Best of 2022 (Adam J)

Another year in the books. We’d be lying if we said things were back to being totally good, but it felt nice to get back out to shows this year and be amongst the music-loving community again. As we always do, we’re using the end of the calendar year to collect the music that we loved from this year. The music that got us dancing, the music that got us through hard times, the music that broke through and resonated even after years of listening to thousands of albums of new music. Below you’ll find Adam J’s favorite albums and shows of 2022. We hope you’ll find something you like or maybe something new to check out. Onward!

Best of International Releases 2022

Orville Peck – Bronco (Columbia Records)

Young Guv – III & IV (Run For Cover Records)

High Pulp- Pursuit of Ends (Anti-)

Corpsegrinder – s/t (Perseverance Media Group)

Lizzo – Special (Nice Life Recording Company/Atlantic Records)

Spoon – Lucifer On the Sofa (Headz/Matador Records)

Junior Boys – Waiting Game (City Slang)

Romero – Turn It On! (Cool Death Records/Feel It Records)

Kurokuma – Born of Obsidian

Raw Poetic – Laminated Skies (Def Presse)

Binker Golding – Dream Like A Dogwood Wild Boy (Gearbox Records Ltd)

Shamir – Heterosexuality (AntiFragile Music)

Honorable Mentions

Deströyer 666 – Never Surrender (Season of Mist)

Les Big Byrd – Eternal Light Brigade (Chimp Limbs)

16 – Ino Dust (Relapse Records)

Colin Stetson – Chimaera I (Room40)

Hermanos Gutiérez – El Mueno y El Malo (Easy Eye Sound, Concord)

Medicine Singers – s/t (Joyful Noise/Stone Tapes)

Blood Incantation – Timewave Zero (Century Media Records Ltd., Stargate Research Society)

April March – In Cinema (Omnivore Recordings)

Lucius – Second Nature (Mom+Pop)

Destruction – Diabolical (Napalm Records Handels GmBH)

Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee (Dead Oceans)

SPICE – Viv (Dais Records)

Los Bitchos – Let the Festivities Begin! (CIty Slang)

Chris Forsyth – Evolution Here We Come (No Quarter Records)

King Buffalo – Regenerator

Best of Local Releases 2022

Kooky Bombshell – s/t

Loser Magnet – Empty Year

Catbath – Invisible Racer

Green/Blue – Paper Thin

Time Room – Something New

Obscurity or Bust – Misdirections

Stay At Home Astronaut – s/t

DeliCat – The Sad, the Bad, & the Ugly

Scrunchies – Feral Coast

Yume Nikki – We May Not Make It Through This