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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



#6: Chat Pile - God’s Country



fav songs: Why, Slaughterhouse, Anywhere

if you like: musical representation of toxic, metallic frames dotting the countryside as if they were headstones for communities destroyed by indutrialization




#5: Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There


 

fav songs: The Place Where He Inserted the Blade, Concorde, Good Will Hunting

if you like: chunky sweaters, 2022’s arcade fire, an amazing song and the title is something like “The Books at the Top of the Toilet Seat”



#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