Top 32 Music Albums of 2022 by lleon79
Favorite songs this year:
The Lightning (Parts I & II) — Arcade Fire
Once Twice Melody — Beach House
Superstar — Beach House
Only You Know — Beach House
Simulation Swarm — Big Thief
Sugar/Tzu — Black Midi
Sci-Fi Silence — Florist
The Dripping Tap — King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Kepler-22b — King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Speech Bubbles — The Smile
Always Together With You — Spiritualized
new body rhumba — LCD Soundsystem
After the Earthquake — Alvvays
God Turn Me Into A Flower — Weyes Blood
- Chart updated: 04/17/2024 19:15
- (Created: 01/19/2022 04:34).
- Chart size: 32 albums.
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"Once, Twice, Melody" and "Superstar" are two of their best songs ever. "Through Me" is a song that inspired me to make a drawing. I absolutely adore "Runaway"'s intro. "Only You Know" just makes me want to go out into the night and drive to a loved one's house. "Masquerade" is a banger, and "Hurts to Love" is just pure, unfiltered Beach House.
According to Apple Music, this is my most listened to album this year, and I don't think another album will come out that will top that (maybe Alvvays' Blue Rev (or maybe, just maybe, but I don't trust Robert Smith anymore, if The Cure does release "Songs From A Lost World")).
Anyways, I'm in love with this album, even though not every cut is as good, but a recurring theme for me this year is loving double LP's or just incredibly long records that try a lot of different things, and even though they don't land everything, those high points are worth everything. [First added to this chart: 01/28/2022]
In all seriousness, I read somewhere that this is the first project that has "sprung from Radiohead" that really feels like its own thing instead of just random dart throws in a wall or trying to come off as an experimental thingy like Atoms for Peace. Also, while Thom Yorke's ANIMA was fantastic, The Smile just plays to the strenghts of having two more band members contributing their styles to create an amazing atmosphere. "The Same" is a haunting, theatrical opening that screams Thom Yorke, but then songs like "Speech Bubbles" (which is so dauntingly beautiful) or "Free In The Knowledge", couldn't just have existed without Jonny Greenwod's experience with orchestra. The drums throughout this are a highlight, and also, something I haven't read anywhere, but this has very cool bass lines.
If we don't ever get another Radiohead record, it would really be a shame, but The Smile has proven themselves as a very interesting take that ... I guess I wouldn't really mind. I've seen the live performances on YouTube (dying to see them irl) and it's amazing the energy Yorke and Greenwood still have after so many years of creating music. They're probably at the top of their game, and I think that even though this is an amazing debut, we've still haven't heard the best The Smile has to offer. They're just creating a song every week or so it seems!
I could go on and on for every song, but I already left a review, and I'll just say this is one of my most played albums this year. I'm not very crazy about cuts like "Pana-vision", "The Opposite" or "Hairdryer", but other songs like "We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings", "The Smoke", "Skrting on the Surface" or "Thin Thing" have been on loop in my playlist. [First added to this chart: 05/06/2022]
I don't like making comparisons like "This is this band's Kid A or this band's White Album" because then I think the music industry / artform isn't really going forward and just keeps on getting stuck on what has come before, but anyways, everything I've read mentions this being this band's White Album. I mean, yeah, maybe, but most of all, "Omnium Gatherum" plays to the bands biggest strengths while pushing forward into new and interesting styles, while playing with a sort of "mirror structure" with the tracklist that I really dig.
"The Dripping Tap" is surreal, "Magenta Mountain" and "Kepler-22b" are also two of their best songs in my opinion. Other highlights for me include "Persistence" and "Candles". You could say most of is "filler" or whatever, but taken as a whole, I really think this album shows the unreal amounts of energy and commitment they have. [First added to this chart: 05/06/2022]
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Top 32 Music Albums of 2022 composition
Artist | Albums | % | |
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | 5 | 16% | |
The Smile | 2 | 6% | |
Kendrick Lamar | 1 | 3% | |
Destroyer | 1 | 3% | |
Weyes Blood | 1 | 3% | |
Arcade Fire | 1 | 3% | |
Spiritualized | 1 | 3% | |
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Top 32 Music Albums of 2022 chart changes
Biggest climbers |
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Up 2 from 8th to 6th Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard |
Biggest fallers |
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Down 1 from 6th to 7th Blue Rev by Alvvays |
Down 1 from 7th to 8th Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers by Kendrick Lamar |
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