Gonna also do my mid-year for movies & tv: Movies: 1. Everything Everywhere All At Once (Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan) 2. RRR (S.S. Rajamouli) 3. Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski) 4. The Northman (Robert Eggers) 5. Jackass Forever (Jeff Tremaine) 6. Ambulance (Michael Bay) 7. The Batman (Matt Reeves) 8. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg) 9. Boiling Point (Philip Barantini) 10. Turning Red (Domee Shi) TV: 1. Better Call Saul 2. Severance 3. Atlanta 4. Barry 5. The Righteous Gemstones
Cave In - Heavy Pendulum Vein - This World Is Going To Ruin You Benny the Butcher - Tana Talk 4 Momma - Household Name Cloakroom - Dissolution Wave
Still gotta listen to a bunch of stuff but Unranked: Charli XCX -CRASH Beach House - Once Twice Melody Vince Staples - RAMONA PARK BROKE MY HEART Kilo Kish - AMERICAN GURL FKA twigs - CAPRISONGS Shamir - Heterosexuality Warpaint - Radiate Like This MUNA - MUNA Bartees Strange - Farm to Table Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future MØ - Motordrome LIGHTS - PEP Caracara - New Preoccupations Pusha T - It's Almost Dry Cloakroom - Dissolution Wave Some banger EPs: Purity Ring - graves Empress Of - Save Me Ravenna Golden - Ms. Genius IDK - Simple. Anticipating for the rest of the year: Rico Nasty - Las Ruinas Beyoncé - Act I: Renaissance Pianos Become the Teeth - Drift Metric - Formentera Rina Sawayama - Hold the Girl Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down The 1975 - being funny in a foreign language Shygirl - Nymph 100 gecs - 10000 gecs Sky Ferreira - Masochism??? SZA???
1. Muna - Muna 2. Fanclubwallet – You Have Got To Be Kidding Me 3. Hatchie – Giving The World Away 4. Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia 5. Bartees Strange – Farm To Table 6. CMAT - If My Wife New I’d Be Dead 7. Pillow Queens – Leave The Light On 8. Mitski – Laurel Hell 9. Bathtub Cig – Night Blindness 10. Rosie Carney – I Wanna Feel Happy 11. Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever 12. Sinead O’Brien – Time Bend And Break The Bower
Bartees Strange - Farm to Table Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory Everything Everything - Raw Data Feel Proper. - The Great American Novel PUP - The Unraveling of PUPTheBand Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia Sea Power - Everything Was Forever Bloc Party - Alpha Games Riverby - Absolution Bob Vylan - Bob Vylan Presents The Price of Life Kendrick Lamar - Mr Morale and The Big Steppers The Range - Mercury Brimheim - can’t hate myself into a different shape Pictoria Vark - The Parts I Dread Short Fictions - Every Moment of Every Day Saba - Few Good Things Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Endless Rooms THUMPER - Delusions of Grandeur Jaron - it’s hard to see color (When You’re So Impossibly Far Away*) Sweet Pill - Where the Heart Is after some further consideration and tough cuts (sorry to the new Nervus and Porridge Radio records in particular) here's my mid-year check-in!
A top-7 because I don't like enough stuff enough for a satisfying top-10: 1. Blood Command - Praise Armageddonism 2. Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory 3. Secret Gardens - everbloom 4. Noridc Giants - Symbiosis 5. Kardashev - Liminal Rite 6. Cartoon Theory - Feel 7. Lights - PEP EPs: Circa Survive - A Dream About Death Design Flaw - Beasts of a Future Decay Dresden - .0625 GoGo Penguin - Between Two Waves Polyphia - Pianolyphia Purity Ring - graves Toothwalker - Reboot, Reinvent
These are in no particular order. Bronco - Orville Peck Sore Thumb - oso oso Havasu - Pedro The Lion New Preoccupations - Caracara Diaspora Problems - Soul Glo Humble Quest - Maren Morris The Parts I Dread - Pictoria Vark Laurel Hell - Mitski Cruel Country - Wilco This World Is Going To Ruin You - Vein.Fm Harry’s House - Harry Styles Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers - Kendrick Lamar No Good At Goodbyes - GRIDIRON Home, before and after - Regina Spektor Farm To Table - Bartees Strange Honorable Mentions: DENT - Signals Midwest Running With The Hurricane - Camp Cope The Unraveling of PUP the Band - PUP All The Truth That I Can Tell - Dashboard Confessional The Long Way, The Slow Way - Camp Trash (solely because this came out on Friday and I finalized my list Thursday lol)
1. Caracara - New Preoccupations 2. Cave In - Heavy Pendulum 3. Underoath - Voyeurist 4. Alexisonfire - Otherness 5. PUP - THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND 6. Cloakroom - Dissolution Wave 7. Circa Survive - A Dream About Death 8. Bartees Strange - Farm to Table 9. Oso Oso - sore thumb 10. Camp Cope - Running with the Hurricane
1. Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter 2. Caracara - New Preoccupations 3. Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There 4. Muna - Muna 5. Stars - From Capelton Hill 6. Shearwater - The Great Awakening 7. Band of Horses - Things are Great 8. Pedro The Lion - Havasu 9. Metric - Formentera 10. Hatchie - Giving the World Away
#1 is Wet Leg Toro y Moi Orville Peck Kendrick Harry styles SOM Cloakroom Soccer Mommy Black Country, New Road Beach House Big Thief Senses Fail Gleemer EP Anticipating- (every single rips) -Holy Fawn -Maggie Rogers -Beach Bunny
The Best of Albums of 2022 (So Far) Little late due to some staff delays and a covid infection on my end! But better late than never.
I'm pretty behind on a lot of music, but the handful that I've gone back to the most this year: Carly Cosgrove - See You In Chemistry Coheed & Cambria - Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind Enterprise Earth - The Chosen Comeback Kid - Heavy Steps Stand Atlantic - f.e.a.r. Motionless In White - Scoring the End of the World Mom Jeans - Sweet Tooth Anxious - Little Green House Fit For An Autopsy - Oh What The Future Holds Ghost - IMPERA
"angel in realtime." by Gang of Youths is the only album I could possibly consider for my album of the year. However there still a conversation to be had about my top 50 albums of the year. Knowing myself I will put that off until mid November and have to do a bunch of math. For the time being the following artists will almost certainly land in top 25: Bartees Strange Arcade Fire A Place For Owls Caracara Valleyheart MUNA Everything Everything Kendrick Lamar The Big Moon Camp Trash beabadoobee Cold Years Kehlani Wrest Angel Olsen The Smile Bryde Fatherson Graveyard Club Charlie Hickey The Weeknd Companion Vince Staples Silvana Estrada I expect the the following artists to join this list one they drop their albums: Tegan and Sara The 1975 Maggie Rogers The Mars Volta Tove Lo Skullcrusher Death Cab for Cutie The Beths The Mountain Goats Muse Beyonce Pale Waves In the meantime I will continue to listen to new music as it arrives and add the songs I dig to my increasingly overwhelming 2022 playlist:
Here's my list... the only one that matters :) 1) Underoath - Voyeurist 2) Scary Kids Scaring Kids - Out Of Light 3) Stand Atlantic - F.E.A.R. 4) Memphis May Fire - Remade In Misery 5) Northlane - Obsidian 6) Palisades - Reaching Hypercritical 7) Bad Omens - The Death Of Peace Of Mind 8) Rain City Drive - Self Titled 9) As It Is - I Went To Hell And Back 10) SECRETS - The Collapse
Kikagaku Moyo - Kumoyo Island Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There Toro y Moi - Mahal Viagra Boys - Cave World Angel Olsen - Big Time Beach House - Once Twice Melody Soccer Mommy - Sometimes, Forever King Gizz - Omnium Gatherum Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention Wet Leg - Wet Leg King Hannah - I’m Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me MJ Lenderman - Boat Songs
New music is life. From my 2022 list of 1500+ songs (150 albums and EP’s or so), I’ve somehow managed to narrow it down to my top 5 EP’s, top 10 albums, and 5 honorable mentions. This is for stuff released through June... already got some contenders just from July’s releases so we’ll see what changes at the end of the year. Top 5 EP’s: 1. Nicolas Rage - “Personal Party” 2. Telltale - “Lie Your Way Out” 3. Sorry Ghost - “I DID / DID I?” 4. Hindsight - “Let’s Not and Just Say We Did” 5. Nearly Spent - “Nearly Spent” Top 10 Albums: 1. Carly Cosgrove - “See You in Chemistry” 2. CLIFFDIVER - “Exercise Your Demons” 3. Forests - “Get in Losers, We’re Going to Eternal Damnation” 4. TRSH - “Kiss Me” 5. Anxious - “Little Green House” 6. Bad Planning - “Et Fortes” 7. Zachary Garren - “III” 8. Just Friends - “Hella” 9. Wolves at the Gate - “Eulogies” 10. The Cast Before the Break - “Where We Are Now” Honorable Mentions: In Angles - “Cardinal” Double Gainer - “Such is Life” A Wilhelm Scream - “Lose Your Delusion” Zeal & Ardor - “Zeal & Ardor” Moodring - “Stargazer”
I can’t believe that nobody on this site has been talking about Des Rocs. His album came out last year but is the best, most unique blend of rock star beauty and innovation. Not to mention how that happiness beams from his body on stage. I’ve been to a TON of shows in m ya life and he takes 1st place performance and passion wise