#471

Genesis P-Orridge & The Hafler Trio - Dream Less Suite (Cortizona)

This sprawling double LP consists of recordings made over several years by The Hafler Trio’s Andrew McKenzie and the late Genesis P-Orridge, as ‘resurrected’ and completed by McKenzie. — Emily Pothast

#470

Satoko Fujii & Otomo Yoshihide - Perpetual Motion (Ayler)

Even when he’s bashing the guitar like it’s a drum, Otomo is matching Fujii’s gestures, not undermining them. — Bill Meyer

#469

Beatriz Ferreyra - Senderos de Luz y Sombras (Ina-GRM)

Layers of sustained musique concrète continuously fold over and into each other, opening into the reverberance of an outer space littered with thermal atmospheric tides that percussively torque passing planets and stars off their synchronous orbits. — Jo Hutton

#468

Ryuichi Sakamoto - 12 (Milan / Sony)

Though created with minimal means, the resulting music has a palpable sense of open space – each note is like a petal dropped into an infinity pool, the ripples from its impact expanding gently forever. — Claire Biddles

#467

Slumberland & Sainkho Namtchylak - Lightkeeper (Morphine)

[I]f you’re looking to go all the way, try Slumberland and Namtchylak to get an idea of just how far this combination can be pushed in the hands of a mercurial instrumentalist and an impossible vocalist. — Rosie Esther Solomon

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