Both Spitting Off The Edge of the World and (especially!!!) Burning... are two of the greatest Yeah Yeah Yeahs songs of all time. Burning is a contender for the best song of 2022.
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
Nice to see all the Constellation representation, Kreng. I thought they had a very strong release schedule this year. Did you ever check out the new Black Ox Orkestar, Everything Returns? It's up there with Chenaux and Esmerine as one of my very favorite records of 2022.
Sorry, just saw this. I gave it one listen sometime last year but it didn't grab me, might try again as they usually grab me more than this one did.
Another one that slipped through the cracks for me is PUP's THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND. Kind of a more pop punk Turnstile? I don't know, but it slaps.
Still catching up on last year! 2022 really was a mother fucker, I tell ya.
Anyhoo, checked out Working Men's Club album Fear Fear and really enjoyed the post punk revival vibe. There's a bit of this going on at the moment and I'm here for that.
