TOP 5 ALBUMS OF 2022
Given that the blog has only been active for a couple months, I wasn't even sure I was going to do a year end list. But, the music nerd in me simply couldn't resist. So, without further ado and in alphabetical order, here are five albums that I enjoyed the heck out of in this, the year of our lord 2022. Bastard Noise & Merzbow - Retribution by all other Creatures (Relapse Records) On Retribution by all other Creatures , Japanese God of Noise Merzbow and West Coast sonic terrorists Bastard Noise unleash just over an hour of music that's sometimes cold and cavernous and at other times relentlessly ultra-violent and punishing. Whether sounding like a malfunctioning eighties arcade game that's being lowered into a vat of acid or a swarm of crackling, crawling glitched-out fuzz, the album is consistently compelling from start to finish and never becomes so harsh as to become completely unlistenable, but at the same time never lets up enough to be accessible to the a