To accompany our recent Festive 33-1/3, an attempt to acknowledge the inevitable, inadequate contingency of year-end lists with, er, another year-end list: the Restive 33-1/3...
As always, the point is to highlight some of the past year's many fine releases that resonated with LMYE's ears while spreading recognition as widely as possible.
Not that even this second collection completes the picture of 2019: besides the artist & label multiples ruled out by our approach (see below), the year brought countless further releases that deserve your time & attention, of course...
In any case, the hairshirted LMYE framework still applies to this supplementary list: again, no more than one selection per artist (&, clearly, none represented in the earlier list); again, no more than one per label (ditto).
There are only three deviations from the usual 33-1/3 methodology. The first is that all Restive picks are jl's aone. The second is that compilations make up the entire quartet of additional selections that go beyond the confines of conventional releases;
No doubt :zoviet*france's 15-LP 'Chasse' wooden box would have featured, though, if these ears ever got to hear more of it than the samples at Soundohm...
You could also consider heavyweight serial releasers Kevin Drumm & Jim O'Rourke included by default (only four new Steamrooms over the year notwithstanding...).
The third is that in the spirit of inclusion this list's conventional releases go somewhat over Festive's strict 30 limit.
Anyway, in the hope that it inspires interest in these outstanding works & their labels here's the list:
Joshua Adams & Natural Information Society :: Mandatory Reality (Eremite) https://eremiterecords.bandcamp.com/album/mandatory-reality
Oren Ambarchi :: Simian Angel (Editions Mego)
https://orenambarchiemego.bandcamp.com/album/simian-angel
Arovane + Porya Hatami :: C.H.R.O.N.O.S. (Karlrecords)
Julianna Barwick :: Circumstance Synthesis (RVNG Intl)
William Basinski :: On Time Out Of Time (Temporary Residence Ltd.) https://williambasinski.bandcamp.com/album/on-time-out-of-time
BLACK TO COMM :: Before After (Thrill Jockey)
Joseph Branciforte & Theo Bleckmann :: LP1 (greyfade)
Evan Caminiti :: Refraction (Make Noise)
Laura Luna Castillo :: Folksonomies (Cudighi)
cinchel :: a ghost's hand leads you through darkness (1473)
https://cinchel.bandcamp.com/album/a-ghosts-hand-leads-you-through-darkness
Sarah Davachi :: Pale Bloom (Superior Viaduct)
https://rottenmaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/pollinations
Yair Etziony :: Ensemble (False Industries)
https://falseindustries.bandcamp.com/album/ensemble
Yair Etziony :: Ensemble (False Industries)
https://falseindustries.bandcamp.com/album/ensemble
Carlo Giustini :: Custodi (LONTANO Series)
Darren Harper :: Paths (Shimmering Moods)
Ian Hawgood + Phil Tomsett :: Fragmented Boundaries (Home Normal) https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/fragmented-boundaries
Stijn Huwels :: Tomodachi (Dauw)
Eva Kierten :: The Shattered Vessel (Other Forms of Consecrated Life) https://otherforms.bandcamp.com/album/the-shattered-vessel
Kajsa Lindgren :: Everyone is here (Warm Winters Ltd)
loscil :: Equivalents (kranky)
Mark Lyken :: boneshaker (czaszka rec)
øjeRum :: on the swollen lips of the horizon (LINE)
Kali Malone :: The Sacrificial Code (Ideal)
Sean McCann :: Puck (Recital Program)
Darren McLure :: A Mere Fraction (Audiobulb)
Hideo Nakasako :: Texture of Days (Muzan Editions)
Perila :: Irer Dent (sferic)
Theodore Cale Schafer :: Patience (Students of Decay)
Sedenion :: Fever’s Corner (Reserve Matinee)
Remo Seeland :: Hollow Body (Hallow Ground)
Sontag Shogun :: It Billows Up (Youngbloods)
Strange Mountain II :: Please Wait For Me, Please Wait Forever (Polar Seas) https://polarseasrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/please-wait-for-me-please-wait-forever
Swartz et :: Sol Angels (self-released)
https://swartz.bandcamp.com/album/sol-ngels
Swartz et :: Sol Angels (self-released)
https://swartz.bandcamp.com/album/sol-ngels
TVO & one_star_hotel :: H.O.C (Test Recordings)
Various Artists :: MMXIX (Midira)
Various Artists :: Rural Electronics (Adversary)
Various Artists :: The Warmest Hum (VAAGNER)
Various Artists :: Vol. VII (Unknown Tone)
Miki Yui :: wigawiga/wigawigawiga (Hasana Editions)
Important: LMYE only makes music available that artists/labels have chosen to share freely. Let us know if something here shouldn't be.
