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Best new/most anticipated albums of 2022

Cat Power - Covers (January 14)
Cate Le Bon - Pompeii (February 4)
Spoon - Lucifer On The Sofa (February 11)

Severian, I tried to contact you so you could start this thread, but "you have exceeded your stored private messages quota and can not accept further messages until you clear some space"...

Copy & pasta from the 2021 thread:

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Hi all

We’re incredibly excited to tell you about a massively exciting, brand new project that we’ve been working on for a while in conjunction with The Wedding Present:

24 SONGS

A brand new 7" single every month throughout 2022
Yep, you heard it right. The Wedding Present will be releasing a new piece of shiny vinyl every month for a year, starting in January.
Does that sound familiar? Well, after 30 years, we all felt like it was time for another go!
24 Songs sees David Gedge writing with legendary Sleeper guitarist Jon Stewart for the first time, and a more perfect union could not have been predicted. We’re immensely proud of the results and hope you’ll enjoy it as much as we do.
The first release includes ‘We Should Be Together’, the gorgeous duet featuring David and Louise Wener [also from Sleeper] and it’s coupled with ‘Don’t Give Up Without A Fight’, which combines classic Wedding Present feistiness with a Krautrock finale.
‘We Should Be Together’ will be available to listen to at The Wedding Present’s official YouTube channel from Tuesday 19 October at 2PM.
Oh, and as if twenty-four Wedding Present songs wasn’t enough… each of the records will come in a beautifully designed sleeve featuring brutalist photography by Jessica McMillan. And there’ll be a hand-numbered collector’s box to put them all in, too.
You can buy them one at a time or subscribe for the whole series by clicking here.
They will, of course, also be available at all good record shops.
Enjoy!
Team Clue

https://www.24songs.scopitones.co.uk/

DAVID GEDGE TALKING ABOUT 24 SONGS
“In 1991, The Wedding Present were rehearsing in a studio in Yorkshire when we hit upon an idea that immediately thrilled us all. Our bass player [Keith Gregory] had been a member of the ‘Sub Pop Singles Club’ - a service that allowed subscribers to receive 7”s released by that Seattle label on a monthly basis. Keith wondered if we, as a band, could attempt a similar thing. In that instant, The Wedding Present’s Hit Parade series was born and, during 1992, we managed to release a brand new 7” single each and every month.
“The Hit Parade went on to become something of a significant milestone in the history of the band and it’s a project about which I’m often asked. As its thirtieth anniversary approached, I began to wonder if we should celebrate it in some way. A ‘Hit Parade Part 2’ didn’t feel quite right, though. Then, someone said to me: “Other bands have released music in similar ways but there has been nothing like the Hit Parade.” And they were right! A 7” single a month seems, somehow, very ‘Wedding Present’. So, inspired by that little idea from three decades ago, we’ve embarked on this new project, 24 Songs.
“Even though The Wedding Present have never been known for taking the easy route, the idea of recording 24 tracks and releasing them in this way could seem daunting to any band. However, I’ve been inspired by the music that has been written since Jon and Melanie joined the group. The thought of celebrating this exciting new line-up with an exciting new series has motivated us all… and I suppose we also didn’t want any of these songs to be hidden away in the middle of an album!”

This is a series that you won’t want to miss!

Bjork
Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There (4.2)
Boris
Brutus
Built to Spill
Cat Power - Covers (14.1)
Crowbar
The Cure
Cypress Hill
Haunted Plasma
Heavy Blanket
Helms Alle
Garcia Peoples - (14.1)
Ioanna Gika
Cate Le Bon – Pompeii (4.2)
Laniakea
Messa - Close
Morrissey - Bonfire Of Teenagers
Jo Quail - The Cartographer
Lili Refrain
Wayne Shorter & Esperanza Spalding - Iphigenia
Soft Cell - *Happiness Not Included (25.2)
Spoon - Lucifer On The Sofa (11.2)
Sum Of R - Lahbryce
Verity Susman
Anna von Hausswolff
Anna von Hausswolff & Filip Leyman - The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
Tears For Fears - The Tipping Point (25.2)
Weyes Blood
Zen Mother - Millennial Garbage Preach

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Motherfucker, I have plenty of space I think maybe anyway whatever cheers

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Motherfucker, I have plenty of space I think maybe anyway whatever cheers

Empath - Visitor (February 22)

My “looking forward to” picks are mostly boring and samey for me, but I’m looking forward to the new Spiritualized, the new Spoon, new Zen Mother …

I actually can’t think of a ton of scheduled 2022 releases right now.

And I hope to god Fuck Buttons releases a new album, goddammit. And Nicolas Jaar/Against All Logic.
And I know it’s too early (he seems to be on an “every-5-years” schedule for studio albums), but I’d love a new DJ Koze record.

Alison Cotton - The Portrait You Painted Of Me (date TBA)

Mary Halvorson - Amaryllis/Belladonna (May)

Loop - Sonancy (11.3)!

Tropical Fuck Storm - Goody Goody Gumdrops: A Tropical Fuck Storm Film (soundtrack)

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Release Date... Well, it'll be announced to the public in early 2022. Vinyl likely shipping in early June.

Just a test to see if the forum is working AT ALL. I have tried to tell the non-music forum that I watched Power of the Dog like, for days. Anyway. Fuck.

EDIT: Yeah this one’s working, but I’m leaving the above because I’m very frustrated about making 10 failed attempts to say “I watched a movie and it was good”

Hope there’s new Fuck Buttons in 2022

Bogus post/preemptive strike.

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Originally Posted by Severian

Yeah, I see your Dog Powa posts when I click on "Go Advanced".

Listen. You have the power to fix shit up. Kind of. Just select one of your previous posts on that thread (ideally one you're not terribly attached to) and delete the motherfucker. The thread should rise again like the phoenix bird.

As for The Power Of The Dog, I haven't seen it, but I've seen Heart Of A Dog - it's monumental, and so is the soundtrack.

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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

Just select one of your previous posts on that thread (ideally one you're not terribly attached to) and delete the motherfucker.

Actually, if you don't want that post to go the way of the dodo, before deleting it use the _tunic_ method: select it (text, pics, the whole thing), copy it, paste it and post it ("I had to delete this one to get the thread running again: {quote}the stuff you're gonna delete{/quote}"), then delete it, then keep on keepin' on.

CARLTON MELTON – Microwavelengths (14.)
Cult of Luna - The Long Road North (11.2)
Anna von Hausswolff - Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (14.1)

The Weather Station - How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars (25.3)

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The Weather Station - How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars (25.3)

How Is It That This Had Not Shown Up On My Radar?! Holy crap! This must be the album Tamara Lindeman said she considered a "companion piece" to Ignorance.

Thank you Moshe!

SONIC YOUTH - "new LP" (I'm assuming it's a live one) on Three Lobed Recordings "early in 2022"

Paste magazine made its own list. It doesn't add anything for me, though - Spiritualized, Spoon, and Empath are there, but the other 37 (!) picks leave me cold.

https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/...ipated-albums/

Kurt Vile - (watch my moves) (15.4)
The Weather Station - How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars (25.3)

New Spiritualized
New Blanck Mass (soundtrack to that Unibomber movie)
Some other stuff

thanks for 2022 updates.

I will keep an eye on this thread.

I'm pretty excited about the upcoming Wet Leg debut LP

The new Placebo album somehow doesn't suck as much as I thought it would (although, being a fangirl, I'm biased). The lyrics are awful as expected, but most of the instrumentals are good; they're at their best leaning into moodier and more atmospheric stuff - good opener, good few closing tracks, a few nice enough ones in the middle weighed down by some real stinkers.

Greetings _tunic_,

OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE just released Live at Le Guess Who? 2019, check it out here.

“Hi friends!

Today April 1st is Bandcamp Friday again and we've got something very special to share with you: the digital release of our live at Le Guess Who? back in 2019 in Utrecht, featuring an overseas line-up and orchestral / trippy versions of a few tracks.

OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE & Friends:
G.W.Sok – vocals
Mondkopf – analog synths
Jessica Moss – electric violin
Radwan Ghazi Moumneh – electric buzuk, modular system, voice
Frédéric D. Oberland – electric guitar, synths, hurdy-gurdy BAB V, alto saxophone
Stéphane Pigneul – electric bass VI & bass, modular system, analog synths
Jean-Michel Pirès – drums & percussion

"Mighty and majestic, powerful and gripping, OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE stood at a crossroads of light and darkness, deftly traversing a sonic terrain that stands as a powerful testament to the range of emotion they can grasp."
Cast The Dice

Take care in these hard times,
xoxo”

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Moved to April 22.

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Mary Halvorson - Amaryllis/Belladonna (May)

May 13

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Alison Cotton - The Portrait You Painted Of Me (date TBA)

May 20

Flock Of Dimes - Head Of Roses: Phantom Limb (April 15)
Fontaines D.C. - Skínty Fía (April 22)
UltraBomb (Grant Hart's new band) - Time To Burn (May something)
The Dream Syndicate - Ultraviolet Battle Hymns And True Confessions (download May 10; physical June 10)
Dean Spunt and John Wiese - The Echoing Shell (May 20)
Prince And The Revolution - Live (June 3)

Some awesomeness released earlier year (and not mentioned in this thread yet - I think) while the board was still in a coma:

Tropical Fuck Storm - Satanic Slumber Party
Springtime - Night Raver EP
Bob Mould - The Ocean EP
Flock Of Dimes - "Pure Love"/"Time"
Linda Smith - Till Another Time: 1988-1996
Klara Lewis - Live In Montreal 2018
Steve Gunn - Nakama
Circuit des Yeux - "The Manatee (A Story of This World Pt III)"
FACS - In A Present Tense
Brian Case - Tropics

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Built to Spill - When the Wind Forgets Your Name

That single is badASS

The new Spiritualized album is of course very good.
As are the new albums by Destroyer, Jenny Hval, Aldous Harding, Pusha T, Vince Staples, Huerco S, Loop, Billy Woods, Guerilla Toss, Axel Bowman, and others.

I still haven’t really found an “oh my god, this is breathtakingly good” album for 2022 yet though. I’m a bit behind the times I think.

Fågelle

as mentioned in the Listening thread, I discovered her a few days ago. She's released two digital singles over the last two months, so perhaps there's a new album coming soon?
Think of her as a mix of Low's recent albums, Sigur Ros with Bjork on vocals, and a tiny dose of Jessica Moss.