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Top 25 Albums of 2022
#25: Ninos Del Cerro - Suave Pendiente
fav songs: Tentempié, Povidona
if you like: Spanish Deerhunter, zapato-mirada, rateyourmusic.com
#24: Nilufer Yanya - PAINLESS
fav songs: midnight sun, stabalize
if you like: Jockstrap, ig baddies, pedicures
#23: Wormrot - Hiss
fav songs: Behind Closed Doors, Broken Maze
if you like: grindcore, Pig Destroyer, fresh blood on a wooden floor of a cabin in upper Tennessee
#22: Anga’s Mill - Fae and Folly
fav songs: All Smiles, Rat Bastard
if you like: The Radio Dept., Skyrim lore, ambient pop
#21: The Garden - Horseshit on Route 66
fav songs: Freight Yard, Horseshit on Route 66
if you like: hot guys, probably some trust fund thing going on here, idk gray likes this band but i dont really like them they’re kinda annoying to me
#20: Okay Kaya - Watch this Liquid Pour Itself Out
fav songs: Insert Generic Name, Mother Nature’s Bitch
if you like: Helena Dedland, Hana Vu, thrift store reselling
#19: Tulpa - Next
fav songs: Rubberneck Kingdom, Interrobang
if you like: Denver noise rock, Being the closest thing to God in this hotel lobby
#18: Pretty Sick - Makes Me Smile Makes Me Sick
fav songs: Human Connection, Heaven, Yeah You
if you like: 90’s revivial, Hole, cutting people off, ig clout
#17: Nyxy Nyx - Thee 3rd Album
fav songs: I Could Write A Luv Song, Trying To Find You, Can U Even Be Seen?
if you like: Horse Jumper of Love, MJ Lenderman, Philly scene > NY scene by a mile
#16: Dylan Henner - You Always Will Be
fav songs: A New Living Being Opens Its Eyes for the First Time, Today I Learned What Makes Bugs Sick and How to Tie My Shoelaces
if you like: drained ambient, claire rousay, really long song names, solace
#15: Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork
fav songs: Stumpwork, Gary Ashby
if you like: worst album cover i’ve seen in a long time, i hated having to save this image to my computer, i don’t want to type anymore things so i can go on to the next one and not look at this anymore
#14: YOAX - All My Songs for You
Read our review here.
fav songs: All My Songs For You, People Get Used To It, For You (I’d Do Anything)
if you like: Modest Mouse, carhartt beanies, expiremental singer-songwriter, my favorite dirty magazine just had a tell-all
#13: Black Midi - Hellfire
fav songs: Sugar/Tzu, Eat Men Eat, Hellfire
if you like: the post-rock/avant-prog resurgence, Radiohead, obnoxiously complicated chord progressions
#12: Bladee - Spiderr
fav songs: ICARUS 3REESTYLE, DRAIN STORY, HAHAH
if you like: getting blocked, drain gangggg, zoomercore, blessing all living creatures on earth
#11: Death’s Dynamic Shroud - Darklife
fav songs: Judgement Bolt, Neon Memories
if you like: disassociatives, Neon Genisis Evangelion, Oneohtrix Point Never
#10: Cate Le Bon - Pompeii
fav songs: Harbour, Moderation
if you like: introspection, Angel Olsen, Jessica Pratt, other female singer songwriters
#9: Horse Jumper of Love - The Natural Part
fav songs: Sitting on the Porch at Night, I Poured Sugar in your Shoes, I Put a Crown on You
if you like: white boys in the studio, Philly scene going stupid, slowshoecoregaze
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#8: Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
fav songs: Simulation Swarm, Certainty, Love Love Love
if you like: zoomercore eating crow, $7 coffee shop lattes, Brooklyn New York
#7: MJ Lenderman - Boat Songs
fav songs: Hangover Game, You Are Every Girl To Me
if you like: Trailer Park Boys, drinking large amounts of beer, Alex G for people who’s Elliot Smith is Jason Molina
#4: Alex G - God Save the Animals
read our review here.
fav songs: Runner, Miracles, Ain’t It Easy
if you like: christianity, AA, New York’s Hottest Club being the Catholic Church
#3: Jockstrap - I Love You Jennifer B
fav songs: Greatest Hits, Neon, Jennifer B
if you like: Black Country, New Road, LCD Soundystem, Anthony Fantano
#2: Double Virgo - Eros in the Bunker
fav songs: No Sweat, Chlorine, Devil in the Dovetail
if you like: early 2000s revival, wearing all black, Vegyn, ketamine
#1: They Are Gutting A Body of Water & A Country Western - An Insult to the Sport
fav songs: The Brazil, Crossing Out My Lines, Keeping Up with the Joneses
If you like: kings of the Philly scene at their peaks, The New Wave of American Shoegaze, this amazing article