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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Suzanne Ciani: Every Trick In The Buchla

byMark Roland

With a recording from a live performance in New York surfacing 50 years after she made it, Suzanne Ciani reflects on playing with Beck, getting tear-gassed, parking karma and, of course, quadraphonic sound

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3 minute read

Philippe Petit: Little Wonder

byJeremy Allen

Philippe Petit, co-founder of thriving electronic/modular synthesis platform Modulisme, is a prolific, modular-focused recording artist in his own right

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19 minute read

Orbital: Torch Songs

byDave Simpson

Bangers. Mashes. Cosmic dreamscapes. Oddball abstractions. Collaborations with everyone from Sleaford Mods to Mediæval Bæbes. Welcome to the new Orbital album, ‘Optical Delusion’, a record sparked by the surreal and chaotic world events going on around us. Phil and Paul Hartnoll turn on their torch glasses and reveal all

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4 minute read

Claudia Brücken & Jerome Froese

byMat Smith

She was integral to the chart-busting outfit Propaganda, he was a mainstay in late-period Tangerine Dream. Imagine if they made an album together…

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12 minute read

Stephen Mallinder: “Meet You at The Fish Tank at Half Eleven”

byStephen Mallinder

Cabaret Voltaire and Wrangler man Stephen Mallinder gives a hugely entertaining and highly personal account of life at the centre of the Sheffield music scene in the 1970s and beyond

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6 minute read

I Speak Machine: Undead or Alive

byStephen Dalton

As if creating a spot-on retro horror flick soundtrack isn’t enough, los Angeles-based I Speak Machine have made the film to go with it. ‘Zombies 1985’ even stars Gary Numan’s kids…

Albums Of The Year, 2022

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Vel Ilic

Suzanne Ciani: Every Trick In The Buchla

Philippe Petit: Little Wonder

Orbital: Torch Songs

Claudia Brücken & Jerome Froese

Stephen Mallinder: “Meet You at The Fish Tank at Half Eleven”

I Speak Machine: Undead or Alive

Pierre Bastien

Mike Score ‘I ran (so far away)’

Delia Derbyshire

Nídia And Valentina Magaletti: Opposites Attract

Ladytron: ’Tron and On and On

Children Of The Bong: Smoke Signals

Hyperdawn: Imperfect Storm

Klaus Schulze: The Tempel Of The King

Albums Of The Year, 2022

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