Favorite Music 2022
2022 Albums of the Year
1) Bodega “Broken Equipment”
2) King Hannah “I’m Not Sorry, I was Just Being Me” (saw them play some unbelievably odd set at a Rough Trade exposition at Rockefeller plaza in full daylight. The dissonance was jarring. It was like seeing a show in an outdoor mall. Man Rough Trade is weird now. But at least they had an event for the bird album mentioned below).
3) Julius Eastman “Two extended pieces for four pianos” Damn
4) Hurray for the RiffRaff “Life on Earth” ❤️💔.
5) Kevin Morby “This is a Photograph” Cure for wallowing
6) Cate Le Bon “Pompei” Maybe my favorite living artists
7) Apollo Brown “This Must be the Place”
8) Joep Beving “Hermitism”
9) Dry Cleaning “Stumpwork” Could’ve been made in a lab specifically for me.
10) Wet Leg “Wet Leg” '“Man I had a lot of Wet Leg this year” is both a totally true and unbelievably gross statement. Saw them at a little club in London for 200 people and it ruled. (Bonus points because it was sold out and I talked my way in. Double bonus points because David Papineau almost came too. He probably would’ve talked us into the green room. Earlier in the day I had given a talk on LoT at the IP and before I could begin he said “YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO THIS ERIC” as if I was about to engage in ritual animal sacrifice.) Anyway then I saw them in a big venue at Primavera and…yeah. But Pavement played there and having never seen them before it was definitely a highlight of my year. Even Malkmus described it as “so emo.” My jaded soul let some light in.
11) Porridge Radio “Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky” Good break up music
12) Aldous Harding - “Warm Chris” God I love Harding too. I bet this will keep sounding better over time
13) Yard Act “The Overload” “I’m Rich” is hilarious
14) Spiritualized “Everything was Beautiful” ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
15) Naima Bock - “Giant Palm”
16) Horsegirl - “Versions of Modern Performance” Saw them open up for YLT for a Hanukkah show and couldn’t believe how good they sounded. Like GbV.
17) Chick Corea/Maki Namekawa “Children Songs”--favorite album of his rerecorded by the unbelievable Maki Namekawa. Incredibly poorly named album. Creepy as hell quasi-jazz.
18) Gilla Band “Most Normal”--Dublin’s loudest. Their earlier track “Lawman” is unbelievable
19) Surprise Chef: “Education and Recreation”
20) R.A.P. Ferrera “5 to the Eye with Stars” Favorite hiphop album of the year. So many good rhymes.
21) Danger Mouse & Black Thought: “Cheat Codes”
22) Tomu DJ “Half Moon Bay”
23) SG Goodman “Teeth Marks”. WORK WORK WORK UNTIL I DIE
24) Diente de Madera “Sand”. This album moves me. And I’m not just saying it because I am the godfather of his beautiful porteñas. I miss playing with him. Drone heaven.
25) For the Birds: The Birdsong Project.
Tracks of the year:
Big Thief “Certainty”
Kevin Morby: “This is a photograph”
King Hannah “It’s me and you kid”
Hurray for the riffraff “Rhododendron”
Cate Le Bon “Pompei”
SG Goodman “Work until I die”
Playlist of my favorite ~70 tracks here https://t.co/ZWHqacTT4q