Monday, December 12, 2022

Twist & Shout Staff Picks: the Best of 2022

Hello My Name is Patrick Brown and these are my top things of 2022.

Music
Diamanda Galás - Broken Gargoyles
Myra Melford’s Fire and Water Quintet - For the Love of Fire and Water
Alhaji Waziri Oshomah - World Spirituality Classics 3: The Muslim Highlife of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah (archival)
Amanda Shires - Take It Like A Man
Danger Mouse / Black Thought - Cheat Codes
Ezra Furman - “All of Us Flames”
Horsegirl - Versions of Modern Performance
Tanya Tagaq - Tongues
Sun Ra Arkestra - Living Sky
Iannis Xenakis - Electroacoustic Works (archival)
Oumou Sangaré - Timbuktu
Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet - Ultraman vs. Alien Metron (archival)
Tom Skinner - Voices of Bishara
Archers of Loaf - Reason in Decline
Gogol Bordello - Solidaritine
Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful
Tyshawn Sorey - Mesmerism
Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
Michael Hurley - The Time of the Foxgloves (Dec. 2021 release)
A Place to Bury Strangers - See Through You


New Blu-ray
Drive My Car
Beatles - Get Back
Neptune Frost
Memoria
Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliche
Crimes Of The Future
Sound Of Metal


New Blu-rays of Old Movies
Pink Flamingos (Criterion)
Malcolm X (Criterion)
Daisies (Criterion)
Shortbus (Oscilloscope)
The Criminal Life Of Archibaldo De La Cruz (VCI)
Electra Glide In Blue (Kino)
I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians (Big World Pictures)

Hello, my name is Adam Reshotko and these are things I listened to and liked in 2022.

Archers of Loaf - Reason in Decline
black midi - Hellfire
Boris - Heavy Rocks
The Comet Is Coming - Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
The Cure - Wish (30th Anniversary)
Ghost Funk Orchestra - A New Kind of Love
Goat - Oh Death
Ibibio Sound Machine - Electricity
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - Cold as Weiss
Makaya McCraven - In These Times
The Movers - Vol. 1: 1970-1976
Pavement - Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal
Phish - Gorge '98 (12/9 release)
Rush - Moving Pictures (40th Anniversary)
The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention
Sonic Youth - In/Out/In
Sons of Kemet - Black to the Future
Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful
Stereolab - Pulse of the Early Brain (Switched On Vol. 5)
Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen
Various - Have You Lost Your Mind Yet
Frank Zappa - Hard Luck Stories 1972-1982
Trees - Trees: 50th Anniversary Edition
Various Artists - Saturno 2000: La rebajada de los sonideros 1962-1983
Frank Zappa - Waka/Wazoo

Hello, my name is Amy Goodall and these are the best albums of 2022.

1. Huerco S. - Plonk
2. Širom - The Liquified Throne of Simplicity
3. Billy Woods - Aethiopes
4. Pan Daijing - Tissues
5. FKA Twigs - Caprisongs
6. Current 93 - A New Kind of Love
7. Jack White - Fear of the Dawn
8. Daphni - Cherry
9. Gilla Band - Most Normal
10. Beyoncé - Renaissance
11. Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers
12. Jeshi - Universal Credit
13. Jockstrap - I Love You, Jennifer B.
14. Cult of Luna - The Long Road North
15. Mizmor & Thou - Myopia
16. Various Artists (Other People Records) - Weavings
17. Croation Amor - Remember Rainbow Bridge
18. black midi - Hellfire
19. Quelle Chris - Deathfame
20. Knxwledge - V1
21. Beach House - Once Twice Melody
22. Infinity Frequencies - Exit Simulation
23. Kelly Lee Owens - LP.8
24. Earl Sweatshirt - Sick!
25. Skirmishes - All love God it falls away untouchable
26. Vein.fm - This World Is Going to Ruin You
27. Park Zero - Proxy
28. Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems
29. DJ Spell - Kia Ora 10
30. Subaruu & Saves - S5

Howdy! These are Anna Lathem’s Top Albums of 2022 in no particular order but also kinda a little bit in a particular order…

Beyoncé - Renaissance
Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful
MUNA - MUNA
Reverend Baron - From Anywhere
Maggie Rogers - Surrender
Plains - I Walked With You A Ways
Maxim Mental - Fucking EP
Carly Rae Jepsen - Loneliest Time
John Doe - Fables in A Foreign Land
Leon Bridges & Khruangbin - Texas Moon
St. Paul & the Broken Bones - Alien Coast
Durand Jones & the Indications - Private Space
Curtis Harding - If Words Were Flowers
The Black Angels - Wilderness of Mirrors
The Beatles - Revolver (Reissue)
Makaya McCraven - In These Times
Joe Strummer - Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years
Amanda Shires - Take It Like A Man
Arctic Monkeys - The Car

Hello! My Name is Ben Sumner and these are my favourite things of 2022:

Top 12 favourite new things of 2022:
Sessa - Estrela Acesa
Otoboke Beaver - Super Champon
Diamanda Galas - Broken Gargoyles
Taylor Swift - Midnights
Lady Blackbird - Black Acid Soul
Eels - Extreme Witchcraft
Avishai Cohen – Naked Truth
Naima Bock – Giant Palm
Nduduzo Makhathini – In The Spirit Of Ntu
Tinariwen – Kel Tinariwen
Sun Ra Arkestra – Living Sky
Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork


Top 12 favourite old things of 2022:
Beatles - Get Back Blu-Ray and Televisual event
David Bowie - Moonage Daydream film, which ought to be ought on VHS soon enough
Joni Mitchell - Asylum Years 1972-1975 LP/CD box set, plus her comeback at Newport
Elton John - Regimental Sgt. Zippo stereo LP issue, plus his gig at the Enormodome
Various Artists - Saturno 2000 - La Rebajada De Los Sonideros 1962-1983
Norma Tanega - I’m The Sky: Studio And Demo Recordings, 1964–1971
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood – Nancy & Lee, first proper reissue ever, thank you
Summer of Soul – LP/DVD
Mandy Morton & Spriguns – After The Storm, complete recordings CD set, nice.
Brother Jack McDuff – Moon Rappin', LP reissue
Goldfrapp – Felt Mountain, LP reissue
Blondie – Against The Odds 1974- 1982, LP/CD box set

My name is Blake Britton and I am reluctantly capitalizing stuff for the sake of making sure my list is included on the blog this year. Here are some lessons I learned in 2022:

1. Black Country New Road - Ants From Up There (If Isaac can walk, then so can I.)
2. Black Midi - Hellfire (Idiots are infinite… Thinking men are numbered.)
3. Makaya McCraven - In These Times (The machine can't take the place of the soul and the sweat.)
4. Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers (I choose me, I’m sorry.)
5. Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork (...weird premise for a show, but I like it.)
6. Revelators Sound System - Revelators (________________)
7. Jockstrap - I Love You, Jennifer B. (He thinks you float, but you don’t.)
8. Ibibio Sound Machine - Electricity (Spiritual, invisible protection from evil.)
9. Kali Malone - Living Torch (Serves you right to suffer!)
10. FKA Twigs - Caprisongs ('Cause you care, I made it through today.)

Hello, my name is Brian Albright and these are my top things of 2022:

New Music:
1. The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Summer at Land’s End
2. Sloan - Steady
3. Alvvays - Blue Rev
4. Robyn Hitchcock - Shufflemania
5. The Sadies - Colder Streams
6. The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field
7. Uni Boys - Live in Stuttgart 1975
8. Superchunk - Wild Loneliness
9. Steve Earle - Jerry Jeff
10. Carla Olsen & Stephen McCarthy - Night Comes Falling


Reissues/Collections:
1. The Beatles - Revolver Special Edition
2. Redd Kross - Neurotica
3. Love Tractor - Themes From Venus
4. Various - C85
5. Tall Dwarfs - Unravelled 1981-2002
6. Phil Seymore - 2
7. Various Artists - Miles Out to Sea
8. R.E.M. - Chronic Town
9. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Live at the Fillmore 1997
10. The Georgia Satellites - Lightnin’ in a Bottle: The Official Live Album



Hello, my name is Brian Wyatt (and the secret, my friends, is in the green chili) and these are my favorite things of 2022 – but not in any particular order, just some good shit happening this year!

New Music:

#1: All the congrats & Luck to Paul & Jill in retirement and to Patrick to keep on chooglin’!
1. Sessa – Estrella Acesa
2. Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros – 002
3. Brian Jonestown Massacre – Fire Doesn’t Grow on Trees
4. E-40 – Tha Hall of Game
5. Black Angels – Wilderness of Mirrors
6. Kikagaku Moyo - Kumoyo Island
7. Reverend Baron - From Anywhere
8. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Omnium Gatherum
9. Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful
10. Lou Reed - Words & Music
11. Nils Frahm - Music For Animals
12. Goat - Oh Death
13. Murlocs - I Love You, Jennifer B.
14. Cult of Luna - Rapscallion
15. James Newton - Flute Music
16. Panda Bear/Sonic Boom - Reset
17. Surfrajettes - Roller Fink
18. Pink Mountaintops - Peacock Pools
19. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Ice Death Planets Lungs Mushrooms and Lava
20. Dungen - En Ar For Mycket Och Tuse
21. Say She She - Prism
22. Reverend Horton Heat - Smoke ‘Em, Full Custom, Liquor
23. Extra Kool - Not A Ghost… But Dead Inside


I don’t watch lost of movies lately but I watched:
Breathless – J.L. Godard one – Absolute spectacular
Inherent Vice – Absolute hilarity
Tokyo Drifter – Absolute fun gangster flick

Pickle Jars Eagle! Squatney rejects rule!
I miss ya on Saturdays Hound. Thanks for keeping the counter in check haha.
R.I.P. and all our love to Peter McNab. The next cup is for you Maxy.

Hello, my name is Chad Boltz and these are my favorite things of 2022
1. Diamanda Galás - Broken Gargoyles


Hello, my name is Chris Bjork and these are my favorite things of 2022

1. Michael Rault – Michael Rault
2. Daniel Rossen – You Belong There
3. Kikagaku Moyo – Kumoyo Island
4. No Frills – Downward Dog
5. Babe Rainbow – The Organic Album
6. Jerry Paper – Free Time
7. Vundabar – Devil For the Fire
8. Thee Oh Sees – A Foul Form
9. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Omnium Gatherum
10. Ghost Funk Orchestra – A New Kind of Love
11. Sam Cohen – Slow Faun
12. Geese – Projector
13. Monophonics – Sage Motel
14. Drugdealer – Hiding in Plain Sight
15. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – Night Gnomes
16. The Lazy Eyes – Songbook
17. Surprise Chef – Education and Recreation
18. Oog Bogo – Plastic
19. Alex G – God Save the Animals
20. Vinyl Williams – Cosmopolis


Hello, my name is Eric Curley and these are my favorite things of 2022

CD Only
1. Phish - Gorge '98

CD/Vinyl
1. Animals As Leaders – Parrhesia
2. The Black Keys – Dropout Boogie
3. Bonobo – Fragments
4. The Comet Is Coming – Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
5. Earthless – Night Parade Of One Hundred Demons
6. Nils Frahm – Music For Animals
7. Ghost Funk Orchestra – Devil For the Fire
8. Ghost Funk Orchestra – A Foul Form
9. Goat – Oh Death
10. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Cold As Weiss
11. Monophonics – Sage Motel
12. The New Mastersounds – The Deplar Effect
13. Rammstein – Zeit
14. Russian Circles – Gnosis
15. Surprise Chef – Education & Recreation
16. Various Artists – Summer of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
17. Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin – Ali

Vinyl-Only
1. Beastie Boys – Check Your Head (20th Anniversary Box)
2. Various Artists – Colemine Records: Soul Slabs, Vol. 3
3. Various Artists – Jazz Dispensary: Super Skunk
4. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Omnium Gatherum
5. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Live In Loveland!
6. Orgōne – Lost Knights
7. Phish – LP on LP 03 (Tweezer/Prince Caspian)
8. Shpongle – Catalog Remasters
9. Slift – Levitation Sessions
10. Tool – Fear Inoculum (3xLP Edition)
11. Various Artists – Wamono Groove: Shakuhachi & Koto Jazz Funk '76

Ethan’s Alphabetical Ascension Of Albums 2022

Charlotte Adigéry, BOLIS PUPIL - Topical Dancer
Alvvays – Blue Rev
Animal Collective – Time Skiffs
Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
Cola – Deep In View
Christine And The Queens – Redcar les adorables étoiles
Dehd – Blue Skies
Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork
Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia
Alex G – Horsegirl
Horsegirl – Versions of Modern Performance
Kiwi Jr. – Chopper
Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom – Reset
Plains – I Walked With You A Ways
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Endless Rooms
The Smile – A Light For Attracting Attention
Kurt Vile – (watch my moves)
Nilüfer Yanya – PAINLESS

Honorable Mention: Wet Leg - Wet Leg

REMASTERED REISSUES/COMPILATIONS/STUFF THAT ISN’T “NEW”:
The Beatles – Revolver [Super Deluxe]
Blondie – Against The Odds - 1974 - 1982 [Deluxe Box Set]
R.E.M. – Chronic Town [40th Anniversary 12” EP Reissue]
The Rolling Stones – El Mocambo 1977 [Box Set]
Stereolab – Pulse of the Early Brain [Switched On, Vol. 5]
Norma Tanega – I’m The Sky: Studio And Demo Recordings, 1964-1971


MOVIES/TV (that were/look great and I’ve seen/need to see):
Elvis - Baz Lurman (really wasn’t that good AT ALL but it was worth seeing it in IMAX)
Licorice Pizza - Paul Thomas Anderson
Moonage Daydream - Brett Morgen
My Life As A Rolling Stone - epix TV mini-series; multiple directors
Tár - Todd Field



Hello, my name is Extra Kool and these are my favorite things of 2022

CD:
1. Mood – Doom (reissue)
2. Danger Mouse / Black Thought – Cheat Codes

Vinyl:
1. Atmosphere – Lucy Ford (reissue)
2. Extra Kool – Not A Ghost… But Dead Inside
3. Robert – Orange Is the New Black
4. Digable Planets – Blowout Comb (reissue) 5. Original Soundtrack – Candyman
6. Diamanda Galás – Diamanda Galás (reissue)
7. Original Soundtrack – Dark Glasses
8. Original Soundtrack – Halloween (40th Anniversary edition – Death Waltz/Mondo)

DVD/Blu-ray:
1. X
2. The Batman
3. Lux Aeterna
4. Faceless
5. The Black Phone
6. Nope
7. Kindred
8. Return of the Living Dead (4K – Scream Factory)
9. Pearl

Ayyyyy, my name is Harrison Mains and these are my most favoritest releases of 2022
1. Viagra Boys – Cave World
2. Otoboke Beaver – Super Champon
3. Backxwash – His Happiness Shall Come first Even Though We Are Suffering
4. Sasami – Squeeze
5. Danger Mouse / Black Thought – Cheat Codes
6. Rosalía – Motomami
7. Extra Kool – Not A Ghost… But Dead Inside
8. Dead Cross – II
9. Tim Heidecker – High School
10. Wormrot – Hiss
11. Eiron – Creepshow
12. Norma Tanega – I’m The Sky: Studio And Demo Recordings, 1964-1971
13. Lupe Fiasco – Drill Music in Zion
14. Beyoncé – Renaissance
15. Chat Pile – God’s Country
16. Boris – Heavy Rocks (2022)
17. Tanya Tagaq – Tongues
18. Osees – A Foul Form
19. Morris Day – Last Call
20. Primus – Conspiranoid
21. Björk – Fossora
22. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Cold As Weiss
23. Ghost Funk Orchestra – A New Kind of Love
24. Charli XCX – Crash
25. Burial – Antidawn


Hello, my name is Jack Brown and these are my favorite things of 2022

1. Various Artists – Daptone Super Soul Revue
2. Orquesta Akokán – 16 Rayos
3. Broadcast – Maida Vale Sessions
4. Broadcast – Mother Is the Milky Way
5. Broadcast – Vol. 1&2 Microtronics
6. Burial – Antidawn
7. Pye Corner Audio – Let’s Emerge
8. King Garbage – Heavy Metal Greasy Love
9. Beyoncé – Renaissance
10. Lady Wray – Piece of Me

Hello, my name is James G. and these are my favorite things of 2022

Music:
1. Cherokee – Blood and Gold (Dying Victim Productions)
2. Mournful Congregation – The Exuviae of Gods, Part 1 (20 Buck Spin)
3. Gralefrit – Gralefrit (cassette) (Ancient Meadow)
4. Hoaxed – Two Shadows (Relapse)
5. Supernatural Darkness – Flying Fortress (cassette) (Ancient Meadow)
6. Sumerlands – Dreamkiller (Relapse)
7. Nortfalke – Moonjeie (cassette) (Dungeons Deep)
8. Lunar Wombs – The Sleeping Green (reissue) (Hospital Productions)
9. Witches Forest – The Beauty of Silence (Ancient Meadow)
10. Tove Lo – Dirt Femme (Pretty Swede)
11. MØ – Motordrome (Sony Music)
12. Dream Unending – Song of Salvation (20 Buck Spin)
13. Worm – Bluenothing (20 Buck Spin)
14. Secret Straiways – Turning Point (reissue) (Dungeons Deep)
15. Original Soundtrack – The Descent (David Julyan) (Burning Witches)
16. Satan – Court in the Act (reissue) (Roadrunner)
17. Cauldron Born – Born of the Cauldron (reissue)(Cult Metal Classics)
18. Original Soundtrack – Bubblegum Crisis 2: Born to Kill (reissue)(Cult Metal Classics)
19. Blade Runner – Warriors of Rock (reissue)(Cult Metal Classics)
20. Jääportit – Kauan Koskematon (remaster)(Out of Season)


DVD/Blu-ray:
1. Double Indemnity (Criterion)
2. Don’t Go in the House (Severin)
3. Dune (2021) 4K (Warner Brothers)
4. Voyage of the Rock Aliens (Vinegar Syndrome)
5. Ilya Muromets (Vinegar Syndrome)
6. Wall-E 4K (Criterion)
7. House of Terrors (Mondo Macabro)
8. Batman 4K (Warner Brothers)
9. Hard Rock Zombies (Vinegar Syndrome)
10. A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse (Mondo Macabro)

Hello, my name is James Mabry and these are my favorite things of 2022

CD:
1. Diamanda Galás – Broken Gargoyles
2. Julian Lage – View With A Room
3. Charley Crockett – The Man From Waco
4. Art Blakey – Just Coolin’
5. Adrian Quesada – Boleros Psicodelicos
6. She & Him – Melt Away – Tribute to Brian Wilson

Vinyl:
1. Extra Kool – Not A Ghost… But Dead Inside
2. First Aid Kit – Palomino
3. Lou Reed – Words & Music, May 1965
4. Dolly Parton – Run Rose Run
5. Nikki Lane – Denim & Diamonds

DVD/Blu-ray
1. Everything Everywhere All At Once
2. Cyrano
3. The Woman King

I’m Jonathan Eagle and here is a list of my favorite shit from 2022

New Albums
1. Urge Overkill – Oui
2. The Afghan Whigs – How Do You Burn?
3. The Replacements – Unsuitable for Airplay: The Lost KFAI Concert
4. Sharon Van Etten – We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
5. Kikagaku Moyo – Kumoyo Island
6. Mary Halvorson – Amaryllis
7. KEN Mode – NULL
8. Loudness – Sunburst
9. Cheer-Accident – Here Comes the Sunset
10. Classless Act – Welcome to the Show
11. Jon Spencer & the HITmakers – Spencer Gets It Lit
12. Maggie Rogers – Surrender
13. Scorpions – Rock Believer
14. Max Richter – The New Four Seasons: Vivaldi Recomposed
15. Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork
16. Archers of Loaf – Reason in Decline
17. Wilco – Cruel Country
18. Chat Pile – God’s Country
19. Melvins – Bad Moon Rising
20. The Comet is Coming – Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam


New Films/Docs
1. Confess, Fletch (Greg Mottola)
2. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (Eric Appel)
3. Nope (Jordan Peel)
4. Clerks III (Kevin Smith)
5. The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks (Reg Harkema)
6. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
7. The Outfit (Graham Moore)
8. To Leslie (Michael Morris)
9. George Carlin’s American Dream (Judd Apatow & Michael Bonfiglio)
10. Piggy (Carlota Pareda)

Hello, my name is Maggie and these are my top things of 2022.

Vinyl
1. Beyoncé – Renaissance
2. Björk – Fossora
3. The Clash – Combat Rock/People’s Hall (40th Anniv.)
4. Blondie – Against the Odds
5. Tears For Fears – The Tipping Point
6. Taylor Swift – Midnights
7. Alice In Chains – Dirt (30th Anniversary)
8. Maggie Rogers – Surrender
9. Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia
10. Wet Leg – Wet Leg

DVD/Blu-Ray:
1. Okja (Criterion release) – d. Bong Joon-Ho
2. Titane – d. Julia Ducournau
3. The Velvet Underground (Criterion release) – d. Todd Haynes
4. The Northman – d. Robert Eggers
5. Yellowjackets (season 1) – d. Karyn Kusama
6. Last Night in Soho – d. Edgar Wright
7. Crimes of the Future – d. David Cronenberg
8. Top Gun: Maverick – d. Joseph Kosinski
9. Nope – d. Jordan Peele
10. Where the Crawdads Sing – d. Olivia Newman


Hello, my name is Matt Cobos and these are my top albums of 2022 in a general-ish order:
1. Viagra Boys – Cave World
2. Gilla Band – Most Normal
3. Meat Wave – Malign Hex
4. Surfbort – Keep On Truckin'
5. Cloakroom – Dissolution Wave
6. Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems
7. Goat – Oh Death
8. Chat Pile – God's Country
9. Monophonics – Sage Motel
10. The Murlocs – Rapscallion
11. Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia
12. Say She She – Prism

Hello, my name is Max Kaufman and these are my top albums of 2022.

Top albums of 2022
Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems
Open Mike Eagle - A Tape Called Component System With The Auto-Reverse
Chat Pile - God's Country

Other Great Albums That Made Me Feel Things
The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta
Dishevelled Cuss - In The Couch
Charlotte Adigery & Boris Pupul - Topical Dancer
Cave In - Heavy Pendulum
Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
Blood Incantation - Timewave Zero
Guerilla Toss - Famously Alive
OFF! - Free LSD
Wormrot - Hiss
Dead Cross - II
Freddie Gibbs - $oul $old $eparately
Black Midi - Hellfire
Primitive Man - Insurmountable
Vermin Womb - Retaliation

Reissues i've been waiting for for a long time
El-p - Fantastic Damage
Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
Norma Tanega - I'm The Sky: Studio and Demo recordings 1964-1971

MOVIES!
NOPE - Dir: Jordan Peele
I Am A Cliche: Poly Styrene - Dir: Celeste Belle
Everything, Everywhere, All At Once - Dir: The Daniels
The Northman - Dir: Robert Eggers

Quinn Theis 2022 top 30
Barbara - Escape Artist
The Dirty Snacks Ensemble - You Would Do Well
Off! - Free LSD
Dennis Bovell - The Dubmaster (The Essential Anthology)
Horace Andy - Midnight Rocker
Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari - Grounation (Reissue)
Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
Sessa - Astrela Acesa
Rosalía - Motomami
Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
Oumou Sangaré - Timbuktu
Pixies - Doggerel
Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork
Danger Mouse & Black Thought - Cheat Codes
Congotronics International - Where’s The One?
Makaya McCraven - In These Times
Bill Callahan - YTI⅃AƎЯ
Kikagaku Moyo - Kumoyo Island
black midi - Hellfire
Lou Reed - Words & Music
Meshuggah - Immutable
Moor Mother - Jazz Codes
Guided By Voices - Crystal Nuns Cathedral
Cass McCombs - Heartland
Vieux Farka Toure - Les Racines
Wilco - Cruel Country
Tanya Tagaq - Tongues
Mitski - Laurel Hell
Robyn Hitchcock - Shufflemania!
Mary Gauthier - Dark Enough To See the Stars

Reggie’s Top Ten 2022
1. Sofi Tukker – Wet Tennis 04/29/22
2. Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork 10/21/22
3. Metric – Formentera 07/08/22
4. Adult. – Becoming Undone 03/11/22
5. Charli XCX – Crash 03/18/22
6. Comet Is Coming – Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam 09/23/22
7. Uffie – Sunshine Factory 05/20/22
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down 09/30/22
9. Santigold – Spirituals 09/09/22
10. Guerilla Toss – Famously Alive 03/25/22

• Rina Sawayama – Hold the Girl 09/16/22
• VR Sex – Rough Dimension 03/25/22
• Ibibio Sound Machine – Electricity 03/25/22
• Zola Jesus – Arkhon 06/24/22
• Boy Harsher – The Runner (OST) 01/21/22

Hello, my name is Robin Pinks and these are my top things of of 2022.
1. Salvia Palth – Melanchole (remaster)
2. Black Massive Sun – The Great Between
3. Chat Pile – God’s Country
4. Foxtails – Fawn
5. Backxwash – His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering
6. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (deluxe edition)
7. Boy Harsher – The Runner
8. Death Grips – The Money Store
9. Duster – Together
10. Isaur – One
11. Jockstrap – I Love You, Jennifer B.
12. Asian Glow and Weatherday – Weatherglow
13. Sign Crushes Motorist – I’ll Be Okay
14. Domi & JD Beck – Not Tight
15. black midi – Hellfire
16. Burial – Antidawn (LP)
17. The Smile – A Light For Attracting Attention
18. Black Country, New Road – Ants From Up There
19. Melvins – Bad Mood Rising
20. Black Dresses – Forget Your Own Face


Hello, my name is Scott Campbell and these are my top 30 albums of 2022.
1. black midi – Hellfire
2. Beach House – Once Twice Melody
3. MJ Lenderman – Boat Songs
4. Animal Collective – Time Skiffs
5. Denzel Curry – Melt My Eyez See Your Future
6. Cheekface – Too Much To Ask
7. Kiwi Jr. – Chopper
8. Panda Bear / Sonic Boom – Reset
9. Carly Rae Jepsen – The Loneliest Time
10. Disq – Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet
11. Wet Leg – Wet Leg
12. Alvvays – Blue Rev
13. The Beths – Expert in a Dying Field
14. Let’s Eat Grandma – Two Ribbons
15. The Smile – A Light For Attracting Attention
16. Kurt Vile – Watch My Moves
17. Ghais Guevara – There Will Be No Super Slave
18. Silverbacks – Archive Material
19. Bill Callahan – YTI⅃AƎЯ
20. Viagra Boys – Cave World
21. Earl Sweatshirt – Sick!
22. Arctic Monkeys – The Car
23. Pusha T – It’s Almost Dry
24. Emperor X – The Lakes of Zones B and C
25. Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen
26. Horsegirl – Versions of Modern Performance
27. Cloakroom – Dissolution Wave
28. Black Country, New Road – Ants From Up There
29. Wilco – Cruel Country
30. Quelle Chris – Deathfame


Hey, what’s up my name is Steph and these are some albums that stood out to me this year
Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen
FKA Twigs – Caprisongs
Steve Lacy – Gemini Rights
Action Bronson – Cocodrillo Turbo
Wet Leg – Wet Leg
Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork
Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever
Westside Gunn – 10
Bad Bunny – Un Verano Sin Ti
Mitski – Laurel Hell

Some movies that I definitely enjoyed this year!
Nope (2022)
X (2022)
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
Frankenstein (1931)
The Phantom of the Opera (2021)
But I’m A Cheerleader (1999)
Last Night in Soho (2021)
Barbarian (2022)

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