Sorry for the long delay y'all. Definitely not gonna let this thread die yet.
Top 5 noise/experimental/whatever releases of 2021:
Mot - Hack (New Forces): Dirty, sputtering harsh noise from rural concréte sound sources. Maybe my favourite Canadian project currently operating. This guy is basically the go-to noise visual artist at the moment and has done covers for pretty much anyone you could think of.
https://newforces.bandcamp.com/album/hack Jeph Jerman - Popular Fictions (Tsss Tapes):
The best thing I've heard all year.
THE most deeply layered, constantly shifting tape-noise ever recorded?. About 10,000 different sounds in 30 minutes. A-side is based around vocal snippets from various sources. "MY ASS".
https://tssstapes.bandcamp.com/album/popular-fictions Etrusca 3D - Trickster Blade (Pacific City Sound Visions): Not gonna try to describe this one. Nothing sounds like this shit and the concepts are somehow getting MORE abstract.
https://pacificcitysoundvisions.bandcamp.com/album/trickster-blade Star - Yutris (I Am Elegant):
Star/IAE have consistently brought an anything goes/nothing coheres approach to their sound/visuals and this weird fucker is no exception.
Seperated into twelve nearly impossible to index sections (most of them titled "Supercore"), each side begins as a relatively straightforward noise assault, with cascading sheets of feedback and looping chirps that become yelps that become belches. As the pieces progress, amp-blasted Portuguese radio cuts/pop songs cut through the mix, and the tape ends too many times. It should have ended too many more.
As usual, the artwork/packaging is an ever-shifting mix of some of the most baffling and incongruous imagery being used in noise/sound art these days. Dogs, museums, animism, divination? Doubt it.
My copy is numbered 2219/3000.
No Digital link.
Jute - Contempt (Detachment Programs):
Monolithic, HARSH shit that sounds like classic 90's Japanese noise, but done by a guy in Montreal. I love everything that I've heard from this project.
https://jute.bandcamp.com/album/contempt