My favorite albums from 2022, in no particular order: 1. The Wrecks- Sonder 2. Set It Off- Elsewhere 3. State Champs- Kings of the New Age 4. The 1975- Being Funny in a Foreign Language 5. Ingrid Andress- Good Person 6. The Wonder Years- The Hum Goes on Forever 7. Charlie Simpson- Hope is a Drug 8. Dashboard Confessional- All The Truth That I Can Tell 9. Armor For Sleep- The Rain Museum 10. Underoath- Voyeurist My most listened to EP: Brighten- Life and Everything Before You
A little late to the party since I've been taking a bit of a hiatus from being online during the holidays. Kinda strange year for me looking back at it. Lot of great releases for sure but I was fairly disappointed in a lot of artists I tend to love (Turnover, Slipknot, Interpol, etc). Here is my final list of LPs with EPs separated into their own list: Holy Fawn - Dimensional Bleed Momma - Household Name Soul Blind - Feel It All Around Enumclaw - Save The Baby Spite House - Spite House Milly - Eternal Ring Just Mustard - Heart Under fleshwater - We're Not Here to Be Loved Life On Venus - Homeward Ithaca - They Fear Us Puppy - Pure Evil Same - Does It Go Any Faster? Orchid Mantis - How Long Will It Take SPICE - Viv Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory Goon - Hour of Green Evening The Berries - High Flying Man Pool Kids - Pool Kids Slowly - Distance Pet Fox - A Face In Your Life Vundabar - Devil for the Fire Static Dress - Rouge CArpet Disaster Praise - All in a Dream Cloakroom - Dissolution Wave Jacky Boy - Much Moodring - Stargazer Anxious - Little Green House Drug Church - Hygiene Alexisonfire - Otherness Soft Blue Shimmer - Love Lives in the Body Garage Sale - Shimmer Castlebeat - Half Life Forests - Get in Loser, We're Going to Eternal Damnation Joyce Manor - 40 Oz. to Fresno Yot Club - off the grid Launder - Happening Fluung - The Vine Sulk - If You Look Long Enough... Astronoid - Radiant Bloom Smidley - Here Comes The Devil EPs: Trauma Ray - Liftoff Greet Death - New Low Graywave - Rebirth Muted Color - Radial Speed - Gang Called Speed Broken Head - A Wishful Thing Gravedweller - Tissue Pay For Pain - Saturation Gradient Prize Horse - Welder Mascara - HLA-11TF Hubble - Hubble Daydreamer - out of earshot Leaving Time - II Stay Inside - Blight PUSH - Hard2bhuman Heavytrip - Death Dreams ASkySoBlack - Autumn In The Water Caravela - Easy Hell Downward - The Brass Tax Money - Money Glitterer - Fantasy Four
1. The Wonder Years - The Hum Goes on Forever 2. Cold Years - Goodbye To Misery 3. Jupiter Jones - Die Sonne ist ein Zwergstern 4. Betterov - Olympia 5. Dashboard Confessional - All The Truth That I Can Tell 6. Frank Turner - FTHC 7. The Dangerous Summer - Coming Home 8. The Interrupters - In The Wild 9. Joyce Manor - 40 oz. to Fresno 10. Tiny Moving Parts - Tiny Moving Parts
Didn't realize this thread had opened for a while, here's my somewhat definitive list: "Somewhat" because I have so much stuff to catch up to and so many other albums I loved but didn't end up spending enough time with... which has been a constant problem year after year. I'd love to fix that in 2023 but I know I'll quickly fall back into my old habits. Those albums defined 2022 for me anyway.
AOTY 1. Titus Andronicus- The Will to Live 2. First Aid Kit- Palomino 3. Wilco- Cruel Country 4. Cold Years- Goodbye to Misery 5. Archers of Loaf- Reason in Decline 6. Jared Grabb- Domain 7. The Mountain Goats- Bleed Out 8. Spoon- Lucifer on the Sofa 9. Angel Olsen- Big Time 10. Spiritualized- Everything was Beautiful 11. Audio Karate- Otra! 12. Craig Finn- A Legacy of Rentals 13. Camp Cope- Running with the Hurricane 14. Nicki Lane- Denim & Diamonds 15. Placebo- Never Let Me Go 16. Plosivs- Plosivs 17. Band of Horses- Things are Great 18. Gregor Barnett- Don't Go Throwing Roses in my Grave 19. Lucius- Second Nature 20. Garrett T Capps & NASA Country- People are Beautiful SOTY 1. First Aid Kit- A Feeling That Never Came 2. Wilco- I am My Mother 3. Archers of Loaf- In the Surface Noise 4. Pkew Pkew Pkew- Fresh Pope 5. Spiritualized- The A Song (Laid In Your Arms) 6. Angel Olsen- All The Good Times 7. Titus Andronicus- Give Me Grief 8. Joyce Manor- Gotta Let It Go 9. The Wonder Years- Oldest Daughter 10. Manchester Orchestra- No Rule 11. Gregor Barnett- Guest In Your House 12. Craig Finn- A Break from the Barrage 13. Stars- Patterns 14. Camp Cope- Running with the Hurricane 15. Pup- Totally Fine 16. Mogwai- Boltfor 17. Titus Andronicus- My Mother is Going to Kill Me 18. The Mountain Goats- Guys on Every Corner 19. Audio Karate- Lovely Residence 20. Band of Horses- Warning Signs Shows... OTY Mogwai @ The Metro Spiritualized @ Pitchfork Fest James McMurtry @ Old Town School of Folk Music The Bronx @ X-Ray Arcade Manchester Orchestra @ Riviera Menzingers @ Riotfest (OTIP Album Play) Jawbreaker/Built to Spill/Smoking Popes @ HoB Bleachers @ Riotfest Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Riotfest Manchester Orchestra @ HoB (Lolla Aftershow) Gregor Barnett @ Beat Kitchen Spoon/Interpol @ Indianapolis Bank Insurance Casino Whatever Pavilion Craig Finn @ Evanston Space Cave In @ Sleeping Village
Gang Of Youths - angel in realtime. The 1975 - Being Funny In A Foreign Language The Wonder Years - The Hum Goes On Forever Lizzy Mcalpine - Five Seconds Flat Everything Everything - Raw Data Feel Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers A Place For Owls - LP1 Bryde - Still Valleyheart - Heal My Head Taylor Swift - Midnights beabadoobee - Beatopia MUNA - MUNA Arcade Fire - WE My Kid Brother - Happy.Mad.Weird.Sad Birthday Dad - The Hermit Fatherson - Normal Fears Kehlani - blue water road Angel Olsen - Big Time The Big Moon - HERE IS EVERYTHING Anna Tivel - Outsiders Stand Atlantic - f.e.a.r. (Fuck Everything and Run) The Weeknd - Dawn FM Noah Cyrus - The Hardest Part Cold Years - Goodbye to Misery Tove Lo - Dirt Femme Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loneliest Time Graveyard Club - Moonflower The Midnight - Heroes Beyoncé - Reniassance Maggie Rogers - Surrender Charlie Hickey - Nervous At Night Lucius - Second Nature Betty Who - BIG! Father John Misty - Chloë and the Next 20th Century Bastile - Give Me The Future/Dreams of The Past Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen SZA - SOS Out of Service - The Ground Beneath Me wrest - End All The Days Caracara - New Preoccupations Pale Waves - Unwanted Death Cab For Cutie - Asphalt Meadows Camp Trash - The Long Way, The Slow Way Ryan Adams - Romeo & Juliet The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention The Mountain Goats - Bleed Out Head and The Heart - Every Shade of Blue Pinkshift - Love Me Forever Coin - Uncanny Valley King Princess - Hold on Baby Harry Styles - Harry’s House Alex the Astronaut - How To Grow A Sunflower Underwater Coheed & Cambria - Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind Soccer Mommy - Sometimes, Forever Tegan and Sara - Crybaby Bartees Strange - Farm to Table Momma - Household Name The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field Beach Bunny - Emotional Creature Butch Walker - …As Glenn Lauv - All 4 Nothing Skullcrusher - Quiet The Room Superorganism - World Wide Pop Drake - Honestly, Nevermind Martha - Please Don’t Take Me Back MAITA - I Just Want To Be Wild For You Tomberlin - i don’t know who needs to hear this... Companion - Second Day of Spring Silvana Estrada - Marchita Sigrid - How to Let Go BANKS - Serpentina Future Teens - Self Help Pinegrove - 11:11 Frank Tuner - FTHC Stars - From Capelton Hill Camp Cope - Running with the Hurricane Dawes - Misadventures Of Doomscroller Orville Peck - Bronco Ghostly Kisses - Heaven, Wait Watkins Family Hour - Vol. II Ryan Adams - Chris AURORA - The Gods We Can Touch Kate Havnevik - Lightship The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta Florence + The Machine - Dance Fever Bad Suns - Apocalypse Whenever Stella Donnelly - Flood Courtney Marie Andrews - Loose Future Vince Staples - RAMONA PARK BROKE MY HEART SOAK - If I never know you like this again Hatchie - Giving The World Away Copeland - Revolving Doors SYD - Broken Hearts Club Bjork - Fossora ROSALÍA - MOTOMAMI Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future Pool Kids - Pool Kids Liss - I Guess Nothing Will Be The Same Sasha Alex Sloan - I Blame The World Fickle Friends - Are We Gonna Be Alright?
finally finished writing. nearly 4000 words! got kind of personal. https://contextblues.wordpress.com/my-22-favorite-albums-of-2022/
Read the intro this morning and plan on reading the rest throughout the day. I think you and I write about music in a similar way, so I was definitely vibing with what you were putting down in those first few paragraphs. Looking forward to reading the rest -- especially since I love so many albums on your list!
Yeah, I haven't been able to make my way through the bottom half of yours yet. How long did it take you to write all that? I probably dropped 15 hours into it this week, including like an hour at 1am formatting and linking to things that I imagine no one will click. I mainly wrote in depth about my top three albums, but gave a nod to every album on my list. We definitely both think about music writing as more of a personal journal of record vs as a recommendation machine.
Oh man, I have no idea, re: hours. I figured out a few years ago when I did those decade lists that the only way I could do stuff like this anymore was little bits at a time. I started in late November and wrote a little bit most nights before bed. I think I'd go insane if I tried to do it all in one go.
Yeah, I don’t do full on write ups for every record in my top 50 anymore, but when I used to I’d have to start in like a October or November and basically just start knocking out ones that I absolutely knew were shoo ins. Now I’ll just kinda do little blurbs on IG stories and write them on the fly
1. Taylor Swift - Midnights 2. Lights - PEP 3. The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta 4. Harry Styles - Harry's House 5. MUNA - MUNA 6. Charli XCX - CRASH 7. Carly Rae Jepsen - The Lonliest Time 8. Beyoncé - RENAISSANCE 9. King Princess - Hold On Baby 10. Camila Cabelo - Familia 11. Coheed & Cambria - Vaxis – Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind 12. Rosalía - MOTOMAMI 13. Tove Styrke - HARD 14. Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future 15. Jack White - Fear of the Dawn 16. Metric - Formentera 17. The 1975 - Being Funny In A Foreign Language 18. Anthony Green and the High and Driving Band - Boom. Done 19. Butch Walker - Butch Walker as... Glenn 20. Betty Who - BIG!
I'm pretty sure I went through every list and not one person listed Palm?!?!?!?! I don't even understand how that happens. I am confused.
Also late to the party. My Top 10: 1. Caracara - New Preoccupations 2. Pianos Become the Teeth - Drift 3. Maggie Rogers - Surrender 4. Paolo Nutini - Last Night in the Bittersweet 5. Cave In - Heavy Pendulum 6. Jean Jean - Fog Infinite 7. Noah Cyrus - The Hardest Part 8. Stabbing Westward - Chasing Ghosts 9. Cold Years - Goodbye to Misery 10. ef - We Salute You, You and You! Honorable Mentions: - Drug Church - Hygiene - Exassens - Le Voyage - Holly Humberstone - Can You Afford to Lose Me? - Indignu - adeus - Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis II - Everything Everything - Raw Data Feel - Russian Circles - Gnosis - OK WAIT - Well Playlist for convenience: Video Game of the Year: Rogue Legacy 2 Movie of the Year: Everything, Everywhere All At Once