Here are all of the 2022 albums that I listened to in 2022:
1 is for records that I was really into;
2 is for albums that I liked — maybe even quite a bit — but which didn’t set my world on fire;
3 is essentially the ‘thanks, but no thanks’ section
If super-long lists of titles aren’t your thing, at the end of each year I publish a more complete look at my favourite 20 albums.
1
Alex G — God Save the Animals
Oren Ambarchi — Shebang
Ingrid Andress — Good Person
Arcade Fire — WE
AURORA — The Gods We Can Touch
Bartees Strange — Farm to Table
Beach Bunny — Emotional Creature
Beacon — Along the Lethe
Black Thought & Danger Mouse — Cheat Codes
Bloc Party — Alpha Games
Bob Vylan — Bob Vylan Presents the Price of Life
Bonobo — Fragments
Brainwaltzera — Itsame
Buck 65 — King of Drums
Cave In — Heavy Pendulum
Cloakroom — Dissolution Wave
Kate Clover — Bleed Your Heart Out
Madison Cunningham — Revealer
Zella Day — Sunday In Heaven
Dusky — Pressure
Earthen Sea — Ghost Poems
Elohim — Journey to the Center of Myself
Flasher — Love is Yours
Foals — Life is Yours
Fort Romeau — Beings of Light
Cody Frost — Teeth
Gold Panda — The Work
SG Goodman — Teeth Marks
Tord Gustavsen Trio — Opening
HAAi — Baby, We’re Ascending
Horsegirl — Versions of Modern Performance
Honeyglaze — Honeyglaze
Hudson Mohawke — Cry Sugar
The Inflorescence — Remember What I Look Like
Ithaca — They Fear Us
Grace Ives — Janky Star
Jockstrap — I Love You Jennifer B
Joywave — Cleanse
King Princess — Hold on Baby
Kuedo — Infinite Window
Laundromat — En Bloc
Leikeli47 — Shape Up
Tove Lo — Dirt Femme
Loop — Sonancy
Mall Grab — What I Breathe
Amber Mark — Three Dimensions Deep
Alice Merton — S.I.D.E.S.
Metric — Formentera
Mythic Sunship — Light/Flux
Nina Nastasia — Riderless Horse
Noah — Noire
Oso Oso — Sore Thumb
Pinegrove — 11:11
Pool Kids — Pool Kids
The Regrettes — Further Joy
Say Sue Me — The Last Thing Left
Sister Ray — Communion
The Smile — A Light for Attracting Attention
Special Interest — Endure
Spoon — Lucifer on the Sofa / Lucifer on the Moon
SRSQ — Ever Crashing
Starjuice — Growing Pains
Tove Styrke — HARD
Sweet Pill — Where the Heart Is
Taylor Swift — Midnights
Tallies — Patina
TAPE TOY — Honey, WTF
Duval Timothy — Meeting with a Judas Tree
Vladislav Delay — Isoviha
Walton — Maisie by the Sea
Warpaint — Radiate Like This
Wet Leg — Wet Leg
Jack White — Fear of the Dawn
Nilüfer Yanya — PAINLESS
Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Cool It Down
Yoo Doo Right — A Murmur, Boundless to the East
Yugen — You. SEMANTICA 138
2
Charlotte Adigéry / Bolis Pupul — Topical Dancer
Air Waves — The Dance
alt-J — The Dream
Alvvays — Blue Rev
The Amazons — How Will I Know if Heaven Will Find Me?
And So I Watch You From Afar — Jettison
Animal Collective — Time Skiffs
Anteloper — Pink Dolphins
Anxious — Little Green House
Omar Apollo — Ivory
April — Starlane
April March — In Cinerama
Arctic Monkeys — The Car
Maria Chiara Argirò — Forest City
Ólafur Arnalds — some kind of peace — piano reworks
Art Moore — Art Moore
Shinichi Atobe — Love of Plastic
Rich Aucoin — Synthetic Season 1
Automatic — Excess
Avalanche Kaito — Avalanche Kaito
Daniel Avery — Ultra Truth
Mat Ball — Amplified Guitar
Kelsea Ballerini — SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Band of Horses — Things Are Great
Banks — Serpentina
Caterina Barbieri — Spirit Exit
Barrie — Barbara
William Basinski / Janek Schaefer — On Reflection
BAYNK — ADOLESCENCE
beabadoobee — Beatopia
Beach House — Once Twice Melody
Belle and Sebastien — A Bit of Previous
Beneather — Beneather
Alec Benjamin — (Un)Commentary
The Beths — Expert in a Dying Field
Beyoncé — RENAISSANCE
Big Joanie — Back Home
The Big Moon — Here Is Everything
Big Thief — Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
Billy Talent — Crisis of Faith
Andrew Bird — Inside Problems
Biscits — Without U
Bitter Branches — Your Neighbors Are Failures
Björk — Fossora
Black Country, New Road — Ants From Up There
Black Dresses — Forget Your Own Face
black midi — Hellfire
blackbear — in loving memory
Blossoms — Ribbon Around the Bomb
Benny Bock — Vanishing Act
Brendan Benson — Low Key
Betty Who — BIG!
Boldy James and Nicholas Craven — Fair Exchange No Robbery
Boris — W
Axel Bowman — Luz
Axel Bowman — Quest for Fire
The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness — The Third Wave Of…
Peter Broderick — Piano Works Vol. 1 (Floating in Tucker’s Basement) [Part 1]
Buck 65 & Tachichi — Flash Grenade
Burial — Antidawn
Burial — Streetlands
Bush — The Art Of Survival
Butcher Brown — Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey
bvdub — Violet Opposition
Alina Bzhezhinska & HipHarpCollective — Reflections
CMAT — If My Wife New I’d Be Dead
Ethel Cain — Preacher’s Daughter
Camp Cope — Running With The Hurricane
Loyle Carner — hugo
caroline — caroline
Cavetown — worm food
Jorja Chalmers — Midnight Train
Charli XCX — CRASH
Chase & Status — What Came Before
Cheekface — Too Much to Ask
Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer — Recordings From the Åland Islands
Chrome Canyon — Director*
Clutch — Sunrise on Slaughter Beach
COIN — Uncanny Valley
Cola — Deep in View
The Comet is Coming — Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
Confidence Man — TILT
Cool Maritime — Big Earth Energy
Will Joseph Cook — Every Single Thing
Cordae — From a Birds Eye View
Courting — Guitar Music
Martin Courtney — Magic Sign
Lucrecia Dalt — ¡Ay!
Daphni — Cherry
Daniel Son & Futurewave — Son Tzu & the Wav.God
Dashboard Confessional — All the Truth That I Can Tell
Day Wave — Pastlife
Dead Cross — II
Dear Nora — human futures
Death Cab for Cutie — Asphalt Meadows
Deepchord — Functional Designs
Deer Scout — Woodpecker
Dehd — Blue Skies
Deliluh — Fault Lines
Denzel Curry — MELT MY EYEZ SEE YOUR FUTURE
Deru — We Will Live On
Destroyer — Labyrinthitis
Taylor Deupree — Harbor
Iann Dior — on to better things
Diplo — Diplo
Disasterpeace — Bodies Bodies Bodies
Disasterpeace — Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Disq — Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet
Djo — DECIDE
Dom Maker, Kai Campos and Mount Kimbie — MK 3.5: Die Cuts City Planning
Stella Donnelly — Flood
Charlotte Dos Santos — Morfo
Dragonette — Twennies
JB Dunckel — Carbon
Duster — Together
Dylan — The Greatest Thing I’ll Never Learn
Earl Sweatshirt — SICK!
Early James — Strange Time to be Alive
easy life — MAYBE IN ANOTHER LIFE…
Ebi Soda — Honk if You’re Sad
Editors — EBM
Editrix — Editrix II: Editrix Goes to Hell
ELIO — ELIO’S INFERNO
Elohim — Journey to the Centre of Myself, Vol. 4
Empath — Visitor
Brian Eno — FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE
Roger Eno — The Turning Year
Erasers — Constant Connection
Everything Everything — Raw Data Feel
F K J — V I N C E N T
Brent Faiyaz — WASTELAND
Father John Misty — Chloë and the Next 20th Century
Fenella — The Metallic Index
Fes — With Regards From Home
Lee Fields — Sentimental Fool
Fievel Is Glauque — Flaming Swords
First Aid Kit — Palomino
Montell Fish — Her Love Still Haunts Me Like a Ghost
George FitzGerald — Stellar Drifting
Florence + the Machine — Dance Fever
Florist — Florist
Flume — Palaces
Flwr Chyld — Luv N Chaos
Fontaines D.C. — Skinty Fia
foxtails — Fawn
Nils Frahm — Music for Animals
Frankie Cosmos — Inner World Peace
Mabe Fratti — Se Ve Desde Aquí
Fred again.. — Actual Life 3 (January 1 September 9 2022)
Fresh — Raise Hell
Maia Friedman — Under the New Light
Frontperson — Parade
Fruit Town — standards
Fujiya & Miyagi — Slight Variations
Ezra Furman — All of Us Flames
GCOM — E2-XO
Gabriels — Angels & Queens Part I
Garcia Peoples — Dodging Dues
Sam Gellaitry — VF VOL II
Sam Gendel — Superstore
Sam Gendel — blueblue
Sam Gendel / Antonia Cytrynowicz — LIVE A LITTLE
Gently Tender — Take Hold Of Your Promise!
Gladie — Don’t Know What You’re in Until You’re Out
Jack Goldstein — The World is Ending and I Love You
The Goo Goo Dolls — Chaos in Bloom
Goose — Dripfield
Gospel — The Loser
Katie Alice Greer — Barbarism
Greyhaven — This Bright and Beautiful World
Guerilla Toss — Famously Alive
Guided by Voices — Crystal Nuns Cathedral
Mark Guiliana — the sound of listening
Gwenno — Tresor
Hammered Hulls — Careening
Aldous Harding — Warm Chris
Hatchie — Giving the World Away
Maya Hawke — MOSS
Lande Hekt — House Without a View
Marina Herlop — Pripyat
Lauran Hibberd — Garageband Superstar
High Pulp — Pursuit of Ends
High Vis — Blending
Hippo Campus — LP3
Hook — From Hook
Jana Horn — Optimism
Bonny Light Horseman — Rolling Golden Holy (feat. Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson & Josh Kaufman)
Hot Chip — Freakout / Release
Elaine Howley — The Distance Between Heart and Mouth
Huerco S. — Plonk
Holly Humberstone — Can You Afford To Lose Me?
Hurray For the Riff Raff — Life on Earth
Jenny Hval — Classic Objects
I’m With Her — See You Around
Ibeyi — Spell 31
Interpol — The Other Side of Make-Believe
The Interrupters — In The Wild
Grace Ives — Janky Star
Jacaszek, Jan Kleefstra and Romke Kleefstra — It Deel I
Jack J — Opening the Door
Julia Jacklin — PRE PLEASURE
Brian Jackson — This is Brian Jackson
Jameszoo — Blind
Jane Inc. — Faster Than I Can Take
Japanese Television — Space Fruit Vineyard
Yves Jarvis — The Zug
The Jazz Butcher — The Highest in the Land
Carly Rae Jepsen — The Loneliest Time
Oscar Jerome — The Spoon
Jewel — Freewheelin’ Woman
Daniel Johns — FutureNever
Joji — SMITHEREENS
Kathryn Joseph — For You Who Are the Wronged
Joyce Manor — 40 Oz. to Fresno
Gabriel Kahane — Magnificent Bird
Kamikaze Palm Tree — Mint Chip
Svaneborg Kardyb — Over Tage
Kasabian — The Alchemist’s Euphoria
KAWALA — Better With You
Kehlani — blue water road
Kiwi Jr. — Chopper
Knifeplay — Animal Drowning
Koffee — Gifted
Koloah — Serenity
Kokoroko — Could We Be More
Kübler-Ross — Kübler Ross
Teruyuki Kurihara and The Leaf Library — Melody Tomb
Stave Lacy — Gemini Rights
Kendrick Lamar — Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
Nikki Lane — Denim & Diamonds
Mary Lattimore / Paul Sukeena — West Kensington
Laufey — Everything I Know About Love
Launder — Happening
Avril Lavigne — Love Sux
Gábor Lázár — Boundary Object
Cate Le Bon — Pompeii
Lean Year — Sides
Ravyn Lenae — HYPNOS
MJ Lenderman — Boat Songs
Let’s Eat Grandma — Two Ribbons
Lil Silva — Yesterday Is Heavy
The Linda Lindas — Growing Up
Lit — Tastes Like Gold
Los Bitchos — Let The Festivities Begin!
Loscil — The Sails, Pt. 1
Loscil — The Sails, Pt. 2
Demi Lovato — HOLY FVCK
Love, Burns — It Should Have Been Tomorrow
Caroline Loveglow — Strawberry
Lucius — Second Nature
The Lumineers — BRIGHTSIDE
Luna Li — Duality
Galcher Lustwerk — 100% GALCHER
Lykke Li — EYEYE
M Huncho — Chasing Euphoria
M.I.A. — MATA
MLDE — Marxist Love Disco Ensemble
Mabel — About Last Night…
Machine Head — ØF KINGDØM AND CRØWN
Macula Dog — Orange 2
Stephen Mallinder — tick tick tick
Mamalarky — Pocket Fantasy
Ron Marciano & The Alchemist — The Elephant Man’s Bones
Martha — Please Don’t Take Me Back
Walter Martin — The Bear
The Mars Volta — The Mars Volta
Mansur — Oscuras Flores
Marlowe — Marlowe 3
Kenny Mason — RUFFS
MATTERS UNKNOWN — We Aren’t Just
Lizzy McAlpine — five seconds flat
Jensen McRae — Are You Happy Now?
Medicine Singers — Medicine Singers
Melt Yourself Down — Pray for Me I Don’t Fit In
Messa — Close
Metronomy — Small World
Mightmare — Cruel Liars
Pip Millett — When Everything Is Better, I’ll Let You Know
Miss Kittin & The Hacker — Third Album
Anaïs Mitchell — Anaïs Mitchell
Mitski — Laurel Hell
MØ — Motordrome
Mo Troper — MTV
Moin — Paste
Momma — Household Name
Moor Mother — Jazz Codes
Kevin Morby — This is a Photograph
chloe moriondo — SUCKERPUNCH
Maren Morris — Humble Quest
Emile Mosseri & Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — I Could Be Your Dog/I Could Be Your Moon
MOTHERMARY — I Am Your God
MOTHICA — Nocturnal
The Mountain Goats — Bleed Out
MUNA — MUNA
Munya — Voyage to Mars
My Idea — Cry Mfer
My Kid Brother — Happy.Mad.Weird.Sad
Rachika Nayar — Heaven Come Crashing
Neighbor Lady — For The Birds
Haru Nemuri — Shunka Ryougen
Nervous Twitch — Some People Never Change
New Rules — Go The Distance
Nightlands — Moonshine
Nightports & Tom Herbert — Nightports w/ Tom Herbert
No Age — People Helping People
Nosaj Thing — Continua
Tom Odell — Best Day of My Life
ODESZA — The Last Goodbye
of Montreal — Freewave Lucifer f<ck f^ck f>ck
Oh Wonder — 22 Make
Angel Olsen — Big Time
Hinako Omori — a journey…
Oneida — Success
Dan O’Neill and Imogen Heap — Chordata Bytes I
Organ Tapes — 唱着那无人问津的歌谣 / Chang Zhe Na Wu Ren Wen Jin De Ge Yao
William Orbit — The Painter
Beth Orton — Weather Alive
Otoboke Beaver — Super Champon
Kelly Lee Owens — LP.8
PACKS — Whoa
Palace — Shoals
Pale Waves — Unwanted
Palm — Nicks and Grazes
Pan American — The Patience Fader
Pan Amsterdam & Damu the Fudgemunk — Eat
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom — Reset
Panic! At the Disco — Viva Las Vengeance
Panoram — Acrobatic Thoughts
Jerry Paper — Free Time
Partner Look — By The Book
Peaness — World Full of Worry
Katy J Pearson — Sound of the Morning
Orville Peck — Bronco
Pedro the Lion — Havasu
Perel — Jesus Was An Alien
cole peters — A Certain Point of Inertia
Phoenix — Alpha Zulu
Photay — An Offering (feat. Carlos Nino)
Pillow Queens — Leave the Light On
Pixies — Doggerel
A Place to Bury Strangers — See Through You
Placebo — Never Let Me Go
Pole — Tempus
Porcupine Tree — CLOSURE / CONTINUATION
Jon Porras — Arroyo
Porridge Radio — Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky
Pneumatic Tubes — A Letter From TreeTops
Cole Pulice — Scry
PUP — THE UNRAVELLING OF PUPTHEBAND
Pure Reason Revolution — Above Cirrus
Purity Ring — Graves
Pusha T — It’s Almost Dry
RIP Swirl — Blurry
Harish Raghavan — In Tense
The Range — Mercury
Rat Tally — In My Car
Red Hot Chili Peppers — Unlimited Love
Red Hot Chili Peppers — Return of the Dream Canteen
The Reds, Pinks & Purples — Summer at Land’s End
Jonas Reinhardt — A Ragged Ghost
Rema — Rave & Roses
renforshort — dear amelia
Reptaliens — Multiverse
Revelators — Revelators Sound System
Rival Consoles — Now Is
Abby Roberts — Ashes
Maggie Rogers — Surrender
Romare — Fantasy
Rosalía — Motomami
Daniel Rossen — You Belong There
claire rousay — everything perfect is already here
Röyksopp — Profound Mysteries
Röyksopp — Profound Mysteries II
Röyksopp — Profound Mysteries III
rRoxymore — Perpetual Now
Sabino — The Cave of Winds
Sad Night Dynamite — Volume II
Emeli Sandé — Let’s Say For Instance
Santigold — Spirituals
Saul — Mutualism
Sault — Air
Sean Nicholas Savage — Shine
SAVAK — Human Error / Human Delight
Rina Sawayama — Hold the Girl
Say Sue Me — 10
Secret Gardens — Everbloom
Sally Seltmann — Early Moon
Shamir — Heterosexuality
Shearwater — The Great Awakening
Maya Shenfeld — In Free Fall
Shenseea — Alpha
Show Me the Body — Trouble The Water
SHXCXCHCXSH — Kongestion
Shygirl — Nymph
Sigma — Hope
Sigrid — How to Let Go
Silversun Pickups — Physical Thrills
Oliver Sim — Hideous Bastard
Simple Plan — Harder Than It Looks
Skullcrusher — Quiet the Room
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — Let’s Turn it Into Sound
The Snuts — Burn The Empire
SOAK — If I Never Know You Like This Again
Soccer Mommy — Sometimes, Forever
The Soft Pink Truth — Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This?
SOHN — Trust
Sorry — Anywhere but Here
Soul Glo — Diaspora Problems
SOYUZ — Force of the Wind
Indigo Sparke — Hysteria
Regina Spektor — Home, before and after
Greg Spero — The Chicago Experiment
Spiritualized — Everything Was Beautiful
Spite House — Spite House
Sports Team — Gulp!
Dean Spunt / John Wiese — The Echoing Shell
Stars — From Capelton Hill
Stereophonics — Oochya!
Bartees Strange — Farm to Table
Sudan Archives — Natural Brown Prom Queen
Summerlands — Dreamkiller
Sunda Arc — Night Lands
Surprise Chef — Education & Recreation
Swedish House Mafia — Paradise Again
Syd — Broken Hearts Club
SZA — SOS
Szun Waves — Earth Patterns
Tanya Tagaq — Tongues
Kaidi Tatham — Don’t Rush the Process
Hagop Tchaparian — Bolts
Tegan and Sara — Crybaby
John Tejada — Sleepwalker
Alfie Templeman — Mellow Moon
Tink — Pillow Talk
Titus Andronicus — The Will To Live
Antti Tolvi — Spectral Organ / Feedback Gong
Tomberlin — i don’t know who needs to hear this…
Tomu DJ — Half Moon Bay
Martina Topley-Bird — Forever I Wait
Toro y Moi — MAHAL
Carlos Truly — Not Mine
TSHA — Capricorn Sun
Twin Atlantic — Transparency
Two Door Cinema Club — Keep on Smiling
Uffie — Sunshine Factory
Hikaru Utada — BAD MODE
Van Chamberlain — In The Sun
Sharon Van Etten — We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
Jennifer Vanilla — Castle in the Sky
Eddie Vedder — Earthling
Laura Veirs — Found Light
Viagra Boys — Cave World
Kurt Vile — (Watch My Moves)
Carmen Villain — Only Love From Now On
Void — Scalping
Wallows — Tell Me That It’s Over
Johanna Warren — Lessons for Mutants
The Weather Station — How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars
The Weeknd — Dawn FM
Weyes Blood — And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
Whatever The Weather — Whatever The Weather
Jack White — Entering Heaven Alive
Whitney — SPARK
Why Bonnie — 90 in November
Chip Wickham — Cloud 10
Wilco — Cruel Country
Wilder Maker — Male Models
Immanuel Wilkins — The 7th Hand
Christopher Willits — Gravity
WILLOW —
Wu-Lu — LOGGERHEAD
Yard Act — The Overload
Years & Years — Night Call
yeule — Glitch Princess
Zeal & Ardor — Zeal & Ardor
Ariel Zetina — Cyclorama
Zimoun — Guitar Studies II
Zimoun — Guitar Studies III
Lolo Zouaï — PLAYGIRL
4s4ki — Killer in Neverland
50 Foot Wave — Black Pearl
700 Bliss — Nothing to Declare
The 1975 — Being Funny In a Foreign Language
!!! — Let It Be Blue
µ-Ziq — Magic Pony Ride
3
Architects — the classic symptoms of a broken spirit
Bastille — Give Me the Future + Dreams of the Past
Nicolas Bougaieff — Begin Within
C Duncan — Alluvium
The Chainsmokers — So Far So Good
Chat Pile — God’s Country
Delicate Steve — After Hours
Drake — Honestly, Nevermind
Dream Unending — Songs of Salvation
Dry Cleaning — Stumpwork
dvsn — Working On My Karma
Gilla Band — Most Normal
The Hunna — The Hunna
Jamie T — The Theory of Whatever
Juls — Sound of My World
Keeley Forsyth — Limbs
Kardashev — Liminal Rite
Lambchop — The Bible
Machine Gun Kelly — Mainstream Sellout
Mallrat — Butterfly Blue
Mamaleek — Diner Coffee
Megan Thee Stallion — Traumazine
Alanis Morissette — the storm before the calm
Muse — Will of the People
Perfume Genius — Ugly Season
S-X — things change
Undeath — It’s Time… to Rise From the Grave
Wiegedood — There’s Always Blood at the End of the Road