Yeah there were quite a few great EPs this year. The opener on the James Ivy record was my most played song of the year, but I don’t like including EPs in my main list because whittling down is already hard enough as it is. These were my fave EPs James Ivy - Everything Perfect Frown Line - Come Around Saturdays At Your Place - Always Cloudy Hollywood Slasher - Charmbreaker Crushed - Extra Life Lilts - Waiting Around Babygirl - Be Still My Heart Trauma Ray/Downward - split twentythreenineteen - All This Love Adjy - June Songs Vol. 1 Healy - Look At God Wishy - Paradise
My top 10 roughly ordered from top to bottom. Life in Vacuum and Slow Pulp are definitely the albums I come back to the most. Life in Vacuum - Lost Slow Pulp - Yard Pile - All Fiction Home is Where - The Whaler Spiritual Cramp - S/T King Krule - Space Heavy Subsonic Eye - All Around You Squitch - Tumbledown Mountain Gel - Only Constant Greg Mendez - S/T
I'm breaking the rules a little. Sorry @irthesteve. 1. Ryo Fukui - Scenery* 2. Casper - nur lieber, immer. (German Rap) 3. Zach Bryan - Zach Bryan / Boys of Faith 4. Jyocho - As The Gods Say EP (Japanese Math Rock) 5. Cho - Knock Knock 4 (Dutch Rap) 6. Kota The Friend & Statik Selektah - To See A Sunset 7. Ele A - Globo (Ticino Rap) 8. Samy Deluxe - Hochkultur 2 (German Rap) 9. Margo Cilker - Valley Of Heart’s Delight 10. Shogoon - Märchen (German Rap) 11. Kenny Baron - The Source 12. Ruston Kelly - The Weakness 13. Badmomzjay - Survival Mode (German Rap) 14. Mike & Wiki - Faith Is A Rock 15. Gerard - Blausicht 2 (German Rap)** 16. Rick Ross & Meek Mill - Too Good To Be True 17. Paul Wall & Termanology - Start Finish Repeat 18. Millington - Welcome Home 19. Ann Marie - Tripolar III 20. Blink 182 - One More Time… * This one came out in 1976. I discovered it this year however, and it is the album I returned to the most throughout the year. ** This one came out in december 2022, after I had made my 2022 list. Also, I only got to it this year. I love The Menzingers, but I am waiting for the CD.
EPs, an album from 47 years ago, German rap records alongside Blink 182...@The Lucky Moose doesn't give a fuck.
It’s a really warm, soothing record. I listened to it a lot while reading, or when I was too anxious to listen to a lot of other music.
I was looking forward to your list, last years ruled and found a lot of good stuff from it. I thought we might actually have a common artist with Cicada but yours is very much not the soft Japanese composer I listen to haha.
1. Canned Dream : Family 2. Sprain : The Lamb as an Effigy 3. Kaneko Ayano : a towel blanket is peaceful 4. Dawn Ray'd : To Know The Light 5. Hitsujibungaku : 12 hugs (like butterflies) 6. No Party for Cao Dong : The Clod 7. Dream Unending and Worm : Starpath 8. Jyocho : As The Gods Say 9. Carly Rae Jepsen : The Loveliest Time 10. Protomartyr : Formal Growth in the Desert honestly these are all pretty interchangeable, I don't think I had a clear favorite this year but these are some of my favorites.
In no particular order: The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons Heavenward - Pyrophonics Citizen - Calling The Dogs Spiritual Cramp - S/T Beach Fossils - Bunny All Get Out - S/T The Sleeping - I Feel Like I’m Becoming A Ghost Johnny Booth - Moments Elsewhere Paramore - This Is Why Koyo - Would You Miss It?