This year I spent a ton more time with Bandcamp, diving into it’s community to learn more about independent releases. There were a handful of stalwart artists I was waiting for, but this year, for me was particularly exciting for diving back into shoegaze and noise/experimental-oriented genres of music while searching for more contemporary and modern jazz artists to expand my palette.
Failure – Wild Type Droid 
Comatose – A Way Back 
Maraudeur – Puissance 4 
St. Vincent – Daddy’s Home 
Deafhaven – Infinite Granite 
Vijay Iyer – Uneasy 
Esperanza Spalding – Songwrights Apothecary Lab 
Full of Hell – Garden of Burning Apparitions 
Illudium – Ash of the Womb 
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Butterfly 3000 
John McLaughlin – Liberation Time 
Makaya McCraven – Deciphering the Message 
Mehenet – Ng’ambu 
Patrick Shiroishi – Hidemi 
PUPIL SLICER – Mirrors 
A Ritual Sea – S/T 
Roscoe Mitchell and Mike Reed –
The Ritual and the Dance
Skepticism – Companion 
TV Dust – Beep 
Yautja – The Lurch 
You, Nothing – Lonely//Lovely
