Albums of 2022

[Chris_H_2]

new Destroyer album today. I'm giving it a listen right now. I'm only two songs in, but so far so good.

[chewm]

new destroyer is fucking amazing

so is the new guerilla toss album, both instantly among my favs of the year

[Chris_H_2]

new destroyer is fucking amazing

so is the new guerilla toss album, both instantly among my favs of the year

all my pretty dresses is the chef's kiss. sooooo good.

[Ms Harmless]

I listened to one Destroyer song, do they all sound like they're being sung by the baby from Family Guy?

[washing machine]

I'm the type of guy who can both enjoy dan bejar and laugh hard at that.

[Ms Harmless]

I think I can be into it, I was just surprised; it's inventive and honest, for sure

[chewm]

new destroyer is fucking amazing

so is the new guerilla toss album, both instantly among my favs of the year

all my pretty dresses is the chef's kiss. sooooo good.

god yesss, that one drew me in quickly, maybe one of his best songs ever

[Rangi Guy]

new Placebo is good

Ive only listened to the singles so far. Will grab the vinyl soon enough. So far I think this could be top of the list for 2022

[Ms Harmless]

new Placebo is good

Ive only listened to the singles so far. Will grab the vinyl soon enough. So far I think this could be top of the list for 2022

nice! I liked the singles, my least favourite is "Happy Birthday..." but "Beautiful James" is lovely

[Rangi Guy]

new Placebo is good

Ive only listened to the singles so far. Will grab the vinyl soon enough. So far I think this could be top of the list for 2022

nice! I liked the singles, my least favourite is "Happy Birthday..." but "Beautiful James" is lovely

Really? I've had Happy Birthday stuck in my head for ages!

[Ms Harmless]

new Placebo is good

Ive only listened to the singles so far. Will grab the vinyl soon enough. So far I think this could be top of the list for 2022

nice! I liked the singles, my least favourite is "Happy Birthday..." but "Beautiful James" is lovely

Really? I've had Happy Birthday stuck in my head for ages!

that's fair; I find it a little underwritten lyrically; it's definitely not bad though, none of these songs are

also I love that the album is awash with synths, it suits Placebo

[Jorge]

Loved the new Destroyer except for "Tintoretto, It's For You" which I found extremely annoying!

[psychobain]

One more vote for Placebo

[psychobain]

[Mickey]

Loved the new Destroyer except for "Tintoretto, It's For You" which I found extremely annoying!

Agreed on both counts.

[Anders]

new destroyer is fucking amazing

Look forward to hearing it.

[psychobain]

Loved the new Destroyer except for "Tintoretto, It's For You" which I found extremely annoying!

Agreed on both counts.

[Mickey]

Loved the new Destroyer except for "Tintoretto, It's For You" which I found extremely annoying!

Agreed on both counts.

Nah I'm coming around on Tintoretto

[Brett]

Until June 1, Constellation has a discounted bundle on their next three albums that all have a loose affiliation as being rooted in various threads of electronic music. While the three albums have have various release dates in May and June, picking up the bundle nets one the opportunity to get each one shortly ahead of release date in a digital format, or all three at once in late April with physical versions.

First up is Familiar Science the fourth album (third for Constellation) by Jay Crocker's Joyfultalk project. This newest outing sees the project merging Crocker's more recent solitary excursions in rural Nova Scotia with his prior life in Calgary as an active band and session musician. Several musical collaborators sent Crocker improvised material to slice and splice with parts from the archival library of his own musical dabblings and a few choice samplings, all stewed together with new guitar and wordless vocal parts played by Crocker himself. The end result is a strange, rhythmically bustling electro-jazz.

Gap/Void is the debut collaboration of Automatisme (aka William Jourdain, a prolific electronic producer who has released a couple albums with Constellation in the past) and Stefan Paulus (a Swiss multimedia artist whose audio work is mostly involved with field recordings). The material began as field recordings captured by Paulus on various mountaineering trips that he layered together in dense ambient noise pieces and then sent to Jourdain. In Jourdain's hands, the raw material was sculpted into erratic rhythmic minimal dub/techno tracks. The resulting album has two parts, echoing its title; the first five tracks on the CD (and the entire LP) are the fully processed collaborative pieces, while the following five (on a download card with the LP) present the original pieces that Paulus formed.

Finally, T. Gowdy follows up his 2020 album Therapy with Colour with a new work, Miracles. The base material for the new album was conceived in 2018 as part of an audio/visual performance piece about surveillance. Throughout the pandemic, Gowdy dove back into this material, reshaping it with experiments in a multitude of new textural and rhythmic techniques. The result is Gowdy's trademark meditative IDM style shot through with a warmer, grittier feeling that supplants his older glossier sound without sacrificing his keen ear for detail.

As usual, once can go to Bandcamp to listen to previews of the new albums and pick them up if so inclined:

[Mickey]

new destroyer is fucking amazing

The second half of "June" is some of his best work. Parrot weather.