Utility Fog

It’s the best. Part 2 of 3! Not the second-best of the year by any means, just the second part of the best of the year.
It’s been an awesome year. Really. So awesome that I couldn’t nearly fit everything I wanted into two shows, so next week, Boxing Day, will be Part 3 of 3. Lots more to look forward to!
LISTEN AGAIN folks, link at the bottom! You know you want to.

Also, the following morning (Monday the 20th), through the magic of pre-recording, I was on FBi’s main competitor (I jest) Radio National’s breakfast program, talking with Julian Morrow about my “best album of the year” pick, which for RN purposes was Sufjan Stevens‘ Age of Adz. You can listen back to it here, with a bonus Raven performance thrown in…

Spartak – A Crack in the Nation (Lawrence English remix) [hellosQuare]
ZOND – IO [R.I.P. Society Records]
Yellow Swans – Limited Space [Type]
Pale Sketcher – Tiny Universe (Interstellar) [Ghostly International]
The Blood of Heroes – Blinded [Ohm Resistance]
Pale Sketcher – Plans That Fade (Faded Dub) [Ghostly International]
Parades – Hunters (Underlapper remix) [Direct from the ‘lappies, but available on iTunes (eek!)]
65daysofstatic – Antique Hypermall [Hassle Records]
Harmonious bec – Shunrai [Monotreme Records]
Grün – among the bad apes [Laughing Outlaw]
Ólafur Arnalds – Til Enda [Erased Tapes]
Ólöf Arnalds – Surrender (feat. Björk) [One Little Indian]
Dirty Projectors + Björk – On and Ever Onward [self-released – download for donation to protect precious marine life!]
Gregory & the Hawk – Landscapes [Fat Cat]
Nina Nastasia – What’s Out There [Fat Cat]
Joanna Newsom – Does Not Suffice [Drag City/Spunk]
fos – un courant [near the exit music]
Sam Amidon – How Come That Blood [Bedroom Community]
Oneohtrix Point Never – Returnal (Antony version) [Editions Mego]
Oneohtrix Point Never – Returnal [Editions Mego]
Keith Fullerton Whitman – Generator 1 [Root Strata]
Keith Fullerton Whitman – Variations for Oud & Synthesizer – version abrégé [no label]
Machinefabriek – John Davis [Machinefabriek] {free download album of old stuff, De Jonge Jaren (2001-2004). Go grab it — it’s awesome!}
Machinefabriek – Daas [Cold Spring]
BJ Nilsen – The Invisible City [Touch]
Gail Priest – Phantoms [get from Bandcamp!]
Gentleforce – Oh The Mystery, Oh The Wonder [Feral Media]
Nosaj Thing – Us (Jon Hopkins remix) [Alpha Pup] {watch the creepy and beautiful video here}
Scuba – Tracers [Hotflush]
Shit&Shine – Bass Puppy [Badmaster]
Skjølbrot – Rue Victor Masse to Gare d’Austerlitz [self-released]
Valgeir Sigurðsson – Focal Point (Kippi Kanínus remix) [Bedroom Community] {from the free download compilation Yule, available with any purchase from the Bedroom Community shop right now!}

Listen again — ~ 168MB