The music I enjoyed this year, either bought in physical form, often through Burning Shed, or digitally through bandcamp.

1. Beat, Neon Heat Disease: Live
2. Bioscope, Gentō
3. Cosmic Cathedral, Deep Water
4. Barry Cleveland and Robert Rich, Elliptical Passage
5. Dream Theater, Parasomnia
6. Jon Durant, Colin Edwin, Chris Maitland, The Baldock Transmission
7. Antoine Fafard (with Gary Husband and Jean-Pierre Zanella), Quadra Spherium
8. Gazpacho, Magic 8 Ball
9. Harrison/Johnston, Early Mercy
10. Ihlo, Legacy
11. Jakko Jakszyk, Son of Glen
12. Kali trio, The Playful Abstract
13. Katatonia, Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State
14. Komara, II
15. Volker Lankow, Unresolved Echoes
16. Lunatic Soul, The World Under Unsun
17. Tim Motzer and Bernhard Wöstheinrich, Ümlaut Rotunda 2023
18. PAKT, Live Recordings 2024
19. Pattern-Seeking Animals, Friend of all Creatures
20. Marcus Reuter, Stream for Consciousness 7 and Thirteen Studies in Tender Collapse 
21. Marcus Reuter (featuring Fabio Trentini and Asaf Sirkis), Truce ❤
22. Spock’s Beard, The Archaeoptimist 
23. Andy Summers and Robert Fripp, The Complete Recordings 1981-1984
24. Stefan Thelen and Jon Durant, Rothko Spaces Volume 3
25. Stefan Thelen and Markus Reuter, Promise of a Better World and Rothko Spaces Volume 4
26. Stefan Thelen, Worlds in Collision and the rest of the Rothko Spaces series
27. Stick Men, Brutal EP
28. Tonnen von Hall, Ein Abdruck vom Messer im Herzen
29. Stephen Wilson, The Overview
30. Mark Wingfield, Elemental

For previous years: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012.

Live, I enjoyed Dream Theater, Steven Wilson, Neal Morse, Remain in Light, Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin, Nik Bärtsch and Kaspar Rast at the Exil club in Zürich, and PKT (PAKT, missing the ‘A’) at a small venue in Brooklyn.