Albums Of The Year, 2022

byVel Ilic
December 8, 2022

After another tumultuous year and a cavalcade of great music, choosing our 50 favourite albums of 2022 hasn’t been easy.

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Keith Seatman: Outside The Box

byBob Fischer

He’s the psychedelic alchemist slowly building his own world of sepia-tinted weirdness. So what can we see through Keith Seatman’s window today?

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8 minute read

Lucrecia Dalt: The Sensual World

byDerek Walmsley

Emerging from an “abyssal realm of erotic delirium”, the latest work from Lucrecia Dalt explores the nuanced complexities of human connection. Co-produced by Dalt and David Sylvian, it’s a charismatic and enigmatic ode to love and longing

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5 minute read

Dave Clarke: It’s The End of The World As We Know It

byPush

Dave Clarke, the Baron of Techno, celebrates the release of five exciting new ‘Red’ remixes with a quick ponder about the future of the world.

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8 minute read

Oneohtrix Point Never : Straw Dog

byBen Willmott

Films played quite a role in the making of the new Oneohtrix Point Never album, ‘Age Of’. Recording alone in a rented a house on the hill that freaked the bejesus out him at night, Daniel Lapotin talks Kubrick, harpsichords, alien regression and, erm, ‘The Great Whatsit’…

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8 minute read

Mira Calix: Scissor Sister

byClaire Francis

Chopping, slicing, cutting and pasting – in both the digital and the analogue worlds – Mira Calix immersed herself in the history of collage for her album, ‘Absent Origin’

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6 minute read

Ólafur Arnalds: Ghost Playing The Machines

byMalcom Jack

‘Re:member’, the latest project from Ólafur Arnalds, finds the inventive post-classical composer sharing a stage with not one but two self-playing pianos. yup, you read that right

Albums Of The Year, 2022

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Keith Seatman: Outside The Box

Lucrecia Dalt: The Sensual World

Dave Clarke: It’s The End of The World As We Know It

Oneohtrix Point Never : Straw Dog

Mira Calix: Scissor Sister

Ólafur Arnalds: Ghost Playing The Machines

Scott Simon ‘Lawnchairs’

Rolo McGinty

Hannah Peel

Kim Gordon: The Art Of Noise

The First Electronic Demo Record In The World

Stephen Mallinder: Maladjusted

Glows: Shining Bright

Whatever The Weather: Gale Force

Albums Of The Year, 2022

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