What was your favorite music this year?

[TownieDeac]

According to Spotify I listened to a lot of

Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
Soccer Mommy - Sometimes, Forever
Horsegirl - Versions of Modern Performance
Angel Olsen - Big Time
Alvvays - Blue Rev
The Mountain Goats - Bleed Out
MJ Lenderman - Boat Songs


Via my wife I know I listened to a shitload of Beyoncé’s Renaissance too and found it all pretty solid.

What should we all listen to from this past year?

 

[Strickland33]

yaya bey
ravyn lenae
kurt vile
sudan archives
weyes blood

 

[Kent]

Everything Zach Bryan
Scott Ryan - AppalachianBlood *
Ty Walker & the Humanoids - Where the Hell is Roscoe

* Those who share my alt. country taste will love this record.

 

[Strickland33]

you into joshua hedley, kent?

 

[JuiceCrewAllStar]

some artists with albums in 2022 I dug:

Jake Xerxes Fussell
Built to Spill
Ravyn Lenae
Bad Bunny
Big Thief
Julia Jacklin

 

[wakelaw13]

I got to see Built to Spill this year and that was really cool.

Parkway Drive - Darker Still was my favorite album of the year. Seeing them in Charlotte in February.

 

[Strickland33]

The POW Best Albums of 2022

POW, right in the kisser…

www.passionweiss.com

(cc: @JuiceCrewAllStar)

 

[JuiceCrewAllStar]

was just talking with my buddy about how i don't read rap blogs any more

good link

 

[Kent]

you into joshua hedley, kent?

I like his work, but he's not one of my very favorites. Jeremy Pinnell, who has a similar vibe, definitely is.



Hard to believe he and Arlo McKinley were in the same band.

 

[guitardeac]

Kent and Strickland33 have you checked out Paul Cauthen?

 

[freakadeac]

My most listened to songs:

Big KRIT - So Cool
Lane 8 - Grapevine
Arlo Parks - Softly

 

[rawarr]

I had my top albums sorted til I heard the new Kurt Vile a couple weeks ago. digging that one.

I also liked in no particular order:

Birds In The Ceiling - John Moreland
Capricorn Sun - TSHA
Noon - Twain
Good And Green Again - Jake Xerxes Fussell
Cold As Weiss - Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio
Guv III & IV - Young Guv
This Is A Photograph - Kevin Morby

I had an extended disco phase, found some sweet country gospel albums and got heavy into Thin Lizzy and Dire Straits

 

[tsywake]

Been jamming to some Coltrane jazz this year. Moved my console record player to my home office and have been jamming out.

 

[diverdeac]

 

[Strickland33]

Been jamming to some Coltrane jazz this year. Moved my console record player to my home office and have been jamming out.

Alice or John?

 

[tsywake]

Alice or John?

John.

 

[rawarr]

Bonny Light Horseman and Big Thief albums were both good but didn’t really grab me like previous ones

 

[myDeaconmyhand]

Bartees Strange - Farm to Table

 

[mako1331]

Half Life by Castlebeat was a pretty killer album that hasn’t gotten a ton of love.

 

[Kory]

S-tier

1. Classic Objects – Jenny Hval [pop/art]

2. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You – Big Thief [folk/rock/americana]

3. Deep in View – Cola [punk/post]

4. Expert in a Dying Field – The Beths [rock/indie]

5. Animorphs – Honningbarna [hardcore/post]

A-tier

6. Bleed Out – The Mountain Goats [rock/heartland?]

7. Wild Loneliness – Superchunk [rock/indie]

8. Cave World – Viagra Boys [punk/dance]

9. The Car – Arctic Monkeys [lounge]

10. Un verano sin ti – Bad Bunny [reggaetón]

11. Get Fucked – The Chats [punk/garage]

12. Fossora – Björk [pop/art]

13. Blue Rev – Alvvays [pop/indie]

14. Stumpwork – Dry Cleaning [punk/post]

15. Avatars of Love – Sondre Lerche [pop/art]

B-tier

16. The New Four Seasons: Vivaldi Recomposed – Max Richter [classical]

17. We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong – Sharon Van Etten [pop/synth]

18. caroline – caroline [rock/post]

19. Gemini Rights – Steve Lacy [soul/neo?]

20. Once Twice Melody – Beach House [pop/dream]

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Top 5 albums for Dads in a Convertible

1. Endless Rooms – Rolling Blackouts Costal Fever [pop/jangle]
2. When the Wind Forgets Your Name – Built to Spill [rock/indie]
3. Chimes at Midnight – Madrugada [rock/alt]
4. The Will to Live – Titus Andronicus [rock/heartland/pub]
5. A Beautiful Time – Willie Nelson [country]

Top 5 Albums to Play FIFA to

1. Wet Leg – Wet Leg [rock/indie]
2. PAINLESS – Nilüfer Yanya [rock/indie]
3. Dawn FM – The Weeknd [pop/synth]
4. Spirituals – Santigold [pop/alt]
5. Changes – King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard [pop/psych]

I Took Out the Electronic/House/Ambient Shit I Like a Lot and Put it Here Just to Save You the Trouble

1. Miracle in Transit – Naked Flames [techno]
2. A Couple of Good Days – Fennec [house/deep]
3. LEVEL SELECT – Pizza Hotline [jungle]
4. Skids and Angels – TOBACCO [electronic/experimental]
5. Darklife – death’s dynamic shroud [pop/glitch]

Okay, Time for the Weird Shit

1. The 7th Hand – Immanuel Wilkins [bop/post]
2. Music for Four Guitars – Bill Orcutt [experimental/guitar]
3. A.D. – Christttt [vaporwave]
4. Ghosted – Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin [jazz/avantgarde]
5. Domestic Jungle – Derek Bailey [guitar/free]

Some Other Stuff [no order]

Together – Duster [slowcore]
Air Guitar – Sobs [pop/power]
Time Skiffs – Animal Collective [pop/psych]
Ali – Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin [mali/desert-blues]
Lucifer on the Sofa – Spoon [rock/indie]
Hyper Relevisation – Eve 6 [rock/alternative] (worst album of 2022)
Daughter – Raum [ambient]
Crest – Bladee & Ecco2k [hiphop/experimental]
Reset – Panda Bear & Sonic Boom [pop/psych]
Aboogi – Imarhan [Tishoumaren]
Cool it Down – Yeah Yeah Yeahs [rock/indie]
Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky – Porridge Radio [punk/art]
Music for Menus – Blank Banshee [ambient]
Shortwave Memories – Biosphere [ambient]
Fragments – Bonobo [downtempo]