Number Five: Voids – Who Needs the Words When There Are Stars Above? VIDEO Who Needs the Words […] was late to the party, coming out in late December, but it truly deserves to be on this list; vast, expansive, atmospheric, and a little heavy side makes for a great experience!
Number Four: Maybe She Will – No Feeling Is Final VIDEO No Feeling Is Final gets the most out of its runtime, and it’s definitely a must for all post-rock fans.
Number Three: Mono – Pilgrimage of the Soul VIDEO Pilgrimage of the Soul changed that… It’s… beautiful.
Number Two: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – God’s Pee at State’s End VIDEO
Number One: Bruit ≤ – The Machine Is Burning and Now Everyone Knows It Could Happen Again VIDEO The Machine Is Burning […] , I knew this one would be high on my list, come year’s end. Well, I didn’t know it yet, but I was listening to the album of the year! Calculated songwriting with an emotional weight to it as well as an impressive array of instruments and well-chosen excerpts all help in making this album what it is: a masterpiece.
Notable Releases Hover over foreign scripts for pronunciation and romanization.
Friday, 29 January Gaspard – Vertiges 59:49Montréal, Québec
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Le langage des montagnes [13:30]
2. Héliopolis [10:08]
3. Vertiges [02:27]
4. Voyage dans un courant d’air [07:14]
5. Cumulonimbus [10:01]
6. Pluie de lumière [05:31]
7. Ascension [10:58]
Wednesday, 17 February Aalborg – And This Is How… 38:14Clermont Ferrand, France
Tracklist (click to display) 1. A Ghost Made of Ashes [03:40]
2. Velvet Water [06:14]
3. Saint Sand Star [03:02]
4. Grace [06:30]
5. Wind Walkers [05:23]
6. Space Ribbon [03:41]
7. The Body Became the Messenger [06:35]
8. And This is How… [03:09]
Friday, 19 Infinity Shred – Recovery 19:13New York, New York
Read our review.
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Intro [00:49]
2. Monitor A [03:49]
3. Monitor B [02:39]
4. Recovery [06:03]
5. Is [02:06]
6. Was [03:47]
Mogwai – As the Love Continues 61:23Scotland, UK
Tracklist (click to display) 1. To The Bin My Friend, Tonight We Vacate Earth [05:09]
2. Here We, Here We, Here We Go Forever [04:45]
3. Dry Fantasy [05:10]
4. Ritchie Sacramento [04:12]
5. Drive The Nail [07:14]
6. Fuck Off Money [05:53]
7. Ceiling Granny [03:58]
8. Midnight Flit [06:08]
9. Pat Stains [06:55]
10. Supposedly, We Were Nightmares [04:36]
11. It’s What I Want To Do, Mum [07:23]
Friday, 26 Long Distance Calling – Ghost 33:10Münster, Germany
Tracklist (click to display)
1. Dullahan [0:02:14]
2. Old Love [0:05:28]
3. Black Shuck [0:03:38]
4. Seance [0:08:15]
5. Fever [0:04:53]
6. Negative Is the New Positive [0:08:50]
Volvopenta – Simulacrum 48:50Mülheim, Germany
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Kargus [06:34]
2. Tele 81 [06:36]
3. Barfly [05:48]
4. Central Human Agency [03:44]
5. Interlude 1 [01:50]
6. Ghost [05:00]
7. Interlude 2 [00:46]
8. Kolonie 56 [04:57]
9. One To Five [05:36]
10. Flint [07:59]
Sunday, 28 February Fine before You Came – Forme complesse 31:51Milano, Italy
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Gittana [05:28]
2. Acquaghiaccia [03:27]
3. Cogoleto [05:14]
4. Piano impreciso [04:16]
5. Forme complesse [04:57]
6. Interludio con vento [05:05]
7. Intorno [03:24]
Friday, 5 March Empires of Light – How to Build a Monolith 28:42Portland, Oregon
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Malariff [06:16]
2. Sailors And Sirens [05:31]
3. Leviathan Down [06:02]
4. Violet Andromeda [04:55]
5. Burn The Sky [05:58]
A Reason to Travel – Kingdom 38:52Copenhagen, Denmark
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Coronation [06:30]
2. Fleeting Bliss [04:28]
3. Stolen Gold [04:10]
4. Hubris [04:35]
5. They Will Tell Stories About You [06:19]
6. Equinox [03:24]
7. Iron Skies [03:27]
8. Turmoil [05:59]
Friday, 12 盲目 – Not to Say Goodbye, Just to Say Hello ~43:00Japan
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Never Knowing Where or When [04:23]
2. Banshee
3. Hang Lonesome & Serene
4. Bonfire
5. Tears Dimmed Her Eyes
6. Not To Say Goodbye, Just To Say Hello
Friday, 26 March Young Mountain – Infraröd 31:49Gothenburg, Sweden
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Lovely [02:59]
2. Cherry Knot [05:31]
3. Wildfire [04:49]
4. Worm [02:43]
5. Infraröd [08:43]
6. 9406 [07:04]
Friday, 2 April Bruit ≤ – The Machine Is Burning and Now Everyone Knows It Could Happen Again 39:34Toulouse, France
Read our review.
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Industry [09:29]
2. Renaissance [08:35]
3. Amazing Old Tree [09:19]
4. The Machine Is Burning [12:11]
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – God’s Pee at State’s End! 52:37Montréal, Québec
Tracklist (click to display) 1. A Military Alphabet (five eyes all blind) (4521.0kHz 6730.0kHz 4109.09kHz) / Job’s Lament / First of the Last Glaciers / where we break how we shine (ROCKETS FOR MARY) [20:22]
2. Fire at Static Valley [05:58]
3. “GOVERNMENT CAME” (9980.0kHz 3617.1kHz 4521.0 kHz) / Cliffs Gaze / cliffs’ gaze at empty waters’ rise / ASHES TO SEA or NEARER TO THEE [19:47]
4. OUR SIDE HAS TO WIN (for D.H.) [06:30]
Friday, 9 Echoes and Signals – Mercuria 51:17Tula, Russia
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Darkness [04:57]
2. Tower [08:29]
3. Broken Machine [10:13]
4. In Transition [05:18]
5. Chaos [04:25]
6. Mirror [07:53]
7. Dust [10:02]
Vema – Ocean Gyre 31:52AL, Spain
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Ocean Gyre [00:57]
2. Baikal [05:31]
3. Rivea [07:52]
4. Pharos [08:25]
5. Mako [05:52]
6. Ekman [03:15]
Thursday, 15 Høst – Kos 50:14Toulouse, France
Tracklist (click to display) 1. The Foehn Effect [03:47]
2. Whipple [05:18]
3. Vill (Feat Nicolas Gardel) [04:19]
4. Dreamwalk (Feat Jeff Taylor) [04:32]
5. Diu Ors (Feat Ferdinand Doumerc) [07:09]
6. Went [04:37]
7. Alt 155 [07:23]
8. Kaldt [07:26]
9. Kos [05:43]
Thursday, 22 April January – Hometown 37:33Bangkok, Thailand
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Blaze [03:28]
2. Cave [03:19]
3. Gone with the wind [04:03]
4. Let’s sea [03:51]
5. sertraline [04:19]
6. Departure (Interlude) [02:13]
7. Hometown [03:51]
8. Fluff up [03:12]
9. ICYMI [03:17]
10. It’s like seeing someone for the first time [06:00]
Friday, 7 May The Abyss inside Us – What Words Can’t Say 41:20Greece
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Stargaze [07:27]
2. Parachute [05:57]
3. What Words Can’t Say [06:51]
4. Internal Error [07:21]
5. Love & Hate [06:55]
6. War Freaks [06:49]
Tuesday, 18 Dûrga – Sequoia 45:16Valencia, Spain
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Seeds [07:47]
2. Roots [05:46]
3. Màquia [03:48]
4. Savia [05:50]
5. General Sherman [07:22]
6. Kings Canyon [04:06]
7. Hyperion [04:00]
8. Deshielo [01:24]
9. Falling Leaves [05:38]
Friday, 21 L’Effondras – Anabasis 39:39Bourg En Bresse, France
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Tracklist (click to display) 1. The Grinding Wheel [07:04]
2. Ce que Révèle l’Éclipse [11:00]
3. Aura Phase [04:48]
4. Anhedonia [07:13]
5. Norea [09:34]
Our Next Movement – This Room / This Battlefield 30:45Valencia, Spain
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Fail Faster [05:02]
2. Done Right. Gone Wrong [05:18]
3. Dance Adrift [06:05]
4. Crowd Control [04:26]
5. Sharks Always Come at Five [04:49]
6. Aftermath [05:05]
Yoo Doo Right – Don’t Think You Can Escape Your Purpose 40:22Montréal, Québec
Tracklist (click to display) 1. A Certain Sense of Disenchantment [01:58]
2. 1N914 [07:05]
3. Marché des vivants [03:48]
4. The Moral Compass of a Self-Driving Car [06:33]
5. Don’t Think You Can Escape Your Purpose [06:00]
6. Join, Be Curst [04:38]
7. Presto Presto, Bella’s Dream [03:46]
8. Black Moth [06:49]
Friday, 4 June Himiko Cloud – Telomeres 44:44Wenatchee, Washington
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Challenger [03:49]
2. Sun Sloth [04:50]
3. Aftermath [05:22]
4. Polaris [02:54]
5. Into the Spiral [04:28]
6. Columbia [06:10]
7. Animalia [02:15]
8. Terrestrial [03:48]
9. Telomeres [04:58]
10. Deorbit [06:10]
Friday, 18 June A – A 39:39La Chaux De Fonds, Switzerland
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Hotel Stellar [06:25]
2. Grain Sand and Mud [04:38]
3. We Travel the Light [04:55]
4. Fire in my Fingers [03:48]
5. Count to Ten [04:30]
6. The Leaves [07:12]
7. Our Love is Growing [08:11]
Friday, 2 July The Languid Current – Iceland 24:03Iceland
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Velkomminneon [01:06]
2. Starshadow [01:36]
3. Brancher [02:44]
4. Fauxlivia [02:06]
5. Norðauster [01:13]
6. Spiralsky [02:14]
7. Fjolur [03:01]
8. Vertigo [02:55]
9. Hallormsstaðaskogur [01:23]
10. Barashin [02:23]
11. Casshærn [03:22]
Monday, 26 July 小女巫 – Ⅲ 28:44Shaoxing, China
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Labyrinth 迷宫 [00:43]
2. Appearance 模样 [04:24]
3. Whirlpool 漩涡 [04:17]
4. Block 街区 [04:00]
5. Mud Man 泥人 [04:39]
6. Tide 潮汐 [02:08]
7. Off White 灰白 [03:40]
8. Lonely Island 囚岛 [04:53]
Friday, 6 August Some Became Hollow Tubes – Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups 35:51Montréal, Québec
Tracklist (click to display) 1. All I Can Think About Is The Earth On Fire And The Smoky Skies [17:16]
2. My Eyes Are Itchy And I Can Barely Breathe [18:35]
Friday, 13 Eve Beeker – Portraits 38:45Eugene, Oregon
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Portraits [02:19]
2. You Have Left Us [06:57]
3. As Long As I Am With You When It Ends [05:42]
4. For Claire [04:30]
5. The Depths of Our Trauma is the Well From Which We Draw Our Compassion [07:12]
6. The Letter “I” [12:05]
Wednesday, 18 كنمتك – Ensemble 1: ال جَدْي 35:34Beirut, Lebanon النِّهَايَة
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Dinosorat Tahtafil Bel Kuwaikeb (Asteroid!) [08:54]
2. Afkar Aariya (Naked Ideals) [10:05]
3. Al Jadi (Capricorn) [09:57]
4. Wahdi Ana (Alone, I Am) [07:02]
Friday, 20 Deaf Heaven – Infinite Granite 53:30San Francisco
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Shellstar [06:06]
2. In Blur [05:29]
3. Great Mass of Color [06:00]
4. Neptune Raining Diamonds [03:05]
5. Lament for Wasps [07:08]
6. Villain [05:41]
7. The Gnashing [05:34]
8. Other Language [06:10]
9. Mombasa [08:17]
World’s End Girlfriend – うみべの女の子 36:55Tokyo, Japan
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Virgin blood [00:52]
2. When I touch your cheek [04:26]
3. Two bodies [02:37]
4. Love letter and revenge [06:06]
5. Crossed bodies [01:28]
6. Not special [02:43]
7. Way back [01:08]
8. House in the shade [00:53]
9. Delete [04:21]
10. Silent conversation Part.1 [01:11]
11. Blood in the dark Part.1 [01:14]
12. Blood in the dark Part.2 [01:20]
13. Blood in the dark Part.3 [00:59]
14. Silent conversation Part.2 [01:54]
15. Girl (on the shore ver.) [05:43]
Thursday, 26 Blak – El tall d’Escil·la 42:06Roda De Ter, Spain
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Contra nosaltres quan siguem forts [12:45]
2. Descens al Pathos [07:53]
3. Mig de tot [10:00]
4. Trepitjar el buit [11:33]
Friday, 27 August Ranges – Cardinal Winds 39:49Bozeman, Montana
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Abyss [05:33]
2. North [01:19]
3. Sojourner [04:46]
4. East [01:19]
5. Cardinal Winds [08:50]
6. West [01:18]
7. Solace [08:19]
8. South [01:05]
9. Deluge [07:20]
Wednesday, 1 September AACKR – Almæ 34:29Cologne, Germany
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Namaste Motherfucker [06:05]
2. HNO Superlike [06:25]
3. Überall [06:11]
4. Spinde [06:34]
5. Harvester [05:00]
6. Alme / Ghost Spiders [04:14]
Friday, 3 Apoa – Kryonaut 43:31Dresden, Germany
Tracklist (click to display) 1. 1850 [01:30]
2. Passing Lights [05:44]
3. Echelon [06:11]
4. Owlman [05:34]
5. Jophar [03:44]
6. The Tempest [05:38]
7. Flatline [05:26]
8. Kryonaut [09:44]
Tuesday the Sky – The Blurred Horizon 46:12United States
Tracklist (click to display)
1. Half Remembered [0:04:51]
2. Near Light [0:04:33]
3. Cwmwl [0:03:48]
4. Where the Enemy Sleeps [0:03:50]
5. Laudanum Dream [0:05:25]
6. Hypneurotic [0:04:04]
7. Later, Then Now [0:03:35]
8. Near Dark [0:03:48]
9. Half Forgotten [0:04:24]
10. The Blurred Horizon [0:03:56]
11. Everything is Free [0:04:07]
Friday, 17 Mono – Pilgrimage of the Soul 57:18東京都 , Japan
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Riptide [05:51]
2. Imperfect Things [06:25]
3. Heaven in a Wild Flower [07:10]
4. To See a World [04:00]
5. Innocence [08:10]
6. The Auguries [07:30]
7. Hold Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand [12:21]
8. And Eternity in an Hour [05:51]
Thursday, 30 September 전파사 – 억겁의 싸이-키 67:13South Korea 미러볼 뮤직
Tracklist (click to display)
1. 야시장 [0:05:28]
2. 코끼리 [0:06:56]
3. 거짓말 [0:09:32]
4. 소나기 [0:06:51]
5. 보름달 [0:04:16]
6. 아수라 [0:07:30]
7. 신기루 [0:06:02]
8. 싸이키 [0:07:34]
9. 변검술 [0:10:08]
10. 일공팔 [0:03:05]
Friday, 1 October Himmellegeme – Variola vēra 38:53Bergen, Norway
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Shaping Mirrors like Smoke [05:47]
2. Heart Listening [05:21]
3. Blowing Raspberries [03:43]
4. Brother [05:02]
5. Let the Mother Burn [04:56]
6. Caligula [04:16]
7. Agafia [05:55]
8. Variola Vera [03:53]
Saturday, 9 Golden Hymns Sing “Hurrah” – The Great Dystopian Songbook Ⅱ: Songs of Blood 56:21New York, New York
Tracklist (click to display) 1. A Song of Blood [08:10]
2. …From The Mouth of Standing Rock/So Too Did The Sun & I Rise O’er Sunrise Hwy [16:30]
3. Jimmy’s Song [09:07]
4. On A Winters Day [06:37]
5. The Bells (Or “I Have Not Been Well”) [15:57]
Friday, 29 In-Dreamview – Triptych 43:13New Jersey
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Collisions Pt.I [03:32]
2. Collisions Pt.II [05:26]
3. Collisions Pt.III [03:10]
4. Passageways Pt.I [04:21]
5. Passageways Pt.II [03:31]
6. Passageways Pt.III [07:00]
7. Water Caustics Pt.I [05:03]
8. Water Caustics Pt.II [04:45]
9. Water Caustics Pt.III [06:25]
Saturday, 30 October 瀚海澜汐 – 總有一天你會遇見一個彩虹般絢麗的人 50:51上海市 , China
Tracklist (click to display) 1. 偷時間的賊 [02:22]
2. 四樓茶水間的橘色書包 [02:49]
3. 永遠都做著夏天的夢 [06:42]
4. 餘晚與鷗 [06:36]
5. 糖紙 [04:24]
6. 總有一天你會遇見一個彩虹般絢麗的人 [04:24]
7. 妳是我欲言又止的心事 [06:49]
8. 晚風起 [08:25]
9. 她還會寫信給我嗎 [05:38]
10. 留在深海 [02:42]
Friday, 5 November Could Seed – Mirage 22:48Le Mans, France
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Widen Horizon [05:16]
2. Any Blurred Shades [03:39]
3. Wovoka [08:46]
4. The Quiet Leader’s Anger [05:07]
Ephemeral Echoes – Ascension 44:39Greece
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Ascension [09:27]
2. Horizon [04:55]
3. Beyond the Skies [08:13]
4. Ravine [06:50]
5. Ephemeral Echoes [02:58]
6. Cosmic Chasm [05:26]
7. Water Under the Bridge [06:50]
Long Hallways – I Still Believe in Us 35:21Portland, Oregon
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Our Last Days [06:52]
2. Somehow Without [04:27]
3. Forgotten Magic [04:53]
4. The Spell That Freed You [06:51]
5. Whale Bone Crown [04:04]
6. Seedlings [08:14]
Friday, 19 November Maybe She Will – No Feeling Is Final 50:16Leicester, UK
Tracklist (click to display) 1. We’ve Arrived at the Burning Building [03:36]
2. Zarah [03:44]
3. Complicity [04:25]
4. Invincible Summer [05:25]
5. The Weight of Light [04:52]
6. Refuturing [05:17]
7. Green Unpleasant Land [04:57]
8. Even Tide [07:47]
9. The Last Hours [06:49]
10. Tomorrow [03:24]
Wednesday, 1 December The Color of Cyan – Agape 52:38Chicago, Illinois
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Inception [03:14]
2. Summer Days [06:23]
3. Little Stars [04:25]
4. Sun in Leo [09:56]
5. Moon in Cancer [04:20]
6. The Day We Met [06:16]
7. And One Will Fall [06:10]
8. Agape [08:03]
9. We Will Rise [03:51]
Super Pink Moon – Super 41:38Lviv, Ukraine
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Again [06:25]
2. Tony Hawk 900 [05:55]
3. Velour Light Queen [04:16]
4. Someday [05:02]
5. Ovium [04:24]
6. Her [05:51]
7. Outro [02:09]
8. Winter Illusion [04:05]
9. Disconnection Mantra [03:31]
Friday, 10 Mondaze – Late Bloom 41:52Faenza, Italy
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Concrete [04:03]
2. Endless [04:06]
3. Words Undone [03:08]
4. Honest Feelings [03:58]
5. Interlude [03:49]
6. Stay [03:43]
7. How Soon Is Soon? [05:07]
8. Swirl Back [03:22]
9. Lost [03:41]
10. Incense Smell [06:55]
Thursday, 23 December Voids – Who Needs the Words When There Are Stars Above? 53:44Angarsk, Russia
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Hum [05:58]
2. Sarma [04:11]
3. Sacred Land [08:50]
4. Evil Spirit of Yambuya [11:00]
5. Who Needs the Words When the Stars Above? [08:21]
6. Stone River [15:24]
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