We’re collecting all our favorite reviewed albums in the list below. Important to note, if we didn’t review it, it’s not on this list. So we’re barely scratching the surface of great music in 2022.
Let us know what we’re missing in the comments.
The gazey, dreampop excursion takes us into a languid interior dimension of emotional transcendence.
Kitner tells the story of life lived at the tail end of a boozy buzz, with another night of debauchery on the way.
Twen charts a course across the sound waves of trans-Atlantic pop on their LP One Stop Shop.
Ambient is no longer the province of purely theoretical sound experiments. Enter Iceblink.
A gooey, 12-stack musical layer cake, shotgun-blasted with rainbow sprinkles by a laughing clown.
NNAMDÏ ghosts his songs before they ghost him. But you’ll love Please Have A Seat anyway.
Already Dead remembers punk’s roots in political dissidence on their latest LP My Collar Is Blue.
Makaya McCraven makes the old new again with the soulful and cinematic LP In These Times.
Pet Fox pulls off a few tricks on their label debut LP A Face In Your Life.
The underlying musical and philosophical idea of Kal Mark’s latest full-length My Name Is Hell is trotted out upfront like the proud thesis of an undergraduate Lit paper.
It takes two experimental musicians to TANGO on Never Stop Texting Me. Truly Autotune Never Gets Old.
Loz Goddard’s latest full-length Balloon Tree Road honors the Madchester tradition with a club-ready contribution to 21st-century breakbeat science.
Offering offers taut, trim punk and post-punk rockery with a minimum of fuss from Green/Blue.
Warm Chris finds Aldous Harding officially planted within the airy and sometimes arid soil of an indie pop career.
Wilder Maker plays host at a musicians’ salon on their new full-length LP Male Models.
“Fusion” is a genre-descriptor that is constantly on the verge of utter uselessness.