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Continuing on my plan from a year ago, I spent the last six months listening to music from 2022. Compared to the first half of the year when I listened to music from 2021, I got through way more releases: 262 compared to 193. Of course I still have lots that I didn't get to, but I don't feel too bad about that.
Because of this increase, I'm splitting off the top of the "Good" bucket into "Really good". But because these are still basically just first impressions (very few were multiple listens), I'll continue to just sort them alphabetically within each category.
Great:
Body Type - Everything Is Dangerous But Nothing's Surprising
Cave In - Heavy Pendulum
Flash Hits - Growths
Giraffes? Giraffes! - Death Breath
Goat - Oh Death
JB Dunckel - Carbon
Jack White - Fear of the Dawn
Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto - Quatermass Expansion
Loop - Sonancy
Neil Young with Crazy Horse - World Record
Nuclear Daisies - s/t
Rachika Nayar - Heaven Come Crashing
Rosalie Cunningham - Two Piece Puzzle
Širom – The Liquified Throne Of Simplicity
Straw Man Army - SOS
Suede - Autofiction
The Hologram People - Village Of The Snake God
The Mystery - The Mystery Sees the Burden
The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention
The Soundcarriers - Wilds
Really good:
Alvvays - Blue Rev
Ancient River - O.D.D.S. 3
Beak> - Kosmik Musik EP
Built to Spill - When the Wind Forgets Your Name
caroline – s/t
Congotronics International - Where's the One?
Dead Meadow - Force Form Free
Dummy - Mono Retriever single
Dungen - En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog
Elk City - Above the Water
Ex Pilots - "Thirty Days" / "Liars"
Fujiya & Miyagi - Slight Variations
Just Mustard - Heart Under
Kanaan - Diversions Vol. 1: Softly Through Sunshine
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Laminated Denim
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Omnium Gatherum
Korb & EHAA - From the Mountains to the Oceans
Kungens Män - Kungens Ljud & Bild
Lera Lynn - Something More Than Love
Little Barrie - Year of the Dog soundtrack
Man... or Astro-Man? - Distant Pulsar EP
Mdou Moctar - Afrique Refait
Melody's Echo Chamber - Emotional Eternal
Melody's Echo Chamber - Unfold EP
Minami Deutsch - Fortune Goodies
Naja Naja - s/t EP
Nicholas Britell - Andor score
Oneida - Success
Roy Montgomery - Audiotherapy
Roy Montgomery - Camera Melancholia
Six Organs Of Admittance - You Dreamed A Dream Chord
The Lord - Forest Nocturne
The Lord † Petra Haden - Devotional
Thought Forms - Clean
Tom Vek - Newer Symbols
Ulaan Passerine - Sun Spar
Good:
!!! - Let It Be Blue
Abul Mogard - In a Few Places Along the River
Adult Learners - Demo EP
Adults - For Everything Always
Aesop Rock - The Recycling Bin EP
Aldo Nova - Sonic Hallucinations EP
Andy Bell - Flicker
Baston - La Martyre
Belle & Sebastian - A Bit of Previous
Benoît Pioulard - Konec
Bhajan Bhoy - Shanti Shanti Shanti
Bitter Wish - Candle Finger
Bodega - Broken Equipment
Bongtower - Oscillator II
Boris - Heavy Rocks (2022)
Buñuel - Killers Like Us
CoH Meets Abul Mogard - CoH Meets Abul Mogard
Dälek - Precipice
Dave Pizarro - Beats without Rhymes vol 6
Decoder - Plurality Module
Derek Monypeny - Cibola
Double Wig - Double Wig
E - Any Information EP
Earthless - Night Parade of One Hundred Demons
Editrix - Editrix II: Editrix Goes to Hell
Elkhorn - Distances
Ex-Hyena - Moon Reflections
Fontanarosa - Are You There?
Ghost Power - s/t
Glenn Jones - Vade Mecum
Gnod - Hexen Valley
Green/Blue - Paper Thin
Horsegirl - Versions of Modern Performance
Hällas - Isle of Wisdom
King Buffalo - Regenerator
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Changes
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Made in Timeland
Kiwi Jr - Chopper
La Luz - The Instrumentals
Landing - Motionless
Light Heat - You and Me II
Los Estanques y Anni B Sweet – Burbuja Cómoda y Elefante Inesperado
Lupe Fiasco - Drill Music in Zion
Magic Shoppe - Mono Lake
Marissa Nadler - The Wrath of the Clouds EP
Master Boot Record - Personal Computer
Mdou Moctar - Niger EP vol. 1 & 2
Medicine Singers - s/t
Metric System 1981 - Heaven and Sea
Michael Beach - 2022 EP
Mint Green - All Girls Go To Heaven
Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Toast
Petridisch ft. Leah Callahan - OCSID EP
Pike vs The Automaton - s/t
Pixies - Doggerel
Plosivs - s/t
Polinski - Misericordia EP
Primordial Undermind - An Imaginal Abydos
Rhabdomantic Orchestra - Almagre
Ritualz - Radical Macabro
Ruby the Hatchet - Fear is a Cruel Master
Russian Circles - Gnosis
Savak - Human Error / Human Delight
Sendelica - One Man's Man
Somali Yacht Club - The Space
Sonic Youth - In/Out/In
Star Party - Meadow Flower
Stephen R. Smith - Spring
Sun's Signature - s/t EP
Sunflower Bean - Head Full of Sugar
Tara Jane O'Neil - Music for Movement vol. 1
Tegan and Sara - Crybaby
The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field
The Black Keys - Dropout Boogie
The Folk Implosion - Feel It If You Feel It EP
The Green Pajamas - Forever For A Little While
The Umbrellas - "Write it in the Sky" / "I'll Never Understand"
The Veldt - Check Out Your Mind EP
Tricot - Fudeki
Various Artists - International Space Station vol. 1
Various Artists - Pressing Matters (Terrascopaedia benefit)
Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin - Ali
Voivod - Synchro Anarchy
Warpaint - Radiate Like This
Wednesday - Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling 'em Up
Wet Leg - Wet Leg
Wet Tuna - Warping All By Yourself
Weyes Blood - And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow
Winged Wheel - No Island
Wo Fat - The Singularity
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool it Down
Pretty Good:
A Far Cry & Shara Nova - The Blue Hour
Aaron & the Lord - World on Edge EP
Arcade Fire - We
Arctic Monkeys - The Car
Ashtray Navigations - The Apotheosis of VaVaVoom
Band-Maid - Unleash
Bitchin' Bajas - Bajascillators
Black Lips - Apocalypse Love
Brian Eno - Foreverandevernomore
Calexico - El Mirador
Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loneliest Time
Cate le Bon - Pompeii
Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - Topical Dancer
Chris Forsyth - Evolution Here We Come
Claire Rousay – Everything Perfect Is Already Here
cOncernn - Dariacore 3
Danger Mouse and Black Thought - Cheat Codes
Death Cab for Cutie - Asphalt Meadows
Divorce Cop - Yup
Dream Syndicate - Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions
Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork
Dumb Numbers (and) Melvins - Broken Pipe EP
Dyr Faser - Phantom Electric
Elf Power - Artificial Countryside
Envy of None - s/t
Guided By Voices - Crystal Nun Cathedral
Guided by Voices - Tremblers And Goggles By Rank
GusGus - Bolero EP
Herzog - A Hotel in your Hometown
Hoodoo Gurus - Chariot of the Gods
Horse Lords - Comradely Objects
Jazz Sabbath - Volume 2
Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders - Blown Out Zone Out
Jonas Reinhardt - A Ragged Ghost
Jonee Earthquake Band - 16 Surfin' Hits
Julie Tippetts & Martin Archer - Illusion
Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - Texas Moon EP
Kikagaku Moyo - Kumoyo Island
Kilbey Kennedy - The Strange Life of Persephone Nimbus
King's X - Three Sides of One
Kurt Vile - Watch My Moves
Kutiman - Open
Leah Callahan - Cut-Ups
Let's Whisper - The In-between Times
Lycopolis - Amduat Parts 1 & 2
Mason Jones - Moths Drink the Tears of Sleeping Birds
Matmos - Regards/Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer
Maya Hawke - Moss
Melvins - Bad Mood Rising
Metric - Formentera
Metric System 1981 - 2020 Sessions
Michael Giacchino - The Batman soundtrack
Mike Tamburo - The April Tapes EP
Mitski - Laurel Hell
Nik Turner & the Trance Dimensionals - Synchronicity
No Age - People Helping People
Osees - A Foul Form
Osheyack – Intimate Publics
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Reset
Peel Dream Magazine - Pad
Phoenix - Alpha Zulu
Pilot to Gunner - Hail Hallucinator
Poppy - Stagger EP
Rancho Relaxo - Spirit of Ecstasy
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Return of the Dream Canteen
Roll Over White - Madscience.
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Endless Rooms
Savak - Error / Delight
Sea Power – Everything Was Forever
Simple Minds - Direction of the Heart
Sloan - Steady
Soft Cell - *Happiness Not Included
Spoon - Lucifer on the Moon
Springtime - Night Raver EP
Stereolab - Pulse of the Early Brain
Suki Waterhouse - I Can't Let Go
Suki Waterhouse - Milk Teeth EP
Takeda - Psychedelic Minimalism Vol.1
Tara Jane O'Neil - Side Dish
The Asteroid No.4 - Tones Of The Sparrow
The Bitter - I Love You, But Fuck This EP
The Chemistry Set - Pink Felt Trip
The Cult - Under the Midnight Sun
The Fixx - Every Five Seconds
The Sellwoods - House Rockin' Party Tonight
The Smithereens - The Lost Album
The Veldt - Entropy is the Mainline to God
Their / They're / There - Their / They're / Three
Thurston Moore - Screen Time
Various Artists - Fettkakao 50 EP
Weird Nightmare - s/t
Wilco - Cruel Country
Okay:
Aldo Nova - The Life and Times of Eddie Gage 10-song preview EP
André Antunes - Goes Metal
Archers of Loaf - Reason in Decline
Bauhaus - "Drink the New Wine"
Black Midi - Hellfire
Boris - W
Callinamagician - Head Full of Snow
Clutch - Sunrise on Slaughter Beach
Craig Finn - A Legacy of Rentals
Def Leppard - Diamond Star Halos
Drug Church - Hygiene
Eric Arn & Eyal Maoz - Kost Nix
Jack White - Entering Heaven Alive
Killing Joke - "Lord of Chaos"
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love
Sleepyhead - New Alchemy
Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful
Spoon - Lucifer on the Sofa
Superchunk - Wild Loneliness
The Afghan Whigs - How Do You Burn?
The Ephemeron Loop – Psychonautic Escapism
Voivod - Ultraman EP
Overall, 2022 was a good year for music, plenty to revisit someday (if I ever catch up to new releases... maybe in 2025?), but subjectively it felt a bit less great than 2021. Happy to see the return of some old favorites, though. Looking forward to 2023... (Already in the queue: 275 releases. Yikes! And 7 from 2024 already!)
Here's what was left on my queue of 2022 releases to listen to, not including various other best-of lists that I was sometimes consulting:
Alison Cotton – The Portrait You Painted Of Me
Angel-Ho - Avant-God
Ashtray Navigations - Heavy Invertebrates
Black Star - No Fear of Time
Bodega - Xtra Equipment
Burial - Antidawn
Chat Pile - God's Country
David Holmes - It's Over If We Run Out of Love
David Lance Callahan - English Primitive II
Dream Syndicate - What Can I Say? no regrets... Out of the Grey + live, demos & outtakes
Eric Arn & Margaret Unknown - Visions of Krychlič
Etran de L'Aïr - Agadez
God Told Me To - Fast Driving
Heather Trost - Desert Flowers
Heilung - Drif
Iceboy Violet – The Vanity Project
Keiji Haino & SUMAC - Into this juvenile apocalypse our golden blood to pour let us never
Kolb - Tyrannical Vibes
Konstrukt - Dolunay
Korb - Korb III
Kælan Mikla - Undir Köldum Norðurljósum
Las Robertas - Love is the Answer
Maker - Heavy Print
Marc Peters - Red Sunset Dreams
Maria T - Afternoon Destroyer
Metric System 1981 - Moonlight (Spirits of the Forest)
Nighte - Pin Down the Dust
Nurse and Soldier - Let's Spend the Day Together
Oceanator - Nothing's Ever Fine
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin – Ghosted
Pet Fox - A Face in Your Life
Peter Brötzmann / Keiji Haino Duo - The intellect given birth to here (eternity) is too young
Rush to Relax - Misli
Sparrow Steeple - Pemberton Arms
Starcrawler - She Said
Stefan Christensen - Atlas Rand, Ruby, Arbor
The Beatles - Revolver deluxe
The Cure - Wish deluxe
The Zulus - Outer Space
Twin Drugs - In Now Less Than Ever
Valentina Goncharova – Ocean: Symphony For Electric Violin And Other Instruments In 10+ Parts
Various Artists - Songs of Townes van Zandt vol. 1-3
Various Artists - Thalia Zedek Project
Vök - Vök
Wojciech Rusin – Syphon
Wylderness - Big Plans for a Blue World
Because of this increase, I'm splitting off the top of the "Good" bucket into "Really good". But because these are still basically just first impressions (very few were multiple listens), I'll continue to just sort them alphabetically within each category.
Great:
Body Type - Everything Is Dangerous But Nothing's Surprising
Cave In - Heavy Pendulum
Flash Hits - Growths
Giraffes? Giraffes! - Death Breath
Goat - Oh Death
JB Dunckel - Carbon
Jack White - Fear of the Dawn
Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto - Quatermass Expansion
Loop - Sonancy
Neil Young with Crazy Horse - World Record
Nuclear Daisies - s/t
Rachika Nayar - Heaven Come Crashing
Rosalie Cunningham - Two Piece Puzzle
Širom – The Liquified Throne Of Simplicity
Straw Man Army - SOS
Suede - Autofiction
The Hologram People - Village Of The Snake God
The Mystery - The Mystery Sees the Burden
The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention
The Soundcarriers - Wilds
Really good:
Alvvays - Blue Rev
Ancient River - O.D.D.S. 3
Beak> - Kosmik Musik EP
Built to Spill - When the Wind Forgets Your Name
caroline – s/t
Congotronics International - Where's the One?
Dead Meadow - Force Form Free
Dummy - Mono Retriever single
Dungen - En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog
Elk City - Above the Water
Ex Pilots - "Thirty Days" / "Liars"
Fujiya & Miyagi - Slight Variations
Just Mustard - Heart Under
Kanaan - Diversions Vol. 1: Softly Through Sunshine
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Laminated Denim
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Omnium Gatherum
Korb & EHAA - From the Mountains to the Oceans
Kungens Män - Kungens Ljud & Bild
Lera Lynn - Something More Than Love
Little Barrie - Year of the Dog soundtrack
Man... or Astro-Man? - Distant Pulsar EP
Mdou Moctar - Afrique Refait
Melody's Echo Chamber - Emotional Eternal
Melody's Echo Chamber - Unfold EP
Minami Deutsch - Fortune Goodies
Naja Naja - s/t EP
Nicholas Britell - Andor score
Oneida - Success
Roy Montgomery - Audiotherapy
Roy Montgomery - Camera Melancholia
Six Organs Of Admittance - You Dreamed A Dream Chord
The Lord - Forest Nocturne
The Lord † Petra Haden - Devotional
Thought Forms - Clean
Tom Vek - Newer Symbols
Ulaan Passerine - Sun Spar
Good:
!!! - Let It Be Blue
Abul Mogard - In a Few Places Along the River
Adult Learners - Demo EP
Adults - For Everything Always
Aesop Rock - The Recycling Bin EP
Aldo Nova - Sonic Hallucinations EP
Andy Bell - Flicker
Baston - La Martyre
Belle & Sebastian - A Bit of Previous
Benoît Pioulard - Konec
Bhajan Bhoy - Shanti Shanti Shanti
Bitter Wish - Candle Finger
Bodega - Broken Equipment
Bongtower - Oscillator II
Boris - Heavy Rocks (2022)
Buñuel - Killers Like Us
CoH Meets Abul Mogard - CoH Meets Abul Mogard
Dälek - Precipice
Dave Pizarro - Beats without Rhymes vol 6
Decoder - Plurality Module
Derek Monypeny - Cibola
Double Wig - Double Wig
E - Any Information EP
Earthless - Night Parade of One Hundred Demons
Editrix - Editrix II: Editrix Goes to Hell
Elkhorn - Distances
Ex-Hyena - Moon Reflections
Fontanarosa - Are You There?
Ghost Power - s/t
Glenn Jones - Vade Mecum
Gnod - Hexen Valley
Green/Blue - Paper Thin
Horsegirl - Versions of Modern Performance
Hällas - Isle of Wisdom
King Buffalo - Regenerator
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Changes
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Made in Timeland
Kiwi Jr - Chopper
La Luz - The Instrumentals
Landing - Motionless
Light Heat - You and Me II
Los Estanques y Anni B Sweet – Burbuja Cómoda y Elefante Inesperado
Lupe Fiasco - Drill Music in Zion
Magic Shoppe - Mono Lake
Marissa Nadler - The Wrath of the Clouds EP
Master Boot Record - Personal Computer
Mdou Moctar - Niger EP vol. 1 & 2
Medicine Singers - s/t
Metric System 1981 - Heaven and Sea
Michael Beach - 2022 EP
Mint Green - All Girls Go To Heaven
Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Toast
Petridisch ft. Leah Callahan - OCSID EP
Pike vs The Automaton - s/t
Pixies - Doggerel
Plosivs - s/t
Polinski - Misericordia EP
Primordial Undermind - An Imaginal Abydos
Rhabdomantic Orchestra - Almagre
Ritualz - Radical Macabro
Ruby the Hatchet - Fear is a Cruel Master
Russian Circles - Gnosis
Savak - Human Error / Human Delight
Sendelica - One Man's Man
Somali Yacht Club - The Space
Sonic Youth - In/Out/In
Star Party - Meadow Flower
Stephen R. Smith - Spring
Sun's Signature - s/t EP
Sunflower Bean - Head Full of Sugar
Tara Jane O'Neil - Music for Movement vol. 1
Tegan and Sara - Crybaby
The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field
The Black Keys - Dropout Boogie
The Folk Implosion - Feel It If You Feel It EP
The Green Pajamas - Forever For A Little While
The Umbrellas - "Write it in the Sky" / "I'll Never Understand"
The Veldt - Check Out Your Mind EP
Tricot - Fudeki
Various Artists - International Space Station vol. 1
Various Artists - Pressing Matters (Terrascopaedia benefit)
Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin - Ali
Voivod - Synchro Anarchy
Warpaint - Radiate Like This
Wednesday - Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling 'em Up
Wet Leg - Wet Leg
Wet Tuna - Warping All By Yourself
Weyes Blood - And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow
Winged Wheel - No Island
Wo Fat - The Singularity
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool it Down
Pretty Good:
A Far Cry & Shara Nova - The Blue Hour
Aaron & the Lord - World on Edge EP
Arcade Fire - We
Arctic Monkeys - The Car
Ashtray Navigations - The Apotheosis of VaVaVoom
Band-Maid - Unleash
Bitchin' Bajas - Bajascillators
Black Lips - Apocalypse Love
Brian Eno - Foreverandevernomore
Calexico - El Mirador
Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loneliest Time
Cate le Bon - Pompeii
Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - Topical Dancer
Chris Forsyth - Evolution Here We Come
Claire Rousay – Everything Perfect Is Already Here
cOncernn - Dariacore 3
Danger Mouse and Black Thought - Cheat Codes
Death Cab for Cutie - Asphalt Meadows
Divorce Cop - Yup
Dream Syndicate - Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions
Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork
Dumb Numbers (and) Melvins - Broken Pipe EP
Dyr Faser - Phantom Electric
Elf Power - Artificial Countryside
Envy of None - s/t
Guided By Voices - Crystal Nun Cathedral
Guided by Voices - Tremblers And Goggles By Rank
GusGus - Bolero EP
Herzog - A Hotel in your Hometown
Hoodoo Gurus - Chariot of the Gods
Horse Lords - Comradely Objects
Jazz Sabbath - Volume 2
Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders - Blown Out Zone Out
Jonas Reinhardt - A Ragged Ghost
Jonee Earthquake Band - 16 Surfin' Hits
Julie Tippetts & Martin Archer - Illusion
Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - Texas Moon EP
Kikagaku Moyo - Kumoyo Island
Kilbey Kennedy - The Strange Life of Persephone Nimbus
King's X - Three Sides of One
Kurt Vile - Watch My Moves
Kutiman - Open
Leah Callahan - Cut-Ups
Let's Whisper - The In-between Times
Lycopolis - Amduat Parts 1 & 2
Mason Jones - Moths Drink the Tears of Sleeping Birds
Matmos - Regards/Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer
Maya Hawke - Moss
Melvins - Bad Mood Rising
Metric - Formentera
Metric System 1981 - 2020 Sessions
Michael Giacchino - The Batman soundtrack
Mike Tamburo - The April Tapes EP
Mitski - Laurel Hell
Nik Turner & the Trance Dimensionals - Synchronicity
No Age - People Helping People
Osees - A Foul Form
Osheyack – Intimate Publics
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Reset
Peel Dream Magazine - Pad
Phoenix - Alpha Zulu
Pilot to Gunner - Hail Hallucinator
Poppy - Stagger EP
Rancho Relaxo - Spirit of Ecstasy
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Return of the Dream Canteen
Roll Over White - Madscience.
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Endless Rooms
Savak - Error / Delight
Sea Power – Everything Was Forever
Simple Minds - Direction of the Heart
Sloan - Steady
Soft Cell - *Happiness Not Included
Spoon - Lucifer on the Moon
Springtime - Night Raver EP
Stereolab - Pulse of the Early Brain
Suki Waterhouse - I Can't Let Go
Suki Waterhouse - Milk Teeth EP
Takeda - Psychedelic Minimalism Vol.1
Tara Jane O'Neil - Side Dish
The Asteroid No.4 - Tones Of The Sparrow
The Bitter - I Love You, But Fuck This EP
The Chemistry Set - Pink Felt Trip
The Cult - Under the Midnight Sun
The Fixx - Every Five Seconds
The Sellwoods - House Rockin' Party Tonight
The Smithereens - The Lost Album
The Veldt - Entropy is the Mainline to God
Their / They're / There - Their / They're / Three
Thurston Moore - Screen Time
Various Artists - Fettkakao 50 EP
Weird Nightmare - s/t
Wilco - Cruel Country
Okay:
Aldo Nova - The Life and Times of Eddie Gage 10-song preview EP
André Antunes - Goes Metal
Archers of Loaf - Reason in Decline
Bauhaus - "Drink the New Wine"
Black Midi - Hellfire
Boris - W
Callinamagician - Head Full of Snow
Clutch - Sunrise on Slaughter Beach
Craig Finn - A Legacy of Rentals
Def Leppard - Diamond Star Halos
Drug Church - Hygiene
Eric Arn & Eyal Maoz - Kost Nix
Jack White - Entering Heaven Alive
Killing Joke - "Lord of Chaos"
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love
Sleepyhead - New Alchemy
Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful
Spoon - Lucifer on the Sofa
Superchunk - Wild Loneliness
The Afghan Whigs - How Do You Burn?
The Ephemeron Loop – Psychonautic Escapism
Voivod - Ultraman EP
Overall, 2022 was a good year for music, plenty to revisit someday (if I ever catch up to new releases... maybe in 2025?), but subjectively it felt a bit less great than 2021. Happy to see the return of some old favorites, though. Looking forward to 2023... (Already in the queue: 275 releases. Yikes! And 7 from 2024 already!)
Here's what was left on my queue of 2022 releases to listen to, not including various other best-of lists that I was sometimes consulting:
Alison Cotton – The Portrait You Painted Of Me
Angel-Ho - Avant-God
Ashtray Navigations - Heavy Invertebrates
Black Star - No Fear of Time
Bodega - Xtra Equipment
Burial - Antidawn
Chat Pile - God's Country
David Holmes - It's Over If We Run Out of Love
David Lance Callahan - English Primitive II
Dream Syndicate - What Can I Say? no regrets... Out of the Grey + live, demos & outtakes
Eric Arn & Margaret Unknown - Visions of Krychlič
Etran de L'Aïr - Agadez
God Told Me To - Fast Driving
Heather Trost - Desert Flowers
Heilung - Drif
Iceboy Violet – The Vanity Project
Keiji Haino & SUMAC - Into this juvenile apocalypse our golden blood to pour let us never
Kolb - Tyrannical Vibes
Konstrukt - Dolunay
Korb - Korb III
Kælan Mikla - Undir Köldum Norðurljósum
Las Robertas - Love is the Answer
Maker - Heavy Print
Marc Peters - Red Sunset Dreams
Maria T - Afternoon Destroyer
Metric System 1981 - Moonlight (Spirits of the Forest)
Nighte - Pin Down the Dust
Nurse and Soldier - Let's Spend the Day Together
Oceanator - Nothing's Ever Fine
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin – Ghosted
Pet Fox - A Face in Your Life
Peter Brötzmann / Keiji Haino Duo - The intellect given birth to here (eternity) is too young
Rush to Relax - Misli
Sparrow Steeple - Pemberton Arms
Starcrawler - She Said
Stefan Christensen - Atlas Rand, Ruby, Arbor
The Beatles - Revolver deluxe
The Cure - Wish deluxe
The Zulus - Outer Space
Twin Drugs - In Now Less Than Ever
Valentina Goncharova – Ocean: Symphony For Electric Violin And Other Instruments In 10+ Parts
Various Artists - Songs of Townes van Zandt vol. 1-3
Various Artists - Thalia Zedek Project
Vök - Vök
Wojciech Rusin – Syphon
Wylderness - Big Plans for a Blue World
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