A new year brings new hopes, new dreams, and new music! We’re already super-excited about the winter slate, which will bring major collaborations, left field surprises and the return of some big names. Based on the tracks streaming below, the year is already off to a great start. We wish a happy new year to all of our readers ~ may you find your next favorite album right here!
Paperbark ~ Light Behind Me (LAAPS, 5 January)
Mai Mai Mai ~ Karakoz (Maple Death, 6 January)
David Shea ~ Meditations (Room40, 7 January)
Filippo Ansaldi & Simone Sims Longo ~ Solo Suono (Umor Rex, 9 January)
400 Lonely Things ~ Creature Comforts (Cold Spring, 9 January)
400 Lonely Things ~ Why I Went to the Woods (Cold Spring, 9 January)
Ken Ueno ~ Wavelengths (New Focus, 9 January)
Kris Davis and the Lutosławski Quartet ~ The Solastalgia Suite (Pyroclastic, 9 January)
Leo Genovese ~ Solo Brooklyn (577 Records, 9 January)
Many Hands ~ There are Moss Balls in Paradise (Variable Recordings, 9 January)
Pullman ~ III (Western Vinyl, 9 January)
Tim Handels ~ Liminal Spaces (9 January)
Conan the Accountant ~ Hail Satan (11 January)
Haeun Joo ~ Just Gravity (577 Records, 15 January)
Christopher Hoffman ~ REX (Out of Your Head, 16 January)
Cindytalk ~ That We Must Pass Through This Life (LINE)
Haeun Joo ~ Just Gravity (577 Records, 16 January)
Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore ~ Tragic Magic (InFiné Éditions, 16 January)
Kenny Reichert ~ Live in Chicago (Shifting Paradigm, 16 January)
Luis Fernandes & Pierce Warncke ~ Culatra (Room40, 16 January)
Strangebird-Sounds ~ Minerals from the Crust (Audiobulb, 16 January)
William Tanner Smith ~ Perpetual Guest (Sawyer Editions, 16 January)
Yamila ~ Noor (Umor Rex, 16 January)
V/A ~ Isla’s Calm Cloud (whitelabrecs, 17 January)
V/A ~ Sleeplaboratory6.0 (whitelabrecs, 17 January)
Troy ~ Echoes of Ancient Life (Infrastructure New York, 19 January)
Machinefabriek ~ SPELONK (Crónica, 20 January)
rat ~ Home (Futura Resistenza, 20 January)
microplastique ~ Many Roads (Irritable Mystic, 22 January)
Clare Cooper & Jean-Philippe Gross ~ Nevers (EICH, 23 January)
Craven Faults ~ Sidings (Leaf, 23 January)
Erik Hall ~ Solo Three (Western Vinyl, 23 January)
Ian Wellman ~ Particularly Dangerous Situation (Elevator Bath, 23 January)
Jannis Anastasakis ~ Solaris (Room40, 23 January)
Various Artists ~ 10 (Aquaregia, 23 January)
YĪN YĪN ~ Yatta! (Glitterbeat, 23 January)
Regan Bowering ~ A Technology of Feeling (Infant Tree, 25 January)
Barry Walker Jr. ~ Paleo Sol (Thrill Jockey, 30 January)
Concrete Husband ~ Where the Ashes Glow (NNA Tapes, 30 January)
Daniel Decker ~ Deep Red Taupe (30 January)
Ishmael Ali Catalan Zghoul ~ Burn the Plastic, Sell the Copper (Amalgam, 30 January)
Markus Guentner ~ On Brutal Soil, We Grow (Affin, 30 January)
Max Ridley, Eleanor Elektra and Nat Mugavero ~ Playing, Praying (577 Records, 30 January)
Sam Wenc ~ Language At An Angle (Lobby Art Editions, 30 January)
Six Missing & Patrick Berg Almkvisth ~ Developments (Nettwerk, 30 January)
The Soft Pink Truth ~ Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever? (Thrill Jockey, 30 January)
Brad Rose ~ The Sound Leaves (Room40, 6 February)
Carlos Giffoni ~ Pendulum (Room40, 6 February)
Nick Schofield ~ Blue Hour (Backward Music, 6 February)
Rafael Anton Irisarri ~ Points of Inaccessibility (Black Knoll, 6 February)
Roudi Vagou and Läuten der Seele ~ Taghelle Nacht (Quindi, 6 February)
Sam Slater ~ Lunng (Mt Brings Death, 6 February)
Stray Theories ~ Falter (n5MD, 6 February)
Ragger ~ Euphonic Sounds (Hausu Mountain, 10 February)
Harry Christelis ~ Preserving Fictions (Clonmell Jazz Social, 13 February)
Magda Drozd ~ Divided by Dusk (Präsens Editionen, 13 February)
Tomeka Reid ~ dance! skip! hop! (Out of Your Head, 13 February)
Western Grey ~ After Hours (Room40, 16 February)
Andreas Voelk & Scott Monteith ~ And All the Clocks Ran Dry (Room40, 20 February)
Brandon Seabrook ~ Hellbent Daydream (Pyroclastic, 20 February)
David / David ~ Blame Hero (577 Records, 20 February)
Marielle V Jakobsons ~ The Patterns Lost to Air (Thrill Jockey, 20 February)
Midori Hirano ~ OTONOMA (Thrill Jockey, 20 February)
Nathan Fake ~ Evaporator (InFine, 20 February)
Phew and Danielle de Picciotto ~ Paper Masks (Mute, 20 February)
Stephen Parisi Jr. ~ Buddy! (Shifting Paradigm, 20 February)
Noémi Büchi ~ Exuvie (~OUS, 27 February)
Shane Parish ~ Autechre Guitar (Palilalia, 27 February)
Triple Blind ~ Cold Walk (27 February)
Cleared ~ Lustres (Room40, 1 March)
Joachim Spieth ~ Vestige (Affin, 6 March)
Bradford Reed ~ PETAL TONES (9 March)
Colleen ~ Libres antes del final (Thrill Jockey, 20 March)
more eaze ~ sentence structure in the country (Thrill Jockey, 20 March)