is there a single more versatile artist in the world today...

than Áine O'Dwyer? I guess she really only alternates between tape stuff and drone and, of course, organ improv, with that one big 180 into being Joanna and Nico's lovechild but I dunno that still covers a lot of more disparate ground than most artists even on the fringe. She's the best and I still can't pronounce her name, God bless 'er.

reggae canon is best canon

oh how the hater has been laid low and made to change her tune! King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown. You know it, you probably love it - I didn't. Oh, it was fine. But y'know, I'm theContrariangorbler. Today tho low and behold shit clicked. It's a gently surrealistic watercolor paint-on-glass animation, it's a hazy tan, tangerine and teal daydream. The title track is still easily the weakest cut - it's pretty much the ideal dub cut but it just don't move me for whatever reason. The rest is just as good as virtually every music nerd friend I've ever had has always said it is - and the first half is especially magnificent. But y'all know that.

new benjamin clementine is legit, ftr.

If ever a band or project was aptly named, it'd be Aural Holograms. First track on their album is some of the most compelling and immersive "walking around an abandoned alien spacecraft" music I've yet to hear - really fantastic stuff. The second is quite nice, too, but then they stretch 12-15 minutes of idea for 40 minutes and it regressively goes from being commendably spooked to at least sonically interesting if not exactly atmospheric anymore to just plain dull. Pity because a couple more tracks like that opener and we'd have a classic.