Mid-Year 2022 Lists (Best of 2022 ... So Far) • Page 4

Gonna also do my mid-year for movies & tv:

Movies:
1. Everything Everywhere All At Once (Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan)
2. RRR (S.S. Rajamouli)
3. Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski)
4. The Northman (Robert Eggers)
5. Jackass Forever (Jeff Tremaine)
6. Ambulance (Michael Bay)
7. The Batman (Matt Reeves)
8. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
9. Boiling Point (Philip Barantini)
10. Turning Red (Domee Shi)

TV:
1. Better Call Saul
2. Severance
3. Atlanta
4. Barry
5. The Righteous Gemstones

 

Cave In - Heavy Pendulum
Vein - This World Is Going To Ruin You
Benny the Butcher - Tana Talk 4
Momma - Household Name
Cloakroom - Dissolution Wave

 

Still gotta listen to a bunch of stuff but

Unranked:
Charli XCX -CRASH
Beach House - Once Twice Melody
Vince Staples - RAMONA PARK BROKE MY HEART
Kilo Kish - AMERICAN GURL
FKA twigs - CAPRISONGS
Shamir - Heterosexuality
Warpaint - Radiate Like This
MUNA - MUNA
Bartees Strange - Farm to Table
Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future
MØ - Motordrome
LIGHTS - PEP
Caracara - New Preoccupations
Pusha T - It's Almost Dry
Cloakroom - Dissolution Wave


Some banger EPs:
Purity Ring - graves
Empress Of - Save Me
Ravenna Golden - Ms. Genius
IDK - Simple.

Anticipating for the rest of the year:
Rico Nasty - Las Ruinas
Beyoncé - Act I: Renaissance
Pianos Become the Teeth - Drift
Metric - Formentera
Rina Sawayama - Hold the Girl
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down
The 1975 - being funny in a foreign language
Shygirl - Nymph
100 gecs - 10000 gecs
Sky Ferreira - Masochism???
SZA???

 

1. Muna - Muna
2. Fanclubwallet – You Have Got To Be Kidding Me
3. Hatchie – Giving The World Away
4. Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia
5. Bartees Strange – Farm To Table
6. CMAT - If My Wife New I’d Be Dead
7. Pillow Queens – Leave The Light On
8. Mitski – Laurel Hell
9. Bathtub Cig – Night Blindness
10. Rosie Carney – I Wanna Feel Happy
11. Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever
12. Sinead O’Brien – Time Bend And Break The Bower

 

not big on ranking these days but these have been my jams this summer

 

1. Bartees Strange - Farm to Table
2. Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory
   
3. Everything Everything - Raw Data Feel
   
4. Proper. - The Great American Novel
   
5. PUP - The Unraveling of PUPTheBand
   
6. Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia
   
7. Sea Power - Everything Was Forever
   
8. Bloc Party - Alpha Games
   
9. Riverby - Absolution
   
10. Bob Vylan - Bob Vylan Presents The Price of Life
    
11. Kendrick Lamar - Mr Morale and The Big Steppers
    
12. The Range - Mercury
    
13. Brimheim - can’t hate myself into a different shape
    
14. Pictoria Vark - The Parts I Dread
    
15. Short Fictions - Every Moment of Every Day
    
16. Saba - Few Good Things
    
17. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Endless Rooms
    
18. THUMPER - Delusions of Grandeur
    
19. Jaron - it’s hard to see color (When You’re So Impossibly Far Away*)
    
20. Sweet Pill - Where the Heart Is

after some further consideration and tough cuts (sorry to the new Nervus and Porridge Radio records in particular) here's my mid-year check-in!

 

Update: MUNA would be #2 on here and Coheed would be somewhere in the “others I like”

 

A top-7 because I don't like enough stuff enough for a satisfying top-10:

1. Blood Command - Praise Armageddonism
2. Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory
3. Secret Gardens - everbloom
4. Noridc Giants - Symbiosis
5. Kardashev - Liminal Rite
6. Cartoon Theory - Feel
7. Lights - PEP

EPs:
Circa Survive - A Dream About Death
Design Flaw - Beasts of a Future Decay
Dresden - .0625
GoGo Penguin - Between Two Waves
Polyphia - Pianolyphia
Purity Ring - graves
Toothwalker - Reboot, Reinvent

 

These are in no particular order.

Bronco - Orville Peck
Sore Thumb - oso oso
Havasu - Pedro The Lion
New Preoccupations - Caracara
Diaspora Problems - Soul Glo
Humble Quest - Maren Morris
The Parts I Dread - Pictoria Vark
Laurel Hell - Mitski
Cruel Country - Wilco
This World Is Going To Ruin You - Vein.Fm
Harry’s House - Harry Styles
Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers - Kendrick Lamar
No Good At Goodbyes - GRIDIRON
Home, before and after - Regina Spektor
Farm To Table - Bartees Strange

Honorable Mentions:
DENT - Signals Midwest
Running With The Hurricane - Camp Cope
The Unraveling of PUP the Band - PUP
All The Truth That I Can Tell - Dashboard Confessional
The Long Way, The Slow Way - Camp Trash (solely because this came out on Friday and I finalized my list Thursday lol)

 

1. Caracara - New Preoccupations
2. Cave In - Heavy Pendulum
3. Underoath - Voyeurist
4. Alexisonfire - Otherness
5. PUP - THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND
6. Cloakroom - Dissolution Wave
7. Circa Survive - A Dream About Death
8. Bartees Strange - Farm to Table
9. Oso Oso - sore thumb
10. Camp Cope - Running with the Hurricane

 

this is the best song of the year so far and it isn't particularly close

 

You accidentally put the wrong link in here is the right one.

 

i didn’t

 

It's my album of the year by a country mile

 

1. Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter
2. Caracara - New Preoccupations
3. Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
4. Muna - Muna
5. Stars - From Capelton Hill
6. Shearwater - The Great Awakening
7. Band of Horses - Things are Great
8. Pedro The Lion - Havasu
9. Metric - Formentera
10. Hatchie - Giving the World Away

 

Ethel Caín rules and this whole website should be very into her

 

American Teenager is the correct answer for best song this year.

 

#1 is Wet Leg
Toro y Moi
Orville Peck
Kendrick
Harry styles
SOM
Cloakroom
Soccer Mommy
Black Country, New Road
Beach House
Big Thief
Senses Fail
Gleemer EP

Anticipating- (every single rips)
-Holy Fawn
-Maggie Rogers
-Beach Bunny

 

The Best of Albums of 2022 (So Far)

Little late due to some staff delays and a covid infection on my end! But better late than never.

 

I'm pretty behind on a lot of music, but the handful that I've gone back to the most this year:

1. Carly Cosgrove - See You In Chemistry
2. Coheed & Cambria - Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind
3. Enterprise Earth - The Chosen
4. Comeback Kid - Heavy Steps
5. Stand Atlantic - f.e.a.r.
6. Motionless In White - Scoring the End of the World
7. Mom Jeans - Sweet Tooth
8. Anxious - Little Green House
9. Fit For An Autopsy - Oh What The Future Holds
10. Ghost - IMPERA

 

"angel in realtime." by Gang of Youths is the only album I could possibly consider for my album of the year.
However there still a conversation to be had about my top 50 albums of the year. Knowing myself I will put that off until mid November and have to do a bunch of math. For the time being the following artists will almost certainly land in top 25:

• Bartees Strange
• Arcade Fire
• A Place For Owls
• Caracara
• Valleyheart
• MUNA
• Everything Everything
• Kendrick Lamar
• The Big Moon
• Camp Trash
• beabadoobee
• Cold Years
• Kehlani
• Wrest
• Angel Olsen
• The Smile
• Bryde
  
• Fatherson
• Graveyard Club
• Charlie Hickey
• The Weeknd
• Companion
• Vince Staples
• Silvana Estrada

I expect the the following artists to join this list one they drop their albums:

• Tegan and Sara
• The 1975
• Maggie Rogers
• The Mars Volta
• Tove Lo
• Skullcrusher
• Death Cab for Cutie
• The Beths
• The Mountain Goats
• Muse
• Beyonce
• Pale Waves

In the meantime I will continue to listen to new music as it arrives and add the songs I dig to my increasingly overwhelming 2022 playlist:

 

Here's my list... the only one that matters :)

1) Underoath - Voyeurist

2) Scary Kids Scaring Kids - Out Of Light

3) Stand Atlantic - F.E.A.R.

4) Memphis May Fire - Remade In Misery

5) Northlane - Obsidian

6) Palisades - Reaching Hypercritical

7) Bad Omens - The Death Of Peace Of Mind

8) Rain City Drive - Self Titled

9) As It Is - I Went To Hell And Back

10) SECRETS - The Collapse

 

• Kikagaku Moyo - Kumoyo Island
• Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
• Toro y Moi - Mahal
• Viagra Boys - Cave World
• Angel Olsen - Big Time
• Beach House - Once Twice Melody
• Soccer Mommy - Sometimes, Forever
• King Gizz - Omnium Gatherum
• Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful
• The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention
• Wet Leg - Wet Leg
• King Hannah - I’m Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me
• MJ Lenderman - Boat Songs

 

New music is life. From my 2022 list of 1500+ songs (150 albums and EP’s or so), I’ve somehow managed to narrow it down to my top 5 EP’s, top 10 albums, and 5 honorable mentions. This is for stuff released through June... already got some contenders just from July’s releases so we’ll see what changes at the end of the year.

Top 5 EP’s:
1. Nicolas Rage - “Personal Party”
2. Telltale - “Lie Your Way Out”
3. Sorry Ghost - “I DID / DID I?”
4. Hindsight - “Let’s Not and Just Say We Did”
5. Nearly Spent - “Nearly Spent”

Top 10 Albums:
1. Carly Cosgrove - “See You in Chemistry”
2. CLIFFDIVER - “Exercise Your Demons”
3. Forests - “Get in Losers, We’re Going to Eternal Damnation”
4. TRSH - “Kiss Me”
5. Anxious - “Little Green House”
6. Bad Planning - “Et Fortes”
7. Zachary Garren - “III”
8. Just Friends - “Hella”
9. Wolves at the Gate - “Eulogies”
10. The Cast Before the Break - “Where We Are Now”

Honorable Mentions:
In Angles - “Cardinal”
Double Gainer - “Such is Life”
A Wilhelm Scream - “Lose Your Delusion”
Zeal & Ardor - “Zeal & Ardor”
Moodring - “Stargazer”

 

I can’t believe that nobody on this site has been talking about Des Rocs. His album came out last year but is the best, most unique blend of rock star beauty and innovation. Not to mention how that happiness beams from his body on stage. I’ve been to a TON of shows in m ya life and he takes 1st place performance and passion wise