By now most of the big ones have been covered. Here’s what else I found in the barrel:
A Rocket in Dub - Ltd.
Some tidy minimal techno influenced dub from Düsseldorf.
Aloe Vera & Steel Tipped Dove - Days Pass Strange
Righteous, conscious hip-hop from a non-binary Ohio poet - a new artist for me but enjoying this so far.
Bill Frisell - Four
Jazz quartet of sax/clarinet, piano, drums and Frisell’s guitar on Blue Note.
Bill Nace - Through a Room
Experimental guitarist (and the half of Body/Head that isn’t Kim Gordon but I’m not sure which one is body and which is head) with a second solo album of interesting noises on Drag City.
Colin Stetson - Chimæra I
Saxodrone
DJ Muggs x Jay Worthy - What They Hittin 4
Prolific Cypress Hill producer teams up with Vancouver-born, Compton-raised rapper for an album that does not seem to be the 4th of its name.
Lujo Asiatico - After Ashram
a session of sitar, sax, synthesizers, vocals under Bufo Alvarius influence and a Harmonium from 1907. The album draws on Eno’s seventies ambient period and saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders’s free jazz. The music is combined with sounds from the Atlantic sea, intermingled with rivers from Córdoba province.
Surely not going to live up to that but I’m hardly not going to check it out with that description, am I?
Nils Landgren - 3 Generations
2 hour jazz collaboration of covers and standards across 3 generations of the roster at the ACT label all playing with the man with the red trombone.
Smut - How The Light Felt
This isn’t really a me album but it seems pretty decent - 90s influenced jangly indie dream-pop.
Steffi - The Red Hunter
a collection of contemporary club tracks that are experimental and challenging, sure, but also straight-up bangers, made for the best sound systems and the best dance floors in the world.
Wizkid - More Love, Less Ego
Personally I’m still on the fence about afrobeats as a genre (it’s no afrobeat) but going to give this a spin as I’m intrigued by the 5 star NME review indicating that he’s bringing a bit of Ampiano in this time.
Xhosa Cole - Ibeji
Saxophone and percussion album where Cole, BBC young jazz musician of the year 2018, collaborates with seven drummers of African descent.