Looking back at what I said about my top 5 in the new release threads at the time they came out.
Reader, I did listen to it again and it did become my album of the year.
My longlist
ZA! - ZA! & la TransMegaCobla
Jellyskin - In Brine
ONYON - Last Days On Earth
a.s.o. - a.s.o.
Lael Neale - Star Eaters Delight
Etnobotanika - Leśne Duchy
Brìghde Chaimbeul - Carry Them With Us
V/Z - Suono Assente
SANAM - Aykathani Malakon
Virginia and the Flood - The Dark Lord
BC Camplight - The Last Rotation Of Earth
Sofia Kourtesis - Madres
Lord Of The Isles, Ellen Renton - My Noise Is Nothing
Melenas - Ahora
Sir Chloe - I Am The Dog
Allison Russell - The Returner
Wax Tailor - Fishing For Accidents
Lila Blue - Sweet Pea
Algiers - Shook
Lucy Liyou - Dog Dreams
Rita Braga - Illegal Planet
Kristin Hersh - Clear Pond Road
Ireke - Tropikadelic
Pejzaż - List II
Corinne Bailey Rae - Black Rainbows
Laura Cannell - Midwinter Processionals
Mandy, Indiana - I’ve Seen A Way
Cleo Sol - Heaven
Katie Gateley - Fawn / Brute
Sally Anne Morgan - Carrying
Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void - Full-On
Paul Rooney - Surface Industries II
Slowdive - Everything Is Alive
The Black Dog - My Brutal Life
Dream Wife - Social Lubrication
Descartes a Kant - After Destruction
The Drin - Today My Friend You Drunk The Venom
This Ship Argo - Flowers, Sparks, Fireworks
HMLTD - The Worm
Pejzaż - List I
LP Giobbi - Light Places
Shana Cleveland - Manzanita
En Attendant Ana - Principia
Lucidvox - That’s What Remained
Bali Gamelan Sound - Selonding, Vol. IV
Ya Tosiba - ASAP inşallah
Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy
Jolie Laide - Jolie Laide
SPLLIT - Infinite Hatch
La Tène - Ecorcha/Taillée
Marina Herlop - Nekkuja
Anna B Savage - in|FLUX
Hamish Hawk - Angel Numbers
PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying
Billy Nomates - CACTI
Liela Moss - Internal Working Model
Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - SAVED!
Laura Cannell and Various Artists - Echolocation
Lost Girls - Selvutsletter
Scrimshire - Paroxysm
The Bamboos - This Is How You Do It
The Waeve - The Waeve
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - Jerusalem
Volkor X - The Loop
Problem Patterns – Blouse Club
Hack-Poets Guild - Blackletter Garland
WheelUp - We Are The Magic
Fay Victor - Blackity Black Black Is Beautiful
The Go! Team - Get Up Sequences Part Two
Orbital - Optical Delusion
L’Rain - I Killed Your Dog
The Allergies - Tear The Place Up
Water From Your Eyes - Everyone’s Crushed
Maija Sofia - True Love
Rahill - Flowers At Your Feet
Titanic - Vidrio (feat. I la Católica & Mabe Fratti)
Lisa O’Neill - All Of This Is Chance
Ist Ist - Protagonists
Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Maps
Jeffrey Lewis - 2022 Tapes! Slices of Water (and Song Junk)
Skinny Pelembe - Hardly the Same Snake
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway - City of Gold
Beef - Beef
Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening - Cloud Horizons
Tim Kinsella & Jenny Pulse - Giddy Skelter
Hey Colossus - In Blood
Dot Allison - Consciousology
Las Robertas - Love is the Answer
Lankum - False Lankum
Avalon Emerson - &The Charm
Olivia Louvel - doggerLANDscape
Lenhart Tapes - Dens
Gina Birch - I Play My Bass Loud
