I'm going to be selfish and completely indulgent by posting an egregiously large list of releases from this year. I usually try to focus on a top ten or so to really give a more focused overview but I honestly didn't want to widdle my list down and there were so many good releases in 2022.
Best of 2022
Astro - Unbalanced Flag LP (*One of my favorites of the year, everyone is sleeping on this LP)
T.E.F. – Wrought (*Holy hell this is good, genius cut-up work and good dynamics across the disc)
Kazumoto Endo and Scum - Psychoacoustic Studies + Noise Snippets (*scum one of the best right now, takes skill to keep up with Endo)
scum / Unsustainable Social Condition - Necessary Downfall (*Excellent split, scum tracks were some of the best in 2022)
Systemic Sewage | Unsustainable Social Condition - All Available Weaponry (*Both Mumma and USC had a very solid year)
Systemic Sewage - Hyper-Mechanization Of The Hairless Ape (*Really unique listen, out there while kind of crusty DIY noise)
Dressing - 3 (*Dressing one of the top artist's in 2022 with multiple top-tier releases)
Dressing - From The Body To The Door (*One of the best and imaginative album's in 2022)
Cyess Afxzs - Ernst (*Every Cyess Afxzs release is excellent, if I had choose, this might be the best)
Cyess Afxzs – Kubin (*This one also sits high among his new releases)
Cyess Afxzs – Tàpies
Cyess Afxzs - Americhasm
Blind Date - Thank You
Blind Date - Answer Print (Really good small edition tape, more tape sound/musique concrète)
Vasculae - Broken Lust
Spate - Dogmono
Moth Drakula - S/T
Network Glass And Jason Crumer - Prerequisite
Slacking - Cycling Through Bother & Bliss
Skin Graft - Final Judgment
A Fail Association - Down South
Worth – Penumbral Calypso; Early Garden Walls
Macrosonic - Lords Of Sex (New collab material from Mhlest and Joe of Macro. Everyone should check this out.)
Sissy Spacek had an MVP year with 4 crushing and essential CDs
Sissy Spacek - Reslayer
Sissy Spacek - Electric Field In Parallel
Sissy Spacek - Threshold (*Maybe the best if I had to choose just one)
Sissy Spacek - Mechanical Abstraction
Wasteland Jazz Unit - S/T 2xLP (*Perfect jazz noise freak-out, love this so much)
Bren't Lewiis Ensemble - Hand Signals (Absolutely stunning weirdo collage/tape work by a collective of artists)
Jeph Jerman - Flapndr
Jim Strong – 36fibulae
The Sun - The Loss of One (*I spun this A LOT, a really beautiful and personal-sounding tape.
Spring Of Life - Brown Bed
Vincent Dallas - Fantoom Klank
Vincent Dallas – Manische Hyperaktiviteit (*First of many excellent releases in 2022)
Vincent Dallas – Doktersbezoek (*Maybe my favorite out of them all)
Vincent Dallas & Moozzhead – Controlled Chaos & Sound (*Straight headbanging harsh collab)
Hymenal Opening - Fucked To Death By A Horse
Best of Richard Ramirez/Black Leather Jesus/Deadline/Room 2A
*I'm admittedly a huge fanboy of everything RR & BLJ and there is always a lot so they get its own section
Richard Ramirez - latex catalog, leather catalog
Richard Ramirez, Slacking - From The Wreckage
Black Leather Jesus - Super 9½ (*Highly unnoticed and excellent new album)
Black Leather Jesus - Série Torso 1
Black Leather Jesus - Série Torso 2
Black Leather Jesus – Make Them Cum Slowly (*DENSE c120 of new material)
Black Leather Jesus, The Rita - Adding And Subtracting Limbs
Cruel Map of Women's Bodies – Cruel Map of Women's Bodies (I)
Cruel Map of Women's Bodies – Cruel Map of Women's Bodies (II)
Cruel Map of Women's Bodies – Cruel Map of Women's Bodies (III)
Best Reissues
Mangled Clit – Erotakill
Government Alpha - Xerxes
Monde Bruits - Tapes 1991-1994
非常階段 + Incapacitants - Δ8000 / Prelude To Pallo
Dead Body Love - Tumors
Bizarre Uproar - Pakkosyöttö
Bizarre Uproar - Likainen Ehtoollinen
David Gilden – Texas Chainsaw Dopefiend
David Gilden - Noise Attacks The Suburbs
David Gilden - Depress / Regress Vol. 2
Macronympha - Ultimate Vibrator
Spate - Neuter
