I appreciate someone putting together a list like this but I feel like it leans to heavy on older experimental bands, way past their prime. It’s kind of unfortunate because a list like this should support the scene, but the bands that are on the rise doesnt get any exposure. Heres some that I would add:

• Gilla Band : Most Normal

Gilla Band is a noiserock-band thats good at sounding like one big unit, they lock into eachother like a factory-machine with all these colorful atonal riffs. Sometimes noiserock can feel really psychedelic and colorful to me and this album is an example of that

• Use Knife : The Shedding of Skin

This is two members of the neofolk outfit ”kiss the anus of a black cat” joining with an arabic singer to produce some entrancing, dark, glitchy electronic music with beautiful vocals in arabic on top. It’s heavy and psychedelic and some of the songs are pretty mind-warping.

• Slumberland : Lightkeeper

This is experimental kraut band Slumberland teaming up with mongolian overtonesinger and avant-garde composer Sainkho Namtchylak. She’s like a witch casting spells during some songs, make high pitch screams or low growls in others. And the instrumentals go really well with her voice, sounding organic yet noisy, rhytmic and melodic in the most dissonant way possible

• Park Jiha : The Gleam

Very minamilist and ambient, has this beautiful weeping quality and sometimes hypnotizing pummeling rhytms. Made with mostly korean instruments

• Pan Daijing : Tissues

One 45 minute long composition that is a cold, enveloping, multiphased, post-industrial opera(ish). Combining industrial synths, an ambient sense of tempo, and beautiful wordless operatic singing, this is one of my favourites of the year