Favorite Albums of 2022 – Staff Picks!
ABBY
Vein.fm – This World’s Gonna Ruin YouSoul Glo
Black Country, New Road – Ants From Up There
Greyhaven – This Bright and Beautiful World
Holy fawn – Dimensional Blood
Charli XCX – Crash
Rina Sawayama – Hold The Girl
Chat Pile – God’s Country
Pool Kids – S/T
Prince Daddy and The Hyena – S/T
FKA Twigs – Caprisongs
Black Midi – Hellfire
Shygirl – Nymph
Oso Oso – Sore Thumb
The Callous Daoboys – Celebrity Therapist (biased but still)
Beyoncé – Renaissance
Show Me The Body – Trouble The Water
BOB
Horsegirl – Versions of Modern Performance
Tony Rice – California Autumn
Heather the Jerk – Cable Access TV
Jack White – Entering Heaven Alive
Cribshitter – Goin’ Soft
Robyn Hitchcock – Shufflemania
The Figgs – Chemical Shake
The Sadies – Colder Streams
Lee Fields – Sentimental Fool
Reissue/archival releases
v/a – Eccentric Deep Soul
BOBBY
Osees – A Foul Form
Duster – Together
The Mall – Time Vehicle Earth
Science Man – Nines Mecca
VR Sex – Rough Dimension
Spirtualized – Everything Was Beautiful
Reissue/archival releases
Love Battery – Dayglo
The Replacements – Unsuitable For Airplay
Pavement – Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal
DAVE
Orville – Peck Bronco
Son House – Forever On My Mind
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Cold As Weiss
Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
Superchunk – Wild Loneliness
Drive-By Truckers – Welcome To Club XIII
Nora O’Connor – My Heart
The Sadies – Color Streams
Surfbort – Keep On Truckin’
Elf Power – Artificial Countrysides
Reissue/archival releases
Little Beaver – Party Down
v/a – Bound For Hell: On The Sunset Strip
EVER
Animal Collective – Time Skiffs
Mitski – Laurel Hell
Beach House – Once Twice Melody
Guerilla Toss – Famously Alive
Wet Leg – Wet Leg
!!! – Let It Be Blue
Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
Momma – Household Name
Lizzo – Special
Beyoncé – Renaissance
The Mountain Goats – Bleed Out
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava
NICK
Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen
Makya McCraven – In These Times
Kikagaku Moyo – Kumoyo Island
Chris Forsyth – Evolution Here We Come
Charli XCX – Crash
Momma – Household Name
The Beths – Expert In A Dying Field
Duster – Together
Horsegirl – Versions of Modern Performance
VR SEX – Rough Dimension
Denzel Curry – Melt My Eyez…
