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Wednesday, February 1, 2023

PaulySure’s Top 55 Albums of 2022

By PaulySure


Frankly, if I went with my most listened to music of 2022, my top picks would have been Scowl, How Flower’s Grow and Botch’s “122.” However, the Scowl album was release in 2021 (and was included in that best of list), and the Botch was just a single; so they don’t count in the list. That said here we go: 

55. Gabor Bolla, On the Move.

54. Santigold, Spirituals.

53. Messa, Close.

52. Orville Peck, Bronco.

51. Dungen, En Ar For Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog.

50. Midwife, God Is a Cop.

49. Preoccupations, Arrangements.

48. Dream Unending, Dream Unending.

47. Hot Water Music, Feel the Void.

46. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Cool It Down.

45. Goat, Oh Death.

44. Holy Fawn, Dimensional Bleed.

43. Tess Parks, And Those Who Were Seen Dancing.

42. Conan, Evidence of Immortality.

41. End It, Unpleasant Living.

40. Absent in Body, Plague God.

39. Ufomammut, Fenice.

38. Off!, Free LSD.

37. Vein.fm, This World Is Going to Ruin You.

36. Blackbraid, Blackbraid I.

35. City of Caterpillar, Mystic Sisters.

34. Cloakroom, Dissolution Wave.

33. Daphni, Cherry.

32. Zola Jesus, Arkhon.

31. Sharon Van Etten, We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong.

30. Jennylee, Heart Tax.

29. Be Well, Hello Sun.

28. Celeste, Assassine(s).

27. Wiegedood, There’s Always Blood at the End of the Road.

26. The Chats, Get Fucked.

25. Built to Spill, When the Wind Forgets Your Name.

24. Julia, Julia, Derealization.

23. Night Sins, Violet Age.

22. Mindforce, New Lords.

21. Dreadnought, The Endless.

20. Vermin Womb, Retaliation.

19. Black Angels, Wilderness of Mirrors.

18. Elder, Innate Passage.

17. Cult of Luna, The Long Road North.

16. Thee Sacred Souls, Thee Sacred Souls.

15. Melody’s Echo Chamber, Emotional Eternal.

14. Berthold City, When Words Are Not Enough.

13. High Vis, Blending.

12. Sweat, Gotta Give It Up.

11. Ken Mode, NULL.

10. End/Cult Leader, Gather & Mourn.

9. Crow, Beware Believers. 

8. Spice, Viv.

7. Spiritualized, Everything Was Beautiful.

6. Daniel Avery, Ultra Truth.

5. Punitive Damage, This Is the Blackout.

4. Praise, All in a Dream.

3. Discourage, Disaster Fatigue.

2. Russian Circle, Gnosis.

1. Cave In, Heavy Pendulum.


Honorable Mentions: 

Acopia, Chances.

Alvvays, Blue Rev. 

Brutus, Unison Life. 

Cloud Rat, Threshold. 

Dead Meadow, Force Form Free. 

Destiny Bond, Demo 2022. 

Freddie Gibbs, $oul $old $eparately. 

Inclination, Unaltered Perspective. 

Languish, Feeding the Flames of Annihilation. 

Midnight, Let There Be Witchery. 

Mythic Sunship, Light/Flux. 

Osees, A Foul Form. 

Rejection Pact, Can We Wait? 

White Lung, Premonition.


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