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Discovery of the year: Japanese math rock band, tricot
Album of the year: tricot - Fudeki (Bad Job)
Favourite album bought, but not released, this year: It's between Sound Struggle - The Bridge and Pepe Deluxé - Phantom Cabinet Vol. 1

Here's the albums released this year that I acquired:
Dama Scout - Gen Wo Lai (Come With Me)
Deux Furieuses - Songs From Planet Earth
The Dowling Pool - Refuse
Craig Fortnam - Instrumental Music 1
Craig Fortnam - Lunar 1 A-Sides
Craig Fortnam - Lunar 1 B-Sides
Muddy Suzuki - dysTopic
Bill Nelson - Electra (In Search Of The Golden Sound)
Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Art / Empire / Industry
Nova Twins - Supernova
Poppy - Stagger EP
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Night Gnomes
Schnauser - Altra Seccatura
Spacemoth - No Past No Future
The Stargazer Lilies - Cosmic Tidal Wave
tricot - Fudeki (Bad Job)

And here are all the others that I just discovered or got round to:
Aphrodite’s Child - 666 (1971)
Sel Balamir - Swell (2021)
Sel Balamir - ( )rphans (2021)
Bent Knee - Frosting (2021)
David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (1980)
Deerhoof - Actually, You Can (2021)
Elephant Gym - Angle (2014)
Elephant Gym - Underwater (2018)
Elephant Gym - Work EP (2018)
Elephant Gym - Balance EP (2018)
The Fine Constant (Sarah Longfield) - Myriad (2012)
The Fine Constant (Sarah Longfield) - Woven In Light (mini album, 2015)
Gentle Giant - Playing The Fool (live double, 1977)
Gentle Giant - The Missing Piece (1977)
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick (1972)
Kinks - The Ultimate Collection (2002)
Dominique Leone - Abstract Expression (2009)
Dominique Leone - San Francisco (mini album, 2015)
Dominique Leone - Domestic Bliss EP (2018)
Sarah Longfield - Par Avion (2012)
Sarah Longfield - Oneiric EP (2013)
Sarah Longfield - Collapse - Expand (2017)
Sarah Longfield - Disparity (2018)
Joni Mitchell - Shine (2007)
Muddy Suzuki - Hum-Drum (2020)
Pepe Deluxé - Phantom Cabinet Vol. 1 (2021)
Plank - Animalism (2012)
Plank - Hivemind (2014)
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Shyga! The Sunlight Mound (2021)
Sanguine Hum - Archive Vol 2 (2021)
Sound Struggle - The Bridge (double album, 2021)
Spotlight Kid - From The Archives, Part 1 (mini album, 2020)
Spotlight Kid - From The Archives, Part 2 (mini album, 2020)
Spotlight Kid - Covers & Compilations (2020)
Spotlight Kid - Roller Skate Disco EP (2020)
Spotlight Kid - VRHN EP (2021)
Spotlight Kid - Darkwaters EP (2021)
Chris Squire - Fish Out Of Water (1975)
tricot - Bakuretsu tricot San EP (2011)
tricot - THE (2013)
tricot - AND (2015)
tricot - 3 (2017)
tricot - Makkuro (Black) (2020)
tricot - Jodeki (Excellent) (2021)
Voivod - The Outer Limits (1993)
Ultravox - Vienna (1980)
Frank Zappa - Puttin’ On The Ritz (live double, 1981)

Tricot and Elephant Gym were both nommed by me in the much missed 'artists' game, so delighted to see you dug them so much Jim. That was after all the point of the thing (for me at least).

Getting down to mine, the big discovery for me was the Ghost Box label, thanks to Stuart Maconie's 'hauntology' special on the Freak Zone in mid-November, which featured a lot of music issued through the label, and of which I had been shockingly unaware before.

Albums released this year
Fossara - Björk
We Long To Be Haunted e.p. - Laura Cannell
Sow Your Gold In The White Foliated Earth - Deathprod
Foreverandevernomore - Brian Eno
Head Coach - Hawksmoor
Texas Moon e.p. - Khruangbin & Leon Bridges
Children Of The Stones - The Ambrosian Singers/Stanley Sager (from the 1977 television series) - a Jonny Trunk special!
“Ali” - Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin

Older stuff acquired this year
23 Skidoo - The Culling Is Coming
Mahmoud Ahmed - Erè Mèla Mèla
Aquaserge - The Possibility Of A New Work For Aquaserge
Robert Ashley - Automatic Writing
John Baker - The John Baker Tapes Vol. 1
John Baker - The John Baker Tapes Vol. 2
John Baker - The Vendetta Tapes
BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 21
Belbury Poly - Farmers Angle e.p.
Belbury Poly - The Willows
Black Light District - A Thousand Lights In A Darkened Room
Dean Blunt - Redeemer
Tim Buckley - The Complete Album Collection
Vashti Bunyan - Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind
Laura Cannell - These Feral Lands (a series of 12 very limited e.p.s issued last year, of which I managed to pick up 10 this year)
Coil - Backwards
Coil + Zos Kia + Marc Almond - How To Destroy Angels
Cure - Seventeen Seconds
Delia Derbyshire & Elsa Stansfield- Circle Of Light
The Focus Group - Sketches And Spells
Jean Guérin - Tacet
Judy Henske & Jerry Yester - Farewell Aldebaran
The Hillmen - The Hillmen
Ernest Hood - Neighborhoods
Anna Meredith - Fibs
New Order - Substance
Oval - Systemich
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
Pere Ubu - Carnival Of Souls
Rising Sons feat. Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder
Mike Sammes/Mike Sammes Singers - Music For Biscuits
Scottsville Squirrel Barkers - Blue Grass Favorites
Strawberry Switchblade - 1982 4-Piece Demo e.p.
Syrinx - Tumblers From The Vaults (1970-1972)
Julie Tippetts - Sunset Glow
The Tomorrow People
Pekka Tuppurainen - Röd/Blå
Stomu Yamashta - Seasons: The Island Albums 1972-1976
The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds
Zos Kia/Coil - Transparent
Various - Classroom Sounds
Various - Soweto Street Sounds
Various - Strain, Crack & Break: Music From The Nurse With Wound List Vol. 2: Germany

Still waiting to arrive
Laura Cannell - New Christmas Rituals

Xmas pressies
Chris Carter - Miscellany (box set of his first three solo albums +)
Cosey Fanni Tutti - Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And The Legendary Tapes

Tim wrote: "Tricot and Elephant Gym were both nommed by me in the much missed 'artists' game, so delighted to see you dug them so much Jim. That was after all the point of the thing (for me at least)."

Just watched Elephant Gym on YT, girl on bass... wowza!

I'm almost ashamed to add my paltry purchases for 2022. In my defence, at 73 and with over 3500 CDs and lord knows how many vinyl albums, it's time I started slowing down a bit. But it's great that Jim and Tim can still get excited by new music.

2022 releases:

Tanya Lee Davies - Dreamland
Jake Xerxes Fussell - Good and Green Again
Gang Of Youths - Angel In Realtime
Halfway - On the Ghostline, With Hands of Lightning
Joshua Hedley - Neon Blue
Rob Snarski - Searching For The Heart Of It All
Marlon Williams - My Boy
Various Artists - Melbourne in 60 Seconds
Various Artists - The Wonderful World Of Depressing Country Music (thanks to Helen for, if not recommending this, at least alerting me to it)

Older titles:
Martyn Bennett - Grit (2003)
Died Pretty - Everydaydream (2000)
Steve Hoy - Life Next Door (1990)
Sir Vincent Lone - Troubadour Heart (2008)
Jen Mize & Mark Sholtez - Twilight on the Trail (2019)
Supertramp - Famous Last Words (1982)
Various Artists - This Is...Eurovision (1997)
Various Artists - Chicanos Explode in Concert: Let Us Be Heard (1971)
Various Artists - Sunday Night Special (2014)
Various Artists - Where The Boys Are: The Songs of Neil Sedaka & Howard Greenfield (2011)

I am not organised like you lot, I keep no record at all of what I have bought and my memory is not good at all! I just order (or download) stuff and it arrives so I have no idea what I bought this year without looking at my order histories on various websites. Sorry.

I think the "What are you listening to" thread would probably give a fair idea of what I have acquired this year.

No new releases for me.

The only albums I appear to have bought this year are...

AC/DC "Power Up" (2020)
Def Leppard "On Through The Night (Remastered)" (1980)
Def Leppard "Slang (Deluxe Edition)" (1996)
Tyla's Dogs D'Amour "A Graveyard Of Empty Bottles MMXIX" (2019)

Only 2 from me this year.

Danger Mouse & Black Thought - 'Cheat Codes'. Great hip hop album.

Just Mustard - 'Heart Under'. Cross between 80's goth band The Cranes and early industrial Depeche Mode. It's an album that you have to be in the mood to listen to. The beats hit harder than some heavy metal tracks but the variation just isn't there. Good for the occasional listen.

Sun's Signature - 'Sun's Signature'. Beautiful 5 track E.P. from Elizabeth Fraser and Damon Reece.

Albums from previous years;

Public Enemy - 'Yo Bum Rush The Show' - 1987
Public Enemy - 'It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back' - 1988
Public Enemy - 'Fear Of A Black Planet' - 1990

All 3 long overdue.

Orville Peck - 'Pony' - 2019

This year,

Porcupine tree - Closure/continuation (good)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Dow (meish)
The Black Keys - Dropout Boogie (ok)
Jack White - Fear Of The Dawn (not bad)
Bjork - Fossora (jayses vot was that)
The Sheepdogs - Live at Lee's (sheepdogs, right?)
Shovels & Rope - Manticore (nice cover gotsta listen some day)
Machine Head - Of Kingdom And Crown (poking devil horns at neighbours)
The Sheepdogs - Outta Sight (rawk)
Alter Bridge - Pawn & Kings (only plus - Kevin Bacon on vocals)
King Buffalo - Regenerator (solid stoner as usual)
Korn - Requiem (i know I know...)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - World Record (well...)

oldies,

last five albums by Type O Negative (cheered me up immensely prexmas period,
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers L.A.M.F.
coupla album by Stone Roses, good ones
Opeth - I Cauda Venenum
then a few things by Megadeth, Laura Nyro, Queensryche, Yes (tech eat your heart out),

basically that's it

Post Soviet wrote:

Bjork - Fossora (jayses vot was that)..."

Yeh, that's what I think everytime I hear Bjork "singing". :-)

Her first 3 albums were really good, but then she started disappearing up her own arsehole, imo.

Post Soviet wrote: "This year,

Porcupine tree - Closure/continuation (good)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Dow (meish)
The Black Keys - Dropout Boogie (ok)
Jack White - Fear Of The Dawn (not bad)
Bjork - Fossora (jayses v..."

Sheepdogs eh? If you want uncomplicated retro rawk with twin lead riffs they got 'em up the wazoo, one of my gigs of the year in Manchester (even if Jimmy Bowsill has gone to pastures new) where they were knocking out the pair for a tenner each from the merch stand = duly bought.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msZYR... (coolest threads known to man)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytig_...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X89EQ...

Tim wrote: "Tricot and Elephant Gym were both nommed by me in the much missed 'artists' game, so delighted to see you dug them so much Jim. That was after all the point of the thing (for me at least)."

Thanks for that Tim. I saw tricot live this year in London. Great show, but no CDs on the merch stall. Import duties seem to make it cost prohibitive for them to bring them in.
I see you bought a Stomu Yamash'ta compilation. I've got four of his albums:
Stomu Yamash’ta & Come To The Edge - Floating Music (1972)
Stomu Yamash'ta's Red Buddha Theatre - The soundtrack from 'The Man From The East' (1973)
Stomu Yamash'ta's East Band - Freedom Is Frightening (1973)
Stomu Yamash'ta - Raindog (1975)
I like the first one best due to the tracks Poker Dice and Xingu.

Post Soviet wrote: "This year,

Porcupine tree - Closure/continuation (good)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Dow (meish)
The Black Keys - Dropout Boogie (ok)
Jack White - Fear Of The Dawn (not bad)
Bjork - Fossora (jayses v..."

I'll probably get round to the Porcupine Tree album sooner or later as what I've heard from it, I like. Probably won't go for Björk's latest as what I've listened to seemed a bit downbeat, but the album cover is stunning.