Very good year, though I don't really have a favorite album...
15
The Sight Below - It All Falls Apart (Ghostly)
Arkhonia - Trails/Traces (White Box)
Pantha du Prince - Black Noise (Rough Trade)
Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal (Mego)
Richard A. Ingram - Consolamentum (White Box)
Kangding Ray - Pruitt Igoe (Raster-Noton)
Food (feat. Fennesz & Molvaer) - Quiet Inlet (ECM)
Loscil - Endless Fall (Kranky)
Marcus Fischer - Monocoastal (12k)
Rafael Anton Irisarri - The North Bend (Room 40)
Markus Mehr - Lava (Hidden Shoal)
- Schattenspieler (Miasmah)
Erik K Skodvin - Flare (Sonic Pieces)
Tobias Hellkvists - Evolutions (Home Normal)
Olan Mill - Pine (Serein)
but also liked Simon Scott's multiple EPs, Philip Jeck's latest album, Taylor Deupree's Shoals, Infinite Body, Nicolas Bernier, Mark McGuire's Living with Yourself.
15 others, from a different point of view
Foals - Total Life Forever
Rien - 3 (Amicale Underground)
Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People EP (Asthmatic Kitty)
Sam Amidon - I See the Sign (Bedroom Community)
Cloudkicker - Beacons (self-released)
PVT - Church With No Magic (Warp)
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (Warp)
Oceansize - Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up (Superball)
Trans Am - Thing (Thrill Jockey)
Shipping News - One Less Heartless to Fear (AfricanTape)
Steve Reich - Double Sextet / 2x5 (Nonesuch)
Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis (Season of Mist)
Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Wildling (Staubgold)
Mice Parade - What It Means to be Left-Handed (FatCat)
The Redneck Manifesto - Friendship (Trust Me I'm a Thief)
bonus : Shannon Wright - Secret Blood (Vicious Circle)
TOP 6 LIVE
6/Ryoji Ikeda in Lyon
5/Souvaris in Lyon
4/Bohren & der Club of Gore in Geneva
3/Ben Frost in Geneva
2/Trans Am in Lyon
1/Enablers in Lyon (every year it's the same, they are so impressive, abrasive)
TOP 3 LIVE LETDOWNS
3/Fennesz in Paris (started perfectly, then it seemed that the power supply of his mixer broke down, he left the stage after 15 minutes, I drove 400km)
2/Tim Hecker in Geneva (what happened ? Technical issues ? Very low volume, sounded like mono, no relief, no density...)
1/Blonde Redhead in Paris (come on ! give up the playbacks ! The very few moments they played without playbacks were gorgeous...)
