Dusted Mid-Year Roundup: Part 3, The Lists
Chris Corsano and Bill Orcutt
We finish the mid-year feature with individual writers’ lists of favorite records from the first half of 2021. Check out our mid-year exchange part 1 and part 2 if you haven’t already.
Jason Bivins
Bisbaye — Le Sens de la Fin (Cuneiform)
Colin Cannon – McGolrick (Infrequent Seams)
Bruno Duplant — Paysages sans Ages III (Sublime Retreat)
Ben Goldberg — Everything Happens to Be (Bag Productions)
Georg Graewe and Sonic Fiction Orchestra — Fortschritt und Vergnügen (Random Acoustics)
Lingua Ignota — Agnus Dei (self-released)
Michael Gregory Jackson — Frequency Equilibrium Koan (Golden Records)
James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet — Jesup Wagon (AUM Fidelity)
Dominique Pifarely Quartet — Nocturnes (Clean Feed)
Wadada Leo Smith — Trumpet (TUM Records)
Ryley Walker and Kikagaku Moyo — Deep Fried Grandeur (Husky Pants)
Yasmin Williams — Urban Driftwood (Spinster)
Miguel Zenon — Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Miel)
Tim Clarke
Dry Cleaning — New Long Leg (4AD)
The Notwist — Vertigo Days (Morr Music)
Cory Hanson — Pale Horse Rider (Drag City)
Ryley Walker — Course in Fable (Husky Pants)
The Weather Station — Ignorance (Fat Possum)
Matt Sweeney & Bonnie "Prince" Billy — Superwolves (Drag City)
Elephant9 — Arrival of the New Elders (Rune Grammofon)
Elori Saxl — The Blue of Distance (Western Vinyl)
Liam Singer — The Ocean (self-released)
Andrew Forell
Arab Strap — As Days Get Dark (Rock Action)
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis — Carnage (Goliath)
Madlib — Sound Ancestors (Madlib Invazion)
Dry Cleaning — New Long Leg (4AD)
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, LSO — Promises (Luaka Bop)
Black Country, New Road — For The First Time (Ninja Tune)
Gazelle Twin & NYX — Deep England (NYX Collective)
Speaker Music — Soul-Making Theodicy (Planet Mu)
The Reds, Pinks & Purples — Uncommon Weather (Slumberland)
Mapstation — My Frequencies, When We (Bureau B)
Thomas Fehlmann — Böser Herbst ((Kompakt)
Sons Of Kemet - Black To The Future (Impulse!)
Ray Garraty
YOUNG SLO-BE — Red Mamba (KoldGreedy Entertainment / Thizzler On The Roof)
Drego — Krazy Man (TF Circle Entertainment / Get Off Records)
Rio Da Yung Og x Nuez — Life Of A Yung Og (Label?)
Devin The Dude — Soulful Distance (Coughee Brothaz Entertainment)
Ampichino — Quarantine Part 2 (Double F Records / Rapbay / Urbanlife Distribution)
Mac J — Tricky Situation (TrueStory / Thizzler on the Roof)
BlueBucksClan — Clan Virus 2 (Out of the Blue)
Robert Ham
Alina Kalancea — Impedance (Important)
The Telescopes — Songs of Love and Revolution (Tapete)
Innov Gnawa — Lila (Daptone)
Eximperituserqethhzebibšiptugakkathšulweliarzaxułum — Šahrartu (Willowtip)
Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt — Made out of Sound (Palilalia)
Sana Nagano — Smashing Humans (577)
Ryley Walker — Course In Fable (Husky Pants)
Wau Wau Collectif — Yaral Sa Doom (Sahel Sounds)
Elori Saxl — The Blue of Distance (Western Vinyl)
Nightshift — Zoë (Trouble in Mind)
Bryon Hayes
Daniel Bachman—Axacan (Three Lobed)
Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt — Made out of Sound (Palilalia)
Colin Fisher — Reflections of the Invisible World (Halocline Trance)
Giant Claw — Mirror Guide (Orange Milk)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor — God's_Pee at State's End! (Constellation)
Anne Guthrie—Gyropedie (Students of Decay)
Kim's Spirit — Blossom Everywhere (Tobira)
Mdou Moctar — Afrique Victime (Matador)
Roy Montgomery — Island of Lost Souls (BaDaBing)
Natural Information Society w Evan Parker — descension (Out of Our Constrictions) (Eremite)
Reds, Pinks and Purples — Uncommon Weather (Slumberland)
Claire Rousay — A Softer Focus (American Dreams)
M. Sage — The Wind of Things (Geographic North)
Satomimagae — Hanazono (RVNG Intl.)
Sunburned Hand of the Man — Pick a Day to Die (Three-Lobed)
Matt Sweeney and Bonnie Prince Billy — Superwolves (Drag City)
Ryley Walker + Kikagaku Moyo — Deep Fried Grandeur (Husky Pants)
Wau Wau Collectif — Yaral Sa Doom (Sahel Sounds)
Mason Jones
Roy Montgomery — Island of Lost Souls (BaDaBing)
Sunburned Hand of the Man — Pick A Day To Die (Three-Lobed)
Speaker Music — Soul-Making Theodicy (Self-released)
Dr Pete Larson and his Cytotoxic Nyatiti Band — Damballah (Dagoretti)
Mdou Moctar — Afrique Victime (Matador)
Wau Wau Collectif — Yaral Sa Doom (Sahel Sounds)
Vapour Theories — Celestial Scuzz (Fire)
Keiji Haino & The Hardy Rocks — S-T (label?)
Ryley Walker + Kikagaku Moyo — Deep Fried Grandeur (Husky Pants)
Various Artists — Sheffield Revisited:Melkweg, 1985 (In the Nursery)
Jennifer Kelly
Cassandra Jenkins — An Overview of Phenomenal Nature (BaDaBing)
Reds, Pinks and Purples — Uncommon Weather (Slumberland)
Rosali — No Medium (Spinster)
GG King — Remain Intact (Total Punk)
New Bums — Last Time I Saw Grace (Drag City)
Mdou Moctar — Afrique Victime (Matador)
Jupiter & Okwess — Na Kozonga (Strut)
Chris Brokaw — Puritan (12XU)
Sleaford Mods — Spare Ribs (rough Trade)
Matt Sweeney and Bonnie Prince Billy — Superwolves (Drag City)
The Mountain Goats — Dark in Here (Merge)
N0V3L — NON-FICTION (Flemish Eye)
Arthur Krumins
Fiver with the Atlantic School Of Spontaneous Composition — S-T (You’ve Changed)
Jeffrey Silverstein — Torii Gates (Arrowhawk)
Drew Gardner — S-T (Eiderdown)
Matt Lajoie — Paraclete Tongue (Flower Room)
Lena Hughes — Queen of the Flat Top Guitar (Tompkins Square)
Yasmin Williams — Urban Driftwood (Spinster)
Ryley Walker — Course in Fable (Husky Pants)
Khan Jamal — Infinity (Stash)
Masahiro Takahashi — Flowering Tree, Distant Moon (Not Not Fun)
Dorothea Paas — Anything Can’t Happen (Telephone Explosion)
Willie Dunn — Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies (Light in the Attic)
Patrick Masterson
Skee Mask — Pool (Ilian Tape)
Leon Vynehall — Rare, Forever (Ninja Tune)
Oui Ennui — [anything, really] (self-released)
Armand Hammer & The Alchemist — Haram (Backwoodz Studioz)
Emeka Ogboh — Beyond the Yellow Haze (A-Ton)
Tree — Soul Trap (self-released)
Rosali — No Medium (Spinster)
Elori Saxl — The Blue of Distance (Western Vinyl)
Keysound Recordings — Rinse FM mix 1/28/21
Dope Purple — Grateful End reissue (WV Sorcerer Productions)
V/A — Soft Touch Express Vols. 1-3 (Trax Only)
Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble — Now (International Anthem)
Ian Mathers
The Armed — ULTRAPOP (Sargent House)
Blanck Mass — In Ferneaux (Sacred Bones)
Cory Hanson — Pale Horse Rider (Drag City)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor — G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! (Constellation)
Los Campesinos! — Whole Damn Body EP (Self-Released)
Mogwai — As the Love Continues (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
Nadja/Disrotted — Split (Roman Numerals)
Obay Alsharani — Sandbox (Hivemind)
Whisper Room — Lunokhod (Midira)
Xiu Xiu — OH NO (Polyvinyl)
Eric McDowell
Michael Winter — single track (Another Timbre)
Amani — A Constant Condensation (s/r)
Lea Bertucci — A Visible Length of Light (Cibachrome Editions)
Oui Ennui — Virga/Recrudescence (s/r)
Patrick Shiroishi — i shouldn't have to worry when my parents go outside (s/r)
Ashley Bellouin & Ben Bracken — String Songs (Debacle)
Sam Gendel — Fresh Bread (Leaving Records)
Landon Caldwell & Nick Yeck— Stauffer — Unity in Isolation (Astral Editions)
Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt — Made Out of Sound (Palilalia)
Matt LaJoie — Paraclete Tongue (Flower Room)
Bill Meyer
Bruno Duplant—Paysages Sans Âge III (Sublime Retreat)
Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt—Made Out Of Sound (Palilalia)
Chuck Johnson — The Cinder Grove (VDSQ)
Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble — Now (International Anthem)
Daniel Bachman—Axacan (Three Lobed)
Donald Miller — Transgression!!! (VDSQ)
Hafez Modirzadeh—Facets (Pi)
James Brandon Lewis — Jessup Wagon (Tao Forms)
Natural Information Society with Evan Parker—descension (Out of Our Constrictions) (Eremite)
New Bums — Last Time I Saw Grace (Drag City)
Nightshift — Zoe (Trouble in Mind)
Rob Noyes — Arc Minutes (VDSQ)
Roy Montgomery — Island of Lost Souls (Grapefruit)
Michael Rosenstein
[Ahmed] — Nights on Saturn (communication) (Astral Spirits)
Tucker Dulin/Ben Owen — Cat Guarding Geese (Erstwhile)
Max Hamel — Sounds of Summer: Field Recordings of Solar Electronics (Refulgent Sepulchre)
Haptic — Weird Undying Annihilation (Notice Recordings)
Christian Kobi — Hiden Place of Return (Cubus Records)
Catherine Lamb — Muto Infinitas (Another Timbre)
Sergio Merce — en lugar de pensar (Edition Wandelweiser Records)
takamitsu ohta — three relations among the flock (winds measure recordings)
Tim Olive/Kayu Nakada — Entenka (tss tapes)
Wadada Leo Smith — Trumpet (TUM)
Darcy Spidle — The Thawing of Bayer Lake (Self-released)
Anna Webber — Idiom (Pi Recordings)
Zhu Wenbo — HALF 一半(Self-released)
Sun Yizhou & Mai Mai — Shanghai Live: Electronic Duo (Self-released)
Archival Releases:
Julius Hemphill — The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (New World Records)
IST — A More Attractive Way (Confront Recordings)
Jonathan Shaw
The Body — I've Seen All I Need to See (Thrill Jockey)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor — God's_Pee at State's End! (Constellation)
Last Agony — The Imminent Slaughter (Sentient Ruin)
Mare Cognitum — Solar Paroxysm (I, Voidhanger)
Rata Negra — Una Vida Vulgar (La Vida Es Un Mus)
Sleaford Mods — Spare Ribs (Rough Trade)
Suffering Hour — The Cyclic Reckoning (Profound Lore)
Derek Taylor
James Brandon Lewis — Jessup Wagon (Tao Forms)
Roscoe Mitchell & Mike Reed — The Ritual and the Dance (Astral Spirits)
Wadada Leo Smith — Trumpet (TUM)
Irene Schweizer & Hamid Drake — Celebration (Intakt)
Jason Moran & Milford Graves — Live at Big Ears (Yes)
Jaimie Branch — FLY or DIE LIVE (International Anthem)
Ches Smith's We All Break — Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
Julius Hemphill — The Boyé International Crusade for Harmony (New World)
Ray Russell — Forgot to Remember, Live Vol. 2 1970 (Jazz in Britain)
Alan Braufman — Valley of Search + Live at WKCR May 22, 1972 (Valley of Search)
Hassan Ibn Ali — Metaphysics (Omnivore)
Jeanne Lee — Conspiracy (Moved by Sound)
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