Albums of 2022

[dad]

Tried Alvvays a couple months back, extremely boring

as equally bored as you were with Alex G or more?

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[tragabigzanda]

[VinylGuy]

i listened to a few songs from that new Alex G and it was alright.

I finished the new Alvvays and im a sucker for those type of bands, but also the last half got me kinda bored too. I need more listens.

[dad]

i listened to a few songs from that new Alex G and it was alright.

I finished the new Alvvays and im a sucker for those type of bands, but also the last half got me kinda bored too. I need more listens.

I feel like I'm a sucker for Alvvays-esque bands (twee) as well, and I'm in the camp where I think the previous albums are better than Blue Rev. It's still good though.

[VinylGuy]

yeah, i want to listen to those.

What other bands do you like with that sound?

[dad]

yeah, i want to listen to those.

What other bands do you like with that sound?

The Aisler's Set is one, and this one band I found on bandcamp, tin-ear, are pretty good.

[Jorge]

Antisocialites was very good but I think they really stepped up their game with Blue Rev in terms of songwriting and arrangements. I love all the ear candy and the teenage yearning of it all. Great summertime album, immaculate vibes

[Jorge]

yeah, i want to listen to those.

What other bands do you like with that sound?

The Aisler's Set is one, and this one band I found on bandcamp, tin-ear, are pretty good.

I used to love this band called Pity Sex, they were similar but a lot grungier and more shoegazey. Not as synthy. They were very good, no clue what happened to them

[Ello Sailor]

Tried Alvvays a couple months back, extremely boring

Samesies. I'm happy for those who get it, though.

[Ello Sailor]

Alex G puts enough of a spin on the singer-songwriter formula to avoid the boring tag IMO. I'm surprised you don't dig him, Trag.

[Ello Sailor]

Also, you dildos are still sleeping on black midi.

[Jorge]

So much music

[Ello Sailor]

Too damn much.

[i got bugs]

What the hell does everyone see in black country, new road?

Voice is too serious n is boring me to tears

[kreng]

probably forgot a few but these are my faves of 2022

all are in alphabetic order

Top Tier LPs:
Adam H - Floods
Anteloper - Pink Dolphins
Backxwash - I Lie Here Buried With My Rings And My Dresses
Carmen Villain - Only Love From Now On
Chat Pile - God's Country
Christos Chondropoulos - Relics
Contour - Onwards!
Cyrus Pireh - Visitor
Dawuna - Glass Lit Dream
Emeka Ogboh - 6​°​30​’​33​.​372​”​N 3​°​22​’​0​.​66​”​E
Eric Chenaux - Say Laura
Fatboi Sharif x noface - Preaching In Havana
Infinity Knives with Brian Ennals - King Cobra
Jeff Parker - Mondays At The Enfield Tennis Academy
Lamin Fofana - The Open Boat
Lampen - Lampen
Leila Bordreuil - Not An Elegy
Lucrecia Dalt - ¡Ay!
Medicine Singers - Medicine Singers
Nate Wooley/Columbia Icefield - Ancient Songs Of Burlap Heroes
Oren Ambarchi - Shebang
Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin - Ghosted
Oxbow & Peter Brötzmann - An Eternal Reminder Of Not Today / Live At Moers
Pinkcourtesyphone - Shouting At Nuance
Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful
Valentina Goncharova - Ocean - Symphony For Electric Violin And Other Instruments In 10+ Parts
Valentina Magaletti - Rotta
Γιάννης Βεσλεμές - The Well

Great LPs:
Arve Henriksen, Kjetil Husebø - Sequential Stream
Authentically Plastic - Raw Space
Bjork - Fossora
Chris Abrahams - Follower
CoH meets Abul Mogard - CoH meets Abul Mogard
Cowman - slaughter
Damien Jurado - Reggae Film Star
Dans Dans - 6
Duster - Together
Eels - Extreme Witchcraft (See My Engine Gleam)
Esmerine - Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More
Fulu Miziki - N'Djila Wa Mudujimu
God Is War - Predation Perfected
I Like To Sleep - Sleeping Beauty
Ilmiliekki Quartet - Ilmiliekki Quartet
Immanuel Wilkins - The 7th Hand
Jacaszek / Romke Kleefstra / Jan Kleefstra - It Deel I
Jake Xerxes Fussell - Good and Green Again
Jeremy Cunningham, Dustin Laurenzi, Paul Bryan - A Better Ghost
John McCowen - Models of Duration
Joona Toivanen Trio - Both Only
JOYFULTALK - Familiar Science
Keiji Haino + Sumac - Into This Juvenile Apocalypse Our Golden Blood To Pour Let Us Never
Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke, Oren Ambarchi - “Caught In The Dilemma Of Being Made To Choose” This Makes The Modesty Which Should Never Been Closed Off Itself Continue To Ask Itself: “Ready Or Not?” = 「選ばされてしまう　はめになる」 このことが　もう閉じることが無かったはずの謙虚さに 「もういいかい」と　自らに問いかけ続けさせる
Kelly Lee Owens - LP.8
Lasse Marhaug - Context (Part 1-7)
Merzbow / Lawrence English - Eternal Stalker
Mister Water Wet - Significant Soil
Mønic - Trawler Tapes
Nadja / Aidan Baker - Nalepa
Perverts In White Shirts - Meaning What Exactly?
Peter Brötzmann / Keiji Haino Duo - The Intellect Given Birth To Here (Eternity) Is Too Young
Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation
Runhild Gammelsæter & Lasse Marhaug - Higgs Boson
Saint Abdullah, Eomac - Patience Of A Traitor
Sarah Davachi - Two Sisters
Shaolin Jazz - Byrd Over Staten: A Shaolin Jazz Tribute To Donald Byrd
Shearwater - The Great Awakening
Taylor Deupree - Harbor
Terry Jennings, Charles Curtis - Piece for Cello and Saxophone
The Comet Is Coming - Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
Vladislav Delay & Eivind Aarset - Singles
William Basinski & Janek Schaefer - ". . . On Reflection"

Good LPs:
Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
Black Midi - Hellfire
Brandon Seabrook With Cooper-Moore And Gerald Cleaver - In The Swarm
Buñuel - Killers Like Us
Caleb R.K. Williams - Unique Awake Roads
Cut Hands - Sixteen Ways Out
Deathprod - Sow Your Gold In The White Foliated Earth (A Composition For Ensemble Musikfabrik's Harry Parch Instruments)
Eddie Vedder - Earthling
Heroes Are Gang Leaders - LeAutoRoiOgraphy
Joe Rainey - Niineta
John Also Bennett - Out there in the middle of nowhere
Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
Kheth Astron - Flatter Earth
Lori Goldston - High And Low
Shit And Shine - Phase Corrected
The Mystic Revelation of Teppo Repo - Kosmoksen erakko
The pale faced family on the hill with Oliver Coates - The pale faced family on the hill
The Savage Morality - ATROCITY DECAY
The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention
Vermin Womb - Retaliation

Top Tier EPs:

Crazy Doberman - devils daughter sings her hybrid poem
Fire!, Stephen O'Malley, David Sandström - Requiēs
Primitive Man - Insurmountable
Springtime - The Night Raver EP
Tom Skinner - Voices Of Bishara

Top Tier Archival/Reissues LPs:

"A" Trio - The Binding Third
Alice Coltrane - Ptah, The El Daoud
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Insen
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Revep
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Summvs
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Vrioon
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto with Ensemble Modern - utp_
Cheval De Frise - Cheval De Frise
David Sylvian - Blemish
Dominique Lawalrée - First Meeting (Expanded Edition)
Het Zweet - Het Zweet
Isotope 217° - The Unstable Molecule
Jan Bruyndonckx - Rails And Other Tracks
Jean-Claude Vannier / Jean-Claude Vannier & Serge Gainsbourg - La Bête Noire / Paris N'Existe Pas
Julius Eastman - Two Extended Pieces For Four Pianos
Justice - Planisphere
Léo Kupper - Electronic Works & Voices 1977-87
Masahiko Togashi With Don Cherry & Charlie Haden - Session In Paris, Vol. 1 "Song Of Soil"
Max Roach - We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite
New Life Trio - Visions Of The Third Eye
Richard Ramirez - Memorial
The Khan Jamal Creative Arts Ensemble - Drum Dance To The Motherland
Various - Exploring Gong Culture In Southeast Asia: Massif And Archipelago
非常階段 - 蔵六の奇病

[Ello Sailor]

Jesus Christ, dude.

[VinylGuy]

damn

and i listened like 3 of those

[tragabigzanda]

[Chris_H_2]

in English please …