As usual I listened to a lot of music in 2022. Anyone who says there's no good music being released is just not trying. There's a ton of it and it's hard to keep up. My Spotify playlist of 2022 albums has 4000 tracks in it. I end up making playlists called Heavy Rotation & More Time in an attempt to give select tracks & albums a more in depth listen. I also have separate 2022 playlists for ambient, electronic and jazz in an attempt to keep it all straight in my head.
All that is to say there was a lot of music in 2022 and I have some favorites that I'd like to share with you.
MY 2022 FAVORITE ALBUMS:
- Kevin Morby - This Is A Photograph
- Angel Olsen - Big Time
- Sprints - A Modern Job EP
- The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention
- Shearwater - The Great Awakening
- The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field
- Yard Act - The Overload
- Beth Orton - Weather Alive
- Gang of Youths - angel in realtime.
- Hermanos Gutierrez - El Bueno Y El Malo
#1 - Inspired by his father's illness and paging through old photo albums, this album celebrates all the joys and heartaches of life and is catchy as hell.
#2 - Perfect country-tinged album with beautiful melodies and gorgeous pedal steel guitar.
#3 - Bursting with energy & angst, I love this EP.
#4 - Yes, it sounds like a Radiohead album but that's a good freaking thing!
#5 - this whole album has a late-stage Talk Talk vibe going on. A beautiful album.
#6 - Excellent indie jangly guitar music. The title track compares breaking up with someone to being an expert in a dying field - you have all this knowledge that is now useless.
#7 - Another album that is bursting with energy. This one is fun as heck.
#8 - This sounds like Beth Orton doing her own take on a Radiohead vibe and it works. This may have been the most surprising album of the year.
#9 - I don't really listen to this type of music much anymore - big, bold, fist-pumping arena rock - but I latched on to this album early in the year and kept returning to it.
#10 - I found Hermanos Gutierrez via Khruangbin. It's an instrumental album on which they use heavily reverbed guitars creating a kind of film soundtrack-esque atmosphere and vibe.
Here’s the rest of the list in alphabetical order:
- Beach House - Once Twice Melody
- Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
- Courtney Marie Andrews - Loose Future
- Curse of Lomo - People in Cars
- Flock of Dimes - Head of Roses: Phantom Limb
- Florist - Florist
- Horsegirl - Versions of Modern performance
- Hurray for the Riff Raff - Life on Earth
- Julia Jacklin - Pre Pleasure
- Los Bitchos - Let the Festivities Begin!
- Lucrecia Dalt -¡Ay!
- Makaya McCraven - In These Times
- Mitski - Laurel Hell
- Momma - Household Name
- Nilufer Yanya - Painless
- The A’s - Fruit
- Wet Leg - Wet Leg
- Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
- Wild Pink - ILYSM
I'll post ambient favorites soon but until then what are your favorite "normal" albums from 2022?
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