Month: December 2022

It seemed with the ending of pandemic, great music proliferated. Here’s the greatest.

Click here for the complete 2022 playlist experience. And there for the 2nd toply terrific list.

Top 18 Albums of 2022 + Top EP of the Year + More (Final Selections (Apple Music friendly (click on album art to open in the Apple Music app))

Welcome back:

• The Mars Volta
• Loop

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Children’s album of the year:

MORE FAMILY TIME (DELUXE) – Ziggy Marley (Tough Gong Worldwide)

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Runner up:

TONES OF THE SPARROW – The Asteroid No. 4 (Club AC30)

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EP of the year:

U.Z.I (UNIVERSAL ZEITGEIST INTELLIGENCE) – Planet Asia x Snowgoons (Goon MuSick)

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#18

C’MON YOU KNOW – Liam Gallagher (Warner Music UK Limited)

As you were Sir Gallagher.

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#17

ROSE PINK CADILLAC – Dope Lemon (Angus Stone / BMG)

2022 is no exception when it comes to Aussies coming to play their guitars and drums groovyily. Angus Stone said it’s a love record. Pucker up :-*

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#16

LET IT BE BLUE – !!! (Warp Records)

Let it blue? Let it belue? Let it be below? Let it be neon blue!!!

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#15

RESET – Panda Bear & Sonic Boom (Domino Recording Co Ltd)

Spacemen 3 with recurring themes.

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#14

SPIRITUALS – Santigold (Little Jerk Records)

In a sign of the year, Santigold had to cancel her tour, because we weren’t going.

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#13

CHURCH CLOTHES 4 – Lecrae (Reach Records)

The real question everyone was asking this year was: Would there had been a Church Clothes 4 if Lecrae was agnostic?

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#12

STONER’S NIGHT – Juicy J & Wiz Khalifa (Trippy Music LLC)

JJ and WK reunite for a trippy animated art album art cover.

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#11

GHETTO GODS – Earthgang (Dreamville / Interscope)

A far cry from ATL’s best to ever do it, are they on the up and up.

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#10

APOCALYPSE LOVE – Black Lips (Fire Records)

Quietly keeping it going, they avoid being completely canceled after their old pals at Burger got what was coming.

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#9

COOL IT DOWN – Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Secretly Canadian)

Karen O and the gang are settling nicely into grandparent rock with earthly overtones.

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#8

ALPHA ZULU – Phoenix (Loyauté / Glassnote Entertainment Group)

No stranger to our top 10 lists they are. Alpha Zulu or Classical Neon Notebook?

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#7

START 2 FINISH – Paul Wall & Termanology (Perfect Time Music Group)

Somehow, but not un-surpisingly, the former Billboard chart-topper, keeps aging like fine wine bring his southern drawl to classy easy coast beats.

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#6

U WASN’T THERE – Cam’ron & A-Trak (Federal Reserve / Empire)

But we were there when Dipsh*ts was an instant classic, just the like the rest of these tracks. When is Dame’s business course starting?

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#5

TILT – Confidence Man (Heavenly Recordings / [PIAS])

Way out 80’s deep dance party bops with a Kiwi hype woman.

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#4

MATA – M.I.A. (Island Records)

Amen.

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#3

CHEAT CODES – Danger Mouse & Black Thought (BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.)

From the Grey Album to Black Thought. Danger Mouse comes full circle. RIP to MF Doom.

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#2

THE THEORY OF WHATEVER – Jamie T (Universal / Polydor Records)

A grand return for the bar-dropping Brit. Did he care that the Three Lions fizzled?

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#1

ONLY BUILT FOR INFINITY LINKS – Quavo & Takeoff (Quality Control Music / Motown Records / UMG Recordings Inc.)

It is a trifecta for dynamic duos taking home the top spot. RIP to Takeoff. Hopefully next year’s list won’t include any fallen stars.

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Top 10 Songs of 2022 (Indispensable Crate)

Runner ups:

MERCURY – Steve Lacy (L-M Records / RCA Records)

BURN THIS HOUSE (FT. LITTLE BOOTS) – J. Worra (Insomniac Records)

WATCHING STRANGERS SMILE – Parquet Courts (Rough Trade Records Ltd)

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#10

B.O.T.A. (BADDEST OF THEM ALL) – Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal (One House X Limited / Warner Music UK Limited)

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#9

BRIGHTSIDE – The Lumineers (Dualtone Music Group)

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#8

YOUR LOVE – Mallrat (Mallrat Pty. Ltd. / Nettwerk Music Group Inc.)

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#7

OVER (FT. YEBBA) – Robert Glasper (Loma Vista Recordings)

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#6

LET’S DO IT AGAIN – Jamie xx (Young)

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#5

ON & ON – Piri & Tommy (Universal / Polydor Records)

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#4

HOLD A VIBE (FT. RED RAT) – Groove Armada (Ministry of Pies / BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd)

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#3

FREE (FT. UNCLE CHUCC) – A-Trak & Lee Foss (Fool’s Gold Records)

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#2

MAD AT ME – Samia (Grand Jury Music)

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#1

BREAK MY SOUL – Beyoncé (Parkwood Entertainment LLC / Columbia Records)

-EY