With spare time being in short supply for me these days, I’m going to simply offer up a bare bones, blurb-less list of some of my favorite albums, tapes, and reissued & archival releases of the year. I questioned whether maintaining these categories was even necessary at this point, as in my mind tapes are just as much a legitimate “album” as anything else and many releases filed under “reissue” are often totally new to me anyways, but for the sake of tradition I’ll keep these distinctions in place for at least another year. It should be noted that all of the releases included in these lists have been played on the Free Form Freakout radio & podcast show at some point during the year, or in the case of a few newly acquired titles, soon will be. There might be a couple of things that technically came out in the closing month of the previous year, but I’m confident that anyone reading this isn’t up for splitting hairs over release dates on limited edition tapes of fringe music (at least I hope not). Combing back through the playlists for the show, though, these were the releases that really stood out to me in one way or another and were the ones that I know occupied a good chunk of my listening time. I didn’t include anything that I put out on Round Bale Recordings this year, but the four releases that came out on the label were obviously very near and dear to me as well. With that, I encourage you to click through the links provided for each release, and if you discover something you like, to try and support these artists and labels in whatever way you can. As always, thanks for looking and for listening.
David Perron
December, 2018
Albums:
A Happy Return – S/T (Spillage Fete)
Blue Chemise – Daughters of Time (Students of Decay)
Olivier Brisson – Horizon Capiton (Nashazphone)
Eric Chenaux – Slowly Paradise (Constellation)
Citizen Electrical – Archive Spinoffs (Gertrude Tapes)
Lucrecia Dalt – Anticlines (RVNG Intl)
Sarah Davachi – Gave In Rest (Ba Da Bing)
Drinks – Hippo Lite (Drag City)
ÈLG – Vu Du Dôme (Éditions Gravats)
Seth Graham – Gasp (Orange Milk)
Eli Keszler – Stadium (Shelter Press)
Tori Kudo – ガラ刑GALAKEI (Bruit Direct Disques)
Low – Double Negative (Sub Pop)
Mind Over Mirrors – Bellowing Sun (Paradise of Bachelors)
Mosquitoes – Drip Water Hollow Out Stone (Ever/Never)
David Nance Group – Peace and Slightly Pulverized (Trouble In Mind)
Phew – Voice Hardcore (Mesh-Key)
Francis Plagne – Moss Trumpet (Penultimate Press)
Primitive Motion – House in the Wave (Bedroom Suck)
Remnants – Marred By Time (Crisis of Taste)
Matthew Revert & Vanessa Rossetto – Everyone Needs A Plan (Erstwhile)
Simple Affections – S/T (Recital)
John Saint Pelvyn – A Clerical Error in Shasta County… (Electro Motive/Seeland)
Wet Tuna – Livin’ the Die (Feeding Tube)
Chik White – Guts Magnet Sea (Kraak)
Tapes:
Félicia Atkinson – Coyotes (Geographic North)
Aylu – Walden (Orange Milk)
Graham Baldwin – Black Book Run On (Lighten Up Sounds)
Bitter Fictions – Disagreements (Shaking Box Music)
Budakan Boys – That’s How You Become a Clown (Tymbal Tapes)
Casio Adcock – Nope Nothing Clever (Null Zone)
Seth Chrisman & Nathan McLaughlin – Earth Tones at the Metal Show (Full Spectrum)
Die Welttraumforscher – Die Lieder: 1981, 1983, 1986 (Goaty Tapes)
Gateway – The Dawn of the Civil Savage (Castle Bravo)
Will Guthrie – 6 Days Into 8 (Careful Catalog)
Herbcraft – No Slack (Crash Symbols)
Idea Fire Company – The End Of The Line, Air Variations (Recital)
Kraus – Grip The Moon (Soft Abuse)
Peter Kris – Error Into The Sun (Never Anything)
Lionel Marchetti – Chasser (1ère étude naturelle) (More Mars)
øjeRum – Under Gange (Vienna Press)
Curt Oren – For Sam, Forever Ago (Already Dead Tapes)
Charlemagne Palestine – STTT THOMASSS ‘’’’”‘” DINGGGDONGG… (Blank Forms Editions)
Ramble Tamble – Outlaw Overtones (Eiderdown)
Vanessa Rossetto – Fashion Tape (No Rent)
Troy Schafer – The Mailman (1.8 sec.records)
Termite Acropolis – To The Scaffold (Thalamos)
They Will Burn Us To Ashes – S/T (Saga House)
Mark Vernon – Orphaned Works (Research Laboratories)
Russ Waterhouse – Amaro (Gertrude Tapes)
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