2022 AOTY So Far

Infinity Knives and Brian Ennals - King Kobra

Bracing, inventive political raps, like a more musically adventurous Run the Jewels but better

brent faiyaz - wasteland
hikaru utada - bad
civilistjävel - järnätter
tops - empty seats
fireboy dml - playboy
stereolab & nurse with wound - simple headphone mind
big city - liquid times
cash cobain & chow lee - 2 slizzy 2 sexy
genius of time - sunswell
d. tiffany & rosa terenzi - edge of innocence
eiko ishibashi - for mccoy
soccer mommy - sometimes, forever
beth orton - weather alive
dj_2button - transient communications
john carrol kirby - dance ancestral
space ghost - private paradise

Music for Four Guitars by Bill Orcutt is the best new thing I've heard this year

Yeah that is great

Infinity Knives and Brian Ennals - King Kobra

Bracing, inventive political raps, like a more musically adventurous Run the Jewels but better

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, October 12, 2022 6:50 PM

Very much seconded

Yeah thanks, that one rules

god the Bill Orcutt album is excellent

good list from flopson

flopson and ums, you guys might like the album ‘finally new’ by they hate change

is this where we talk about the new shabason & krgovich album?

Cool voodoo I'll check it

Also, The Elephant Man's Bones by Roc Marciano and Alchemist is a new classic for me

Only 2/3 of the new Dawn collaboration has been released but it's been on heavy rotation recently

https://dawnrichard.bandcamp.com/album/pigments

Yeah that Dawn Richard album is already shaping up to be AOTY material. Most exciting 21/10 release imo. But I'll also give Taylor and Carly Rae a spin.

xp love the Shabason & Krgovich. "I am so happy with my little dog" is stuck in my head constantly

Will also be voting the Bill Orcutt album very highly. What a beautiful sounding thing.

Jolly Mare - Epsilon
Front De Cadeaux - We Slowly Riot
Civilistjävel! - Järnnätter
¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U with Friends – Midnight is Comin'
Suso Saiz - Resonant Bodies
Geier aus Stahl – Strapazen und Genesung
Stacks - Love and Language
Volodymyr Gnatenko - Rainalice
Jimmy Smack - Death is Certain
Tapan - Novi Svet
Aldous Harding - Warm Chris
VR Sex - Rough Dimension
Real Lies - Lad Ash
Dazion - Grooveboxxx
Inre Kretsen Grupp - Raoul
ISOR29 - Moon Phase Gardening

black midi - Hellfire
Garcia Peoples - Dodging Dues
Hazy Sour Cherry - Strange World
Imperial Triumphant - Spirit of Ecstasy
Satan - Earth Infernal
The Garden - Horseshit on Route 66
Upchuck - Sense Yourself

Both new Ka albums have hit streaming now

This is incredibly slamming. I mean check out the last track
https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/ndjila-wa-mudujimu

otm

otm🕸

Paging new Junior Boys album to thread

i did a rummage and am putting this here for future reference

1. Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul - Topical Dancer
2. Somi - Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam Makes
3. Koffee - Gifted
4. Syd - Broken Hearts Club
5. SAULT - Air
6. Immanuel Wilkins - The 7th Hand
7. Germán López - Alma
8. Nduduzo Makhathini - In the Spirit of Nut
9. Viagra Boys - Cave World
10. Hollie Cook - Happy Hour
11. Johnny Gandelsman - Complete Bach Cello Suites for Violin
12. Julius Rodriguez - Let Sound Tell All
13. Burna Boy - Love, Damini
14. Mu-ziq - Magic Pony Ride
15. Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers
16. Miranda Lambert - Palomino
17. Sam Gendel - Superstore (et al)
18. PUBLIQuartet - WHAT IS AMERICAN
19. Cécile McLorin Salvant - Ghost Song
20. Orbital - 30 Something
21. Mr Fingers - Around the Sun pt 1
22. Saba - Few Good Things
23. Kylie Minogue - Infinite Disco
24. Soccer96 - Inner Worlds
25. Kadhja Bonet - JGS EP
26. Real Lies - Lad Ash
27. DOMi and JD BECK - NOT TiGHT
28. Amythyst Kiah - Pensive Pop EP
29. Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn - Pigments Movement 1
30. Beyoncé - RENAISSANCE
31. Megan Thee Stallion - Traumazine
32. Mr Mitch - WORK!
33. Roomful of Teeth - Catherine Called Birdy OST
34. Vicky Chow - Philip Glass Solo Piano Etudes v1
35. Theo Parrish - DJ Kicks
36. Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork
37. Mach Tommy - Duck Czn: Tiger Style
38. Cam’ron - U Wasn’t There
39. Protoje - Third Time’s the Charm
40. Alhaji Waziri Oshomah - World Spirituality Classics 3
41. Vieux Farka Toute and Khruangbin - Ali
42. Makaya McCraven - In These Times
43. The Comet Is Coming - Hyper Dimensional Expansion Beam
44. Terri Lyne Carrington - New Standards v1
45. Jazmin Sullivan - Heaux Tales, Mo Tales Deluxe
46. Julian Lage - View With a Room
47. Alabaster DePlume - GOLD
48. Amanda Shires - Take It Like a Man
49. Nicola Cruz - Self Oscillation EP
50. Samora Pinderhughes - Grief
51. Danish String Quartet - Prism IV
52. Prince and the Revolution: Live, March 30 1985

(if we do a poll this year, i am increasingly thinking lad ash may win best album)

is this where we talk about the new shabason & krgovich album?

Some discussion of their previous album in the sophistipop thread. New one is not AOTY material for me, but I do love "I Am So Happy With My Little Dog", like Bernard

i am increasingly thinking lad ash may win best album

as it should

real lies detected

Six Sault albums to vote for now.

What's the record for most albums in the 77 in a single year?

:(

Real Lies winning would be excellent even if it's not really my bag, but it would be a unique ilm pick in a year with so many huge & obvious contenders in it

doubt all 6 sault albums will make it *famous last word*

Just a suggestion to give the Rachel Podger Bach-cello-suites-on-violin a shot. Gut strings, recorded in a big room, and a superior (in my opinion) performance to the Gandelsman

interesting! Is the -on-violin approach something people have done before with the suites (I am a classical naif)?

follow-up q: did this come out in 2019?

my money's on renaissance tbh

Yeah, would love Real Lies to win but can't see past Renaissance claiming the prize

i will spin that podger album

oh, also the babyface album of duets is real good for the most part

renaissance over big thief? 2022 has been long tbf

I'm not personally aware of too many violin recordings of the Bach cello suites. Podger's was the first I heard, and I think it's divine. Gut strings really seal the deal for me, steel E-strings are just too strident for my taste for this kind of adaptation.

Podger cheats in the 6th suite; she overdubs viola notes for the missing lower C-string stuff. Gandelsman, in contrast, performs the "4-string viola adaptation", but up a fifth (in D-major, i.e. the original key).

Rather than type forever about it, I'd just recommend to also check out Lillian Fuchs's wonderful performance of the cello suites on the viola. Her 6th suite in particular is miraculous; Pablo Casals is said to have remarked that it was, at the time of its recording, the best rendition of it, and superior to his own. Her performance is Romantic in technique but unsentimental, sits nicely next to the Milstein recording of the violin sonatas and partitas imo

thanks for that, fgti!

i think big thief still surely have to be the favourites?

i think their flirtation with radical zionism may have hurt them a bit, i know my read on a lot of their lyrics/vibe went from "hmm, gnomic" to "oh these guys are actually dumb."

alright kanye

I'm not sure scheduling, then canceling amidst the inevitable backlash, a couple of ill-advised shows in Israel (where, incidentally, one of the band members actually lives) is the same as a "flirtation with radical zionism" but go off.

Still leaning towards Cloakroom for my personal album of the year.

I refuse to start making lists until both my current favourite songwriters have dropped albums on the 18th

But I'm constantly discovering a lot of incredible things vying for upper placement in any hypothetical list. It has been a very, very great year - last year was a relative lull imo, probably Covid-relatedly

if I were to summarize my Big Five so far:
Mr. Money, Boy Alone & King Of Amapiano II With The Rave, Roses & Renaissance Vibe, Part 1

My top 4

Battlelore - The Return of the Shadow
Brymir - Voices in the Sky
Rina Sawayama - Hold the Girl
Archers of Loaf - Reason in Decline