Album of the Year 2022

[CG31]

Unsure if there’s a thread anywhere I couldn’t see any, so thought nows a decent time to strike up our yearly conversation.

My current top 5 in order:

Black Country New Road - Ants From Up There

Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia

Foals - Life Is Yours

Kendrick Lamar - Mr Morale and the Big Steppers

unsure if there’ll be much change, Amazons new record this weekend potentially as singles have been good, and need to get round to the new JID album. 1975, AM and Courting all to come too

[gfa]

1 minute ago, Gerard the Fab said:

Unsure if there’s a thread anywhere I couldn’t see any, so thought nows a decent time to strike up our yearly conversation.

My current top 5 in order:

Black Country New Road - Ants From Up There

Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia

Foals - Life Is Yours

Kendrick Lamar - Mr Morale and the Big Steppers

unsure if there’ll be much change, Amazons new record this weekend potentially as singles have been good, and need to get round to the new JID album. 1975, AM and Courting all to come too

Bit early this 😂 So many huge releases to come

[CG31]

Yh but not for a couple of weeks, nows an ideal time if anyones got any big ones to Chuck them so we can all have a listen 

[sacred shape]

My top 5 so far:

Yard Act - Yard Act

Static Dress - Rouge Carpet Disaster

The Dear Hunter - Antimai

Frank Turner - FTHC

Ghost - Impera  

[Andre91]

My Top 20 currently looks like this: 

1. Zeal & Ardor - Zeal & Ardor 

2. Venom Prison - Erebos

3. Malevolence - Malicious Intent 

4. Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory

5. Frank Turner - FTHC 

6. Joyce Manor - 40oz to Fresno

7. Foals - Life Is Yours 

8. Machine Head - Of Kingdom and Crown 

9. The Weeknd - DAWN FM 

10. Vein fm - This World Is Going To Ruin You

11. Chat Pile - God’s Country 

12. Bob Vylan - The Price of Life 

13. The Halo Effect - Days of the Lost 

14. Bleed From Within - Shrine 

15. Static Dress - Rogue Carpet Disaster 

16. Ithaca - They Fear Us 

17. Vatican - Ultra

18. Oso Oso - sore thumb 

19. Placebo - Never Let Me Go

20. Cancer Bats - Psychic Jailbreak 

I can’t see my top 2 changing at all, they’re so far ahead of all of the other albums. 

 

The Callous Daoboys and 156/Silence will work their way in for sure. There’s also some great releases coming up which I’m excited for after the last few months have been a bit quieter. 

[stanh]

1.) The Last Goodbye - ODESZA

2.) Harry's House - Harry Styles

3.) Un Verano Sin Ti - Bad Bunny

4.) Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers - Kendrick Lamar

5.) Dawn FM - The Weeknd

Honourable mention, Honestly, Nevermind - Drake

[foolee]

For me in no particular order my top 10 so far:

The Mysterines - Reeling

Sea Girls - Homesick

Placebo - Never Let Me Go

Bob Vylan - Presents The Price Of Life

Arcade Fire - WE

Harry Styles - Harry’s House

Dune Rats - Real Rare Whale

Lauran Hibberd - Garageband Superstar

The Chats - Get Fucked

Yungblud - Yungblud

[Lawsie]

Some of my favourites from the year so far: 

M Huncho - Chasing Euphoria 

The Wombats - Fix Yourself, Not the World 

Liam Gallagher - C'MON YOU KNOW 

Blossoms - Ribbon Around The Bomb 

Wilkinson - Cognition 

Beauty School Dropout - We Made Plans & God Laughed 

[WhoOdyssey]

In no particular order:

Yard Act - The Overoad

Machine Gun Kelly - Mainstream Sellout

Harry Styles - Harry’s House

Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia

Miles Kane - Change the Show

[BenG92]

Bit early innit?

Beyonce, Fontaines DC, Black Thought & Danger Mouse, The Smile, Kendrick, Rosalia, BCNR, Black Midi, Viagra Boys, Earl Sweatshirt are probably my top ten so far. 

[Doomsday]

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Edited September 8, 2022 by Doomsday

[Doomsday]

Definitely set to change by the end of the year but this is how mine stands at the current moment:

1. Melt My Eyez, See Your Future - Denzel Curry

2. Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers - Kendrick Lamar

3. CAPRISONGS - FKA twigs

4. 2000 - Joey Bada$$

5. Sore Thumb - Oso Oso

6. Get Fucked - The Chats

7. Once Twice Melody - Beach House

8. LEKKERBOY - Sticky Fingers

9. Beatopia - Beabadoobee

10. Sometimes, Forever - Soccer Mommy

[TKOCF]

Ants from Up There - Black Country, New Road

Harry’s House - Harry Styles

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You - Big Thief

Hellfire - Black Midi

Looking forward to The Car and Courting’s Guitar Music too

Edited September 10, 2022 by TKOCF

[CG31]

Amazons album a relative stinker, so bog standard 

[TKOCF]

8 hours ago, Gerard the Fab said:

Amazons album a relative stinker, so bog standard 

One album wonder. First album was so good but they’ve just remade it twice  getting worse each time.

[Newjem]

Jesus, my top 10 is all over the place 😅 So many different genres and languages...but hey, that's what music is all about.

1) Rosalía – Motomami
2) Wet Leg – Wet Leg
3) Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
4) Rammstein – Zeit
5) Stromae – Multitude
6) Charli XCX – CRASH
7) Melt Yourself Down – Pray For Me I Don’t Fit In
8) Bad Bunny – Un Verano Sin Ti
9) j-hope – Jack in the Box
10) Foals – Life Is Yours

+ some EPs that should be mentioned:
1) Lynks – MEN
2) Joey Valence & Brae – The Underground Sound
3) Junior Varsity – SIDE B

Edited September 11, 2022 by Newjem

[Doomsday]

On 9/8/2022 at 4:27 PM, Doomsday said:

Definitely set to change by the end of the year but this is how mine stands at the current moment:

1. Melt My Eyez, See Your Future - Denzel Curry

2. Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers - Kendrick Lamar

3. Skinty Fia - Fontaines DC

4. CAPRISONGS - FKA twigs

5. 2000 - Joey Bada$$

6. Sore Thumb - Oso Oso

7. Get Fucked - The Chats

8. Once Twice Melody - Beach House

9. LEKKERBOY - Sticky Fingers

10. Beatopia - Beabadoobee

Ashamed when throwing this list together I had completely missed Skinty Fia - Fontaines DC, has been by far one of my favourite albums of the year so it's madness that it somehow slipped my mind.

[CG31]

New Mars Volta album given 5 stars by NME, anyone listened yet?

[sacred shape]

4 hours ago, Gerard the Fab said:

New Mars Volta album given 5 stars by NME, anyone listened yet?

No but heavily looking forward to it. Especially after the singles

[CG31]

1975 album has gone straight in at number 2, absolutely adore it. AM in top 20, its a very good musical album, but im unsure how much i'll revisit it. Need to give Swifts new one a go

[Doomsday]

4 hours ago, Gerard the Fab said:

1975 album has gone straight in at number 2, absolutely adore it. AM in top 20, its a very good musical album, but im unsure how much i'll revisit it. Need to give Swifts new one a go

'Being Funny In A Foreign Language' is N.3 for me, also love everything about it. 'About You' is such a beautiful song and a definite new favourite of mine. Anticipation for their tour to begin is killing me, alongside releasing brilliant albums, they are the best live band on the planet. God Bless The 1975.

Unfortunately didn't think anything about 'The Car' which hurts as a huge Arctic Monkeys fan, sonically I feel like I should prefer it to TBH&C but it just does nothing for me. Felt like one long song to me and had no memorable moments throughout the entire album. Although I wasn't a fan of TBH&C it managed to capture my attention at certain points, this album has nothing.

Had a great time listening to Midnights, don't think I'll return to it as a complete body of work as much as I do Evermore of Folklore but it has some great tracks on it like 'Anti-Hero', 'Bejeweled' and 'Would've, Should've, Could've' on the extended version. Should definitely give it a listen as soon as you can, hope you have a good time with it.

 

[BenG92]

Not a 1975 fan but will give the new one a go.

So far for me it's King Gizzard, Fontaines DC, Kendrick, Rosalia, Black Thought, The Smile, The Comet is Coming. Will be an easy top 10 to make this year.

The Car is dishwater. It's a parody album trying to take itself seriously.

[Andre91]

Yeah, The 1975 has gone in at #4 for me. Absolutely love it. 

[BenG92]

Wow, someone's been listening to LCD Soundsystem.

 

[foolee]

Think 1975 will be high for me too, really like it after thinking their last two records were poor. Won me over at Reading this year too as my expectations were very low as I’ve seen them before and not been impressed along with the lose of RATM but I actually really enjoyed them and I’m loving the new record.