My Favorite Albums of 2022
I know that ranking your favorite albums of the year is a bit passe at this point, but I like to do it anyway as a way to boost all of the music I loved again as the year comes to a close. That in mind, here is every single album from 2022 that I (a) had nothing to do with (playing on it, releasing it, etc.) and (b) enjoyed listening to during 2022, ranked in a general order from "stuff I thought about and listened to the most" to "stuff I listened to once, enjoyed, and didn't return too." But even those albums at the bottom of the list are still great and deserve a good listen!
Ok, that's enough. Here's what I enjoyed this year:
- Sexual Jeremy- The Real Sexual Jeremy
- Puce Mary- You Must Have Been Dreaming
- All six albums released by Lucky Bone this year, but especially Music Box Memories (and other pandoras)
- Rudolph Eb.er & Will Guthrie- H I L T
- Moth Cock- Whipped Stream and Other Earthly Delights
- Wasteland Jazz Ensemble- S/T
- Matmos- Regards/Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer
- Suncarcass- Flower Crown
- Asha Sheshadri- Interior Monologues
- Sewer Election/Charmaine Lee- Navigation I Inre Och Yttre Landskap
- Joe Colley- Deformation of Tone
- Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant avec Folie à Quatre- Seances
- Cyrus Pireh- Still Here, Still Ripping + Visitor
- Kate Rissiek- Delayed Signals
- Editrix- Editrix II Editrix Goes to Hell
- Soul Glo- Diaspora Problems
- Moth Drakula- S/T
- Like Weeds- Renegade Settlement
- Mary Halvorson- Amaryllis
- Saajtak- For the Makers
- Horse Lords- Comradely Objects
- Teen Prime- no. 5 (but also 1-4)
- Diamanda Galas- Broken Gargoyles
- Extra Life- Secular Works, Vol. 2
- Id m theft able- ...l...e...t...t...i...n...g...s...
- Territorial Gobbing- Three Chords and a Haircut
- Andrew Weathers- Dryfall
- Torschlusspanik- intersexual healing
- New Monuments- Language is the Skin
- Developer- I’m Sorry, I’m Crazy, I Miss You
- Perverts in White Shirts- Meaning What Exactly?
- OXBOW & Peter Brötzmann- An Eternal Reminder of Not Today / Live at Moers
- Oren Ambarchi- Shebang
- NNAMDÏ- Please Have a Seat
- Shiroishi/Tiesenga- empty vessels
- Fred Moten / Brandon López / Gerald Cleaver- S/T
- Jon Mueller- The Future is Unlimited, Always
- Cloud Rat- Threshold
- Chat Pile- God’s Country
- Retribution Body- Baphomet
- J Soliday- A Certain Nausea of Forms
- Skin Graft- Final Judgement
- Lucas Abela- Making Corner/Full Body Promise
- Anthony Amelang- Traumland
- Slit Throats- Joshi Noise Worship: The Blood Quest of Risa Sera
- Coppice- Observatory Sound: Simulated Diffusion in the Likeness of the Yerkes Observatory
- Manja Ristić- Him, fast sleeping, soon he found In labyrinth of many a round, self-rolled
- Demonologists w/ Junko- Nure-Onna
- Aaron Turner & Jon Mueller- Bow That You’ve Found It
- Developer/Luer- Split
- Hypertrophy- Trading Pain
- Kee Avil- Crease
- Flower-Corsano Duo- The Halcyon
- Neural Goldberg- a single grawlix
- Multiform Palace- Future Mirror
- The Bozo Big Shit Garbage Band- Crusher With mouth
- Earl Sweatshirt- SICK!
- Oort Smog Every Motherfucker is your Brother
- Durian Brow- The Third Brow
- Enzo Minarelli- De Revolutionbus
- Moor Mother- Jazz Codes
- Sza- SOS
- Codeine- Dessau
- The Center for Understanding New Trigonometries- Shapes, for Experts
- Manas- Live at Ace of Cups
- Bill Orcutt- Music for Four Guitars
- Angelwings Marmalade- I Declare Bankruptchy
- Björk- fossora
- Piri Reis- Ritma
- Jetski- Reflex Engine
- Keiji Haino- My lord Music, I most humbly beg your indulgence in the hope that you will do me the honour of permitting this seed called Keiji Haino to be planted within you
- Jordan Reyes- Everything is Always
- Rắn Cạp Đuôi Collective- Ngủ Ngày Ngay Ngày Tận Thế
- Guerilla Toss- Famously Alive
- Ben Vida + Lea Bertucci- Murmurations
- Social Catepillar- When You Woke Up to Dances of Light
- Justin Von Strasburg- lowercase trees
- Groan Man- S/T
- Alex York- Buenos Aires 1899
- Envenomist & Θ- The Barrens
- Network Glass and Jason Crumer- Prerequisite
- Bromp Treb- Bald Eagle Over Food City
- Andrew Weathers- Sciatic Assemblage
- Fog of Joy- S/T
- Daniel Bachman- Almanac Behind
- 700 Bliss- Nothing to Declare
- Mariam Rezaei- SADTITZZZ
- Tatu Metsätähti & Olli Hänninen- Repullinen Skittejä
- Antoine Chessex, Francisco Meirino, Jérôme Noetinger- Maiandros
- Logan Heuer- The Pattern
- Nick Grunerud- 300 Percent Will Power!
- Tontine Ensemble- Dogma Protocol
- Stress Orphan- Raid
- v/a- Get This: 32 tracks for Free- A Tribute to Peter Rehberg
- Sontag Shogun- Flutter & Scrape
- Necking- Final Embers of Sunlight
- Carl Stone- We Jazz Reworks Vol. 2
- v/a- Dedicated to Zbigniew Karkowski 2
- Bridget Ferrill & Áslaug Magnúsdóttir- Woodwind Quintet
- Cecyl Ruehlen- Levitation Elixir
- Without- Be Corny
- Large Print- In the Clouds
- Kendraplex- Two Rivers
- La Roche- Liye Liye
- Cloning- Wet Circuits
- Apologist- turnout
- PCRV- Utopia
- Model Home- Saturn in the Basement
- Ripe Tooth- Hope It Rot
- Marja Ahti & Judith Hamann- A coincidence is perfect, intimate attunement
- Bardo Todol- El Violín Dorado, El Violín Arabe
- Kendrick Lamar- Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
- Bill Nace- Live in Jersey City
- Cheryl E. Leonard- Antarctica: Music From the ice
- ShrapKnel- Metal Lung
- Phirnis- Chill Noise
- Storage Unit Music- S/T
- Benjamin Vanweelden- Victim of the Bermuda
- Piercing- Luxurious Ephemera
- Nancy Mounir- Nozhet El Nofous
- Open mike eagle- a tape called component system with the auto reverse
- Territorial Gobbing- Suffer for Succotash
- Anglewings Marmalade- God with the Lights Off
- Matt Carlson- Bowling Alone
- Early Routines- Feedback Ring
- Guillermo Pizarro- Black Slabe 4: Two Compositions for Mater Tenebarum
- Dave Phillips- Cicada Trance
- Shanna Sordahl- So She Shone/So They Shone
- Mold Omen- Billy Bones His Fancy
- Akira Sileas- No-input Miniatures
- Signe Lidén & Espen Sommer Eide- Vertical Studies: Archival Spirals
- The Smudge- NMNP
- Jacob Wick- Standards
- Zach Rowden- False Positive
- Head Boggle- Dual Piano
- SOLIDAY / GUTZEIT- Numbers
- DerekGedaleciaToriKudoRichHoush- Filled in a moment, taken away in a moment
- Spiders Band- S/T
- Beast Nest- Sicko
- N Chambers- Mirage Colony
- Andrew Bernstein- a presentation
- Pinkcourtesyphone- shouting at nuance
- Charmaine Lee/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Gabby Fluke-Mogul/Joanna Mattrey/Weston Olencki- Live in Accord
- Tran Uy Duc- Came
- Manja Ristić- Rings of Water
- C. Reider- feedback systems January 2022
- Onur Żłobnicki- 355/113
- Leya- Eyeline
- Prayer Rope- Synodus Horrenda
- Like Weeds/Bastard Noise- Human Free Eden
- CC Sorenson- Twin Mirror
- Christoper Luna-Mega- Times Arrow
- Lia Kohl- Too Small to be a Plain
- Seth Andrew Davis- Highways Jammed with Broken Heroes
- Azhdarchids- The Great Dying
- v/a- Tapes Ruin Tapes
- Yeule- Glitch Princess
- Pete Cann- Lens Deficiency
- v/a- Fargo Noise 2022