Saturday, December 31, 2022

Best Of 2022



Top Albums of 2022

1. The Smile - A Light For Gathering Attention
2. Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful
3. Suede - Autofiction
4. Beach House - Once, Twice, Melody
5. Coyle Girelli - Funland
6. Hatchie - Giving The World Away
7. Editors - EBM
8. Warpaint - Radiate Like Us
9. Liam Gallagher - C'mon You Know
10. The Haunted Youth - Dawn Of The Freak
11. Ryan Adams - Chris/FM
12. The Arctic Monkeys - The Car 
13 Deserta - Every Moment, Everything You Need
14. White Lies - As I Try Not To Fall Apart
15. Crows - Beware Believers
16. Pete Yorn - Hawaii
17. Kula Shaker - 1st Congressional Church Of Eternal Love And Free Hugs
18. Kid Kapichi - Here's What You Could Of Won
19. Interpol - The Other Side Of Make-Believe
20. Muse - Will Of The People
21. Soft Kill - Canary Yellow
22. Cloth - Low Sun E.P.
23. Sunflower Bean - Headful Of Sugar
24. Kevin Morby - This Is A Photograph
25. Spoon - Lucifer On The Sofa
26. Arcade Fire - We
27. Angel Olsen - Big Time
28. Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter
29. Bobby Oroza - Get On The Otherside
30. Just Mustard - Heart Under

Honourable Mentions:

Coyle Girelli - Stripped
Placebo - Never Let Me Go
Horsegirl - Versions Of Modern Performance
Ryan Adams - Romeo and Juliet
Sasami - Squeeze
Yard Act - The Overload
Monophonics - Sage Motel
The Black Angels - Wilderness Of Mirrors
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love
Metric - Formentera 
Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
Metronomy - Small World
Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen
Ryan Adams - Deceiver
The Laurels - Homecoming
No Sun - In The Interim
Miles Kane - Change The Show
The Wombats - Fix Yourself, Not The World
Zoon - Big Pharma
Santigold - Spirituals
The Chats - Get Fucked
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Return Of The Dream Canteen
Death Cab For Cutie - Asphalt Meadow
Foals - Life Is Yours
Built To Spill - When The Wind Forgets Your Name
Jockstrap - I Love You, Jennifer B
Little Simz - No Thank You
The Big Pink - The Love That's Ours
Cloakroom - Dissolution Wave
Oliver Tree - Cowboy Tears
Bush - The Art Of Survival
Danger Mouse, Black Thought - Cheat Codes
Widowspeak - The Jacket
Golf Alpha Bravo - Heaven On Earth
Ryan Adams - Nebraska
Courting - Guitar Music
Hippo Campus - LP3
Ghost - IMPERA
Cold Showers - Strength In Numbers 
Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fla
Zola Jesus - ARKHON
Alt-J - The Dream
Hot Chip - Freatout/Release
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down
Alvvays - Blue Rev
SZA - SOS
Weezer - SZNZ: Fall
Crack Cloud - Tough Baby
Wilco - Cruel Country
Stereophonics - Oochya!
Taken By Trees - Another Year
Kurt Vile - (watch my moves)
Ryan Adams - Blood On The Tracks
Pixies - Doggerel
Toro Y Moi - MAHAL
Sun's Signature - Sun's Signature
Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain, I Believe In You
1990s - Nude Restaurant
Stars - From Capelton Hill
Earl Sweatshirt - SICK!
Tallies - Patina
A Place To Bury Strangers - See Through You
Working Men's Club - Fear Fear
Blood Red Shoes - Ghosts On Tape
Swim Deep - Familiarise Yourself With The Nearest Exit
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Bones And All
The Orielles - Tableau
Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - Texas Moon
Greet Death - New Low
Blossoms - Ribbons Around The Bomb
Zoon - A Sterling Murmuration E.P.
Ghost Woman - Ghost Woman
Eels - Extreme Witchcraft
Unkle - Ronin II
Tom Meighan - Put Your Foot Down
Orlando Weeks - Hop Up
Bloc Party - Alpha Games
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Empire Of Light
Enumclaw - Save The Baby
Blushings - Possessions
King Buffalo - Regenerator
Winter - What Kind Of Blue Are You?
The Black Lips - Apocalypse Love 
Pink Mountaintops - Peacock Pools
Bob Moses - The Silence In Between
Lee Fields - Sentimental Fool
Gentle Sinners - The Actions Cannot Be Undone
Vinyl Williams - Cosmopolis
Florence And The Machine - Dance Fever
Wand - Spiders In The Rain
Kongos - Interference
Breanna Barbara - Nothin' But Time
Two Door Cinema Club - Keep On Smiling
Phoenix - Alpha Zulu
Automaic - Excess
Wallows - Tell Me That It's Over
Ty Segall - Hello, Hi
Bartees Strange - Farm To Table
White Hills - The Revenge Of Heads On Fire
Bjork - Fossora
Gently Tender - Take Hold Of Your Promise!
Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
Steve Lacy - Gemini Rights
The Snuts - Burn The Empire
Fantastic Negrito - White Jesus Black Problems
SAULT - 11
SAULT - UNTITLED (GOD)
SAULT - Today & Tomorrow
SAULT - Earth
SAULT - AIIR
Weird Nightmare - Weird Nightmare
Collective Soul - Vibrating
Scalping - Void
Tears For Fears - The Tipping Point
Lushings - Lushings
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Fire Doesn't Grow On Trees
Sorry - Anywhere But Here
Porridge Radio - Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky
Weezer - SZNZ: Summer
Aldous Harding - Warm Chris
Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler - For All Our Days That Tear Our Heart
Silversun Pickups - Physical Thrills
Sharon Van Etten - We've Been Going About This All Wrong
Crosses - Permanent Radiant
black midi - Hellire
Special Interest - Endure
Jack White - Fear Of The Dawn
Preoccupations - Arrangements
Weezer - SZNZ: Winter
Spector - Now Or Whenever
Bambara - Love On My Mind
Newdad - Banshee
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - XI: Bleed Here Now
Belle And Sebastian - A Bit Of Previous
Weezer - SZNZ: Spring
Jack White - Entering Heaven Alive
Mark Peters - Red Sunset Dreams
St. Paul & The Broken Bones - Alien Coast
The Black Keys - Dropout Boogie
Marcus King - Young Blood
El Ten Eleven - New Year's Eve
Sea Power - Everything Was Forever
Marsden & Richardson - Marsden & Richardson
Johnny Marr - Fever Dreams 1-4
Methyl Ethyl - Are You Haunted?
Ruth Radelet - The Other Side
Broken Bells - Into The Blue
Melody's Echo Chamber - Emotional Eternal
Stabbing Westward - Chasing Ghosts

Monday, January 3, 2022

Best Of 2021

 



Top Albums:

1. Mogwai - As The Love Continues

2. Small Black - Cheap Dreams

3. New Candys - Vyvyd

4. The Coral - Coral Island

5. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend

6. The Killers - Pressure Machine

7. Shannon and The Clams - Year of the Spider

8. Men I Trust - Untourable Album

9. Gruff Rhys - Seeking New Gods

10. Glasvegas - Godspeed

11. Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark

12. Iceage - Seek Shelter

13. Foo Fighters - Medicine At Midnight

14.  Maximo Park - Nature Always Wins

15.  The Fratellis - Half Drunk Under A Full Moon

16. Night Beats - Outlaw R&B

17. Black Pistol Fire - Look Alive

18. Lana Del Ray - Chemtrails Over The Country Club

19. The Snuts - W.L.

20. Geese - Projector


Honourable mentions:


Godspeed You Black Emperor - G d's Pee At States End!

Shame - Drunk Tank Pink

Blankenberge - Everything

The Horrors - Lout

Thrice - Horizons/East

Low - Hey What

Ryan Adams - Big Colors

Leon Brideges - Gold-Diggers Sound

Still Corners - The Last Exit

The Horrors - Against The Blade

The Tragically Hip - Saskadelphia

Black Honey - Written & Directed

Garbage - No Gods No Masters

Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams

Twin Shadow - S/T

The Besnard Lakes - ...Are The Last Of The Great Thunderstorm Warnings

The Notwist - Vertigo Days

St. Vincent - Daddy's Home

Billie Eillish - Happier Than Ever

A Place To Bury Strangers - Hologram

The Hold Steady - Open Door Policy

Lana Del Ray - Blue Bannisters

Pond - 9

Jonsi - Obsidian 

Weezer - OK Human

The Flying Colours - Fantasy Country

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - L.W.

Ron Gallo - Peacemeal

Clinic - Fantasy Island

Curtis Harding - If Words Were Flowers

The Blue Stones - Hidden Gems

La Femme - Paradigmes

Durand Jones & The Indications - Private Space

Teenage Fanclub - Endless Arcade

Black Midi - Cavalcade

Django Django - Glowing In The Dark

The Underground Youth - The Falling

The KLF - Come Down Dawn

The Flaming Sideburns - Silver Flames

The War On Drugs - I Don't Want To Live Here Anymore

Hand Habits - Dirt

The Black Keys - Delta Kream

Fruit Bats - Siamese Dream

Vampire Weekend - 4042

John Carpenter - Lost Themes: Alive After Death

Tindersticks - Distractions

Death From Above 1979 - Is 4 Lovers

Kele - The Waves Pt. 1

Hand Habits - Fun House

Royal Blood - Typhoons

Film School - We Weren't Here

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Carnage

Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be An Introvert

Deap Vally - Digital Dream

Johnny Marr - Fever Dream Pt. 1 & 2

We Were Promised Jetpacks - Enjoy The View

Elbow - Flying Dream 1

Real Estate - Half A Human

Sault - Nine

Flying Lotus - Yasuke

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising The Roof

Weezer - Van Weezer

Car Seat Headrest - MADLO: Influences

Kings Of Leon - When You See Yourself

Psychedlic Porn Crumpets - Shyga: The Sunlight Mound

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - New Fragility

Middle Kids - Today We're The Greatest

Inhaler - It Won't Always Be Like This

Parcels - Day/Night

Biffy Clyro - The Myth Of The Happily Ever After

Squid - Bright Green Fields

DMA's - I Love You Unconditionally, Sure Am Going To Miss You

Julia Stone - Sixty Summers

Lucid Express - S/T

Unkle - Ronin I

Cathedral Bells - Ether

Kings Of Convenience - Peace Or Love

Teleman - Sweet Morning E.P.

Du Blonde - Homecoming

Greta Van Fleet - The Battle At Garden's Gate

Parquet Courts - Sympathy For Life

Bobby Gillespie & Jehnny Beth - Utopian Ashes

Kaleo - Surface Sounds

Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep It Into Space

Beachy Head - S/T

Motorama - Before The Road

Girl In Red - If I Could Make It Go Quiet

Rag N' Bone Man - Life By Misadventure

Deafheaven - Infinite Granite

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000

Darkside - Spiral

The KVB - Unity

Teenage Wrist - Earth Is A Black Hole

The Vaccines - Back In Love City

Angus & Julia Stone - Life Is Strange

Piroshka - Love Drips And Gathers

Wolfmother - Rock Out

Diangonal - S/T

Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket

Deap Vally - Marriage

Tyler, The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost

Clairo - Sling

Silk Sonic - An Evening With Silk Sonic

Kacey Musgraves - Star-Crossed

Kid Kapichi - This Time Next Year

Ty Segall - Harmonizer

Desperate Journalists - Maximum Sorrow!

Angel Olsen - Aisles

Tropical Fuck Storm - Deep States

Chvrches - Screen Violence

Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under

Possum - Lunar Gardens

Tricky - Lonely Guest

Big Red Machines - How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?

Suuns - The Witness

Neov - Picture Of A Good Life

Damon Albarn - The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows

Tashaki Miyaki - Castaway

Manic Street Preachers - The Ultra Vivid Lament

White Flowers - Day By Day

Sneaker Pimps - Squaring The Circle

Mono - Pilgrimage Of The Soul

Sunstinger - Beyond The Frame

Vanishing Twin - Ookii Gekko 

Jarvis Cocker - Chansons d'Ennui Tip-Top

Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure 

Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time

The Joy Formidable - Into The Blue

Adele - 30

Raised By Swans - Raised By Swans Is The Name Of A Man Volume 1

Newdad - Waves E.P.

Mt. Mountain - Centre

Cold Cave - Fate In Seven Lessons

James Walsh - Small Illusions