Best New Music 2022

[englishbob]

Apparently Gabriels is the most talked about band of 2022.

 

Right

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63087424

[ucci]

New Clark and Beth Orton out this month! Also the new Lambchop has come out, and it has vocoder vocals.

 

On an ambient note, Tim at RE:Discovery is reissuing the offthesky album https://noise.offthesky.com/album/gently-down-the-stream which is my evening done. 

[Mike1812]

Good stuff today:

 

Chris Catalyst's Bowie tribute album:

Ginger and the Sinners finally release their debut:

Tony From Terrorvision has a new one:

And CJ Wildheart releases a rerecorded best of:

 

[Stanley]

The new Alvvays album is fantastic. 

 

[Stanley]

I mean it’s really really good. What’s going on with indie bands this year, they’re on fire. 

[elmo]

On 02/10/2022 at 14:28, Oh Danny Boy said:

Album is great. Going to catch them in a couple of weeks, looking forward to it 

Have you seen them yet? Yeah the album is brilliant!

 

 

 

loving Famous

[Oh Danny Boy]

18 minutes ago, elmo said:

Have you seen them yet? Yeah the album is brilliant!

 

 

 

loving Famous

Saw them at the Green door store here in Brighton last weekend. Was a great gig 

[elmo]

38 minutes ago, Oh Danny Boy said:

Saw them at the Green door store here in Brighton last weekend. Was a great gig 

Good to hear it! We saw them in Bournemouth. Great band but the sound in the venue was so bad.
 

Hope to see them in a decent venue at some point next year

 

 

[Stanley]

New Soft Pink Truth album is out, Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This? and it’s incredible. Studio 54 meets Bladerunner. 

 

[Uncle Nasty]

Great timing:

 

 

[Art Vandelay]

Peckham's Pinty has got a great new mixtape out. King Krule meets jazzy UKG and a smattering of bangers. 

 

 

[Art Vandelay]

This guy has been top of the tree for 25 years so this is long overdue. What a Friday treat.

 

 

[Stanley]

Oh man I love Theo Parrish, must check that out thanks for the heads up @Art Vandelay

[Art Vandelay]

It’s absolutely brilliant, I’m sure you won’t be disappointed. I was looking out for the one track the artist creates for the mix but I hadn’t realised it’s 100% music commissioned by him. When you see some of the slapped together compilations out there it says it all that Parrish has gone to these lengths. 

[Stanley]

Yeah it’s a magnificent listen, funky as hell. 

[Fierce Poodle]

Loving it so far! Over 3 hours of music, terrific stuff.

[Stanley]

I think it’s about 90 mins, might be mixed and unmixed tracks doubling the length there. 
 

That single he released recently with Duminie DePorres which is on here is brilliant. 

 

[AfromB]

This might make me sound like an old fart but I’m enjoying the new album from The Lightning Seeds that came out the other week. It’s the first one for thirteen years and there’s no great departure from the usual formula. So if you like simple pop songs that you’ll be humming for the rest of the day you know where to go.

 

 

 

[Stanley]

Still enjoying the hell out of that Theo DJ Kicks album. He just has this jazzy, funky, house style that’s so unique. 
 

I mean how would you even describe his music? Detroit? House? It covers so many genres and styles. 

[Art Vandelay]

I think you could say it's all broadly soul, but on some crazy outer fringes. He's completely unique in what he does, whether that's making his own stuff or DJing. There's other dudes who will play what he plays, but not how he plays it. It's very difficult to describe. 

[Stanley]

Yeah the only other musician I can think of also from Detroit is Kenny Dixon aka Moodymann, but still noticeably different. Detroit is such a hotbed of talent even ignoring the big names, and crucially most of it isn’t techno anymore. 

[Art Vandelay]

Even if stuff doesn't sound like what we'd consider the accepted definition of it, I think there's still a really strong presence of the original spirit of Detroit techno – that link to Afrofuturism and an almost militant aversion to commerciality. Using technology to reflect the environment. I think that's why you can't mimic it.

[Stanley]

Totally agree, it’s there in the grooves isn’t it, and it just can’t be emulated. 

[ZOK]

Funnily enough he cropped up on NTS when I was listening on Sunday evening, I hadn’t even realised he had a show on there.

[Art Vandelay]

I think he used to live near their studios when he had a residency at Plastic People, from memory. My first London flat was right by it but I never saw him so I can't verify this pointless anecdote unfortunately. 

 

Here's a change of pace. Some 70s Brazilian musica by way of Belarus. It's one of the best albums I've heard this year, hands down. If you like Badbadnotgood, Stereolab, Arthur Verocai and all that shit you'll be in heaven.

 

 

[Stanley]

Bumper day for albums, Phoenix, rROXYMORE & Daniel Avery all have new ones out 

[Marlowe]

9 hours ago, Stanley said:

Bumper day for albums, Phoenix, rROXYMORE & Daniel Avery all have new ones out 

Gave Phoenix a listen. Winter Solstice is already a top tier Phoenix tune for me, beautiful song. The rest of it I need to give more time but it'll no doubt grow on me like Ti Amo did.

 

On 12/10/2022 at 14:59, Stanley said:

I mean it’s really really good. What’s going on with indie bands this year, they’re on fire. 

They get better with every album. I loved the last one, but with the exception of Forget About Life all the good stuff was on the first side. This new album seems more consistent. Velveteen is my current favourite.

[Stanley]

Just now, Marlowe said:

They get better with every album. I loved the last one, but with the exception of Forget About Life all the good stuff was on the first side. This new album seems more consistent. Velveteen is my current favourite.

Yeah it’s superb. So hard to pick favourites because they’re all so strong, but Easy On Your Own? Many Mirrors, Belinda Says, Tom Verlaine - so many classic songs. 

[Art Vandelay]

I absolutely love this album. I think when people try and borrow that Southern California studio sound of the '70s it can fall a bit flat as they get the palette right, but not the complexity of the music. These guys just totally nail it every time. Rolling Back is the pick of the bunch.

 

 

[Stanley]

From the new album (ep I suppose but album length) 

 

She has a new mix album out too on Beats In Space.

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/beats-in-space-047-rroxymore-dj-mix/1647876310