2022

Wire 15 (10)
Morton Feldman - Piano and String Quartet (Another Timbre)
Hen Ogledd - No Wood Accepted (Weird World)
System 01 - System 01 (1990-1994) (Mannequin)
Joy Guidry - Radical Acceptance (Whited Sepulchre)
Sarah Cahill - The Future is Female Vol.1: In Nature (First Hand)
Dubbledge & Forest DLG - Ten Toes Down (Potent Funk) +#459
Yawn - Materialism (Mindsweeper) +#459
Širom - The Liquified Throne of Simplicity (Tak:til)
Degradation - Leadlined (Brachliegen Tapes)
Nucleus - Alleycat (Be With) +#461
Emeka Ogboh - 6°30'33.372"N 3°22’0.66"E (Danfotronics)
Gity Razaz - The Strange Highway (BIS)
Deathprod - Sow Your Gold in the White Foliated Earth (Smalltown Supersound)
Cosey Fanni Tutti - Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes OST (Conspiracy International)
Pat Thomas - New Jazz Jungle: Remembering (Feedback Moves)

record of the year
Joy Guidry - Radical Acceptance (Whited Sepulchre)

#466

Pat Thomas - New Jazz Jungle: Remembering (Feedback Moves)

The reissued New Jazz Jungle: Remembering from 1997 is a unique synthesis of modern composition and dance genres. — Andy Hamilton

#465

Cosey Fanni Tutti - Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes OST (Conspiracy International)

As full pastiche, these pieces might have been toothless and sterile, but conjured through Cosey’s caustic sonic prism they have a considerable heft and incisive bite. — Spenser Tomson

#464

Deathprod - Sow Your Gold in the White Foliated Earth (Smalltown Supersound)

Sow Your Gold is an album that works thanks to its contradictions – it’s both alien and recognisable, forward-looking and eminently enjoyable. — Antonio Poscic

#463

Gity Razaz - The Strange Highway (BIS)

Whether the mood of her music is angled to convey tender reminiscence, or visionary transformation (...), its gestures are invariably full-blooded. — Julian Cowley

#462

Emeka Ogboh - 6°30'33.372"N 3°22’0.66"E (Danfotronics)

Ogboh’s follow-up (...) is truly special, zooming in on the previous release’s scope to focus on the specific sounds and people surrounding Ojuelegba bus station in the heart of the city. — Emily Bick

#461

Degradation - Leadlined (Brachliegen Tapes)

Extracting eight song-style pieces from one long improvised studio session involving recordings of the River Thames, contact mics, telephone coils, radio receivers, an Irish whistle and a tuning fork, Leadlined emphasises the dynamic and stylistic breadth of noise as a genre. — Jo Hutton

#460

Širom - The Liquified Throne of Simplicity (Tak:til)

Tromping, squeaking and bonging along, the songs sound like music made for and by the metamorphic inhabitants of Bosch’s Garden Of Earthly Delights. — Francis Gooding

#459

Sarah Cahill - The Future is Female Vol.1: In Nature (First Hand)

This album, as the subsequent ones, are more to say that: these female composers existed and here is their work, which needs to be indexed and catalogued in the same way as the rest of the repertoire. We should understand that, as women, they were read as anomalies. Whatever changes are happening now will never happen fast enough. — Louise Gray

#458

Joy Guidry - Radical Acceptance (Whited Sepulchre)

Radical Acceptance is about Guidry accepting their self — as Black, as queer, as nonbinary. (...) On Radical Acceptance, these ideas manifest by see-sawing from eerie, ambient electronics to free improvisations. — Vanessa Ague

#457

System 01 - System 01 (1990-1994) (Mannequin)

The duo’s acid-flecked industrial electronics was emblematic of a vanguard sound that swept Berlin shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a hard and hedonistic techno that found its ground zero at the city’s bunker club Tresor. — Louis Pattison

#456

Hen Ogledd - No Wood Accepted (Weird World)

No Wood Accepted is quirky and compelling, and with each listen it grows curiouser and curiouser. — Leah Kardos

#455

Morton Feldman - Piano and String Quartet (Another Timbre)

This late Feldman opus is a magisterial accomplishment and a sustained evasion; an invitation to get lost. — Julian Cowley