andy beta's Favorite Records Of 2002

1. Various, "House of Jealous Lovers" "Losing My Edge" (DFA)
   It was like I hadn't missed the New York eighties at all.
2. Akio Suzuki, "Odds and Ends" (Horen)
   Neither tethered to time or earth.
3. Wilco, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" (Nonesuch)
   Funny, I don't think I even listened to it this year.
4. William Basinski, "The Disentegration Loops" (2062)
   Disregarding its 9-11 story, this is still elegant and elegiac.
5. Boards of Canada, "Geogaddi" (Warp)
   An excellent soundtrack of paranoid head-voices, and beats like nervous hearts.
6. Kevin Drumm, "Sheer Hellish Miasma" (Mego)
   Freezing like the Inferno, and freebasing black metal, this was great fun.
7. Johann Johannsson, "Englaborn" (Touch)
   A real dark horse from the end of December. Distilled beauty and sadness.
8. John Duncan, "Phantom Broadcast" (All Questions)
   Shimmering plasma madness. Epic.
9. Keith Fullerton Whitman, "Playthroughs" (Kranky)
   Woozy and restrained. Each sound grain is buffed and layered like a pearl.
10. ...and You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, "Source Tags and Codes" (Interscope)
    This makes four of my top ten records that have shortwave radio in them.
11. James Luther Dickinson, "Dixie Fried" (Sepia Tone)
12. Jacques Berrocal, "Musiq Musik" (Fractal)
13. Sonny Sharrock, "Paradise" (Water)
14. Rolling Stones, "Aftermath (UK)" (Abkco)
15. Love Joys, "Lovers Rock" (Wackie's)
16. Ekkehard Ehlers, "Plays" (Staubgold)
17. Tony Conrad with Faust, "Outside the Dream Syndicate" (Table of the Elements)
18. Jonathan Coleclough, "Period" CD reissue (Anomalous)
19. Bob Dylan, "Live 1975: Rolling Thunder Revue" (Columbia)
20. A Certain Ratio, "Early" (Soul Jazz)