Phish Gizz Big Thief SML Jeff Parker Shabaka Moor Mother Rich Ruth Geese/Cam The Chuquimamanis (no order) HM: Makaya McCraven, Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (Jazz is Dead series), Mary Halvorson, Isaiah Collier
without thinking too hard about it 1. sturgill simpson 2. fiddlehead 3. geese/cameron winter 4. idles 5. dry cleaning 6. wednesday 7. fontaines dc 8. olivia rodrigo 9. wild pink 10. waxahatchee
Skimming my EOTY lists I can find since 2020, the three I feel most comfortable putting on top are Olivia Rodrigo, Ethel Cain, and Hayley Williams (including Paramore).
Never know how much to weigh widespread influence against how much I enjoy the artist personally. Caroline Polachek, Dijon, Waxahatchee, and Turnstile all balance that line for me edit: PinkPantheress definitely checks those boxes as well
Deafheaven Alex G MJ Lenderman Drug Church Greet Death Nothing Carly Rae Jepsen Fiddlehead Citizen From Indian Lakes
I felt Big Thief’s presence much more in the 2010s than any time in the 2020s, but there is a case to be made for Adrianne Lenker
Jyocho Charley Crockett Cho Momma Rosalía verifiziert Fabiana Palladino Manillio Casper Zach Bryan Margo Cilker Stormzy Wiki Blu Kamp That's an unranked list of 15, but the bold ones are probably my unranked top 4 plus Rosalía at 1 because she is the greatest artist of the last 16 years at least, let alone 6.
My favourite song of the decade is still The Foundations of Decay so maybe My Chem should be on my list even though they've only released a single song.
I haven’t listened to any full Rosalía release besides LUX, which is of course as cool and brilliant as people say. (Especially love how mystical it feels. Perfect morning listen with my coffee.) Maybe I should backtrack to whatever cool shit she did before.
Dragon is the opus imo and its 2022. I think I like the latest one more than most because of Laraaji too