2011: The Bluefat Aesthetic

400 Blows –– Sickness and Health (Original Recordings Group)

13 & God –– Own Your Ghost (Anticon)

Absolute Fusioon (Finders Keepers / B-Music)

Adam Rudolph, Go Organic Orchestra –– Can You Imagine the Sound of a Dream (Meta)

Alexander Tucker –– Dorwytch (Thrill Jockey)

Allen Karpinski –– Red Echo (VDSQ)

AM & Shawn Lee –– Celestial Electric (ESL)

Amir el Saffar Two Rivers Ensemble –– Anana (PI)

Amon Tobin –– Surge (Ninja Tune)

Ancestors –– Invisible White EP (Teepee)

Andre Williams –– Can You Deal With It (Bloodshot)

Anika (Stones Throw)

Anna Netrebko, Marianna Pizzolato –– Stabat Mater: A Tribute to Pergolesi (Deutsche Grammophon)

Anthony Braxton –– Trillium E (Braxton House)

Arbouretum –– The Gathering (Thrill Jockey)

Arrica Rose & the ...'s –– Let Alone Sea (192)

Augustin Hadelich, Robert Kulek –– Echoes of Paris (Avie)

Azalia Snail –– Celestial Respect (Silber)

Azita –– Disturbing the Air (Drag City)

Baby Dee –– Regifted (Drag City)

Baloji –– Kinchasa Succursale (Crammed Disques)

Beep –– City of the Future (Third Culture)

Berne Black & Cline –– The Veil (Cryptogramophone)

Blackfield –– Welcome to My DNA (Kscope)

The Bo-Keys –– Got to Get Back (Electraphonic)

Bombino –– Agadez (Cumbancha)

The Book of Knots –– Garden of Fainting Stars (Ipecac)

Boots Electric –– Honkey Kong (Dangerbird)

Boris –– Heavy Rocks and Attention Please (Sargent House)

Boston Spaceships –– Let It Beard (Guided by Voices)

Caithlin de Marrais –– Red Coats (End Up)

Can –– Tago Mago 40^th anniversary edition (Spoon)

Carlos Paredes –– Guitarra Portuguesa (Drag City)

Casiokids –– Aabenbaringen Over Asskammen (Polyvinyl)

Charles Lloyd, Maria Farentouri –– Athens Concert (ECM)

Chiara String Quartet + Matmos –– Jefferson Friedman Quartets (New Amsterdam)

Chick Corea, Stefano Bollani –– Orvieto (ECM)

Chico Hamilton –– Revelation (JS)

Choo Young-Wuk –– Oldboy soundtrack (Milan)

Christine Owman –– Throwing Knives (River Jones)

The Claudia Quintet + 1 –– What Is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform)

Cliffie Swan –– Memories Come True (Drag City)

Cluster –– Curiosum (Sky / Bureau B)

Colin Vallon Trio –– Rruga (ECM)

Connie Converse –– How Sad How Lovely (Lau Derette)

Corridor –– Real Late (Manimal)

Craig Taborn –– Avenging Angel (ECM)

D. Charles Speer & The Helix –– Leaving the Commonwealth (Thrill Jockey)

Daedelus –– Bespoke (Ninja Tune)

Damon & Naomi –– False Beats and True Hearts (20/20/20)

Daniele Luppi –– Malos Habitos (Ipecac)

David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights –– Left by Soft (Merge)

David Lynch –– Crazy Clown Time (Play It Again Sam)

Declaime (Dudley Perkins) –– Self Study (Someothaship)

Deerhoof vs. Evil (Polyvinyl)

Delicate Steve –– Wondervisions (Luaka Bop)

Dengue Fever –– Cannibal Courtship (Concord)

Dennis Coffey (Strut)

Derek Sherinian –– Oceana (Music Theories)

Deru –– Say Goodbye to Useless (Mush)

Dessa –– Castor, The Twin (Doomtree)

Dimlite –– Grimm Reality and My Human Wears Acedia Shreds (Now-Again)

Dino Saluzzi, Anja Lechner, Felix Saluzzi –– Navidad de Los Andes (ECM)

Dirty Projectors and Björk –– Mount Wittenberg Orca (Domino)

Don Gere –– Werewolves on Wheels soundtrack (Finder’s Keeper’s / B-Music)

Dos –– Dos y Dos (Clenchedwrench)

Dunya –– A Story of the City: Constantinople, Istanbul (Dunya, Inc.)

Ebo Taylor –– Life Stories, Highlife and Afrobeat Classics 1973-80 (Strut)

Eleanor Friedberger –– Last Summer (Merge)

Emperor X –– Western Transport (Bar None)

Enrico Rava Quintet –– Tribe (ECM)

Eternal Tapestry & Sun Araw –– Night Gallery (Thrill Jockey)

Father’s Children –– Who’s Gonna Save the World (Numero)

Faust –– Something Dirty (Bureau B)

Fergus & Geronimo –– Unlearn (Hardly Art)

Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop)

Fool’s Gold –– Leave No Trace (I Am Sound)

Ford & Lapotin –– Channel Pressure (Mexican Summer)

Francis Couturier –– Tarkovsky Quartet (ECM)

Frank Fairfield –– Out on the Open West (Tompkins Square)

The Galactic Cowboy Orchestra –– All Out of Peaches (New Folk)

Gary Lucas –– The Ordeal of Civility (Knitting Factory)

Gidon Kremer, Giedre Dirvanauskaite –– Kissine/Tchaikovsky Piano Trios (ECM)

Gilad Atzmon –– The Tide Has Changed (World Village)

Girl in a Coma –– Exits & All the Rest (Blackheart)

Giya Kancheli –– Themes From the Songbook (ECM)

Glenn Jones –– The Wanting (Thrill Jockey)

The Goldberg Sisters (PIAS)

Googoosh (Finder’s Keepers / B Music)

Graham Reynolds –– The Difference Engine (Innova)

Greg Ward’s Phonic Juggernaut (Thirsty Ear)

Gregory Spears –– Requiem (New Amsterdam)

Grimes –– Halifaxa (Arbutus)

Gruff Rhys –– Hotel Shampoo (Wichita)

The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble, Levon Eskenian –– Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff (ECM)

Hanni el Khatib –– Will the Guns Come Out (Innovative Leisure)

Hazmat Modine –– Cicada (Barbes)

Heinz Holliger, Erich Hobarth, Camerata Bern –– Bach Concertos and Sinfonias for Oboe (ECM)

The High Llamas –– Talahomi Way (Drag City)

High Places –– Original Colors (Thrill Jockey)

Hilary Hahn, Valentina Lisitsa –– Ives: Four Sonatas (Deutsche Grammophon)

Himalayan Bear –– Hard Times (Absolutely Kosher)

The Howling Hex –– Victory Chimp and Wilson Semiconductors (Drag City)

Howlin Rain –– The Good Life EP (American)

Iggy Pop –– Roadkill Rising (Shout Factory)

Ilhan Ersahin Istanbul Sessions –– Night Rider (Nublu)

Iro Haarla Quintet –– Vespers (ECM)

Ivan Julian –– The Naked Flame (Bloody Hotsak)

Ivy –– All Hours (Nettwerk)

Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins –– A Scarcity of Miracles (Discipline Global Mobile)

James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg –– Avos (Tompkins Square)

Jean-Claude Vannier –– Electro Rapide and Roses Rouge Sang (Finders Keepers / B-Music)

Jeremy Jay –– Dream Diary (K)

The Jigsaw Seen –– Winterland (Vibrophonic)

Jim White –– Sound of the Americans (Loose Music)

Joan As Police Woman –– The Deep Field (PIAS)

Joe Henry –– Reverie (Anti-)

John Martyn –– Heaven and Earth (Hole in the Rain)

John Tejada –– Parabolas (Kompakt)

John Wesley Harding –– The Sound of His Own Voice (Yeproc)

J.Rocc –– Some Cold Rock Stuff (Stones Throw)

Julianna Barwick –– The Magic Place (Asthmatic Kitty)

Junior Boys –– It’s All True (Domino)

Kashmere Stage Band –– Texas Thunder Soul 68-74 (Now-Again)

Kate Bush –– 50 Words for Snow (Anti-)

Khatia Buniatishvili –– Franz Liszt (Sony)

Kid Creole & the Coconuts –– I Wake Up Screaming (Strut)

Kid Koala –– Space Cadet (Ninja Tune)

Kourosh Yaghmaei –– Back From the Brink (Now-Again)

Kreidler –– Tank (Bureau B)

Kristjan Jarvi, Absolute Ensemble –– Arabian Nights (Enja)

Krystian Zimerman –– Bacewicz: Piano Sonata No. 2, Piano Quintets Nos. 1&2 (Deutsche Grammophon)

Kronos Quartet, Pohjonen/Kosminen –– Uniko (Ondine)

The Ladybug Transistor –– Clutching Stems (Merge)

Latebirds –– Last of the Good Ol’ Days (Second Motion)

Lee Konitz, Brad Mehldau, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian –– Live at Birdland (ECM)

The Legendary Pink Dots –– The French Collection (BRR)

Leo Brouwer, The Havana String Quartet –– The String Quartets, String Trio (Zoho)

The Lijadu Sisters –– Danger (Knitting Factory)

Lisa Moore & So Percussion ­–– Martin Bresnick’s Caprichos Enfáticos (Cantaloupe)

Liturgy –– Aesthethica (Thrill Jockey)

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Nicholas McGegan –– Berlioz Les nuits d’été, Handel Arias (Philharmonia Baroque)

Lumerians –– Transmalinnia (Knitting Factory)

M.E.D. –– Classic (Stones Throw)

Malika Zarra –– Berber Taxi (Motema)

Marcin Wasilewski Trio –– Faithful (ECM)

Marianne Faithfull –– Horses and High Heels (Naive)

Marilyn Mazur –– Celestial Circle (ECM)

Marissa Nadler (Box of Cedar)

Mathias Eick –– Skala (ECM)

Matt Haimovitz –– Matteo: 270 Years of an Italian Cello (Oxingale)

Matthew Bourne –– Montauk Variations (Leaf)

Matthew Shipp Trio –– Elastic Aspects (Thirsty Ear)

Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Beans, Hprizm –– Knives From Heaven (Thirsty Ear)

Mayer Hawthorne –– Impressions: The Covers EP (Stones Throw)

Meat Puppets –– Lollipop (Megaforce)

Mekons –– Ancient and Modern (Bloodshot)

Metamono –– Tape EP (Ho Hum)

Mia Doi Todd –– Cosmic Ocean Ship (City Zen)

Michael Formanek –– The Rub and Spare Change (ECM)

Mighty Sparrow –– Sparrowmania! (Strut)

Mike Watt –– Hyphenated-Man (Clenchedwrench)

Moholy Nagy –– Like Mirage (Temporary Residence)

Mungolian Jetset –– Schlungs (Smalltown Supersound)

Naïm Amor –– Soundtracks Vol. IV (Amormusic)

The Natural Yogurt Band –– Tuck in With (Stones Throw)

Neptune –– Silent Partner (Northern Spy)

New York Dolls –– Dancing Backward in High Heels (429)

Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang –– Britten: Winter Words: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (Avie)

Nick Lowe –– The Old Magic (Yeproc)

Night Beats (Trouble in Mind)

Nils Okland, Sigbjorn Apeland –– Lysoen: Hommage à Ole Bull (ECM)

Nous Non Plus –– Freudian Slip (Aeronaut)

Norbertine Fathers of St. Michael’s Abbey –– Gregorian Chant, Requiem (Jade)

Old Californio –– Sundrunk Angels (Californio)

Omar Rodriquez Lopez –– Telesterion (RL Productions)

The One AM Radio –– Heaven Is Attached by a Slender Thread (Dangerbird)

Orchestre Polyrhythmo –– Cotonou Club (Strut)

Papercuts –– Fading Parade (Sub Pop)

Patrick Wolf –– Lupercalia (Hideout)

Pedro Soler & Gaspar Claus –– Barlande (Infine)

Pelican –– What We All Come To Need (Southern Lord)

The Persuasions & Friends –– Persuasions of the Dead (Zoho)

P.G. Six –– Starry Mind (Drag City)

Philharmonia Baroque, Nicholas McGegan –– Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Violin Concertos (Philharmonia Baroque)

Picastro & Nadja –– Fool, Redeemer (Alien8)

Plug –– Back on Time (Ninja Tune)

Priestbird –– Beachcombers (Benzod)

Pterodactyl –– Spills Out (Brah)

Pyrolator –– Neuland (Bureau B)

Quilt (Mexican Summer)

Raffertie –– Visual Acuity (Ninja Tune)

Ralph Carney’s Serious Jass Project –– Seriously (Smog Veil)

Ricardo Villalobos, Max Loderbauer –– Re ECM (ECM)

The Residents –– Lonely Teenager and Dolar Generar (Cryptic Corporation)

Robert Pollard –– Lord of the Birdcage (Guided by Voices)

Roedelius/Schneider –– Stunden (Bureau B)

Roll the Dice –– In Dust (Leaf)

Rudresh Mahanthappa –– Samdhi (ACT)

Ry Cooder –– Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down (Nonesuch)

Sachal Studios Orchestra, Lahore –– Jazz Interpretations of Jazz Standards & Bossa Nova (Sachal)

Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York –– Eto (Libra)

The Sea and Cake –– The Moonlight Butterfly (Thrill Jockey)

Serengeti –– Family and Friends (Anticon)

Shabazz Palaces –– Black Up (Sub Pop)

Sinnika Langeland –– The Land That Is Not (ECM)

Sister Crayon –– Bellow (Manimal)

Six Organs of Admittance –– Asleep on the Floodplain (Drag City)

The Skull Defekts –– Peer Amid (Thrill Jockey)

Slide to Freedom –– 20,000 Miles (Northern Blues)

Son Lux –– We Are Rising (Anticon)

So Percussion –– Steve Mackey: It is Time (Cantaloupe)

Social Climbers (Drag City)

Solla Solla: Maestro Ilaiyaraaja and the Electronic Pop Sound of Kollywood 1977-1983 (Finders Keepers / B-Music)

The Soundtrack of Our Lives –– Golden Greats No. 1 (Akashic)

Stan Getz Quintets –– The Clef & Norgran Albums (Hip-O Select/Verve)

Stefano Battaglia Trio –– The River of Anyder (ECM)

The Stepkids (Stones Throw)

The War on Drugs –– Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)

Susan James –– Highways, Ghosts, Hearts and Home (SusanJamesMusic)

Tarwater –– Inside the Ships (Bureau B)

Tecumseh –– Return to Everything (Beta Lactam Ring)

The Complete Recordings of Amede Ardoin, 1929-1934 (Tompkins Square)

The Real Tuesday Weld –– The Last Werewolf soundtrack (Six Degrees)

Thomas Zehetmair, Ruth Killius –– Manto and Madrigals (ECM)

Thurston Moore –– Demolished Thoughts (Matador)

Timothy Young –– Gravitational Lensing (self-released)

Tony MacAlpine (Sundog)

Travis & Fripp –– Live at Coventry Cathedral (Panegyric)

Ty Segall –– Goodbye Bread (Drag City)

Various –– Boddie Recording Co., Cleveland, Ohio (Numero)

Various –– True Soul: Deep Sounds From the Left of Stax (Now-Again)

Various –– Persian Funk (Secret Stash)

Various –– This May Be My Last Time Singing (Tompkins Square)

Various –– Bollywood Bloodbath (Finders Keepers / B-Music)

Various –– Eccentric Soul: The Nickel & Penny Labels (Numero)

Various –– Life Is Dance! Plugged In Sounds of Wonder (Finders Keepers / B-Music)

Various –– Nigeria ’70: Sweet Times (Strut)

Various –– The Illusionist soundtrack (Milan)

Various –– To What Strange Place: The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916–1929 (Tompkins Square)

Various –– Whaur the Pig Gaed on the Spree: Scottish Recordings by Alan Lomax 1951-1957 (Drag City)

Vas Deferens Organization –– Transcontinental Conspiracy (Niklas)

Vetiver –– The Errant Charm (Sub Pop)

Vex Ruffin –– Crash Course EP (Stones Throw)

Wadada Leo Smith –– Heart’s Reflections (Cuneiform)

Willie Wright –– Telling the Truth (Domino)

White Hills –– H-p1 (Thrill Jockey)

Wolfert Brederode Quartet –– Post Scriptum (ECM)

Yellowbirds –– The Color (Royal Potato Family)

YOY –– Like a Stunt Man (Bureau B)