Did I manage to let 2021 slip by without my annual list of music recommendations? Somebody should probably fire me.
Without further ado, then, here are the 10 albums released last year that brought me the most pleasure (objectively ranked in order of awesomeness):
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises
Grateful Dead, Listen to the River: St. Louis ’71 ’72 ’73
Steven Wilson, The Future Bites
Lisa Bella Donna, Moogmentum
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Carnage
Alice Coltrane, Kirtan: Turiya Sings
Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse
Dan Weiss and Miles Okazaki, Music for Drums and Guitar
Bass Communion, Sisters Oregon
The Grid/Fripp, Leviathan
