Top 5 is set in stone. The rest chop and change all the time... Roc Marciano & The Alchemist - The Elephant Man's Bones Sélébéyone - Xaybu: The Unseen Gilla Band - Most Normal Rosalia - MOTOMAMI The Comet Is Coming - Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam Makaya McCraven - In These Times Harry Styles - Harry's House Fatboi Sharif - Preaching In Havana R.A.P. Ferreira - 5 to the Eye with Stars Ebi Soda - Honk If You're Sad Moor Mother - Jazz Codes Nok Cultural Ensemble - Njhyi Billy Woods - Aethiopes Daniel Villarreal - panamá 77 Earl Sweatshirt - Sick! Danger Mouse & Black Thought - Cheat Codes DOMi & JD Beck - NOT TiGHT Action Bronson - COCODRILLO TURBO gabriels - Angels & Queens: Part I Mount Kimbie - MK 3.5: Die Cuts | City Planning Lukah - Raw Extractions Binker & Moses - Feeding The Machine Billy Woods - Church Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers Antoine Berjeaut - Chromesthesia Carlos Niño & Friends - Extra Presence Ka - Woeful Studies Ka - Languish Arts Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia Fly Anakin - Frank E L U C I D - I Told Bessie Quelle Chris - DEATHFAME EABS - 2061 Future - I Never Liked You Bad Bunny - UN VERANO SIN TI Greentea Peng - Greenzone 108 Wu-lu - LOGGERHEAD Kode9 - Escapology The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention Open Mike Eagle - Component System with the Auto Reverse Benny The Butcher - Tana Talk 4 Westside Gunn - 10 Wilma Vritra - Grotto Daniel Maunick - Persistence Lord Apex - Off The Strength Alabaster Deplume - GOLD Soccer96 - Inner Worlds Jameszoo - Blind The Plastik Beatniks - All Those Streets I Must Find Cities For (12 Songs for Bob Kaufman) DITZ - The Great Regression Pinty - Pinty's House OG Keemo - Mann beisst Hund Charles Stepney - Step On Step The Cool Kids - Before Shit Got Weird Lifted - 3 The Weeknd - Dawn FM Just Mustard - Heart Under
These were my favorites. That Ian Noe album is an all timer. 1. Ian Noe - River Fool & Mountain Saints 2. Kevin Morby - This is a Photograph 3. Joan Shelley - The Spur 4. Jake Xerxes Fussel - Good and Green Again 5. The Deslondes - Ways & Means 6. Garcia Peoples - Dodging Dues 7. Bill Callahan - Reality 8. Plains - I Walked With You A Ways 9. John Fullbright - The Liar 10. Grace Cummings - Storm Queen 11. Twain - Noon 12. Gabe Lee - The Hometown Kid 13. Drugdealer - Hiding In Plain Sight 14. Cass McCombs - Heartmind 15. Taylor Kingman - Hollow Sound 16. Michael Rault - Michael Rault 17. SG Goodman - Teeth Marks 18. Color Green - Color Green 19. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You 20. Melissa Carper - Ramblin Soul 21. Alex Izenberg - I'm Not Here. 22. Charley Crocket - The Man From Waco 23. Angel Olsen - Big Time 24. Enumclaw - Save the Baby 25. The Delines - The Sea Drift 26. Arlo McKinley - This Mess We're In 27. Sean Thompson's Weird Ears - Weird Ears 28. Lee Bagget - Anyway 29. Tami Neilson - Kingmaker 30. Julianna Riolino - All Blue 31. Staple Jr. Singers - When Do We Get Paid 32. Mama's Broke - Narrow Line 33. Lambchop - The Bible 34. Black Thought & Danger Mouse - Cheat Codes 35. Revelators Sounds System - Revelators 36. Mr Sam & The People People - People People People People! 37. 2nd Grade - Easy Listening 38. MJ Lenderman - Boat Songs 39. Miko Marks - Feel Like Going Home 40. Early James - Strange Time To Be Alive 41. Gilla Band - Most Normal 42. Robyn Hitchcock - Shufflemania 43. Dawes - Misadventures of Dreamscroller 44. Scott Ballew - Leisure Rodeo 45. Pastor Champion - I Just Want to Be A Good Man 46. Daniel Villarreal - Panama 77 47. Simon Joyner - Songs From A Stolen Guitar 48. Wiki - Cold Cuts 49. Moor Mother - Jazz Codes 50. Benjamin Tod - Songs I Swore I'd Never Write Others I really enjoyed Jeff Tobias - Recurring Dream Karl Blau - Love & Harm Winged Wheel - No Island Wilco - Cruel Country Caitlin Rose - Cazimi Tommy Alexander - Feelings Kiwi Jr. - Chopper One Eleven Heavy - Poolside Alabaster DePlume - GOLD Hurray For The Riff Raff - LIFE ON EARTH The Kernal - Listen To The Blood 700 Bliss - Nothing To Declare Chris Forsyth - Evolution Here We Come Horse Lords - Comradely Objects Marina Allen - Centrifics Austin Leonard Jones - Dead Calm Lost Dog Street Band - Glory Erin Rae - Lighten Up Bonnie Light Horseman - Rolling Golden Holy Joseph Allred - The Rambles & Rags of Shiloh Anna Tivel - Outsiders Brent Cobb - And Now, Let's Turn to Page.. JID - The Forever Story The Weather Station - How is it that I Should Look at the Stars Eli Winter - Eli Winter Matthew J. Rolin - Passing Isla Craig - Echo's Ranch Friendship - Love The Stranger
haven't done one of these in a while since i always have a hard time ranking these records. decided to just go for a tier system. absolute favorites: Alvvays - Blue Rev Au Suisse, Morgan Geist, & Kelly Polar - Au Suisse Axel Boman - Luz/Quest for Fire Beyonce - Renaissance Hatchie - Giving the World Away NewJeans - NewJeans Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann - Perform the Compositions of Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention Wednesday Campanella - Neon other favorites: Baehyuni - ZYZZ Death's Dynamic Shroud - Darklife Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future Duster - Together Hudson Mohawke - Cry Sugar Just Mustard - Heart Under Ky Voss - The After MSPAINT - Mspaint Skee Mask - Iss007 Sobs - Air Guitar The Soft Pink Truth - Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This? Special Interest - Ednure Static Dress - Rouge Carpet Disaster Two Shell - Icons Various Artists - Scenic Route: The Road Less Travelled Vol 1 Vince Staples - Ramona Park Broke My Heart Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow other records i enjoyed: Benny the Butcher - Tana Talk 4 Birds In Row - Greis Klein Carla Dal Forno - Come Around Courting - Guitar Music Jordana & TV Girl - Summer's Over Kate Bollinger - Look At It In the Light Midwxst - Better Luck Next Time Nilufer Yanya - PAINLESS Phung Khanh Linh - Citopia Rauw Alejandro - Saturno Saba - Few Good Things The Soft Moon - Exister They Hate Change - Finally, New
I'm just gonna link my whole instagram post, I decided I'm gonna start getting a tattoo for someone in my AOTY list & this year it's Cliffdiver I'm also not ranking anything, this is my top 20 1/7 - trust fund ozu - tribute summon 1/21 - anxious - little green house 2/18 - foreign hands - bleed the dream ep 3/25 - Maren Morris - humble quest 3/25 - Carly cosgrove - see you in chemistry 4/15 - grin & bear - naturally goes 4/22 - hindsight - let’s not & just say we did ep 5/6 - cliffdiver - exercise your demons 5/25 - sweet pill - where the heart is 6/3 - purity ring - graves 6/24 - coheed & cambria - vaxis II: a window of the waking mind 7/22 - cheem - guilty pleasure 7/22 - pool kids - s/t 8/12 - career day - where we’ve always been 9/2 - hidden in plain view - tantrums ep 9/2 - the callous daoboys - celebrity therapist 10/14 - ways away - torch songs 10/21 - their / they’re / there - their / they’re / three 10/28 - arms length - never before seen, never again found 11/4 - slowly slowly - daisy chain
1. Alvvays - Blue Rev 2. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You 3. The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field 4. Death Cab for Cutie - Asphalt Meadows 5. Angel Olsen - Big Time My honorable mention would be Alex G
01. Kamp & Fid Mella - 2URÜCK OHNE 2UKUNFT (Austrian Hip Hop) 02. Rosalia - MOTOMAMI 03. Jyocho - Let's Promise To Be Happy (Japanese Math Rock) 04. Margo Cilker - Phorylle 05. Stormzy - This Is What I Mean 06. Zach Bryan - American Heartbreak 07. Phife Dawg - Forever 08. Loyle Carner - hugo 09. Wiki & Subjxct 5 - Cold Cuts 10. Dave East - HDIGH Honourable Mentions: Romeo Santos - Formula, Vol. 3, Nas - King's Disease III, Dave East - Book of David, Kehlani - blue water road, Casper - ALLES WAR SCHÖN UND NICHTS TAT WEH (German Hip Hop), Hef - Hefvermogen 2 (Dutch Hip Hop), Benny The Butcher - Tana Talk 4, The Game - DRILLMATIC Heart vs. Mind, Wordsworth - The Fragility Of Life, Rapper Big Pooh - To Dream in Color, Craig David - 22, M.I.A. - MATA, Vince Staples - RAMONA PARK BROKE MY HEART, Cypress Hill - Back In Black, Cho - THNX (Dutch Hip Hop), Cam'ron & A-Trak - U Wasn't There, Termanlogy & Paul Wall - Start 2 Finish, Ann Marie - Pain Never Looked This Good.
I don't know who recommended it (maybe it was you?), but I'm happy someone did, because I adore it but would never have found it myself
1. Gang of Youths - angel in realtime 2. John Fullbright - The Liar 3. Plains - I Walked With You A Ways 4. Dawes - Misadventures of Doomscroller 5. Mandy Moore - In Real Life 6. Taylor Swift - Midnights 7. Lizzy McAlpine - five seconds flat 8. MJ Lenderman - Boat Songs 9. Bonny Light Horseman - Rolling Golden Holy 10. Wilco - Cruel Country 11. Mt. Joy - Orange Blood 12. MUNA - MUNA 13. Harry Styles - Harry’s House 14. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You 15. Ezra Furman - All of Us Flames
1. The 1975 - Being Funny In A Foreign Language 2. Caracara - New Preoccupations 3. TOLEDO - How It Ends 4. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain 5. MAVI - Laughing So Hard It Hurts 6. Soft Blue Shimmer - Love Lives In The Body 7. R.A.P. Ferreira - 5 To The Eye With Stars 8. fanclubwallet - You Have Got To Be Kidding Me 9. Launder - Happening 10. Earl Sweatshirt - SICK! 11. Saba - Few Good Things 12. Momma - Household Name 13. ghost orchard - rainbow music 14. Japanese Heart Software - Soft 15. Holy Fawn - Dimensional Bleed 16. Ithaca - They Fear Us 17. beabadoobee - Beatopia 18. Day Wave - Pastlife 19. Sadurn - Radiator 20. Yumi Zouma - Present Tense 21. redveil - learn 2 swim 22. Press Club - Endless Motion 23. Charli XCX - CRASH 24. Valleyheart - Heal My Head 25. Wild Pink - ILYSM 26. Florist - Florist 27. SZA - SOS 28. Death Cab For Cutie - Asphalt Meadows 29. Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loneliest Time 30. tobi lou - Non-Perishable 31. Slowly Slowly - Daisy Chain 32. Danger Mouse & Black Thought - Cheat Codes 33. Why Bonnie - 90 In November 34. UMI - Forest In The City 35. Ruby Haunt - Cures For Opposites 36. Ivy Sole - Candid 37. DOMi & JD Beck - NOT TiGHT 38. JID - The Forever Story 39. Injury Tape - Songs I Mailed To Myself 40. Murkage Dave - The City Needs A Hero 41. Plains - I Walked With You A Ways 42. Smidley - Here Comes The Devil 43. Benny The Butcher - Tana Talk 4 44. Widowspeak - The Jacket 45. MJ Lenderman - Boat Songs 46. Gang Of Youths - angel in realtime. 47. Bartees Strange - Farm To Table 48. Whitney - SPARK 49. Orchid Mantis - How Long Wil It Take 50. Joji - SMITHEREENS
The last 3 on album top albums has changed almost day for the past couple of weeks, but I think I’m happy enough to land on this. ALBUMS: 1.) Underoath - ‘Voyeurist’ 2.) The Devil Wears Prada - ‘Color Decay’ 3.) Static Dress - ‘Rouge Carpet Disaster’ 4.) The Weeknd - ‘Dawn FM’ 5.) Bad Omens - ‘The Death Of Peace Of Mind’ 6.) Vukovi - ‘NULA’ 7.) The 1975 - ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’ 8.) Darko US - ‘ONI’ 9.) Brakence - ‘Hypochondriac’ 10.) The Callous Daoboys - ‘Celebrity Therapist’ EPs: 1.) Void Of Vision - ‘Chronicles II: Heaven’ 2.) A Dozen Black Roses - ‘Treading Ever So Deeply’ 3.) Blight Town - ‘It Lives…’ 4.) Alpha Wolf & Holding Absence - ‘The Lost & The Longing’ 5.) nightlife - ‘fallback’ 6.) Foreign Hands - ‘Bleed The Dream’ 7.) Heriot - ‘Profound Morality’ 8.) Happydaze - ‘Underground Summer Sound’ 9.) The John Candy - ‘Abysmal Waste Of Cosmic Dust.’ 10.) Crosses - ‘PERMANENT.RADIANT’
Lots of good not great albums for me this year but these 4 were the best to me: The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers Florence and The Machine - Dance Fever Also really enjoyed: Spoon, Jack White, RHCP, Mars Volta, Death Cab, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Taylor, Arctic Monkeys, Wild Pink
MOST LISTENED TO ALBUMS OF 2022 (according to last.fm) P-Lo - “Stunna” The Smile “A Light For Attracting Attention Wild Pink - “ILYSM” Death Cab For Cutie - “Asphalt Meadows” SZA - “SOS” Drake - “Honestly Nevermind” Static Dress - “Rouge Carpet Disaster” The 1975 - “Being Funny In A Foreign Language” Belle & Sebastian “A Bit Of Previous” Wilco “Cruel Country” Pedro The Lion “Havasu” Birds In Row “Gris Klein” The Beths “Expert In A Dying Field” Freddie Gibbs “$oul $old $eparately” Alvvays “Blue Rev” Kendrick Lamar “Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers”
1. Overgrow - Walls of Mirrors 2. Caracara - New Preoccupations 3. A Wilhelm Scream - Lose Your Delusion 4. Joyce Manor - 40 Oz. to Fresno 5. Bartees Strange - Farm To Table 6. No Matter - Bad Chemistry 7. The Flatliners - New Ruin 8. The Weeknd - Dawn FM 9. S10 - Ik besta voor altijd zolang jij aan mij denkt 10. The Dangerous Summer - Coming Home 11. Brutus - Unison Life 12. Flume - Palaces 13. Cold Years - Goodbye To Misery 14. MUNA - MUNA 15. The Wonder Years - The Hum Goes On Forever 16. Anxious - Little Green House 17. Billy Talent - Crisis Of Faith 18. L.S. Dunes - Past Lives 19. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You 20. Charlie Simpson - Hope Is A Drug 21. Maddie & Tae - Volume 1 22. Hey Thanks! - Start/Living 23. Kevin Devine - Nothing’s Real, so Nothing’s wrong 24. Mercy Union - White Tiger 25. Gregor Barnett - Don’t throw roses On my Grave 26. The 1975 - Being Funny In A Modern Language 27. Babyface Ray - Face 28. Underoath - Voyeurist 29. Bodyjar - New Rituals 30. Dashboard Confessional - All The Truth That I Can Tell Honorable mentions: Bloc Party - Alpha Games Comeback Kid - Heavy Steps Dan Andriano - Dear Darkness The Interrupters - In The Wild Band of Horses - Things Are Great Gang of Youths - Angel in Realtime Reminders - Best of Beach Punk Hot Water Music - Feel The Void Be Well - Hello Sun Sasha Alex Sloan - I Blame The World Charlix XCX - Crash Sunsleeper - While You Can Turnover - Myself In The Way Dragged Under - Upright Animals