Timo Ellis (Netherlands)
What are your top five albums that were released in 2022? (In order 1-5)
- Wormrot - Hiss
- Meshuggah - Immutable
- Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsant - Seances
- Lori Scacco - The Order of Things
- Felicia Atkinson - Image Language
What band did you discover in 2022 (can be a brand new band or an older band) that had an impact on your life? How so?
Frederick Delius - Florida Suite (1888) IMO this piece is among the best things human beings have ever done (+ I personally need to be reminded of the better side of humanity much more often these days.)
How will you remember 2022? (In terms of music)
Our record Kali Corvette came out on Three One G, which of course was rad...otherwise it was mostly a wildly overstimulating/ stressful blur of admin + trying to process other people's "content", IE a relentless feeling of FOBLB/ "am I doing any of this shit right?!?!"/ "maybe I should join Tik Tok after all."
What can we look forward to from you in 2023?
Our scorching/ monstrous new (Kurt Ballou recorded) LP Severance is coming out on SVART records in April and we'll be touring all over the place blowing it out- stay tuned!
What records are you looking forward to most in 2023?
Miho Hatori, Eartheater, Nickel Creek, Maeve Gilchrist, Punch Brothers
Live shows are still a mixed bag as we adapt to social gatherings in a COVID world. What is something positive you see about touring right now? Anything you’d like to see change?
Personally I'd like to see (way) more music lovers admit how dangerously addicted we've become to social media/ all the streaming platforms, then take 30 (or more!) days off from them to recover our attention spans/ generally re-orient our IRL lives around "going out" again, thereby re-populating shows, relatively (*obviously people still go out but overall I get the sense that its still, like, 40% less often than before, even independent of the pandemic...in other words (IMO) music scene(s) often can't hold a candle to the terrifying, enchanting power of Netflix et. al!)
