Cate Le Bon – Michelangelo Dying
Mexican Summer
Listen and buy on Bandcamp.
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Mulatu Astatke – Mulatu Plays Mulatu
Strut
Listen on and buy on Bandcamp.
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Sam Prekop – Open Close
Thrill Jockey
Listen and buy on Bandcamp.
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Kelly Moran – Don’t Trust Mirrors
Warp
Listen and buy on Bandcamp.
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Klein – sleep with a cane
Parkwuud
Listen and buy on Bandcamp.
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Chicago Underground Duo – Hyperglyph
International Anthem
Listen and buy on Bandcamp.
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Blawan – SickElixir
XL Recordings
Listen and buy on Bandcamp.
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Marc-Antoine Barbier – Musée Des Espèces
Not Not Fun
Listen and buy on Bandcamp.
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Steve Hauschildt – Aeropsia
Simul Records
Listen and buy on Bandcamp.
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Tortoise – Touch
International Anthem
Listen and buy on Bandcamp.
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Cahl Sel – Traces
Reflective Records
Listen and buy on Bandcamp.
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Introspekt – Moving The Center
Tempa.
Listen and buy on Bandcamp.
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Pan•American & Michael Grigoni – New World, Lonely Ride
kranky
Listen and buy on Bandcamp.
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Patricia Brennan – Of the Near and Far
Pyroclastic Records
Listen and buy on Bandcamp.
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False Aralia – False 03, 04, 05, 06
False Aralia
These four small releases all HAD to go together, each a radical slice of mindfuck experimental dub from Izaak Schlossman on an imprint from Peak Oil.
Listen and buy on Bandcamp: False 03, False 04, False 05, False 06
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claire rousay – a little death
Thrill Jockey
Listen and buy on Bandcamp.
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K-Lone – sorry I thought you were someone else
Incienso
Listen and buy on Bandcamp.
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Greg Foat, Jihad Darwish & Moses Boyd – Opening Time
Blue Crystal Records
Listen and buy on Bandcamp.
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Takuro Okada – Konoma
Temporal Drift
Listen and buy on Bandcamp.
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Shawn Rudiman – yesterday sky
Quiet Details
Listen and buy on Bandcamp.
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Rafael Toral – Traveling Light
Drag City
Listen and buy on Bandcamp.
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Francesca Marongiu – Still Forms in Air
Umor Rex
Listen and buy on Bandcamp.
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Anthony Naples – In Studio Magic
ANS Recordings
Listen and buy on Bandcamp.
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Shrunken Elvis – Shrunken Elvis
Western Vinyl
Listen and buy on Bandcamp.
• • •
Voices From The Lake – II
Spazio Disponibile
Listen and buy on Bandcamp.
Optimistic Underground 
I’m always just SO shocked at how aligned we are musically! YES, YES, YES to this fantastic list! I’ll be revisiting this often — and happy to share some news ones. As I’m largely OFF social media, this is the best place for me. Thank you!
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very happy to read this, thank you
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Just came here hoping my favorite year-end list was published yet so I can add to my holiday playlist. As always, thank you for curating this. I always find some gems that stay in my rotation and usually discover some new artists that I continue to follow and support.
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It wasn’t a particularly productive year of listening for me, but every release I’ve played from your list so far has been excellent – so, thank you for giving me something to really sink my teeth into this EOY. Here’s to hoping TMT makes its prodigious return in 2026 (the site’s already back online)!
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