slop101

Surprisingly great year for new music - guess this is what happens when you're forced to stay home and write/record.

Here are mine (I actually had to whittle it down to thirty!), along with a collage of their album covers, in no particular order...






Wilco - "Cruel Country"
Spoon - "Lucifer on the Sofa"
Band of Horses - "Things Are Great"
Jamestown Revival - "Young Man"
Elvis Costello - "The Boy Named If"
Placebo - "Never Let Me Go"
Spiritualized - "Everything Was Beautiful"
Wet Leg - "Wet Leg"
Stereophonics - "Oochya!"
The Smile - "A Light for Attracting Attention"
Fantastic Negrito - "White Jesus, Black Problems"
Pink Mountaintops - "Peacock Pools"
Ty Segall - "Hello, Hi"
Osees - "A Foul Form"
Kula Shaker - "1st Congregation of Eternal Love & Free Hugs"
Kendrick Lamar – "Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers"
Mountain Goats - "Bleed Out"
Marcus King - "Young Blood"
Metric – "Formentera"
Buffalo Jr. - "Indigo Groove"
Tedeschi Trucks Band - "I Am the Moon"
Built To Spill – "When The Wind Forgets Your Name"
Suede – "Autofiction"
Larkin Poe – "Blood Harmony"
King Gizzard – "Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms & Lava"
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard – "Omnium Gatherum"
Taylor Swift – "Midnights"
The Blue Stones – "Pretty Monster"
Murlocs - "Rapscallion"
The Head & The Heart – "Every Shade of Blue"

stvn1974

Neil Young And Crazy Horse - World Record

Scorpions - Rock Believer
Ghost - IMPERA
Ozzy Osborne - Patient Number 9
Def Leppard - Diamonds And Halos
Jack White - Entering Heaven Alive
Jack White - Fear Of The Dawn
Megadeth - The Sick, The Dying... and The Dead
The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love
The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Return Of The Dream Canteen

Trout

Posted this in the Metal thread, but I’ll drop it here too.Blackbraid- Blackbraid I

Pure Wrath- Hymn to the woeful hearts

Municipal Waste- Electrified brain

Morbikon- Ov mournful twilight

Worm- Bluenothing

Bloodbath- Survival of the sickest

Exhumed- To the dead

Immolation- Acts of god

Wormrot- Hiss

Undeath- It’s time…to rise from the grave.

emanon

Curiously, the wife asked me the same yesterday. I came up with:

Jack White - Entering Heaven Alive
Jack White - Fear Of The Dawn
Brendan Benson - Low Key
The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love
The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Return Of The Dream Canteen
and
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Toast (if it counts - it was released in 2022, but recorded 20+ years ago)

Adam Tyner

I didn’t pick up too many albums this year, but the two that made the biggest impression on me were:

The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field
Sloan - Steady

Runners-up: Metric - Formentera; Nectar - No Shadow

I’ll admit to being let down by PUP’s The Unraveling of PUP the Band, and Scandal’s Mirror was a little too mellow for me.

Not counting live albums, EPs, or movie soundtracks, that’s about all the new music I bought in 2022.

cdollaz

The best album I heard this year:
Midnight Oil - Resist

Also quite good:
Elvis Costello – The Boy Named If
Johnny Marr – Fever Dreams Part 1-IV
Scorpions – Rock Believer
Tears For Fears – The Tipping Point
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Unlimited Love
Metric – Formentera
Ozzy – Patient No. 9
Queensryche – Digital Noise Aliiance
The Arctic Monkeys – The Car

Decent:
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Return Of The Dream Canteen
Jack White – Fear Of The Dawn
Belle And Sebastian – A Bit Of Previous
Liam Gallagher – C’mon You Know
Journey – Freedom
Horsegirl – Versions Of Modern Performance
Sammy Hagar & The Circle – Crazy Times
Porcupine Tree – Closure/Continuation
Megadeth – The Sick, The Dying…And The Dead
Pixies – Doggerel
The Cult – Under The Midnight Sun
The Smile – A Light For Attracting Attention

Disappointing:
Arcade Fire – WE
Black Keys – The Dropout Boogie
Def Leppard – Diamond Star Halos
Interpol – The Other Side Of Make Believe
Muse – Will Of The People
King’s X – Three Sides Of One
The Mars Volta – The Mars Volta
Simple Minds – Direction Of The Heart

Best Live albums/box sets/compilations:
Liam Gallagher – Down By River Thames
David Bowie – Music From Moonage Daydream
Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots 20th Anniv Edition
Prince & The Revolution – Live
Rush – Moving Pictures 40th Anniv Edition
Garbage - Anthology

rexinnih

Haven't bought many this year but the Wet Leg was impressive.

Paff

What did you think of this one? I heard a little bit of the band and it sounds like something really up my alley.

I didn't buy too many records in 2022 that were released in 2022, and the ones that were were usually older unreleased material. Like The Muffs' release of Kim Shattuck demos. In fact, the only two I can tell from my Discogs list that were true 2022 releases were The Linda Lindas' Growing Up, and Ryan Hamilton's 1221. The Hamilton record was actually more enjoyable than I thought it would be, a "throw in" to an already overpriced stack I had in my hand on RSD back in April.

Adam Tyner

I really like it. There's a magic to their first album that I'm not sure will ever be topped for me, with an especially nice balance between gorgeous harmonies/melodies and barnstorming power-pop. I'd still recommend "Future Me Hates Me" as a starting point, but this one doesn't lag too far behind.

Decker

I don't listen to a lot of new music, but this is my Album of the Year. I love it.

asianxcore

1. Black Fucking Cancer- Procreate Inverse
2. Wiegedood- There's Always Blood At The End of The Road
3. Acephalix- Theothanatology
4. Denial of Life- No Reason
5. Absent In Body- Plague God
6. Arizmenda- Spider's Lust In The Dungeon's Dust
7. Undeath- It's Time...To Rise From The Grave
8. Tzompantli- Tlazcalttiliztli
9. Mizmor & Thou- Myopia
10. Phobophilic- Enveloping Absurdity

Daytripper

Mine:

Tears for Fears "The Tipping Point"
xPropaganda "The Heart is Strange"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Cool It Down"
Placebo "Never Let Me Go"
The London Suede "Autofiction"

John Galt

It wasn't a big year for releases from the more popular bands that I follow, but there was still a decent amount of releases from some up and comers.

Joe Nichols - Good Day for Living
Randall King - Shot Glass
Hailey Whitters - Raised
The Wilder Blue - Self Titled
Ned LeDoux - Buckskin
Ian Noe - River Fools & Mountain Saints
Willie Nelson - A Beautiful Time
Miranda Lambert - Palomino
49 Winchester - Fortune Favors the Bold
Zach Bryan - American Heartbreak
American Aquarium - Chicamacomico
Luke Combs - Growin Up
Arlo McKinley - This Mess We're In
Pat Green - Miles and Miles of You
Sunny Sweeney - Married Alone
Lainey Wilson - Bell Bottom Country
Kaitlin Butts - What Else Can She Do