a personal choice of 13 records from 2022

(selected by Jenus – in alphabetical order)

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36 – The Infinity Room (3six Recordings)

36 (threesix) does it again, an inspired rework of an older 36 album. Reinterpreted leaves its origins for a deeper and more profound journey.

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Andrew Tasselmyer – Limits (Laaps)

The most handsome man in ambient can’t put a foot wrong, whether it’s with his brother Michael as Gray Acres, as a trio with Steven Kemner in Neon Hotel or here in this solo outing. A dream.

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Carbon Based Lifeforms – Stochastic (Leftfield Records)

Originally released in 2021 it took all of 2022 for the vinyl to get pressed but long waiting times aside this is the most experimental and best CBL album, and the first that’s totally convincing, fantastic.

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Cindytalk – Subterminal (False Walls)

Just when you thought Cindytalk has said it all, Cindytalk returns and pushes all boundaries out of orbit. A brilliant return to best form.

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Enrico Coniglio – Alpine Variations (Dronarivm)

Just beautiful electroacoustic ambient music. Alpine Variations is the album of the year, or at least the most played in this house.

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Fields We Found – Distance (Seil Records)

2022 was Fields We Found’s year and this album is the best moment in an amazing body of work. Gentle and touching.

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Fragile X – The Human Condition (Cue Dot Records)

The Human Condition is Fragile X’s masterpiece, a totally immersive exercise in restraint, for an artist that can take you down several different roads in one album, sticking to a concept really paid off this time.

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The Heartwood Institute – Hedges (Woodford Halse)

The Heartwood Institute convinces everyone that beauty can be found in the small with this cassette release on the brilliant Woodford Halse.

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Minaxi – Lazuleen (Oscarson)

Not only the best shoegazer album since Slowdive, Oscarson’s Lazuleen vinyl edition is also the most beautifully designed LP of 2022, the self-released cassette version with a slightly different tracklisting is also a beauty, as are the two accompanying lathe-cut 7″ singles, stunning.

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Moin – Paste (AD 93)

You can cry all day about the apparent demise of Raime or you can listen to the second Moin album Paste and learn that good music knows no genre. It’s grown up stuff, but so good. Rock on.

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Snufmumriko – Radio Mnemosyne (Dronarivm)

This came out of nowhere. Ingmar Wennerberg blows all he’s done before out of the water with this electronic masterclass, classic sounds that remind of the past and suggest a bright future.

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Soisong – kAm1e (Soisong . Org)

Soisong’s lost white album from 2007 gets the Ivan rework that makes it finally complete. It’s a Soisong/COH bastard son in a similar way to Coil/Sleazy’s The New Backwards. Death is a bitch and Soisong finally returns home.

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The Sound Of Science – The Sound Of Science (Castles In Space)

The Sound Of Science’s deep beauty is the innocence at it’s core, you might think that The Sound Of Science is a children’s album made by two adult men, but it’s the concept of this album that can bring back the child in you, a rare gift.

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A selection of thirteen tracks from these thirteen albums featured in the AGEMOWOROS transmission nine radio show which has been archived here:

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Selected tracks from a couple of these albums feature in THE GHOST SWEAT MIX by Jenus.

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