Top o’ the top. Sorry this list is late. Weird year in 2022, good year of music in here though – lots of hip hop albums were decent. Here’s a playlist with some “hits” that I made that is in no particular order but put it on random if you’re looking for some stuff to bump along with.
- Bartees Strange – Farm to Table
- Daniel Rossen – You Belong There
- The Smile – A Light for Attracting Attention
- SMOKE DZA and Girl Talk – FULL COURT PRESS
- Open Mike Eagle – Component System with the Auto Reverse
- Bloc Party – Alpha Games
- Kurt Vile – Watch My Moves
- Jean Dawson – CHAOS NOW*
- Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers
- Denzel Curry – Melt My Eyez See Your Future
- Oren Ambarchi – Ghosted
- The Beths – Experts in a Dying Field
- !!! – Let it Be Blue
- Logic – Vinyl Days
- PUP – THE UNRAVELING OF PUP THE BAND
- Beach House – Once Twice Melody
- Post Malone – 12 Carat Toothache
- Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
- The 1975 – Being Funny in a Foreign Language
- Charli XCX: Crash
- Wet Lag – Wet Lag
- Spoon – Lucifer on the Sofa
- Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever
- Cakes Da Killah – Svengali
- Phife Dawg – FOREVER
- Earl Sweatshirt – SICK!
- Kid Cudi – Entergalactic
- Russel Lissack – Algorithms
- Daphne – Cherry
- Alvvays – Blue Rev
- Weyes Blood – All in the Darkness, Hearts glow
- Beyonce – Renaissance
- Andrew Bird – Inside Problems
- Metronomy – Small World
- MIKE – Beware the Monkey
- Death Cab For Cutie – Asphalt Meadows
- Jeff Parker: Forfolks
- Freddie Gibbs – $oul $old $eparately
- Odezza – The Last Goodbye
- Joey Bada$$ – 2000
- Vince Staples – Ramona Park Broke My Heart
- Black Country, New Road: Ants From Up There
- Interpol – The Other Side of Make Believe
- RUMTUM – Isles in Indigo
- Pusha T – It’s Almost Dry
- The Weeknd: Dawn FM
- Bill Callahan – YTILAER
- Lupe Fiasco – Drill Music in Zion
- Broken Social Scene – Old Dead Young (B-sides)
- Drake – That one with “Massive” on it which is a good song but the rest was trash mostly