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Best of 2022 List

Posted on January 23, 2023

Music without words (mostly)

  • Ahmad Jamal -Emerald City Nights Live at the Penthouse 1965-1966 (Jazz Detective)
  • Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet –  Evergreen  (Nonesuch)
  • Bitchin Bajas –  Bajascillators  (Drag City)
  • Chip Wickham – Astral Traveling (Gondwana)
  • Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch  –        Ravage (130701)
  • Glenn Dickson – Wider Than the Sky  (S/R)
  • Jeffrey Derus, Brandon Elliott: Choral Arts Initiative –  From Wilderness: A Meditation On The Pacific   Crest Trail (Navona)
  • Jóhann Jóhannsson, Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier & American Contemporary Music Ensemble – Jóhannsson: Drone Mass (Deutsche Grammophon)
  • Julian Lage – View With a Room (Blue Note)
  • Kali Malone – Living Torch (Portraits GRM)
  • Kham Meslien – Fantomes…Futurs (Heavenly Sweetness)
  • Kirk Knuffke Trio – Gravity Without Airs  (Tao Forms)
  • Makaya McCraven – In These Times (International Anthem)
  • Mary Halvorson – Amaryllis/Belladonna  (Nonesuch)
  • Matthew Shipp Trio – World Construct (ESP Disk)
  • Myra Melford’s  Fire and Water Quartet – For The Love of Fire And Water (RogueArt)
  • Oren Ambarchi  – Shebang (Drag City)
  • Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin   – Ghosted (Drag City)
  • Park Jiha – The Gleam  (Glitterbeat)
  • Shara Nova & A Far Cry – The Blue Hour (New Amsterdam)
  • Third Coast Percussion – Perspectives (Cedille)
  • Vicky Chow – Jane Antonia Cornish: Sierra (Cantaloupe)
  • Vikingur Olafsson – From Afar (Deutsche Grammophon)

 

Music with words

  • Aldous Harding – Warm Chris (4AD)
  • Angel Olson –  Big Time (Jagjaguwar)
  • Aoife Nessa Frances –  Protector  (Partisan)
  • Beach House –  Once Twice Melody (Sub Pop)
  • Beth Orton –  Weather Alive(Partisan)
  • Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (4AD)
  • Bill Callahan – Reality (Drag City)
  • Cat Power – Covers (Domino)
  • Cate le Bon – Pompeii (Mexican Summer)
  • Cecile McLorin Salvant  – Ghost Song (Nonesuch)
  • Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul – Topical Dancer (Dee Wee)
  • Daniel Avery – Ultra Truth (Phantasy Sound)
  • Daniel Rossen – You Belong There (Warp)
  • Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek  – Dost 2 (Bongo Joe)
  • Fenella – The Metallic Index (Fire Records)
  • Gwenno – Tresor  (Heavenly)
  • Horace Andy  – Midnight Rocker (On-U Sound)
  • Jake Blount  – The New Faith (Smithsonian Folkways)
  • Jenny Hval  – Classic Objects (4AD)
  • Kae Tempest – The Line is a Curve (American Recordings)
  • Kurt Vile – (watch my moves) (Verve)
  • Lucretia Dalt  – Aye! (Rvng Intl.)
  • Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Dear Scott (Modern Sky UK)
  • Panda Bear & Sonic Youth – Reset (Domino)
  • Rich Ruth – I Survived, It’s Over (Third Man Records)
  • Rokia Kone & Jacknife Lee – Bamanan  (Real World Records)
  • S.G. Goodman – Teethmarks  (Verve Forecast)
  • Sam Prekop and John McEntire – Sons Of (Thrill Jockey)
  • Sault  – Air & 11 (Forever Living Originals)
  • Sessa – Estrela Acesa  (Mexican Summer)
  • Spoon  – Lucifer on the Sofa (Matador)
  • The Smile- A Light for Attracting Attention (XL Recordings)
  • Warpaint – Radiate Like This (Virgin)
  • Weyes Blood –  And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop)
  • Wilco  –  Cruel Country (dBpm)

Comps & special collections

  • Bert Jansch – Bert at the BBC (Fire Records)
  • Bill Callahan & Bonnie Prince Billy –  Blind Date Party (Drag City)
  • Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard – Pioneering Women of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition      (Smithsonian Folkways)
  • Imaginational Anthem Vol. XI: Chrome Universal – A Survey of Modern Pedal Steel – Various Artists (Tompkins Square)
  • Norma Tanega – I’m the Sky: Studio and Demo Recordings, 1964–1971 (anthologyrecordings)
  • Pierre Barouh and the Saravah Sound -Jazz, Samba and Other Hallucinatory Grooves (1965-1976) – (WeWantSounds)
  • Sarah Cahill – The Future is Female, Vol 1 & 2  (First Hand Records)
  • Silberland – Vol. 1: The Psychedelic Side of Kosmische Musik 1972-1986 – Various Artists (Bureau B)
  • Sky Dust Drifter: private press LP’s and 45’s from 1973-1980- Various Artists (Forager Records)

 

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