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Dec
2017

New Focus titles featured on Best of 2017 lists!

Mentions in The New Yorker, Bandcamp Daily, Spotify, New Music Box, and others

Several New Focus titles were included in Best of 2017 lists in various publications -- here's a roundup:

The New Yorker:
Scott Wollschleger: Soft Aberration
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2017-in-review/notable-performances-and-recordings-of-2017

Spotify's Best Classical of 2017 Playlist:
Scott Wollschleger: Soft Aberration (Anne Lanzilotti and Karl Larson)
Caroline Shaw: Boris Kerner, from New Morse Code's Simplicity Itself (Michael Compitello and Hannah Collins)

Bandcamp Daily:
Quince Ensemble: Hushers
Mariel Roberts: Cartography
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/12/22/best-bandcamp-contemporary-classical-albums-of-2017/#more-83831

New Music Box:
Kate Soper: Songs for Nobody from Quince Ensemble's Hushers
https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/newmusicbox-mix-2017-staff-picks/

textura:
John Glover/Kelly Rourke: Lucy
David K. Garner: Dark Holler
http://www.textura.org/archives/articles/2017top10s.htm

Naxos Music Library:
David K. Garner: Dark Holler
https://t.co/7Oq3pOw9Kt

Second Inversion:
Third Coast Percussion: The Book of Keyboards
https://www.secondinversion.org/2017/12/27/second-inversions-top-10-albums-of-2017/

National Sawdust Log Journal:
Rebekah Heller: Metafagote
George Lewis/ICE: The Will to Adorn
Longleash: Passage
Mariel Roberts: Cartography
Scott Wollschleger: Soft Aberration
https://nationalsawdust.org/thelog/2017/12/29/best-of-2017-noteworthy-recordings/?utm_source=thelog&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=122817best2017records

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