The Bay Area experienced a watershed year of music characterized by meticulous, inventive, and varied releases across electronic, indie, punk, and experimental genres. Artists produced jittery electronic tracks, wiry grooves, indie guitar-driven work, retro mystical side projects, punk manifestos, and lo-fi dreamscapes, maintaining continual creative evolution. Space Ghost & Teddy Bryant's Majestic Fantasies channels late '80s and early '90s R&B, UK street soul, house, and g-funk through a polished, swing-infused prism. Orcutt Shelley Miller, an avant-rock trio of Bill Orcutt, Steve Shelley, and Ethan Miller, delivers a five-track instrumental manifesto blending punk urgency with big rock pomp and jam-band expansiveness. San Francisco artist Raven offers ambient compositions that slowly reveal beats and rhythmic textures.
"Space Ghost & Teddy Bryant teamed up this year for the Majestic Fantasies album that shines a light on late '80s and early '90s sounds that possess that swing. Through the prism of R&B, UK street soul, house, and g-funk, both artists polish up what seems to be back in the cultural zeitgeist these days-but for the discerning listener, it never went out of style."
"ORCUTT SHELLEY MILLER Orcutt Shelley Miller is a San Francisco-based avant-rock trio comprised of three highly celebrated figures of experimental music: Bill Orcutt (Harry Pussy), Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), and Ethan Miller (Howlin Rain, Comets On Fire). That's how they describe themselves. But one listen to this self-titled, five-track instrumental manifesto that breathes and bleeds punk meets big rock pomp and grandeur, you hear jam-band gold and moonlit punk coexisting in your earhole. It's the stuff ole Neil Young was crazy horsin' about all these decades ago. Magnificent."
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