Top 20 Albums of 2022 plus loads more

Here's my top 20 albums of 2022

1 TAngerinecAt - Glass REVIEW | BANDCAMP

2 Clara Engel - Their Invisible Hands REVIEW | BANDCAMP

3 Primitive Knot - Ur-Metal REVIEW | BANDCAMP

4 Holodrum - Holodrum  REVIEW | BANDCAMP

5 The Vat Egg Imposition - Shop Tones REVIEW | BANDCAMP

 

6 Johnny Dowd - Homemade Pie REVIEW | BANDCAMP

7 Moor Mother - Jazz Codes BANDCAMP

8 Neptunian Maximalism - Set Chaos To The Heart Of The Moon BANDCAMP

9 Mayshe Mayshe – Indigo REVIEW | BANDCAMP

10 Everson Poe - The Night Country BANDCAMP

 

11 Scanner - The Homeland of Electricity BANDCAMP

12 Yama Warashi - Crispy Moon LIVE REVIEW | BANDCAMP

13 All Structures Align - Distance and Departure BANDCAMP

14 Forming - The Water That We Swim In  REVIEW | BANDCAMP

15 Nervous Twitch - Some People Never Change BANDCAMP

 

16 Richard Carlson Band – Mother’s Intuition BANDCAMP

17 Thank – Thoughtless Cruelty LIVE REVIEW | BANDCAMP

18 SAULT – Air  BANDCAMP

19 Ann Eysermans - For Trainspotters Only  BANDCAMP

20 Menace Ruine – Nekyia  BANDCAMP

                                          Here's my top 10 'other' releases of the year

1. Mollie Coddled - I Wanna Go Home (EP) Article | Bandcamp

2. Not a Minute of Silence (comp) Bandcamp

3. MEN (soundtrack) Bandcamp

4. Nightrax - Nightrax EP Review | Bandcamp

5. Nape Neck - Look Alive (EP) Live Review | Bandcamp

6. Senseless Optimism - It Gets Better (EP) Bandcamp

7. Loud Women Volume 5 (comp) Bandcamp

8. Care Home - Assisted Living (Part 1) (EP) Live Review | Bandcamp

9. Magi Merlin - Gone Girl (EP) Bandcamp

10. Cold Comfort - Maximum Effort (EP) Live Review | Bandcamp

Here's a MASSIVE YouTube playlist of a lot of my favourite music from 2022

Spectacular 2022 Playlist Extravaganza

LIVE MUSIC

I went to a lot of gigs this year. Here are 10 of the best:

1. Benefits - Brudenell Social Club - 26th Nov 22 Review

2. The Cure - First Direct Arena - 6th Dec 22

3. Pavement - 02 Academy, Leeds - Oct 17th 22

4. The Endless Hum #2 - AJA - 2nd July 22 Review

5. Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Wharf Chambers - 20th March 22 - Review 

6. Yama Warashi - Hyde Park Book Club - 15th June 22 - Review

7. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - Belgrave Music Hall - 1st June 22 - Review

8. Mary Lattimore - The White Hotel, Salford - 2nd June 22

9. The Cribs - Brudenell Social Club - 30th July 22 - Review

10. Arab Strap - Brudenell Social Club - 21st Aug 22 Review 

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