I think the destroyer album is the one I've listened to most so far. Still waiting for an album to truly amaze me though. I've been mostly going on some deep dives on much older stuff in the last couple of months though.
― silverfish, Friday, 17 June 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
Real Lies, Modern Nature, Mr Fingers, Duncan Marquiss,Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice,Ethel Cain.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 17 June 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link
Also one of the albums I've been listening to most tbh
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, June 17, 2022 1:26 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Did you notice they're playing here in Sept?
― jmm, Friday, 17 June 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
would be shocked if anything beats out Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
― gman59, Friday, 17 June 2022 21:27 (one year ago) link
Top 20 so far
1. Maya Shenfeld - In Free Fall (Thrill Jockey)2. Kevin Drumm - Future When It Comes (Self-Released)3. Sheng Jie & Shen Jing - Parallel Weaving (WV Sorcerer)4. Tanya Tagaq - Tongues (Six Shooter)5. Éliane Radigue & Frédéric Blondy - Occam XXV (Organ Reframed)6. Elías Merino & Daniel del Río - Structures for Wave Field Synthesis (Superpang)7. Wadada Leo Smith, Henry Kaiser & Alex Varty - Pacifica Koral Reef (577)8. Laura Cocks - Field Anatomies (Carrier)9. Flower-Corsano Duo - Halcyon (VHF)10. Bondi D'Incise/Blutwurst Ensemble - Zgodność (Insub)11. Jóhann Jóhannsson - Drone Mass (Deutsche Grammophon)12. Gábor Lázár - Boundary Object (Planet Mu)13. Phelimuncasi - Ama Gogela (Nyege Nyege Tapes)14. Fulu Mziki - Ngbaka EP (Moshi Moshi)15. Keiji Haino - My Lord Music, I Most Humbly Beg Your Indulgence In The Hope That You Will Do Me The Honour Of Permitting This Seed Called Keiji Haino To Be Planted Within You (Black Editions)16. Jim O'Rourke, Eiko Ishibashi & Joe Talia - Patrick (Self-Released)17. Infernal Mosquitos - Antigua (Superpang)18. Imarhan - Aboogi (City Slang)19. Patrick Shiroshi & Jeff Tobias - Patrick Shiroshi & Jeff Tobias (Topos Press)20. Biosphere - Shortwave Memories (Biophon)
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 17 June 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
I don't think I've heard any of that shit upthread but Huerco S. and Sault.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 17 June 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link
13. Phelimuncasi - Ama Gogela (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 17 June 2022 22:00 (one year ago) link
Oooh, new Biosphere.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 17 June 2022 22:02 (one year ago) link
I dig some of the OP albums but Cloakroom is the one I come back to the most.
― KPH, Friday, 17 June 2022 22:04 (one year ago) link
my 2022 aoty is probably _dots and loops_ by stereolab
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 17 June 2022 23:15 (one year ago) link
No!
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 17 June 2022 23:58 (one year ago) link
Something I didn’t mention - because it isn’t out yet - is the Prekop/McEntire LP.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 18 June 2022 00:03 (one year ago) link
Real Lies by an absolute mile. Also really like Hatchie, Melody's Echo Chamber, Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul, Foxes, Raveena, Charli XCX, Destroyer and Nilüfer Yanya.
― kitchen person, Saturday, 18 June 2022 01:14 (one year ago) link
Listening to the whole Phelimuncasi catalog right now — they're amazing.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 18 June 2022 01:53 (one year ago) link
Emily Wells' Regards to the End is worth spending time with.
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Saturday, 18 June 2022 05:51 (one year ago) link
while we’re doing Nyege Nyege Tapes, DJ Travella’s Mr Mixondo album is quite something too. (Tanzanian) singeli this time, not (South African) gqom.To my amazement, there’s an actual, quite extensive Pitchfork review: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/dj-travella-mr-mixondo/(context: I remember reading something about the Phelimuncasi album, but that “review” didn’t mention anything about the kind of music it involved)
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 18 June 2022 07:32 (one year ago) link
did anyone mention finally, new by they hate change? so good
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Saturday, 18 June 2022 16:34 (one year ago) link
ooh this Emily Wells album is extremely my shit
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 18 June 2022 16:45 (one year ago) link
I love the Taj Mahal/Ry Cooder album.
― banjoboy, Saturday, 18 June 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
Real Lies - Lad AshVitesse X - Us Ephemeral
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Saturday, 18 June 2022 22:19 (one year ago) link
^ this is a very bad description but the second one of those is vapourwave-adjacent dreampop meets 90s ravey stuff
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Saturday, 18 June 2022 22:26 (one year ago) link
Amber Mark - Three Dimensions Deep (P4k 8+)Anitta - Versions of Me (RS BSF)Anxious - Little Green House (SG BSF)
I assume P4k and RS is Pitchfork and Rolling Stone, but what is SG and BSF?
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 18 June 2022 22:45 (one year ago) link
I think SG is Stereogum, and BSF means that the site included it in their “Best (of 2022) So Far” feature
― Bunheads Pilot Enthusiast (morrisp), Saturday, 18 June 2022 23:14 (one year ago) link
ten I love: Mitski, Rosalia, Let's Eat Grandma, Nilufer Yanya, Adigery/Pupul, Girlpool, Billy Woods, Etran de L'Air, Tears for Fears, Amber Mark. and the 1/3 of Lad Ash I've heard, of course. also didn't get to Jazmine Sullivan or Tinashe last year so I've sorta been pretending the deluxe versions are all new.
― sloop johnnin' skater (geoffreyess), Sunday, 19 June 2022 23:20 (one year ago) link
New lists from NPR:
ALBUMS: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/28/1107438039/npr-music-favorite-albums-of-2022-so-far
TRACKS: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/27/1107322225/npr-musics-36-favorite-songs-of-2022-so-far
― Indexed, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link
Factoring in NPR's list, here's how the top of my previous list changes:
Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (10)The Weeknd - Dawn FM (9)Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems (9)Rosalia - Motomami (8)The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention (8)Earl Sweatshirt - Sick! (7)Wet Leg - Wet Leg (7)Kendrick Lamar - Mr Morale & The Big Steppers (7)
Here are the albums that are only on NPR's list:
Dan Romer - Station Eleven SoundtrackGirl Ultra - El SurGuitarricadelafuente - La CanteraHarvey Sutherland - BoyImmanuel Wilkins - The 7th HandJogging House - WeightJóhann Jóhannsson - Drone MassKojey Radical - Reason to SmileMUNA - MUNAPeter Cocooma - A Place to BeginSamm Henshaw - Untidy SoulSaya Gray - 19 MastersShortie No Mass - here goes nothing.Straw Man Army - SOSSwsh - GoodboyX Alfonso - Ancestros SinfónicoYeat - 2 Alive
― Indexed, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
a lot of these don't seem like AOTY material (DawnFM? Seriously) But maybe people don't really make those anymore. I figure Kendrick will top a bunch of lists and people will complain about it.
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Tuesday, 28 June 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
Dawn FM is pretty good! Lopatin worked some magic. Easily the most compelling stuff I've heard from The Weeknd since the initial EP mixtapes. Agreed it won't be many people's AOTY but there are always near-universally "liked" albums that bubble to the top in group voting exercises.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
i checked, it's still Rema
― bury my heart in wounded kieth (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 June 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
Straw Man Army rules! Good job, NPR.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 17:15 (one year ago) link
AOTY is going to be the new Soccer Mommy, based on the singles
― boxedjoy, Friday, 17 June 2022 16:03 (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
I was so right about this
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
you were!!!
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 June 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
wifigawd - chain of command
― brimstead, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
The 50 best albums I've heard so far this year.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 29 June 2022 13:19 (one year ago) link
Maybe it's not AOTY level, but I want to take a moment to rep for Flasher - Love is Yours which is, at the very least, a better post-punk-pop record than Wet Leg's debut (and I *like* Wet Leg). Their last one, Constant Image was my most-played album of 2018. This band is perennially under-praised, IMO.
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Wednesday, 29 June 2022 14:39 (one year ago) link
That's a good list unperson, a few more I need to check out now and glad to see some love for that Ecstatic Vision record. I've been a big fan of them and I think the new one is one of their best.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 June 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
The ILM outlier at the top of this list appears to be Soul Glo. The last post I found on the band was from 2019.
Soul Glo’s rise to hardcore heroism would be greater cause for celebration if it weren’t such a damning indictment of American society. Since forming in 2014, the Philly quartet has garnered modest acclaim for airing their righteous grievances against being both tokenized and ostracized as a Black punk band, all while sparing no detail on hypocrisy within their own community, our broken health care system, generational trauma, and the false promises of higher education and upward mobility. By the time Americans en masse were starting to admit that things were as fucked up as Soul Glo had been saying, they’d put out their first widely distributed release, Songs to Yeet at the Sun, in November 2020. The message hadn’t changed, but more people were actually willing to listen. Nearly two years later, none of Soul Glo’s calls for political action have been answered in a meaningful way. “It’s been ‘fuck right wing’ off the rip/But still liberals are more dangerous,” Pierce Jordan snarls midway through Soul Glo’s staggering new album, Diaspora Problems, a ticking time bomb hurled by a band tired of waiting on solutions and taking power into its own hands. - Ian Cohen @p4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4vNQ3vEy24
― Indexed, Wednesday, 29 June 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
The brand-new Kabza De Small album, KOA II, Part 1, is a likely candidate too.― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), vrijdag 17 juni 2022 10:18
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), vrijdag 17 juni 2022 10:18
no kidding
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 10 July 2022 09:59 (one year ago) link
Wormrot are an amazing grindcore band from Singapore; Hiss, which came out on Friday, is their first album in six years, and it's definitely going to be on my year-end list. This video is for three tracks from the album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVk_C_wp1j0
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 10 July 2022 12:23 (one year ago) link
Sick video.
― jmm, Sunday, 10 July 2022 13:17 (one year ago) link
if you're excited by the prospect of Ron Trent making a gorgeous balearic album then you're in luck with his latest
― ignore the blue line (or something), Sunday, 10 July 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
Enjoying the Mr Fingers album, tis the season
― bury my heart in wounded kieth (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 10 July 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
try that Kabza De Small album next, you might like it
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 10 July 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
Cheers
― bury my heart in wounded kieth (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 10 July 2022 17:25 (one year ago) link
I just don't keep up any more but I was dipping into Amapiano stuff last year and I'm very up for it
― bury my heart in wounded kieth (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 10 July 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
cool - the chances of you liking it have gone up significantly!
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 10 July 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
listening now - sold
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 08:20 (one year ago) link
not just sold, this is fire
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 09:01 (one year ago) link
Surprised not to see Nicola Cruz - self oscillation anywhere in this thread. Top ten for me for sure
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 09:03 (one year ago) link
ok that sounds great too
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 09:16 (one year ago) link
In no particular order,new records by:
Weyes BloodBig ThiefBlack MidiBCNRAlvvays
Honorable mention:
Ethel Cain
― nostormo, Saturday, 19 November 2022 06:38 (one year ago) link
Wizkid - More Love Less EgoHomeboy Sandman - Still ChampionHorse Lords - Comradely ObjectsFloating Points - Whatever the album is called, the EP of singles is great
I just got through a second play but Nicola Cruz's Fabric mix is a motherfucker and likely to get in the mix
Also big late pass but I've got Ryuichi Sakamoto's Revenant OST on heavy play the last two weeks
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 21 November 2022 01:22 (one year ago) link
Finally checking out the Guitarricadelafuente album that was only listed on NPR's Mid-Year list, and it's a really lovely, unassuming folk pop record with a unique mix of acoustic and electronic instrumentation, mostly in Spanish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aA90hkaCXs
― Indexed, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link
Couldn't put my finger on it at first, but reminds me of C. Tangana's El Madrileño. Traditional Spanish music with modern updates that are mostly successful.
― Indexed, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 21:55 (one year ago) link
I haven't played anything else as frequently as Loop's Sonancy all year.
― ilxor, Thursday, 1 December 2022 05:36 (one year ago) link
In lieu of posting a first draft of my ILXOR ballot I'll pretend this is the "77 voting recommendations" thread and mention a few albums that have received little to no attention here or elsewhere (as far as I know):Lady Wray - Piece Of Me - Nicole Wray of "Make It Hot" fame continues what she started with the Lady s/t in 2013 and her own album Queen Alone in 2016 - comforting, warm, accomplished soul.Eliza and the Delusionals - Now And Then - I started a thread for this and unfortunately it received no replies, but despite that silence I am continuing to enjoy this debut from these Australian nostalgists. Widescreen dreampop that takes the Sixpence None The Richer sound and runs with it, as many others have this year.Say She She - Prism - I've found it hard to place this, but I feel like it sits at the intersection of a host of ILM vectors - Lady Wray herself might be one, but also Natalie Prass, We Are King, Emily King, Kadhja Bonet, that short-lived band Juce, Esperanza Spalding when she's in a more straightforward mode, etc. Their band name is horrible and the album is on the short side, but it's lovely to listen to and hard to fault.renforshort - dear amelia is my pick for 2022's best imitation of Olivia Rodrigo's SOUR.Finally, Javiera Mena - Nocturna has the feel of a compilation for me as I'd previously rinsed so many of its component tracks, some of which were released years ago, but at the same time I wouldn't begrudge anyone calling it her best album and if pushed I might give it that description myself. A banger-a-thon that concludes with the song she tried to enter Eurovision with and its spooky-ooky organ solo.― monotony, Friday, November 4, 2022 2:39 AM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink
Lady Wray - Piece Of Me - Nicole Wray of "Make It Hot" fame continues what she started with the Lady s/t in 2013 and her own album Queen Alone in 2016 - comforting, warm, accomplished soul.
Eliza and the Delusionals - Now And Then - I started a thread for this and unfortunately it received no replies, but despite that silence I am continuing to enjoy this debut from these Australian nostalgists. Widescreen dreampop that takes the Sixpence None The Richer sound and runs with it, as many others have this year.
Say She She - Prism - I've found it hard to place this, but I feel like it sits at the intersection of a host of ILM vectors - Lady Wray herself might be one, but also Natalie Prass, We Are King, Emily King, Kadhja Bonet, that short-lived band Juce, Esperanza Spalding when she's in a more straightforward mode, etc. Their band name is horrible and the album is on the short side, but it's lovely to listen to and hard to fault.
renforshort - dear amelia is my pick for 2022's best imitation of Olivia Rodrigo's SOUR.
Finally, Javiera Mena - Nocturna has the feel of a compilation for me as I'd previously rinsed so many of its component tracks, some of which were released years ago, but at the same time I wouldn't begrudge anyone calling it her best album and if pushed I might give it that description myself. A banger-a-thon that concludes with the song she tried to enter Eurovision with and its spooky-ooky organ solo.
― monotony, Friday, November 4, 2022 2:39 AM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink
Hey monotony! I saw an upcoming listing for Say She She at a local club, and for whatever reason decided to check out their record. Holy shit, I love this album! Then I came to see if anyone at ILM had been talking about them and it turns out that it's pretty much just you. As a gesture of solidarity, I'll check out your other picks from this post.
Anyone else who's reading the 2022 AOTY thread in 2023, give Say She She a shot!
― peace, man, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 12:43 (one year ago) link