AFI – AFI
Alex Clare – Tail of Lions
Austra – Future Politics
Avec le Soleil Sortant de sa Bouche – Pas pire pop, I Love You So Much
Bill + Phil – Songs of Darkness and Despair
Boliden – Surfaces
Cherry Glazerr – Apocalipstick
Coldharbourstores – Wilderness
Dot Hacker – N°3
Drab Majesty – The Demonstration
Dune Rats – The Kids Will Know It’s Bullshit
Foxygen – Hang
Heat – Overnight
HKE – Dragon Soul
ITPDWIP – Eye Can See the Darkness (In the End of the Tunnel)
Jack Ellister – Roots Conference
Joan of Arc – He’s Got the Whole This Land Is Your Land in His Hands
Kid Koala – Music To Draw To: Satellite
Loyle Carner – Yesterday’s Gone
Menace Beach – Lemon Memory
Michael Chapman – 50
Mick Harvey – Intoxicated Women
Minor Moon – What Our Enemies Know
Pabllo Vittar – Vai Passar Mal
Piano Magic – Closure
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Feed The Rats
Problem – Chachiville
Prodigy – Hegelian Dialectic (The Book of Revelation)
Rubblebucket – If U C My Enemies
Rufus T. Firefly – Magnolia
Shintaro Sakamoto – Love If Possible
Shy Girls – Salt
Starset – Vessels
The Flight Of Sleipnir – Skadi
The Proper Ornament – Foxhole
Thomas Stenström – Rör inte min kompis!
Throwing Snow – Embers
Tim Cohen – Luck Man
Uniform – Wake in Fright
Various Artists – I Said No Doctors!
Vitalic – Voyager
William Basinski – A Shadow in Time
Comment: The first sneak peak of the new year finds nothing much worth listening to, if you waterboarded me I’d go with Foxygen maybe, but listening to Canadian Avec le Soleil Sortant de sa Bouche, who have their first album since 2014 dropping, I’ll go with the experimental rockers.