2022

As I’ve been telling anyone who will listen, this has been a phenomenal year for music. This is my list of 2022’s greatest albums, reissues and songs. I removed the numbers on the albums list as I kept kvetching over the final rundown - though the #1 place is solid and deserved - and I’m already anxious over the albums I may have missed out along the way. May 2023 blow my mind quite as thoroughly.

ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2022

The Mars Volta, The Mars Volta

Gilla Band, Most Normal

Wu-Lu, Loggerhead

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Omnium Gatherum

Seafoam Walls, XVI

Bartees Strange, Farm To Table

Big Joanie, Back Home

Yaya Bey, Remember Your North Star

OFF!, Free LSD

Moor Mother, Jazz Codes

They Hate Change, Finally New

Caroline, Caroline

Built To Spill, When The Wind Forgets Your Name

Preservation, 1974

Animal Collective, Time Skiffs

Osees, A Foul Form

Johanna Warren, Lessons For Mutants

Horsegirl, Versions Of Modern Performance

Soul Glo, Diaspora Problems

Sault, Air

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms & Lava

Sarathy Korwar, Kalak

The Cool Greenhouse, Sod’s Toastie

Spiral Stairs, Medley Attack

Roy Montgomery, Camera Melancholia

Kendrick Lamar, Mr Morale & The Big Steppers

Duke Garwood, Rogues Gospel

Jack White, Fear Of The Dawn

Spoon, Lucifer On The Sofa

Cave-in, Heavy Pendulum

Yard Act, The Overload

Babeheaven, Sink Into Me

Brandon Coleman, Interstellar Black Space

Thee Sacred Souls, S/t

Chelsea Carmichael, The River Doesn’t Like Strangers

The Moonbears, Four Sides For Red

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Changes

Danger Mouse / Black Thought, Cheat Codes

Afghan Whigs, How Do You Burn?

Special Interest, Endure

Ty Segall, Hello Hi

Katy J Pearson, Sound Of The Morning

Black Midi, Hellfire

King Garbage, Heavy Metal Greasy Love

Fana Hues, Flora + Fana

Eddie Vedder, Earthling  

Lambchop, The Bible

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Laminated Denim

Reissues

Yo La Tengo, I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One

Prince & The Revolution, Live

Essential Logic. Logically Yours

Alice In Chains, Dirt

Arthur Russell, World Of Echo

Ronnie Foster, Two-Headed Freap

Lemonheads, It’s A Shame About Ray

Charles Stepney, Step On Step

Pavement, Terror Twilight

Sonic Youth, In/Out/In

Neil Young, Citizen Kane Blues

Best Songs

1/ The Mars Volta, Vigil

2/ King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, The Dripping Tap

3/ Katy J Pearson, Willow's Song

4/ Yard Act, Tall Poppies

5/ Kendrick Lamar, Mother I Sober

6/ Spiral Stairs, Pressure Drop (End Of The Hurricane)

7/ caroline, Skydiving On To the Library Roof

8/ Big Joanie, In My Arms

9/ Yaya Bey, alright

10/ Bartees Strange, Hold The Line

11/ Babeheaven, Don't Wake Me

12/ Brandon Coleman, On The One

13/ Moonbears, The Caretaker

14/ Black Thought & Danger Mouse, Belize

15/ Afghan Whigs, Domino & Jimmy

16/ Gilla Band, Post Ryan

17/ Special Interest, Midnight Legend

18/ King Gizzard & The LIzard Wizard, Gaia

19/ Built To Spill, Rocksteady

20/ Johanna Warren, Piscean Lover