20 Best Avant Albums of 2017

Bosnian-born accordion hypnotist Mario Batkovic is a cyclicing minimalist, culling mesmerizing melodies and sounds from a lone squeezebox. Not content to be just another post–Philip Glass loopster, Batkovic uses a close microphone set up, allowing the clicks and clacks of the keys to be part of his sound world, creating delicate ("Restrictus"), frantic ("Machina") and deep-droning ("Desiderii Patriae") music with the formal feel of classical but the closeness of indie rock.