Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 by Arthurknight
2022 was a really pleasant year for music. I think that sense of post-Covid energy shines through a lot of the albums that have come out and I for one like this as a nice change from the trend of bored artists making boring lockdown recordings which were continually dolled out as low-stakes releases throughout 2020 and 2021. Musically, the 2020s continue to not be particularly radical – nobodies making anything daringly "new" – but I think a set of sounds that distinguish the decade are beginning to emerge: It's the return of softcore, the "rock band", the concept album, and political music being cool again. Meanwhile, Tiktok looms over us all as the cultural behemoth which will eventually consume the entire industry and convert all artists into short-form vloggers peddling portable smoothie blenders.
Top 15 Songs of 2022:
1. Black Country, New Road: The Place Where He Inserted The Blade
2. Bluetile Lounge: Easterly
3. Blackwinterwells, 8485: halo3
4. Yo La Tengo – Fallout
5. Rachika Nayar, Maria BC – Heaven Comes Crashing
6. julie: pg. 4 a picture of three hedges
7. Kendrick Lamar - The Heart, Part 5
8. Horsegirl: Anti-glory
9. Julia Holter: Heloise
10. Uboa, vi a: Dead Time's Broken Arrow
11. Saya Gray: If There's No Seat In the Sky (Will You Forgive Me???)
12. Sons Of: A Yellow Robe
13. Enablers: Year Of The Dog
14. Jessie Ware: Free Yourself
15. Oiseaux-Tempête: A Man Alone - In A One Man Poem
Additional "Significant" reviews (Written reviews in album comments):
Ethel Cain – Preacher's Daughter: 6
Belle and Sebastian – A Bit of Previous: 6
Sault – Air: 6
Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems: 6
Nouns – While of Unsound Mind: 6
Desire – Escape: 6
Pusha T – It's Almost Dry: 6
Wet Leg – Wet Leg: 6
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Omnium Gatherum: 6
Pinegrove – 1111: 6
FKA Twigs – Caprisongs: 6
Leikeli47 – Shape Up: 6
Earl Sweatshirt – Sick!: 6
Yard Act – The Overload: 5.5
Father John Misty – Chloë And The Next 20th Century: 5.5
Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever: 5.5
Melody's Echo Chamber – Emotional Eternal: 5.5
Black Star – No Fear of Time: 5.5
Soccer Mommy – Somtimes, Forever: 5.5
The Weeknd – Dawn FM: 5
Spoon – Lucifer On The Sofa: 5
Jack White – Fear Of The Dawn: 5
Everything Everything – Raw Data Feel: 4.5
070 Shake – You Can't Kill Me: 4
Arcade Fire – We: 4
Arctic Monkeys – The Car: 2
Unsurprisingly, Muse released the year's worst album: a crass and masturbatory exercise in fantasised hubris masquerading as music. Will Of The People is the closest Muse have got to creating music that can work like the "Killer Joke" from Monty Python's Flying Circus, and after listening to it I could only wish that they had succeeded. Solid attempts at releasing worse music this year were made by Drake, Jack Harlow, and most-daringly Avril Lavigne, but it's hard to actively criticise the sausage factory for the junk it pumps out. Instead, Muse claim to be making art.
- Chart updated: 02/02/2024 04:15
- (Created: 02/07/2022 05:58).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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It's hard to imagine the former bassist for the utterly inconsequential Daniel Caesar would release one of 2022's most consequential album, let alone it be a sprawling 19-track 50 minute debut record that would go overlooked by almost everyone. Saya Gray is a Japanese Canadian artists and 19 Masters is a weird album that takes the pop song formula and turns all its tropes into textures. Acoustic guitars sound like they're run through cheese graters, vocals recorded in oil drums, drums like fingers tapping away at old mechanical keyboards; it's serene.
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Frog Eyes were a relatively recent discovery of mine. They are, arguably, found at the periphery of Canada's 2000s indie moment and not for the uninitiated. Carey Mercer, best known for Swan Lake, heads up this group and it's maybe some of the weirdest stuff you could imagine an otherwise normal looking band to make. Their discography has gradually mellowed out that weirdness, trading it in for cleaner production and tighter song structuring, but that essence of the uncanny is always there. The Bees reaches back to the sounds of when Canada's music scene were heard the world over.
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This hits. Forever In Your Heart was a more ambitious follow up to Peaceful as Hell, but this new album is so much more a proper development of what made Peaceful the kind of impactful name making record it was. Loud headphone listeners beware, I may have developed tinnitus.
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I think Alvvays have properly figured out what they've been trying to do all this time. Antisocialites was a relatively stale release, even if it was expertly crafted indie pop. It's just that indie pop is inherently pretty stale. Blue Rev is a more sincere dive into the dream pop, shoegaze and noise pop influences the band has only dabbled in before this. Belinda Says is excellent.
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Destroyer is now way too glossy, the guy is just adding effects to everything. The problem is that reverb, analog echo, etc. in Labyrinthitis are just poorly incorporated; it's too easy to hear the specific effect. The sound isn't ethereal, it's synthetic – in other words the effects are poorly textured, too highly mixed, and maybe even added digitally to recordings in post – but it's clear nobody was going for that. It's more the kind of thing you'd expect from people who go for a kind of clinical perfection in their production, such as Jacob Collier. That said, there's fun songs on here, and even the ones that have the aforementioned production issue, as instrumental layers are added, become quite fun actually - June is a good example. Destroyer still has it, he just needs to get back to basics I think, or be a little whacky with song structure again if he's going to keep this lowkey funk thing going.
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Just a bit of solo female vocals on piano. Don't want to sound dismissive of that, but you do really need to be very good at the fundamentals and have the tightest recording parameters for it to work. Tamara gets kinda close to making this a reality on "Endless Time" where the Canadian channels Joni Mitchell but to no real end result.
_ [First added to this chart: 05/18/2022]
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Lambchop | 1 | 1% | |
The Weather Station | 1 | 1% | |
Black Dresses | 1 | 1% | |
Jockstrap | 1 | 1% | |
Gospel | 1 | 1% | |
Craig Finn | 1 | 1% | |
Wild Up | 1 | 1% | |
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Great chart and love all the reviews- keep it coming!
Went to give this a 100/100 and praise your writing when I noticed I'd got there already! Interested to hear your thoughts on my own top 20 – got a piece on Ants From Up There coming out soon too
Another class year chart!! Genuinely a better standard of journalism than most 'Best of 2022 So Far' lists I've seen from major publications; looking forward to checking back on what it looks like in December!
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