{"id":1139,"date":"2023-02-01T03:50:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bentosmith.com\/blog\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2023-02-01T03:52:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:52:22","slug":"twenty-twenty-two-music-albums-i-liked-and-enjoyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bentosmith.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/01\/twenty-twenty-two-music-albums-i-liked-and-enjoyed\/","title":{"rendered":"twenty twenty two :: music albums i liked and enjoyed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here It Is Folks, Another Selection of Music Album Releases That I Enjoyed Through A Year (2022)<\/h1>\n

While you were studying the blade, I was studying all these jams. I think it\u2019s a cool ensemble of albums that ranges all sorts of sounds and styles. There\u2019s still a lot of stuff I never got around to listening to that I wish I did, but oh well! Here\u2019s the stuff that I did get around to and enjoyed!<\/p>\n

My only rule, as always, that you must follow: if you like the album art, you have to listen to it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Streaming Versions:<\/h2>\n

If applicable, every album links to its Bandcamp page.<\/p>\n

TIDAL<\/a><\/h4>\n

SPOTIFY<\/a><\/h4>\n

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Top 1<\/h1>\n

It was a weird year, no single album stood out as my top\/favorite\/best\/undefeatable\/untouchable album of the year. It felt as different sections of the year had their stand outs (below), but no album to tie it all together. But there was a common thread, which I will use to tie my year together, between all my favorites :<\/p>\n

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GuruGuru Brain and Husky Pants record labels.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And it makes total sense. GuruGuru Brain<\/a> is the label project of Go Kurosawa and Tomo Katsurada of Kikagaku Moyo, a wonderful Japanese band who called it quits this year after a final world tour and a really good album.<\/p>\n

Husky Pants<\/a> is Ryley Walker, a damn master guitar shredder, who started his own label a few years back and has been pushing some of the coolest out-there music of all styles.<\/p>\n

And would you believe it \u2013 they all collaborated at the Le Guess Who Festival in 2018: Ryley Walker + Kikagaku Moyo.<\/a> That concert was recorded and released on Husky Pants in 2021. I feel that both labels have parallel missions in what albums they\u2019re releasing and the artists they\u2019re promoting. It\u2019s a natural fit.<\/p>\n

So Husky Pants and GuruGuru Brain are my #1 for 2022 because they both released some incredible albums by a kaleidoscope of artists that I kept returning to over the course of the year. Hard to beat that.<\/p>\n

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Top 10<\/h1>\n

Here\u2019s a selection of ten albums that were special to me throughout the year. Whether that was a super refreshing sound, something I kept returning to, soundtracking important times in life, or whatever \u2013 these ones stood out to me the most. They hit me at the right time.<\/p>\n

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Cyrus Pireh \u2013 Still Here, Still Ripping (Astral Editions)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Episode One \u2013 Pitchfork Gave This A 9.3 (Self-Released)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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EXEK \u2013 Advertise Here (Castleface)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Guerilla Toss \u2013 Famously Alive (Sub Pop)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Hatis Noit \u2013 Aura (Erased Tapes)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Kribo Records \u2013 Sounds of Lecak, Vol. 1 (GuruGuru Brain)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Marina Herlop \u2013 Pripyat (PAN)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Minami Deutsch \u2013 Fortune Goodies (GuruGuru Brain)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Ryley Walker \u2013 So Certain (Husky Pants)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Tobacco \u2013 Skids And Angels (Rad Cult)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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All The Other Albums I Enjoyed<\/h1>\n

I liked all of these albums. Listed in alphabetical order.<\/p>\n

Alabaster DePlume \u2013 Gold (International Anthem)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Animistic Beliefs \u2013 Merdeka (N.A.A.F.I.)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Annika Zee \u2013 Bleu (Vain Mina)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Author & Punisher \u2013 KR\u00dc\u200bLLER (Relapse)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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\uc0c8\ub208\ubc14\ud0d5 Bird’s Eye Batang – \uc190\uc744 \ubaa8\uc544 Flood Format (Self-Released)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Boris \u2013 W (Sacred Bones)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Chris Corsano\/Andrew Scott Young\/Ryley Walker \u2013 Belladonna Garnish (Husky Pants)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Cold Gawd \u2013 God Get Me The Fuck Out Of Here (Dais)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Collapsed Skull \u2013 Eternity Maze (Closed Casket Activities)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Converge & Chelsea Wolfe \u2013 Bloodmoon I (Epitaph & Deathwish)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Dama Scout \u2013 Gen Wo Lai (Hand In Hive)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Destroyer \u2013 Labyrinthitis (Merge)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Dhidalah – Sensoria \u8a8d\u8b58 (GuruGuru Brain)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Diatom Deli – Time\u200b~\u200bLapse Nature (RVNG)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Ecko Bazz \u2013 Mmaso (Hakuna Kulala)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Emily Wells \u2013 Regards to the End (Thesis + Instinct)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Eve Maret & David Onri Anderson \u2013 Eve and David 1 (Curious Music)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Eve Maret \u2013 Live At Crystal Bridges (Self-Released)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Future \u2013 I Never Liked You (Epic)<\/h2>\n

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Gehenna \u2013 Negative Hardcore (Iron Lung)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Geotic – To Not Now, Nor To Ever, Despair (Basement\u2019s Basement)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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GOAT \u2013 Oh Death (Rocket)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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GOAT \u2013 World Music: 10th<\/sup> Anniversary Remaster (Rocket)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Hisato Higuchi \u6a0b\u53e3\u5bff\u4eba – \u30ad\u200b\u3001\u200bQue\u200b\u3001\u200b\u6d88\u200b\u3048\u200b\u3093\u200b\uff1f\u200bKi, Que, Kien? (WV Sorcerer)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Holy Ghost Tabernacle Choir \u2013 Slow Murder (Graveface)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Horse Lords \u2013 Comradely Objects (RVNG)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Hot Chip \u2013 Freakout\/Release (Domino)<\/h2>\n

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Hunter Van Brocklin \u2013 Elemental Harmony (Lilypad)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Ikue Mori \u2013 Tracing The Magic (Tzadik)<\/h2>\n

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Jake Acosta \u2013 Rehearsal Park (Husky Pants)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Jordan Reyes & Eli Winter \u2013 Controlled Burning (Husky Pants)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Kikagaku Moyo \u2013 Kumoyo Island (GuruGuru Brain)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Kukangendai \u2013 After (ULYSSA)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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La Femme \u2013 Levitation Sessions (Reverberation Appreciation Society)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Lynyn \u2013 Lexicon (Sooper)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Mario Batkovic – Introspectio (Invada)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Max Eilbacher & Henry Birdsey \u2013 Bell Formations (Husky Pants)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Meat Wave \u2013 Malign Hex (Swami)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Mei Semones \u2013 Tsukino (Self-Released)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Moon Bros \u2013 Le Jaz Mystique (Husky Pants)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Moriwaki Hitomi \u2013 Subtromic Cosmos (GuruGuru Brain)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Naja Naja \u2013 EP (bie Records)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Nil\u00fcfer Yanya \u2013 Painless (ATO)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Nuisance \u2013 Kuchisabishii (Katuktu)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Precocious Neophyte \u2013 Home In The Desert (Self-Released)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Say Sue Me \u2013 The Last Thing Left (Damnably)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Shinichi Atobe \u2013 Love Of Plastic (DDS)<\/h2>\n

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Silvana Estrada \u2013 Marchita (Glassnote)<\/h2>\n

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Sore Dream \u2013 Tears of a Blistered World (Federal Prisoner)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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SPICE \u2013 Viv (Dais)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Steve Gunn \u2013 Nakama (Matador)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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TENGGER \u2013 Earthing (Self-Released)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The Black Angels \u2013 Wilderness of Mirrors (Partisan)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The Dog\u2019s Body \u2013 The Dog\u2019s Body (Self-Released)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The Marshmallow Ghosts \u2013 The Castle (Graveface)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The New Romantics \u2013 \u201cLet You Down\u201d (Self-Released)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The Smile \u2013 A Light For Attracting Attention (XL)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Various Artists \u2013 Somewhere Much More True compilation (Spare No Expanse)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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\u738b\u5b50\u5065 Wang Zijian – \u5e7b\u200b\u6ec5\u200b\u60c5\u200b\u6b4c Love Songs in Disillusion (WV Sorcerer)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Wormrot \u2013 Hiss (Earache)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Y\u012aN Y\u012aN \u2013 The Age of Aquarius (Les Disques Bongo Joe)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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