2022 Album of the year??

I just don't really buy albums any more but this one, Cool it down, is predictably fantastic from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs

I don't know what is the album for 2022 because I am playing catch up with music/songs from way back to at least 20 years ago. LOL!

Currently listening to the followings:

Ann Clue
Luttrell
Ilan Bluestone
Deniz Bul
Adonis FR
Kazuma Aksaki
Above & Beyond (some of the songs featuring Zoe Johnston are spooky)
Sunny Lax
Andrew Bayer
Pryda
Maksim Dark
Boris Brejcha
Hozho
etc

Haven't heard of any of the above, I'm now officially an old codger

for me Autofiction by Suede, brilliant stuff

https://g.co/kgs/88jHEg

I think I've only listened to one 'album' this year, the rest is singles and whatever plays on 6music or playlists on Spotify.
Which means my only album of 2022 is Yard Act.
They'd also have to be my gig of the year as well...being the only one!

Haven’t heard of any of the above, I’m now officially an old codger

LOL! I feel much younger listening to those music with my earbuds! (earbuds must be new invention for me, LOL!)

Mostly listen to older stuff but Paulo Nutini's Last night in the bittersweet and Arctic Monkeys The Car have been getting lots of time on my Spotify recently.

Maybe cos it's so recent in the memory and they were absolutely frickin awesome live -
GILLA BAND - Most Normal

Some runners up
Working Men's Club - Fear Fear
The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention
Haai - Baby We're Ascending
Belief - Belief
billy woods - Church
Jockstrap - I Love You Jennifer B
I could keep going, but they're the ones I listened to most.

Its still J Dilla's The Shining for me. It's been my favourite album of the year since I first heard it around 2010, and that hasn't changed yet.

Alvvays ‘Blue Rev’

Elements of Teenage Fanclub, My Bloody Valentine, The Smiths and R.E.M. but so much more. Molly Rankin is a sublime song writer and lyricist.

Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia

@chewkw, finally! Normally my reaction in music discussions on STW is ‘who?’, but finally I can relate.

2022 highlght for me a toss up between Tinlicker ‘In Another Lifetime’ and Grum ‘Unreality’. Most of my listening is sets rather than albums though – more Anjunadeep than Anjunabeats but I still enjoy the old Above & Beyond albums (and am impatiently waiting for the Acoustic 3 tour):

Luttrell
Lane 8
Marsh
Camelphat
Mat Zo
Spencer Brown
Richie Blacker
Jody Wisternoff
Franky Wah
Cubicolor
Ben Bohmer
Nora En Pure
16BL

Who!?

London Fields by Ambient Jazz Ensemble has been on repeat at mine a lot this year.

What's the Franky Wah 2022 album called? I'll check that out.

Just looked at what I've listened to most that came out this year, and very little of it is album based. And I've always been a fan of albums. Hmm...

* Lightning In A Twilight Hour - Overwintering [ ambient but almost pop songs ]

* Gabe Gurnsey - Overwintering [ electro but almost pop songs ]

* Warpaint - Radiate Like This [ lush wrapped in a velvet blanket 4 piece, er, rock ]

* SAULT - AIIR [ R&B Londoners give us their take on last century New World (American) classical music - bloody audacious ]

* JARV IS... This Is Going To Hurt [ Cocker and his jamming crew give us a soundtrack of Krautrock noodling mixed with intimacy and angry resignation ]

Lightning In A Twilight Hour – Overwintering [ ambient but almost pop songs ]

This sounds like something I should listen to, thank you.

It's Bobby Wratten from the Field Mice. In recent years he's alternated between songs and ambient... but on this album he's "floated" the two together. It can pass you by when listening... nothing jumps out at you... and I mean that in a good way. Music to hibernate to.

Thank fudge, there’s still folk who listen to new music!

Gabe Gurnsey – Overwintering

I’ve got “DIABLO” that he released this year… what was “Overwintering”?

I've never heard of half of the ones up there !

Lots of Dad rock/folk/6Music here

It'd be great if people could post links too

I’ve got “DIABLO” that he released this year… what was “Overwintering”?

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* Gabe Gurnsey – Diablo [ electro but almost pop songs ]

Overwintering is the Bobby Wratten album mentioned above. Sorry.

Not listened to too many new albums this year, but I've enjoyed the following;

Wet Leg - Wet Leg
Sports Team - Gulp
Yard Act - The Overload

Three good choices. Off to see Yard Act live in Leeds soon.

Cheat Codes by Danger Mouse and Black Thought has been my highlight.

its probably:

the Devil Wears Prada - Color Decay

my fav song from the album:

Now That's What I Call Music! 82

Lots of old men listening to generic dance tunes so far..

What about old men listening to raging punk rock? - Best release of 2022 is this...

It's hard to see past the new Daniel Avery album.

Don't really have a 'best' but came here to post this;

hard to see past the new Daniel Avery album

Also I have mostly been albuming from what came in 2022:

Alabaster Dp - Gold (poncy jazz, nice)

Conflux Coldwell - phantomatic coast (boring ambient)

King gizz - the lava/mushrooms one (overly long and indulgent spacey funk jams)

Bug club - particles (boring guitar focussed 3 piece)

The Daniel Avery album is decent but I need to listen to it a few more times to see if it grows or fades. New Skalpel album is the same, is it a long-term listen?

Overwintering is the Bobby Wratten album

Ah yes, I shoulda looked at the line above… Thought I’d missed something!

Sunrise on Slaughter Beach - Clutch.

Fear of the dawn - Jack White.

Rose Pink Cadillac - Dope Lemon.

Can I take my hounds to Heaven? - Tyler Childers.

It’s not been a great year for music I like. Clutch are always reliable and Neil Fallon is a fantastic story teller with a voice like a possessed preacher. Best rock band ever.

Album released this year that I've actually listened to most is probably Mahal, Toro y Moi, which this is on:

Great seeing them live in Manc the other week, tho I'd have to preferred a slightly more acoustic set.

Fantastic Negrito - White Jesus Black Problems

This is the thread where I wished I'd have had kids. Haven't heard of any of the acts.

Arctic Monkeys cars is very good.
Music event of the year has to be let it be doco

Kids? They just bring Swift to the party.

[ unfair, not true, but rhymes with the truth ]

I do like 'Wet Leg' by Wet Leg (surprisingly).

Danger Mouse and Black Thought.
Nova Twins.
Jamie T.
Suede.

I reckon Wet Leg would be on there too but I've not bought it (yet).

Obviously the answer is Meshuggah - Immutable

That Daniel Avery album (Ultra Truth) is ace. Some nice tracks on there with Lone Swordsman, which is dedicated to Andrew Weatherall, being the highlight for me.

On the same day that was released, so was Palomino by First Aid Kit. Some nice tunes on there too. Probably their best album to date. We are off to see them live in December.

Time to Burn : Ultrabomb
Decomposed: Blind Eye
Woman on the Internet: Orla Gartland

Ultrabomb is a ‘super group’ comprising ex-members of Hüsker Dü, The Mahones and the UK Subs. It’s a fun bit of punkpoprock.

Thank fudge, there’s still folk who listen to new music!

It’s almost an obsession, finding new music, but at the same time I keep re-discovering old music that I’d forgotten or just hadn’t listened to for a long while.
An example is the new release of Revolver - the use of technology developed by Peter Jackson has allowed Giles Martin to go further than just cleaning up the existing four-track masters, or however many there were, they’ve been able to isolate every individual part of Ringo’s drums, and bring the drums further forward in the mix, for one example. It’s also shown that ‘Yellow Submarine’ was actually a Lennon song about his childhood, and developed into a song for children sung by Ringo.
It’s a superb piece of work.

Trying to pick a best of album for any particular year I find almost impossible - there’s usually a number of albums I love, and I really don’t want to have to choose between them. I’ll look back and see if I can at least make a short short-list

I agree it's very hard to reduce it down to just one and was expecting people to post shortlists.

I've not bought much new music this year. I was looking at some CDs earlier thinking they were from this year but they're from 2021 e.g. Delta Kream by Black Keys

My vote goes to [url=

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The Mars Volta latest LP

thanks, I quite like that

6Music albums of the year are being announced now

I'll listen to anything as long as it's not Mary Anne Hobbs' recommendation of an aural journey across a dystopian sonic landscape (or as I call it 10:30-13:00 Mon-Fri)

Nina Anastasia - Riderless Horse
Bill Callahan - Reality

Return of the dream canteen - a return to form for RHCP

BBC Radio 6 Music’s Album Of The Year 2022

1. Kendrick Lamar - Mr Morale & The Big Steppers
2. Yard Act - The Overload
3. Kae Tempest - The Line Is A Curve
4. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - Topical Dancer
5. Wet Leg - Wet Leg
6. Warmduscher - At The Hotspot
7. Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia
8. Danger Mouse & Black Thought - Cheat Codes
9. Arctic Monkeys - The Car
10. Gwenno - Tresor

that's a very 6 music list. Interesting to see Kendrick at the top - haven't listened to that yet! Most of the rest I feel I can safely ignore. Despite being a regular 6 music listener...

Anyway - stuff I have rated this year:

Soccer 96 - Inner Worlds. Epic synths and live drums. Betamax is one of the best drummers around IMO

Russian Circles - Gnosis. Somewhere between Mogwai and Pantera. Massive shoegazey sludge riffs

Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra - The Unfolding - just really great. Hannah Peel is awesome

Sampa the Great - As Above, So Below. Why are the most interesting UK rappers all female at the moment?

Turns out Sampa the Great isn't a UK rapper at all. Shows how much i know

Dreadnoughts - Roll & Go
Off! - Free LSD
Witch Fever - Congregation
Dub War - Westgate Under Fire

The 2022 mix of Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit is worth a shout too...

It’s been a good year for new music (for me at any rate).

Difficult to choose the best but:
Growing up - The Linda Lindas (if the cd had the Moxie tracks I’d go for this)
Wet Tennis - Sofi Tukker (Mon Cherí and Original sin for sure)
Motomami - Rosalía (La Fama definitely on the most played tracks of the year for me)

Honourable mentions:

Versions of a modern performance - Horsegirl
Squeeze - Sasami (who could resist a track called feminine water turmoil, cmon!)
Two ribbons - Let’s eat grandma
Cool it down - yeah yeah yeahs
Born pink... (yup, I have no shame)

Also want to include NewJeans (Attention one my fave videos for sure) but they’ve just an EP...

Also Bad Bunny collab with Bomba Estéreo Ojitos Lindos but one track does not a double album make. Maybe when I’ve listened to it (Un verano sin ti) more...

I’ll listen to anything as long as it’s not Mary Anne Hobbs’ recommendation of an aural journey across a dystopian sonic landscape (or as I call it 10:30-13:00 Mon-Fri)

I can agree.

And to add to that, I'd rather shove hot needles under my fingernails than listen to a Kae Tempest album

Mines been Drif by Heilung.

Pure Particles by The Bug Club was released in Nov 2021 but I only heard it in 2022 so maybe that, or Wet Leg.

Bug Club Green Dream in F# was released this year - it's not as immediate as PP but still very good. But for me the Intellectuals EP (is that the same as a mini album?) is the winner for release of the year, especially part 4 (it's a single track / 5 song thing). Watching the delight on their faces as the crowd sang their song back to them was without doubt my musical highlight of the year. Part 4 starts at 7 mins......

Out of the 6Music list, my pick is Gwenno, I really like her albums, the fact that she sings mostly in Cornish I think is wonderful.

Horace Andy - Midnight Rocker

The return of one of my favorite reggae artists, his voice still sounds amazing for a 71 year old! Might not be the 'best' album of the year but it's the one I've listened to most.

Honourable mention to Sally Shapiro - Sad Cities. Just lovely.

I tried to like Mary Anne Hobbs no. 1 of the year - Special Interest... but its just meh. I'm sure they're fun live, but just all a bit heard-it-all-before for me.

Don't know about best but the latest Melvins record is very good.
I've checked out a few of the above-listed, there's very little that doesn't sound conservative or derivative to my admittedly jaded and noise-damaged ears. (edit1: excepting Meshuggah, but I preferred the previous record, primarily because of better production / edit2: Mars Volta played a blinder with the new record, but I've never really been into what they do, fully respect their coming back with something so different though)

I would have said that my band's new record is bestest, but it's been pushed back to Feb 2023. Why is there no Best of 2023 thread yet? STW forum's a-slacking.

Either Fontanes DC - Skinty Fa or Deathcrash - return

Wet Leg is quite good.

As is Blue Lullaby by Wolf Alice.

If (liek me) you want to try some of this stuff, here's a playlist I put together while reading this thread, not everything, but I added a bunch of albums that people seemed to agree on.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5tNHbv5glg2QrWfaxmQRGX?si=d80ff9ae678f469c

Fantastic Negrito – White Jesus Black Problems

Thanks for that jca, great watch - highly recommended