Records)
- Nnamdi Ogbonnaya: DROOL (Father/Daughter Records)
- The Necks: Unfold (Ideologic Organ)
- Low Cut Connie: Dirty Pictures (Part 1) (Contender)
- Ross Hammond: Follow Your Heart (Prescott Recordings)
- Jeremy Pelt: Make Noise (High Note)
- Julia Ulehla & Aram Bajakian/Dálava: The Book of Transfigurations (Songlines Recordings)
- Noah Perminger: Meditations on Freedom (self released)
- Benjamin Brooker: Witness (Rough Trade)
- Cloud Nothings: Life Without Sound (Carpark Records)
- 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"
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