Top 20 electronic music albums of 2022: Daphni – Cherry

     

Here's another one of my top 20 favourite electronic music albums of 2022. One blog post per album, sorted alphabetically by artist until we get to the grand Top 10. This one is my least favourite flavour of Coca Cola.

For those following my live blogging, this is my last post of the day. We'll resume early tomorrow, climaxing with the number one album of the year around 6pm. Tally ho!

See the full countdown here.

Daphni: Cherry (Jiaolong)

Electronic Sound: “Bish, bash, bosh. That’s what people say when loosely lobbing ingredients into a recipe, isn’t it? Mozzarella. Bash. Chilli power. Bosh. This is Dan Snaith’s third album under his clubbier pseudonym, a decade after his Daphni debut. And like someone concocting punch after drinking half the punch, these short, snappy tracks are designed to be tipped into DJ mixes with wild abandon. The album itself would blend brilliantly…. Turn up the kitchen stereo, throw in some spice: the Caribou lad will be your DJ tonight.” 

I suspect I was busy burning a Hello Fresh delivery to a cinder while writing that review. Brilliant album, though, especially if you’re keen on Bonobo, Bicep or Four Tet. 

From another website: A tour de force of dancefloor intuition and emotional release, it has no point to prove; pleasure is the chief, perhaps the only, concern.. (Pitchfork)

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

Five things: from Spice Girls to Underworld with a bit of Toy Story inbetween

Here are five things I got up to this week.

1. Got proud

I went to Didsbury Pride, which is a celebration of LGBTQ+ people by Emmanuel church in Manchester, the church I went to for many years back in the olden days. It's a wonderful thing, and when I got there everyone was drinking spirits and dancing to the Spice Girls. I didn't recognise anyone, so I hung around awkwardly for ten minutes and then went home. Ah well. It's still a wonderful thing.

2. Got silly

I co-hosted Bad Language, the monthly spoken word night I run with Joe Daly. I'd missed the July one as I was in Edinburgh, so it was great to be back. And for some reason it was packed. Mid-week after a bank holiday weekend and everyone came out to party. Nutters, the lot of you. I'd been to a funeral earlier in the day, so it was just the tonic to be silly in front of an audience all night.

3. Got confused

This happened in a coffee shop:

Me: What drinks do you have that don't have tea or coffee in?
Barista: You don't drink coffee?
Me: No.
Barista: How about a tea?
Me: I don't drink tea. I'd like an iced drink.
2nd barista walking in: You don't drink coffee or ICE?!

4. Got annoyed

I saw Toy Story 4 and blubbed. I always blub at films. Oh and I started series two of Mindhunter, a grisly serial killer drama where you don't really see the grisly bits. It's such a good programme, although it fell for a well-worn trope. In one scene, like so many other programmes, they dubbed feedback over people talking talk into microphones. This doesn't happen unless sound is being mismanaged or it's an actual soundcheck. Stop doing it, programme makers! *squeeeals*

5. Got listenin'

I've been listening to things. Every other day on my Twitter account, I post a "you should be listening to" recommendation, old or new or somewhere inbetween. I've recently plugged Antwood, D-Shake, Underworld, Daphni and Jamie xx. To hear my nuggets of audio wisdom. follow me on the tweets.