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If all I did was mark my favorites as "featured" it would be kind of meaningless to anyone but me. While my rules shift from day to day, I generally tag things as featured if I think they're really something you should hear. Sometimes that's because it's a classic, sometimes because it's a bold new direction you might not know about, and--yes--sometimes because I just really dig it.
Calming Signals
Rich Ruth
a wild, jazzy space trip
In The Spanish Cave
Thin White Rope
a lost hard-psych gem
Please Don't Feed The Model
Rom / Schaerer / Eberle
vocal madness with guitar and horn
Stone Rollin'
Rafael Saadiq
retro dance fest
What Color Is Love?
Terry Callier
a wild ride
Wind, Again
Sary Moussa
structure, sign, and play
Clear Language
Balmorhea
post-ambient-gaze
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers
a funky party
Release
Cop Shoot Cop
hidden industrial gem
A Universe That Roasts Blossoms For A Horse
Sirom
extraterrestrial folk
Quiet Signs
Jessica Pratt
ghostly beauty
Even In Arcadia
Sleep Token
auditory rorschach test
Tomorrow Was The Golden Age
Bing & Ruth
masterfully ambient classical
The Lemon Of Pink
The Books
a micro-dose of joy
Watersong
Savina Yannatou
let it drown you
Cenotes
Giant Squid
love this thing
Transcendental Youth
Mountain Goats
like nothing else
Rest In Space
Islandman
groovy as hell
Glory
Perfume Genius
emphasis on "genius"
Rhythm Revolution
Ferry Djimmy
African funk lost classic
Animal Choir
Her Name Is Calla
Beauty and menace
Arrival
Fire! Orchestra
weirdly cool
Daughter Of A Temple
Ganavya
the spirit of devotion
Yellow River Blue
Yu Su
a field trip
Cicada Waves
Ben Seretan
piano in the rainstorm
Haram
Armand Hammer & The Alchemist
a modern classic
The Room
Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel
best of the year
Under The Lilac Sky
Arushi Jain
Synthistani music
Convex
Nym
eco-chill
How Will I Live Without A Body?
Loma
an evolution
Absolute Elsewhere
Blood Incantation
Umma Booma
Ghosts
Hania Rani
lovely
Strands
Steve Hauschildt
relentlessly calm
This Place Will Become Your Tomb
Sleep Token
Tomorrow's classics today
Atlas of Green
Dialect
A delightful shot of meta-nostalgia
The Köln Concert
Keith Jarrett
one historical night
The Mountain
Haken
prog metal masterpiece
Oh No
OK Go
more than just videos
Eye To The Ear
Cosmo Sheldrake
Cosmic pop
Compassion
Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, and Tyshawn Sorey
awesome trio date
Until We Meet The Sky
Solar Fields
full-spectrum beauty
Madar
Jan Garbarek, Anouar Brahem, Shaukat Hussain
A global summit
Deathbed Requests
Memory Drawings
spooky bliss
New Heaven
Inter Arma
Everything But The Kitchen Sink-core
Slow Water
Stephan Crump
the river
Anima Mysterium
Yugen Blakrok
shamanic sojourn
All Born Screaming
St Vincent
Annie gets serious
Superunknown
Soundgarden
gungy minor classic
Reconciled
The Call
The best 80s album nobody's heard of
Interstellar Interlude
Tomoki Kanda
beauty ex nihilo
August
Still Lost Bird Music
classic poetry set to bluegrassy music
Nighttime Birds And Morning Stars
Sarah Louise
glitch-calm folk
Lord Of The Harvest
Peter Talisman
downtempo primitive
Notes With Attachments
Pino Palladino and Blake Mills
low key funk fest
Lungs
Florence + The Machine
Not calling you a liar.
My Favorite Things
John Coltrane
it actually is one of them.
Stubborn Persistent Illusions
Do Make Say Think
ballsy post rock
Inheritance
Omar Ahmad
smooth sailing
Baralku
Emancipator
comfort food.
Kick
INXS
get kicked
Dusk
The The
brainy alt rock classic
The '59 Sound
Gaslight Anthem
A solid slab of pathos
3
Blood Sweat And Tears
better than it has any right to be
2112
Rush
air drum central
Yallah Beibe
MC Yallah
a blast
In Step
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
A monster of a blues record
Ask The Ages
Sonny Sharrock
Sharrock's Magnum Opus
Machinarium Soundtrack
Tomáš Dvořák
a delightful soundtrack to a fun game
Rough And Rowdy Ways
Bob Dylan
A Master Class
Floodplain
Kronos Quartet
music from the cradle of civilization
Sorceress
Opeth
a kick in the head
Wild Light
65daysofstatic
a post rock tour de force
Happy Child
Carmen Jaci
whimsical electronic
My 21st Century Blues
Raye
a journeyman becoming a master
Prezens
David Torn
a wild trip
Queen Of Sheba
Angélique Kidjo & Ibrahim Maalouf
African / Middle East fusion
Mingus Ah Um
Charles Mingus
Get hit in your soul
Safe In The Steep Cliffs
Emancipator
an explosion of calm and lucidity in my brain
Good Kid m.A.A.D City
Kendrick Lamar
A short film by Kendrick Lamar
The Great Awakening
Shearwater
Shearwater returns with another great one
¡Ay!
Lucrecia Dalt
Excellent, beautiful, and a little creepy
Descendants of Cain
Ka
A lyrical masterclass
Trouble Will Find Me
The National
cici nes pas REM
Bolts
Hagop Tchaparian
an electric shock of techno-y house goodness
Loma
Loma
a dark, beautiful gem
Biscuits For Cerberus
Flipiron
weird, literate, and weirdly literate
Let Them Eat Chaos
Kae Tempest
Tempest's Masterpiece
Muchacho
Phosphorescent
literate, grandiose modern country-rock
Hellfire
Black Midi
The sound of your brain bleeding out at the end of the world.
Aura
Hatis Noit
A mind-bending, mind-mending journey
Automatic For The People
REM
Shiny but serious
E2-E4
Manuel Gottsching
a great discovery
LOGGERHEAD
Wu-lu
Abstract hip hop, hardcore, and so much more.
None Shall Pass
Aesop Rock
A tragially under-known MC
Horses
Patti Smith
we are not worthy
Bronco
Orville Peck
the new country
Lifeforms
Future Sound Of London
outstanding 90s IDM and ambient
Oh Mercy
Bob Dylan
The *first* late-era classic
Copper Blue
Sugar
top notch alt-rock
Ghost Song
Cécile McLorin Salvant
fantastic vocal jazz
Singing Saw
Kevin Morby
no srsly. it's morbin' time
The OOZ
King Krule
only sounds lazy and disjointed at first
These Charms May Be Sung Over A Wound
Richard Skelton
wide-open ambient spaces
Alive
Hiromi
an under-recognized genius
Glass Cage
Bruce Brubaker
20th century modernist piano
Ants From Up There
Black Country, New Road
post-everything awesomeness
Nine Types Of Light
TV On The Radio
the coolest
Tissues
Pan Daijing
take the time to get into this one
From This Place
Pat Metheny
yet another Metheny masterpiece with a fantastic band
