This past year brought a ton of exciting music styles and a plethora of great releases from so many talented artists. I found myself extremely motivated to continue to write, and thus my list is hyperlinked to a lot of my past work from 2022. I hope you find something new that you’ll enjoy, in not only my list, but in also all of the other talented contributors’ lists. I wish everyone a very happy New Year, and I can’t wait to start talking about our Most Anticipated Albums list in a few more weeks!
Adam Grundy’s Top 30 Albums From 2022:
- Maggie Rogers – Surrender
- Bartees Strange – Farm To Table
- No Devotion – No Oblivion
- Coheed & Cambria – Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind
- The 1975 – Being Funny In a Foreign Language
- The Wonder Years – The Hum Goes On Forever
- Pinkshift – Love Me Forever
- Taylor Swift – Midnights
- Charli XCX – Crash
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down
- Caracara – New Preoccupations
- Cold Years – Goodbye To Misery
- Avril Lavigne – Love Sux
- L.S. Dunes – Past Lives
- Silverstein – Misery Made Me
- Anarbor – Love & Drugs
- Eliza and the Delusionals – Now & Then
- Metric – Formentera
- The Dangerous Summer – Coming Home
- Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever
- Coin – Uncanny Valley
- Oso Oso – Sore Thumb
- Dashboard Confessional – All The Truth That I Can Tell
- Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
- Have Mercy – Have Mercy
- The Weeknd – Dawn FM
- The Mars Volta – The Mars Volta
- Underoath – Voyeurist
- Wet Leg – Wet Leg
- Young the Giant – American Bollywood
Honorable Mentions (In No Particular Order)
- Riverby – Absolution
- MUNA – MUNA
- Beabadoobee – Beatopia
- Beach Bunny – Emotional Creature
- Superorganism – World Wide Pop
- Blaqk Audio – Trop d’amour
- Death Cab For Cutie – Asphalt Meadows
- Momma – Household Name
- Camp Trash – The Long Way, The Slow Way
- Out Of Service – The Ground Beneath Me
- Me Like Bees – Disco Two Step
My Favorite EPs From 2022:
- Cal Stamp – NYLON
- Anberlin – Silverline
- Be Well – Hello Sun
- Chase Tremaine – My Heart Settled in the Middle
- Hidden In Plain View – Tantrums
- Rise Against – Nowhere Generation II
- Cal Stamp – Denim
- William Ryan Key – Everything Except Desire
- Empress Of – Save Me
- Hello Stranger – True Belief
My Favorite Interviews I Conducted In 2022: