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2022 album reviews
Scroll down and you will find the list of all 2022 album reviews published so far. Albums rated 4/10 and lower are usually not included, as their review is often just one line.
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1975 Being Funny in a Foreign Language (Dirty Hit) pop 5/10
38KEA Keeper (self) hip-hop 6/10
Acloudyskye What Do You Want (self) songwriter 7/10
Alex G God Save the Animals (Domino) songwriter 6.5/10
Alvvays Blue Rev (Polyvinyl) power-pop 5/10
Amateur Hour Krokta Tankar Och Branda Vanor (Appetite) psych-rock 7/10
Oren Ambarchi Shebang (Drag City) post-rock 5/10
Oren Ambarchi Ghosted (Drag City) post-rock 5/10
Animal Collective Time Skiffs (Domino) psych-pop 5/10
Arcade Fire WE (Columbia) pop 4/10
Asa V (Wagram) songwriter 4/10
Ashenspire Hostile Architecture (Code666) prog-metal 6.5/10
Astrid Sonne Ephemeral Camera Feed (self) electronica 7/10
Audry More Stretched by the Curtain (self) noise 6/10
Aurora The Gods We Can Touch (Glassnotes) songwriter 6/10
Babehoven Light Moving Time (Double Double Whammy) songwriter 6/10
Backxwash His Happiness Shall Come First (Uglyhag) hip-hop 6.5/10
Bad Bunny Un Verano Sin Ti (2022) is both his worst album yet (Rimas) reggaeton 5/10
Balungan Kudu Bisa Kudu (Cuneiform) prog-rock 6/10
Beach House Once Twice Melody (Mistletone) dream-pop 6/10
Bebawinigi Stupor (Subsound) songwriter 7.5/10
Behemoth Opvs Contra Natvram (Nuclear Blast) death-metal 4/10
Beyonce Renaissance (Parkwood) disco-pop 5/10
Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (4AD) songwriter 6/10
Bitchin Bajas Bajascillators (self) electronic 6/10
Bjork Fossora (One Little Independent) songwriter 6.5/10
Black Country New Road Ants From Up There (Ninja Tune) prog-pop 5/10
Black Keys Dropout Boogie (Nonesuch) Genre 5/10
Black Midi Hellfire (Rough Trade) prog-rock 5/10
Alice Boman The Space Between (2022) (Adrian) songwriter 6/10
Axel Boman Luz/ Quest for Fire (Studio Barnhus) house 5.5/10
Tyondai Braxton Telekinesis (Nonesuch) avantgarde 7.5/10
Zach Bryan American Heartbreak (Warner) country 7/10
Built to Spill When the Wind Forgets Your Name (Subpop) power-pop 5/10
Caroline Caroline (Rough Trade) post-rock 6.5/10
Chat Pile God’s Country (Flenser) noise-rock 7/10
Tyler Childers Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? (Hickman Holler) country 6/10
Colour Haze Sacred (Elektrohasch) stoner 4/10
Cult of Luna The Long Road North (Red Creed) post-metal 6/10
Denzel Curry Melt My Eyez See Your Future (Loma Vista) hip-hop 7/10
Pan Daijing Tissues (Pan) electronic 7.5/10
Lucrecia Dalt Ay! (RVNG) songwriter 6.5/10
Dear Hunter Antimai (2022) (Cave and Canary) prog-rock 6/10
Dekomodo I Still Care (self) songwriter 6/10
Alabaster dePlume Gold - Go Forward in the Courage of Your Love (International Anthem) songwriter 6.5/10
Dienne Addio (Other People) songwriter 6/10
Earthless Night Parade of One Hundred Demons (Nuclear Blast) psych-rock 6.5/10
Eels Extreme Witchcraft (PIAS) psych-rock 4.5/10
Effluence Sarmat (Putrefactive) death-metal 7.5/10
El Marrano de la Razon Schadenfreude (self) noise 6/10
Elder Innate Passage (Stickman) prog-metal 5/10
Esoctrilihum Consecration of the Spiritu¨s Flesh (I Voidhanger) black metal 6/10
Silvana Estrada Marchita (Glassnote) songwriter 6.5/10
Ethel Cain Preacher’s Daughter (Daughters of Cain) songwriter 7/10
Father John Misty Chloe And The Next 20th Century (SubPop) songwriter 5/10
FKA Twigs Caprisongs (Atlantic) soul-hop 4/10
Floating The Waves Have Teeth (self) metal 5/10
Florence and the Machine Dance Fever (Polydor) pop 4/10
Florist Florist (Double Double Whammy) folk 5.5/10
Nils Frahm Music for Animals (Leiter) ambient 6/10
Diamanda Galas Broken Gargoyles (Intravenal Sound Operations) avantgarde 6.5/10
Gang of Youths Angel in Realtime (Mosy) alt-rock 6/10
The Garden Horseshit on Route 66 (self) noise-rock 6.5/10
Gilla Band Most Normal (Rough Trade) noise-rock 5.5/10
Government Prepare Thyself to Deal with Treacle (Popkatari) post-rock 7/10
Saya Gray 19 Masters (Dirty Hit) songwriter 7/10
Guerilla Toss Famously Alive (SubPop) noise-rock 5/10
Gultskra Artikler Blue Forty-two (self) concrete 6.5/10
Aldous Harding Warm Chris (4AD) songwriter 4/10
Horsegirl Versions of Modern Performance (Matador) noise-rock 5/10
Jennry Hval Classic Objects (4AD) songwriter 4/10
Ikarus Plasma (Ronin Rhythm) prog-rock 6/10
Imperial Triumphant Spirit of Ecstasy (Century Media) prog-metal 7/10
Irr. App. (Ext.) Crepusculum (self) abstract 6.5/10
Irr. App. (Ext.) Nocturnal Arc (self) abstract 6.5/10
Jockstrap I Love You Jennifer B (Rough Trade) dance-pop 7/10
Kendrick Lamar Mr Morale & the Big Steppers (PgLang) rap 6/10
Cate LeBon Pompeii (Mexican Summer) songwriter 4/10
Ravyn Lenae Hypnos (Atlantic) soul 4/10
Janel Leppin Ensemble Volcanic Ash (Cuneiform) Genre 6.5/10
Let's Eat Grandma Two Ribbons (Transgressive) synth-pop 4/10
Little Simz No Thank You (Forever Living Originals) hip-hop 7/10
Lobsterfight Sun Soaking (self) noise-rock 6.5/10
Machine Girl Neon White: Part 1 - "The Wicked Heart" (self) breakcore 7/10
Mamaleek Diner Coffee (Flenser) blues-punk 6/10
Messa Close (Svart) doom-metal 6/10
Meute Taumel (Tumult) techno 5/10
Mitski Laurel Hell (Dead Oceans) synth-pop 6/10
Moin Paste (AD93) post-rock 5.5/10
Ikue Mori Tracing The Magic (Tzadik) noise 7/10
Kevin Morby This Is a Photograph (Dead Oceans) songwriter 5/10
Mountain Goats Bleed Out (Merge) roots-rock 4/10
Rachika Nayar Heaven Came Crashing (NNA Tapes) ambient 5/10
Old Saw Country Tropics (Lobby Art) instrumental 7/10
Angel Olsen Big Time (Jagjaguwar) songwriter 5/10
Bill Orcutt Music for four Guitars (Palilalia) post-rock 6/10
Beth Orton Weather Alive (Partisan) songwriter 7/10
Oso Oso Sore Thumb (Triple Crown) emo 6/10
Perfume Genius Ugly Season (Matador) songwriter 6.5/10
Porcupine Tree Closure/ Continuation (Music For Nations) prog-rock 4/10
Porridge Radio Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky (Secretly Canadian) alt-rock 5/10
Pragmatica Quartet Logical And with Double Overbar (self) noise 8/10
Pusha T It's Almost Dry (Good) hip-hop 6/10
Radioactive Boss Baby Radioactive Boss Baby (self) noise 5/10
Joe Rainey Niineta (37d03d) songwriter 6.5/10
Raum Daughter (Yellowelectric) ambient 6/10
Rauw Alejandro Saturno (Sony) reggaeton 5/10
Raveena Asha’s Awakening (Warner) songwriter 4/10
Red Hot Chili Peppers Unlimited Love (Warner) funk-rock 6/10
Julia Reidy World in World (Black Truffle) instrumental 6.5/10
Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory (Holy Roar) metalcore 6/10
Daniel Rossen You Belong There (Warp) songwriter 6.5/10
Gavilan Russom Trans Feminist Symphonic Music (Longform Editions) post-rock 6/10
Gavilan Russom Slabs Vol I (Voluminous Art) post-rock 5/10
Saba Few Good Things (Pivot Gang) hip-hop 6/10
Sault Air (Forever Living Originals) orchestral 6/10
Sault Earth (Forever Living Originals) soul 5/10
Sault 11 (Forever Living Originals) soul 4/10
Sault Today & Tomorrow (Forever Living Originals) soul 4/10
Sault Untitled (Forever Living Originals) soul 4/10
Scarcity Aveilut (Flenser) black metal 7.5/10
Show me the Body Trouble the Water (Loma Vista) rap-punk 6.5/10
Sirom The Liquified Throne of Simplicity (Glitterbeat) free-folk 6/10
Smile A Light for Attracting Attention (XL) art-pop 4/10
Snarky Puppy Empire Central (GroundUP) funk-jazz 6.5/10
Soccer Mommy Sometimes Forever (Loma Vista) songwriter 6/10
Soul Glo Diaspora Problems (Epitaph) hardcore 7.5/10
Special Interest Endure (Rough Trade) dance-punk 6/10
Spiritualized Everything Was Beautiful (Bella Union) songwriter 6/10
Spoon Lucifer on the Sofa (Matador) alt-rock 4/10
Stabscotch Prison Jar (self) noise-rock 5/10
Vince Staples Ramona Park Broke My Heart (Motown) hip-hop 4/10
Bartees Strange Farm to Table (4AD) songwriter 4/10
Earl Sweatshirt Sick (Tan Cressida) hip-hop 6/10
Syko Friend The Code (Post Present Medium) songwriter 6.5/10
Sylvan Esso No Rules Sandy (Loma Vista) dance-pop 6/10
Tegh and Adel Poursamadi Ima (Injazero) noise 5/10
Yann Tiersen 11 5 18 2 5 18 (Mute) ambient 4/10
Toro y Moi Mahal (Dead Oceans) funk-soul 4/10
Undeath It's Time to Rise From the Grave (Prosthetic) death-metal 5/10
Sharon Van Etten We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong (Jagjaguwar) songwriter 4.5/10
Vehemence Ordalies (Antiq) black-metal 6.5/10
Viagra Boys Cave World (Year0001) dance-punk 5/10
The Weeknd Dawn FM (XO) synthpop 4.5/10
Weyes Blood And In the Darkness Hearts Aglow (SubPop) songwriter 7/10
Jack White Fear of the Dawn (Third Man) songwriter 6/10
Wilco Cruel Country (DBpm) roots-rock 4/10
Won James Won Loss Avoidage Ltd (RAIG) collage 7/10
Billy Woods Aethiopes (Backwoodz Studioz) hip-hop 7/10
Nilufer Yanya Painless (ATO) songwriter 4/10
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool It Down (Secretly Canadian) dance-pop 4.5/10
Yeule Glitch Princess (Bayonet) noise-rock 6.5/10
Your Old Droog YOD Wave (Nature Sounds) hip-hop 4/10

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