New Releases

As I’ve done in the past, I’ve compiled a list of some of my favorite releases from the year that really captured my attention and listening time. All of these releases have been featured on the Free Form Freakout radio and podcast shows in some way during the year, or in a few instances, will soon be included in upcoming episodes before the year’s end. If time was unlimited, I would have written up short blurbs for each, but alas, you’ll find 50 new albums and 10 reissue/archival releases presented in a roughly alphabetical, barebones list. I do recognize that there are a small number of these that came out at the end of the previous year or were simply repressed in 2022, but I think we can all agree that “release dates” are sort of a moving target nowadays. 

I encourage you to click through the links provided for each release below and if you discover something you like, please make every effort to support these artists and labels in whatever way that you can. If you’re new to Free Form Freakout, I also encourage you to comb through the playlists on past episodes of the podcast, as those paint a pretty accurate picture of what I’m listening to on a monthly basis. I didn’t include any of the new releases that came out on our in-house label Round Bale Recordings this year, but naturally, I spent a considerable amount of time listening to those too and I’m incredibly honored to have been involved in getting those out into the world.

There are a few more episodes of the podcast show coming before the end of the year, and you’ll likely hear both Carl and I run through some of our favorite albums and songs on the weekly Free Form Freakout radio show in the coming weeks as well. And there’s plenty more to come in 2023!! I hope you’ll check back in with us. 

David Perron, N. Mankato, December 2022

A Happy Return	Drashel	Spillage Fete
Oren Ambarchi	Shebang	Drag City
Andrew Anderson	Vagrancies	Elevator Bath
Anteloper	Pink Dolphins	International Anthem
Yara Asmar	Home Recordings 2018-2021	Hive Mind Records
Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice	To Live & Die In Space & Time	Moon Glyph
Daniel Bachman	Almanac Behind	Three Lobed Recordings
Rosa Beach Mason & Sean Conrad	Wake	Inner Islands
Thomas Bush	Preludes	Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox
Jon Camp	S/T	Centripetal Force
Chronophage	S/T	Post Present Medium
Concrete Colored Paint	This Valley of Segmentation	Park 70
Carla dal Forno	Come Around	Kallista
Debit	The Long Count	Modern Love
Destroyer	Labyrinthitis	Merge
Elodie	Enteha	A Colourful Storm
Ensemble Nist Nah	Elders	Black Truffle
Green/Blue	Paper Thin	Feel It Records
Mark Harwood	Offering	Penultimate Press
M.H.H.	Cassiope: Protection Songs for Guitar	Home & Garden
Horseface	Sanakirjan Takana	Sing a Song Fighter
Kaoru Abe No Future	Another Wrong Way, Again	Presses Précaires
Kyle Kidd	Soothsayer	American Dreams
Kilynn Lunsford	Custodians Of Human Succession	Ever/Never
Luster	S/T	Morc Tapes
Fortunato Durutti Marinetti	Memory’s Fool	Soft Abuse / Bobo Integral
Mick Trouble	It’s Mick Trouble’s Second	Emotional Response
Astrid Øster Mortensen	Skærsgårdslyd	Discreet Music
Naujawanan Baider	Naujawanan Baider Vol. 1 & 2	Feeding Tube/Cardinal Fuzz/Ramble Records)
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom	Reset	Domino
Sam Prekop & John McEntire	Sons Of	Thrill Jockey
Cole Pulice	Scry	Moon Glyph
Joe Rainey	Niineta	37d03d
Rainfields	S/T	Self-released
The Reds, Pinks, & Purples	Summer at Land’s End	Slumberland
Julia Reidy	World In World	Black Truffle
Saint Abdullah	Inshallahlaland	Room40
Laila Sakini	Paloma	Modern Love
Jairus Sharif	Water & Tools	Telephone Explosion
Speedbooth	Yammals	Cost of Living
Staraya Derevnya	Boulder Blues	Ramble Records
Jim Strong	36fibulae	Chocolate Monk
TENGGER	Earthing	Ramble Records/Centripetal Force/Cardinal Fuzz
Valerio Tricoli	Say Goodbye To The Wind	Shelter Press
Various Artists	Two New Lips	Regional Bears
Will Veeder	Exit Interview	Carbon Records
Vic Bang	Burung	Moon Glyph
Wet Tuna	Warping All By Yourself	Three Lobed Recordings
Eli Winter	S/T	Three Lobed Recordings
Billy Woods	Aethiopes	Backwoodz Studioz

Reissues & Archival Releases

The Apostles	Best Forgotten	Horn of Plenty
Broadcast	Maida Vale Sessions + Microtronics – Volumes 1 & 2 + Mother Is the Milky Way	Warp Records
Henning Christiansen	OP​.​176 PENTHESILEA	Henning Christiansen Archive
Ned Collette	Jokes & Trials	Sophomore Lounge/Feeding Tube
Sam Esh	Jack of Diamonds/Faro Goddamn	Penultimate Press
Valentina Goncharova	Ocean: Symphony for Electric Violin and other instruments in 10+ Parts	Hidden Harmony
Hallelujahs	Eat Meat, Swear an Oath	Black Editions
Anthony Moore	Flying Doesn’t Help	Drag City
Movietone	Peel Sessions	Textile Records
Iannis Xenakis	Electroacoustic Works	Karlrecords