Top 50 best electronic music albums of 2022: Silicon Scally, Daniel Avery, Bogdan Raczynski

     

Here are more brilliant electronic music albums. We're in the midst of the top 50, with me live blogging a handful of albums at a time until my fingers fall off. No particular order, just a general mulch of top 50-ness.

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Silicon Scally: Field Lines (Central Processing Unit)

The bleeps, the bass, the 8-bit vibes. This is electro for electro-heads, with a whole load of 80s film feels to boot. But unlike some other electro albums, it isn’t purely robotic. Amid the mechanical beats is a melodic warmth that gives everything way more heart than you’d expect. Carl Finlow quit a furniture design degree for this. Quite right. Screw those tables.

Daniel Avery: Ultra Truth (Phantasy Sound)

“Let’s fray every edge,” said Danny A about his fifth studio album. Can I call him Danny A? Too late, I’ve said it. This is by far the most low-key album from Avery: a techno titan turns inward with a collection of thoughtful, atmospheric instrumentals. Inspired by, among other things, the Deftones and David Lynch. Includes a stunning tribute to Andy Weatherall. Utterly replayable.

Bogdan Raczynski: ADDLE (Planet Mu)

“This revered drill and basser delivers his first studio album in fifteen years…He’s dumped the farty Nintendo bleeps and firework breaks of 2007’s Alright!. Any clattering percussion seems sonically banished to a room next door, supplanted by a polite vibraphone haze and melodies of heat-melted circuitry. All the whimsy of 2001’s MyLoveILove with all the maturity of years. Revere once again.”

This is part of a series of the Best Electronic Music Albums of 2022. Read it all here.