This year, we had, perhaps, a higher number than usual of writers who didn’t love their assignments, though most tried to find an angle or aspect to appreciate. It’s a great exercise, one that more than a few of our contributors say is their favorite part of our website, but not without risk. As in previous years at Dusted, we do this by each nominating two favorites from the first six months, then forcing our fellow writers to listen to and write about them. The year is half over, so it’s time once again to highlight great music. Loscil - The Sails p.1/p.2 (self-release)ĭusted Midyear Round-Up Part 1: Big Thief to Robbie Lee and Lea Bertucci Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful (Fat Possum)ĭiatom Deli - Time~Lapse Nature (RVNG Intl.) Picastro - I’ve Never Met a Stranger (3490032 Records DK) Sun Yizhou, Zheng Hao - Another Time (bluescreen)Īoife O'Donovan - Age of Apathy (Yep Roc) Staubitz and Waterhouse - Common Metals (music is the worst)īardo Todol - La Siembra Eterna (Never Anything Records) Vanessa Rossetto / Lionel Marchetti - The Tower (The City) (Erstwhile Records) Manja Ristić - the concrescence (Self Released) Rie Nakajima/Takahiro Kawaguchi - Utsuho (tsss tapes) John Butcher - 5 LP set from ausland (Ni Vu Ni Connu)Īnne-F Jacques, Chemiefaserwerk, Zhu Wenbo - La Cinta Flotante (Bolinga Everest Records) Toots Thielemans & Rob Franken - The Studio Sessions 1973-1983 (Dutch Jazz Archive)Ī baker’s dozen of releases that have caught my ear in the first half of the year: Virgil Gonsalves - Jazz in the Bay Area 1954-1959 (Fresh Sound) Peter Brötzmann/ William Parker/ Milford Graves - Historic Music Past Tense Future (Black Editions) Survival Unit III - The Art of Flight/For Alvin Fielder (Astral Spirits/Instigation)Ĭhris Byars - Rhythm and Blues of the 20s (Steeplechase)Ĭecil Taylor - The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert at the Town Hall, NYC, Novem(Oblivion)Īlbert Ayler - Revelations: The Complete ORTF 1970 Fondation Maeght Recordings (Resonance) Ingrid Laubrock/Brandon Lopez/Tom Rainey - No Es La Playa (Intakt) Michael Bisio Quartet - MBefore (Tao Forms) Mark Turner - Return from the Stars (ECM)Īndrew Cyrille/William Parker/Enrico Rava - 2 Blues for Cecil (TUM) Sauce Walka - AI Rage Walka (Sauce Familia)Ĭhes Smith - Interpret it Well (Pyroclastic) Heavenly Bodies - Universal Resurrection (Petty Bunco)Īxel Boman - Luz / Quest for Fire (Studio Barnhus) Modern Lamps - Lucid Cartography (Hooker Vision) Tilth - Rock Music (Round Bale Recordings) Julia Reidy - World in World (Black Truffle) Robbie Lee & Lea Bertucci - Winds Bells Falls (Telegraph Harp)Īyal Senior - Az Yashir (Medusa Editions)

American - The Patience Fader (Kranky).Reinier van Houdt, Drift Nowhere Past / The Adventure Of Sleep (Elsewhere) Masayuki Takayanagi, Eclipse (Black Editions) Mary Halvorson, Amaryllis & Belladonna (Nonesuch)ĭave Rempis / Elizabeth Harnik / Michael Zerang, Astragaloi (Aerophonic) Jake Xerxes Fussell, Good And Green Again (Paradise of Bachelors) Sophie Agnel / John Butcher, La Pierre Tachée (Ni Vu Ni Connu) Kids On A Crime Spree - Fall in Love, Not In Line (Slumberland)ħ00 Bliss - Nothing To Declare (Hyperdub) Z Money - Back 2 The Blender (4EverPaidRecords)īoldy James & Real Bad Man - Killing Nothing (Real Bad Man)īilly woods - Aethiopes (Blackwoodz Studioz) Young Bleed - Dare Iza God (Trap Door Entertainment) Robert Stillman - What Does it Mean to be American? (Orindal)Ĭlaire Rousay - Everything Perfect is Already Here (Shelter Press)īandgang Lonnie Bands x ShredGang Mone - Shottas (TF Distribution) Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin - Ghosted (Drag City) Shearwater - The Great Awakening (Polyborus) The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention (XL)īig Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (4AD)īlack Country, New Road - Ants From Up There (Ninja Tune) Mutilatred - Determined to Rot (Redefining Darkness) Merihem - Incendiary Darkness (I, Voidhanger) Kostnateni - Ohen Hori Tam, Kde Padl (Mystiskaos) Horsegirl - Versions of Modern Performance (Matador)īlack Fucking Cancer - Procreate Inverse (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)Ĭosmic Putrefaction - Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones (Caligari Records)

Reds, Pinks and Purples - Summer at Land’s End (Slumberland) Jake Xerxes Fussell - Good and Green Again (Paradise of Bachelors) If you missed our two-part midyear exchange coverage, check out Part 1 and Part 2. Dusted Midyear Round-Up: Part 3 The ListsĪfter two days worth of record trading, Dusted writers retreat to their various obsessions and share lists of their favorite records of early 2022.

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