READING 1 ︎︎︎ 2021’s Best International Albums
So many new music, so many projects that were meant to be released a year before, so much time for musicians to create these 100 great records. This is my selection.
First 75 album selection in no particular order_
quickly, quickly - The Lord and Short of it
Snail Mail - Valentine
girl in red - if i could make it go quiet
Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
For Those I Love - For Those I Love
Tirzah - Colourgrade
Black Country, New Road – For the first time
black midi - cavalcade
Nation of Language - A Way Forward
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
Low - Hey What
Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview on Phenomenal
SPELLLING - The Turning Wheel
Ada Lea - one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden
Lingua Ignota - SINNER GET READY
BABii - MiiRROR
Torres - Thirstier
Indigo de Souza - Any Shape YounTake
__----____--- - The Heart Pumps Kool Aid
Samuel Organ - A Safe Place in Cyberspace
Jasmine Sullivan - Heayx Tales
VTSS - Borderline Tenderness
Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victim
Blade - The Fool
Instupendo - Loe Power to z to Z
Mustafa - When Smoke Rises
Kai Whiston - Drayan!
Clairo - Sling
Midwst - Summer03
Pleasure System - Visiting the well
Danny L Harle - Harlecore
The Weather Stations - Ignorance
Dorian Electra - My Agenda (Deluxe)
Big piig - The Sky is bleedin
Paris Texas - Boy Anonimous
bodymeat - year of the orc
pinkpantheress - to hell with it
Snail Mail - Valentine
girl in red - if i could make it go quiet
Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
For Those I Love - For Those I Love
Tirzah - Colourgrade
Black Country, New Road – For the first time
black midi - cavalcade
Nation of Language - A Way Forward
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
Low - Hey What
Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview on Phenomenal
SPELLLING - The Turning Wheel
Ada Lea - one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden
Lingua Ignota - SINNER GET READY
BABii - MiiRROR
Torres - Thirstier
Indigo de Souza - Any Shape YounTake
__----____--- - The Heart Pumps Kool Aid
Samuel Organ - A Safe Place in Cyberspace
Jasmine Sullivan - Heayx Tales
VTSS - Borderline Tenderness
Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victim
Blade - The Fool
Instupendo - Loe Power to z to Z
Mustafa - When Smoke Rises
Kai Whiston - Drayan!
Clairo - Sling
Midwst - Summer03
Pleasure System - Visiting the well
Danny L Harle - Harlecore
The Weather Stations - Ignorance
Dorian Electra - My Agenda (Deluxe)
Big piig - The Sky is bleedin
Paris Texas - Boy Anonimous
bodymeat - year of the orc
pinkpantheress - to hell with it
Katy Kirby - Cool Dry Place
Ziúr - Antifate
Iceage - Seek Shelter
qoqeqa - Axuxa
Squids - Bright Green Filed
Biceps - Isles
Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sumbeans
Slowthai - TYRON
Twinkids - Nobody likes me
Genesis Owusu - Smiling with no teeth
Chloe Moriondo - Blood Bunny
Wet - Letter Blue
Erica de Cassier - Sensational
Lec Staxey - Budock
Ex-Olympic - xo
Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
Arab Starp - As Days Get dark
Kojaque - Town’s Dead
John Grant - Boy From Michigan
Fryars - God melodies
The Armed - Ultrapop
Dave - We’re all alone in this together
SEBII - VVBlue
Teenage Wrist - Earth is a Black Hole
Mega Bog - Life, and another
JMSN - Heals Me
Little Simz - Sometimes I might be an introvert
Wyrdo - Palmistry
Ramon Pang - Nature System
Lil Nas X - Montero
James Blake - Friends that break your heart
Jenys - S.ncerity
Lily Konigsberg - Lily we need to talk now
Kontravoid - Faceless
Hamish Hawk - This, whaterver it is, needs improvement
test Subjects - Study
Hana Vu - Public Storage
박혜진 Park Hye Jin - Before I die
Ziúr - Antifate
Iceage - Seek Shelter
qoqeqa - Axuxa
Squids - Bright Green Filed
Biceps - Isles
Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sumbeans
Slowthai - TYRON
Twinkids - Nobody likes me
Genesis Owusu - Smiling with no teeth
Chloe Moriondo - Blood Bunny
Wet - Letter Blue
Erica de Cassier - Sensational
Lec Staxey - Budock
Ex-Olympic - xo
Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
Arab Starp - As Days Get dark
Kojaque - Town’s Dead
John Grant - Boy From Michigan
Fryars - God melodies
The Armed - Ultrapop
Dave - We’re all alone in this together
SEBII - VVBlue
Teenage Wrist - Earth is a Black Hole
Mega Bog - Life, and another
JMSN - Heals Me
Little Simz - Sometimes I might be an introvert
Wyrdo - Palmistry
Ramon Pang - Nature System
Lil Nas X - Montero
James Blake - Friends that break your heart
Jenys - S.ncerity
Lily Konigsberg - Lily we need to talk now
Kontravoid - Faceless
Hamish Hawk - This, whaterver it is, needs improvement
test Subjects - Study
Hana Vu - Public Storage
박혜진 Park Hye Jin - Before I die
Best of the best_
25. Arooj
Aftab - Vulture Prince
24.
Kacey Musgraves - starcrossed
23.
Bladee - The
Fool
22. Porter Robinson -
Nurture
21.
Sega Bodega - Romeo
20.
Mykki Blanco - Broken
Hearts & Beauty Sleeps
19. TURNSTILE - Glow On
18.
Nombe - Chromatopia
17. L’Rain - Fatigue
16. John
Glacier - SHILOH: Lost for Words
15.
Iglooghost - Lei
Line Eon
14.
CFCF - memoryland
13. Bendik Giske - Cracks
12.
Deafheaven - Infinite
Granite
11. Magdalena Bay -
Mercurial
World
10.
Billie Eilish - Happier
Than Ever
9.
dltzk - Frailty
8.
Wolf Alice - Blue
Weekend
7.
serpentwithfeet - Deacon
6.
Spirit of the Behive - Enterteinment,
death
5.
Arca - Kick
iii
4.
Self Steem - Prioritise
Pleasure
3.
Peter Talisman - Lord
of the Harvest
2.
William Doyle - Great
Spans of Muddy Time
1. Koreless - Agor
METAL ︎︎︎ Cakes Da Killa. Wizard of Supreme Wordplay (interview)
MOR.BO ︎︎︎ Ariana Grande, Eternal Sunshine (album review)
METAL ︎︎︎ serpentwithfeet. The temperature of the soul (interview)
METAL ︎︎︎ Meth Math. Hay vida (y reggeatón) en otras dimensiones (entrevista)
METAL ︎︎︎ Milyma. Character development (interview)
AFMálaga ︎︎︎ Traverser-lier-assembler. Exposición de Ana Castillo (texto)
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2023
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METAL ︎︎︎ MRWIZE. Another Beautiful Possibility (interview)
METAL ︎︎︎ Puma Blue. Defeating Death Sounds (interview)
elDiario.es ︎︎︎ Juanpe Sánchez López, el defensor del amor (entrevista)
MOR.BO ︎︎︎ Entrevista con Jonny Pierce de The Drums: “No creo que siguiera haciendo música si no fuera por mis fans latinoamericanos”
MOR.BO ︎︎︎ Romy, Mid Air (album review)
METAL ︎︎︎ Ralphie Choo. Mastering the New International Spanish pop (interview)
elDiario.es ︎︎︎
Y TikTok mató a la 'popstar': llega una (no tan) nueva industria musical
Fucking Young! ︎︎︎ Lynks, the new enthralling electro-punk excess in UK queer subculture
(interview)
elDiario.es ︎︎︎ Jamie Reid, el artista que definió la estética punk y el poder de la imagen contra la autoridad
MOR.BO ︎︎︎
ANOHNI and the Johnsons, My Back Was a Bridge For You To Cross (album review)
Fucking Young! ︎︎︎ Growing out of love: the thoughtful essence and heartfelt pop of Aidan (interview)
METAL ︎︎︎ Nader Khalil. The fortitude of a reflective powerhouse (interview)
La Opinión de Málaga ︎︎︎ Nuestras vidas (opinión)
MOR.BO ︎︎︎ bar italia,
Tracey Denim (album review)
MOR.BO ︎︎︎ Jim Legxacy, la nueva voz del hip hop británico que habla de clasismo, masculinidad y supervivencia (RIOT)
METAL ︎︎︎ Bel Fullana. Flotando en tu universo (entrevista)
METAL ︎︎︎ Bloodz Boi. A new safe haven for the trailblazer (interview)
Fucking Young! ︎︎︎ Metteson cries tears of sand in his new single and video Put it to Sleep (video premiere & interview)
MOR.BO ︎︎︎ Melanie Martinez, PORTALS (album review)
METAL ︎︎︎
Éskaton. Política de cuestionamientos sobre el escenario
(entrevista)
METAL ︎︎︎ Ben Gregory. A breath-taking new ground (interview)
METAL ︎︎︎ Atoq Wallpa Sua. La imagen, la vida y la lucha (entrevista)
METAL ︎︎︎ Yves Tumor. Big! Camp! Punk! Pop to the max!
VEIN ︎︎︎ Milyemalismo
AFMálaga ︎︎︎ L’émotion du moment. Exposición colectiva (comisariado y textos)
VEIN ︎︎︎ Caroline Polachek y el deseo fluorescente
METAL N.47 ︎︎︎ Gavin Turk. Art under constant yet promising tension (interview) online | (printed issue)
⬇2022⬇
PODCAST ︎︎︎ 320 KPBS. Las mejores canciones internacionales de 2022
SELECTION ︎︎︎ The 100 Best International Albums of 2022
METAL ︎︎︎ Ange Halliwell. Love, death, and the secret grief (interview)
METAL ︎︎︎ Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London. Rethinking identities & recreating our lost realities (interview)
METAL ︎︎︎ Courting. The new sound of UK’s today counterculture
(interview)
AFMálaga
︎︎︎ Je suis la norme. Exposición colectiva (comisariado y textos)
VEIN ︎︎︎ Redcar: el nuevo y verdadero destino de Chris & The Queens
METAL ︎︎︎ Quinn Christopherson. Eagerly colouring the stories of youth’s incertitude
(interview)
METAL ︎︎︎ Signs of love (film). Do you remember sounds?
ACERO ︎︎︎ Daniela Lalita. El aliento de una voz en proceso vital (entrevista)
METAL ︎︎︎ Joe Horner. Gleaming digital arrengements
(interview)
METAL ︎︎︎ Hudson Mohawke. The philosophy beyond the beat
(interview)
METAL ︎︎︎ Oliver Sim. Fierce and sweet nature boy
(interview)
METAL N.46 ︎︎︎ Emily Barker. What accessibility feels like
(interview)
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La Opinión de Málaga ︎︎︎ Escenarios ardientes
METAL ︎︎︎ Joesef. Our bodies in motion
METAL ︎︎︎ Nadia Rose. Exquisite & killer lyricism
(interview)
La Opinión de Málaga ︎︎︎ R de reinonas
METAL
︎︎︎ Day Wave. A ceaseless yet cathartic look to the past
(interview)
METAL ︎︎︎ Perfume Genius. The sound of your body on screen
(interview)
METAL ︎︎︎ Eva Beresin. Laugh, don’t cry
(interview)
METAL ︎︎︎ Day Wave. A ceaseless yet cathartic look to the past (interview)
METAL ︎︎︎ Perfume Genius. The sound of your body on screen (interview)