Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2022 • Page 4

Top 20 sounds about right;

1. Florence + The Machine - Dance Fever
2. Porridge Radio - Waterslides, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky
3. Camp Cope - Running with the Hurricane
4. Yeule - Glitch Princess
5. Foreign Television - Cartoon Sun
6. Bjork - Fossora
7. Bob Vylan - Bob Vylan Presents the Price of Life
8. Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
9. Haru Nemuri - Shunka Ryougen
10. Holy Fawn - Dimensional Bleed
    
    
11. Lorna Shore - Pain Remains
12. Gentle Sinners - These Actions Cannot Be Undone
13. Lande Hekt - House Without a View
14. Mitski - Laurel Hell
15. Russian Circles - Gnosis
16. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool it Down
17. The Tallest Man on Earth - Too Late for Edelweiss
18. Beabadoobee - Beatopia
19. Deathcrash - Return
20. Hatis Noit - Aura

Honourable mention for the series of Bright Eyes' EPs, which I really enjoyed, but wasn't sure where to rank.

 

Super excited to see all the lists. There were big gaps during the summer and the last month that I feel like I missed a lot.

1. All Get Out - Kodak
2. Gregor Barnett - Don't Go Throwing Roses On My Grave
3. Anthony Green - Boom. Done.
4. Paolo Nutini - Last Night In The Bittersweet
5. Charles Watson - Yes
6. Pool Kids - Pool Kids
7. Alvvays - Blue Rev
8. Pup - The Unraveling of Pup the Band
9. The Lumineers - Brightside
10. Mom Jeans - Sweet Tooth

 

Yeah, I got kind of burnt out on a lot of my usual stuff this year, so I did a lot more "digging" than I usually might. That list is pretty all over the place, so there's probably some more stuff in there for you regardless of what genres you're into!

 

a lot of really cool shit on this list, thanks

 

Check out Yaya Bey from this list, great R&B record that got BNM from Pitchfork.

 

AOTY Tier

01a. Bartees Strange - Farm to Table
01b. The Wonder Years - The Hum Goes on Forever
01c. PUP - The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND

04. Everything Everything - Raw Data Feel
05. Proper. - The Great American Novel
06. Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory
07. Saba - Few Good Things
08. of Montreal - Freewave Lucifer F^ck F<ck F>ck
09. Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers
10. Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia

Really Good Shit Tier

11. Yr Poetry - Yr Poetry Ruin Music
12. Sea Power - Everything Was Forever
13. Bloc Party - Alpha Games
14. And So I Watch You From Afar - Jettison
15. Arctic Monkeys - The Car
16. Dance With the Dead - Driven to Madness
17. Editors - EBM
18. Rina Sawayama - Hold the Girl
19. NNAMDÏ - Please Have a Seat
20. THUMPER - Delusions of Grandeur

Good Shit Tier

A Place For Owls - S/T
Arm's Length - Never Before Seen, Never Again Found
Boxplot - Here & Now
Brutus - Unison Life
Camp Trash - The Long Way, The Slow Way
Columbia Mills - Heart of a Nation
fred again.. - Actual Life 3 (January 1-September 9 2022)
Gatherers - (mutilator.)
Meryl Streek - 796
Mt. Oriander - Then The Lightness Leaves, And I Become Heavy Again
Oceanator - Nothing's Ever Fine
October Drift - I Don't Belong Anywhere
Pictoria Vark - The Parts I Dread
Poly-Math - Zenith
Pool Kids - S/T
Press Club - Endless Motion
Richard Edwards - Ghost Electricity/Vampire Draw
Riverby - Absolution
Stella Donnelly - Flood
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - When the Lights Go

 

1. Coheed - Vaxis II
2. Kolby Cooper - Boy from Anderson County
3. Jon Pardi - Mr. Saturday night
4. The Wonder Years - Hum
5. Whisky Myers - Tornillo

 

wrote in more depth about my list for the newsletter with @Glaurung, which you can find here:
HYLI - Patrick's Best of 2022 (The Not-Metal One)

Top 10:
1. Gang of Youths - Angel in Realtime.
2. Alvvays - Blue Rev
3. MJ Lenderman - Boat Songs
4. Dazy - OUTOFBODY
5. Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork
6. Father John Misty - Chloe and the Next 20th Century
7. Birds in Row - Gris Klein
8. Arctic Monkeys - The Car
9. The Berries - High Flying Man
10. Drug Church - Hygiene

 

1. Mom Jeans.: Sweet Tooth
2. Taylor Swift: Midnights
3. Omar Apollo: Ivory
4. Oso Oso: sore thumb
5. Mitski: Laurel Hell
6. Father John Misty: Chloe and the Next 20th Century
7. Turnover: Myself in the Way
8. Death Cab For Cutie: Asphalt Meadows
9. Harry Styles: Harry's House
10. Pup: THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND
    
    
11. Tove Lo: Dirt Femme
12. Panic! At the Disco: Viva Las Vengeance!
13. The Wonder Years: The Hum Goes On Forever
14. Alvvays: Blue Rev
15. SZA: SOS (honestly should be higher but it's just so soon)
16. The Weeknd: Dawn FM
17. Anthony Green and the High and Driving Band: Boom. Done.
18. Maren Morris: Humble Quest
19. Odesza: The Last Goodbye
20. The 1975: Being Funny In a Foreign Language
21. Flume: Palaces
22. Charli XCX: Crash
23. Miranda Lambert: Palomino
24. Orville Peck: Bronco
25. Florence + the Machine: Dance Fever
26. Le Youth: Reminders
27. Wet Leg: Wet Leg
28. Beyonce: Renaissance
29. Yumi Zouma: Present Tense
30. Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows: Destroy Rebuild

Honorable mention:
Beach Bunny: Emotional Creature
Momma: Household Name
Fred again..: Actual Life 3
Dry Cleaning: Stumpwork

 

Not sure when I’ll get to my list but PLEASE don’t sleep on these:

 

Going222jail rules, great EP

 

Any recs for some good acoustic stuff from this year?

 

Love this time of year SO MUCH! Can’t wait to dive into some of these (and publications) YE lists and finalize a revised 2022 best of list in January. Always blown away by some albums that I missed, so I need a refractory period lol

 

(lists in no order)

emo/post-hardcore/punk 10

the callous daoboys celebrity therapist
city of caterpillar mystic sisters
gospel the loser
show me the body trouble the water
birds in row gris klein
ithaca they fear us
no devotion no oblivion
rolo tomassi where myth becomes memory
ken mode null
other half soft action

metal 10

ashenspire hostile architecture
keiji haino + sumac into this juvenile apocalypse…
wilderun epigone
messa close
satan earth infernal
sonja loud arriver
white ward false light
high command eclipse of the dual moons
ultha all that has never been true
dream unending song of salvation

indie rock 10

arctic monkeys the car
deliluh fault lines
lambchop the bible
alvvays blue rev
the beths expert in a dying field
daniel rossen you belong there
nilufer yanya painless
will sheff nothing special
gilla band most normal
…and you will know us by the trail of dead xi: bleed here now

rap+r&b 10

freddie gibbs soul sold separately
billy woods aethiopes + church
ka languish arts + woeful studies
boldly james / real bad man killing nothing
danger mouse / black thought cheat codes
roc marciano / the alchemist the elephant man’s bones
kehlani blue water road
amber mark three dimensions deep
bad bunny un verano sin ti
sza sos

other stuff 10

the unthanks sorrows away (folk)
jake xerxes fussell good and green again (folk)
dim steeped sky, stained light (ambient)
the bad plus the bad plus (jazz)
brian eno foreverandevernomore (ambient)
alabaster deplume gold (jazz)
oren ambarchi ghosted + shebang (avant/drone)
makaya mccraven in these times (jazz)
the comet is coming hyper-dimensional expansion beam (jazz)
maya shenfeld in free fall (avant/drone)

stray tracks on repeat

soul glo “spiritual level of gang shit”
born without bones “dancer”
coheed and cambria “love murder one”
algiers “bite back”
moon tooth “phototroph"
cactus blossoms “one day”
beach house “superstar”
men i trust “hard to let go”
joyce manor “reason to believe”
kendrick lamar “rich spirit”
caitlin rose "black obsidian"
greg puciato/reba meyers “lowered”
denzel curry “walkin”
surface to air missive “attic”
spoon “lucifer on the sofa"
slipknot "adderall"
the smile “thin thing”
the wonder years “low tide”
emperor x “stars”

 

Not sure if these are the style you're looking for:

 

Adding to this.

Lonesome Weary Blues

Kyle Hamlett Duo

 

Completely forgot that Daniel Bachman album came out this year. Definitely lumped it in with 2021. Great rec!

 

That Seawind of Battery tape is really cool

 

Gregor Barnett (lead singer of the Menzingers) and Charles Watson (male from Slow Club duo)

 

Nothing particularly formal about this list. Just the records I'm finding myself particularly enjoying and going back to more than others. Unranked. I think the 18 Carat Affair one is probably my AOTY just on number of listens.

Moin - Paste
Minimalist post-rock, kind of like a less processed version of Tortoise. The rhythmical elements are particularly good and the voice samples over the top work damn well. Loving this record in the month and a half since it came out.

18 Carat Affair - Body Double
Vaporwave's an interesting one; the aspects of it that tend to get discussed - capitalist satire and nostalgia - don't really interest me. What does is the dreamlike quality and this has it in spades for me, like it was made by an alien. The tracks are so short that ideas never outstay their welcome and the old channel hopping effect is probably some kind of statement but it's one that just augments the surreal dreamlike feel. Great mix, and different moments stand out on each listen. Probably the album I've listened to most this year. I had a day where I basically listened to Simulations Of Insecurity on a loop.

Nils Frahm - Music For Animals
Three hours. Too long? Meh...it's an ambient record. Casting off the lo-fi piano stuff he's broadly known for, and focusing on detailed, gradually evolving, analogue synth pieces. Like all good ambient, it works as a background record but I think it sounds particularly good on headphones where the low end really stands out. Easily one of the best ambient albums of recent years.

36 - Colours In The Dark
36 - Symmetry Systems (EP)
Grouped these two together. Both gorgeous, electronic ambient records to just bathe in.

Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
I think Titanic Rising is slightly tighter but not by much. Another beautiful piece of chamber pop, all shades of purple and pink mixing together.

Erasers - Constant Connection
Simple, hypnotic mix, with some really cool drum machine beats, keyboard/synth vibratos and calming vocal melodies. I really like sticking this on during a quiet moment of the day.

Saya Gray - 19 Masters
I wouldn't say this is a perfect record - I think it slightly sags in the middle - but I find the playful spontaneity of it really endearing and the moments the melodies really hit are awesome. Experimental, acoustic pop I guess. The last song on the album, IF THERE'S NO SEAT IN THE SKY (WILL YOU FORGIVE ME???), is one of my favourite tracks of the year - the kind of ramshackle way it builds, taking weird textures and really crappy sounding drums but everything finding its connection in the vocal melody.

Brainwaltzera - ITSAME
Think of a mix between Aphex Twin and Boards Of Canada. Beautifully composed and designed.

Sam Gendel - blueblue
Such a soothing record. Hits that melancholy feel just right for me in the way that Bohren & Der Club Of Gore often do but also somehow has this underplayed hint of swagger occasionally. He's often a little more eclectic than this but this is mainly guitar and it's broadly very restrained. A fizzing, lo-fi warmth to the recording which makes it a really cool nighttime record.

John Roberts - Wrecked Exotic
John Roberts is on a run of form at the moment where I basically just love everything he puts out. This hits me on a sad day like nothing else on this list. Not much hint of his old deep house style but certainly not a one-dimensional record. Really spacey at times, beautiful piano moments but also some elements of noise music and dub.

Momma - Household Name
Heard the first single, Medicine, last year and was instantly in on it, and not just because it sounded kinda like Pinback. Album doesn't disappoint. Not exactly reinventing the wheel with an unapologetically 90s alt rock influenced album but it has hooks for days. Great album.

Kuedo - Infinite Window
Another instrumental electronic record. Saw some description of it that compared it to a mix of The Weeknd and Vangelis, and it's sort of that and sort of neither. Some great tracks on it; I think Harlequin Hallway's my favourite.

Clams Casino, Jazztronic - Winter Flower Reimagined
As the title suggests, a collaborative reimagining of Clams' Winter Flower full length from last year. That record itself was a kind of collaboration between the two anyway, with CC working off samples of Jazztronic's work and this time it's flipped around, with the final results of that initial project being stretched, reworked and added to by the latter. I don't want to say soundscape because that would be a typical misuse of that word but some really gorgeous, tranquil synth pads layered with sparing, traditional Japanese instrumentation. Unknown Tokyo is unbelievably good.

Gold Panda - The Work
Damn, I think I've just settled into being a chill, electronic music for headphones type listener in the last two or three years and I need to get back to just listening to heavy, melodic rock music. Anyway, this record is really good too. Check it out.

SHXCXCHCXSH - Kongestion
Pummelling, rich techno that becomes almost ASMR in the way it causes a genuine sensation on the ears towards the end. I've somehow only just realised the track names are four letters from the title, moved on a letter each time.

††† - Permanent.Radiant (EP)
This new EP I think is the best thing they've done. Lots of low end, dynamic production, great synth and melodies. Definitely some Depeche Mode influence but with a heavier sound and then you get a track like Day One which has this upbeat Latin feel that feels out of place on first listen but absolutely grooves and fits perfectly after that.


A random assortment of tracks I've listened to a lot that aren't on these records:
ML Buch - High speed calm air tonight
Ultraflex - Relax
Whatever The Weather - 25°C
Kenny Mason - Halloween
Alex G - Ain't It Easy
Hudson Mohawke - Ingle Nook Slumber
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII - The Plagwitz Drum Incident
Belief - Ulu
Sam Gendel, Antonia Cytrynowicz - Something Real
Dotlights - Gin O'Clock
Boris - Drowning By Numbers
Pan-American - Swimming in a Western Hotel
Pye Corner Audio - Lyracal
Commodo - Living Bones
Gatherers, Geoff Rickly - gift horse
Sun's Signature - Golden Air

 

Noah Kahan, Penny & Sparrow, Madison Cunningham, and Molly Tuttle all had very good albums in the folk/acoustic space

 

Only doing a top 10:

1. MJ Lenderman - Boat Songs
2. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
3. Spoon - Lucifer on the Sofa
4. L.S. Dunes - Past Lives
5. Titus Andronicus - The Will to Live
6. Wild Pink - ILYSM
7. Oso Oso - Sore Thumb
8. Chat Pile - God's Country
9. Plains - I Walked with You a Ways
10. Ian Noe - River Fools & Mountain Saints

Listened to less new music this year than at any point in the last fifteen years (became a parent! have a new, demanding job!) and it shows.

 

Oh yeah and this is the song of the year obviously:

 

song of the year is pressure cooker