2022 end of year lists

Mojo top 75:

1. Michael Head And The Red Elastic Band - Dear Scott
2. Wet Leg - Wet Leg
3. Danger Mouse & Black Thought - Cheat Codes
4. Horace Andy - Midnight Rocker
5. Arctic Monkeys - The Car
6. Suede - Autofiction
7. Bill Callahan - Reality
8. Jack White - Fear Of The Dawn
9. Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork
10. Fontains D.C. - Skinty Fia
11. The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention
12. Aldous Harding - Warm Chris
13. Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful
14. Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
15. Wilco - Cruel Country
16. Rich Ruth - I Survived, It's Over
17. Kevin Morby - This Is A Photograph
18. The Comet Is Coming - Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
19. Makaya McCraven - In These Times
20. Beth Orton - Weather Alive
21. Cate Le Bon - Pompeii
22. Mavis Staples & Levon Helm - Carry Me Home
23. Drive-By Truckers - Welcome 2 Club Xiii
24. Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Reset
25. Gabriels - Angels & Queens - Part 1
26. Joan Shelley - The Spur
27. Beyonce - Renaissance
28. Gwenno - Tresor
29. Father John Misty - Chloe And The Next 20th Century
30. Hurray For The Rii Raff - Life On Earth
31. Oumou Sangare - Timbuktu
32. Rolling Blackout C.F. - Endless Rooms
33. Jeff Parker - Forfolks
34. Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
35. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down
36. Jockstrap - I Love You Jennifer B
37. Vieux Farka Toure & Khruangbin - Ali
38. Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder - Get On Board…
39. Elvis Costello & The Imposters - The Boy Named If
40. The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta
41. Leyla McCalla - Breaking The Thermometer
42. Alabaster Deplume - Gold
43. Yard Act - The Overlord
44. Johnny Marr - Fever Dreams Pts. 1-4
45. Anais Mitchell - Anais Mitchell
46. Cass McCombs - Heartmind
47. Working Men's Club - Fear Fear
48. Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
49. Midlake - For The Sake Of Bethel Woods
50. Moor Mother - Jazz Codes
51. Kurt Vile - (Watch My Moves)
52. Ezra Furman - All Of Us Flames
53. Xpropaganda - The Heart Is Strange
54. Jake Xerxes Fussell - Good And Green Again
55. Proclaimers - Dentures Out
56. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe You
57. Oren Ambarchi - Shebang
58. Gilla Band - Most Normal
59. Bjork - Fossora
60. Spoon - Lucifer Of The Sofa
61. Lightning Seeds - See You In The Stars
62. Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul - Topical Dancer
63. Nina Nastasia - Riderless Horse
64. Wu-Lu - Loggerhead
65. Brian Eno - Forever And Ever No More
66. Angel Olson - Big Time
67. John Spencer & The Hitmakers - Spencer Gets Ot Lit
68. Lambchop - The Bible
69. The Black Keys - Dropout Boogie
70. Eiko Ishibashi - For McCoy
71. Julia Jacklin - Pre Pleasure
72. Kae Tempest - The Line Is A Curve
73. Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Recordings From The Aland Islands
74. Kelly Lee Owens - LP.8
75. Elizabeth King - I Got A Love

Loving the praise for the Michael Head record, it's fucking beautiful.

Rough Trade top 100 list out blog.roughtrade.com/gb/uk-albums-of-the-year-2022/

1. Jack White - 'Fear of the Dawn / Entering Heaven Alive'
2. The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention
3. Yard Act - The Overload
4. Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia
5. Rina Sawayama - Hold The Girl
6. Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
7. yeule - Glitch Princess
8. black midi - Hellfire
9. Wet Leg - Wet Leg
10. The Lounge Society - Tired of Liberty
11. Weyes Blood - And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow
12. Mitski - Laurel Hell
13. Horsegirl - Versions of Modern Performance
14. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down
15. Kelly Lee Owens - LP.8
16. Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler - For All Our Days That Tear The Heart
17. Osees - A Foul Form
18. Ibibio Sound Machine - Electricity
19. The Orielles - Tableau
20. Nova Twins - Supernova
21. Caitlin Rose - CAZIMI
22. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Endless Rooms
23. Viagra Boys - Cave World
24. Jockstrap - I Love You Jennifer B
25. Björk - Fossora
26. Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band - Dear Scott
27. Black Thought & Danger Mouse - Cheat Codes
28. The Delines - The Sea Drift
29. Bartees Strange - Farm to Table
30. The Beths - Expert In A Dying Field
31. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
32. Alvvays - Blue Rev
33. Courtney Marie Andrews - Loose Future
34. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - Topical Dancer
35. Kae Tempest - The Line Is a Curve
36. Confidence Man - TILT
37. Kokoroko - Could We Be More
38. Hot Chip - Freakout / Release
39. Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen
40. Sharon Van Etten - We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
41. Belle and Sebastian - A Bit of Previous
42. Angel Olsen - Big Time
43. Shygirl - Nymph
44. Father John Misty - Chloë and the Next 20th Century
45. Hater - Sincere
46. They Hate Change - Finally, New
47. Aldous Harding - Warm Chris
48. The Mysterines - Reeling
49. Mark Peters - Red Sunset Dreams
50. Brian Eno - FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE
51. Cate Le Bon - Pompeii
52. Arctic Monkeys - The Car
53. Obongjayar - Some Nights I Dream of Doors
54. Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork
55. Oliver Sim - Hideous Bastard
56. Katy J Pearson - Sound of the Morning
57. Marina Allen - Centrifics
58. Maria BC - Hyaline
59. Bonny Light Horseman - Rolling Golden Holy
60. Scalping - Void
61. Beth Orton - Weather Alive
62. Walt Disco - Unlearning
63. Gabe Gurnsey - Diablo
64. Dehd - Blue Skies
65. Ezra Collective - Where I'm Meant To Be
66. Metronomy - Small World
67. Black Lips - Apocalypse Love
68. Martha - Please Don't Take Me Back
69. Surprise Chef - Education & Recreation
70. Nikki Lane - Denim & Diamonds
71. Interpol - The Other Side of Make-Believe
72. The Chats - Get Fucked
73. Pip Blom - Welcome Break
74. Mall Grab - What I Breathe
75. Sinead O'Brien - Time Bend and Break The Bower
76. Placebo - Never Let Me Go
77. Titus Andronicus - The Will to Live
78. Warpaint - Radiate Like This
79. Kojey Radical - Reason To Smile
80. Peaness - World Full of Worry
81. Say She She - Prism
82. Porridge Radio - Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky
83. Makaya McCraven - In These Times
84. Wu-Lu - Loggerhead
85. Jeshi - Universal Credit
86. Sunflower Bean - Headful of Sugar
87. Julia Jacklin - PRE PLEASURE
88. Mildred Maude - Sleepover
89. Hollie Cook - Happy Hour
90. Binker and Moses - Feeding the Machine
91. Charli XCX - CRASH
92. Destroyer - LABYRINTHITIS
93. Tomberlin - i don’t know who needs to hear this...
94. Imarhan - Aboogi
95. The Cool Greenhouse - Sod's Toastie
96. Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful
97. Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
98. Ibeyi - Spell 31
99. Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future
100. Zola Jesus - Arkhon

LOL JACK WHITE

Two lists with Weyes Blood. An album which isn't out for another 3 days.

Fuck me it must be good.

I haven't heard the Michael Head record!

Mojo main list updated, here's their other categories:

Reissues

1. The Beatles - Revolver (Special Edition)
2. Blondie - Against The Odds 1974-1982
3. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Deluxe Edition)
4. Lou Reed - Words And Music, May 1965
5. Neu! - 50!
6. Neil Young And Crazy Horse - Toast
7. The Clash - Combat Rock/The Peoples Hall
8. David Bowie - A Divine Symmetry
9. Can - Live In Cuxhaven 1976
10. Dennis Bovell - The Dubmaster: The Essential Anthology
11. Karen Dalton - In My Own Time (50th Anniversary Edition)
12. Arthur Russell - World Of Echo
13. Broadcast - Mothers In Milky Way
14. Dexys Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay, As It Should Have Sounded
15. Prince And The Revolution - Live
16. The Rolling Stones - Live At The El Mocambo
17. Charles Stepney - Step On Step
18. Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus
19. The Waterboys - The Magnificent Seven
20. Robert Fripp - Exposures


Americana

1. Mavis Staples & Levon Helm - Carry Me Home
2. Wilco - Cruel Country
3. Amanda Shires - Take It Like A Man
4. Drive-By Truckers - Welcome 2 Club Xiii
5. Malcolm Holcome - Tricks Of The Trade
6. Father John Misty - Chloe And The Next 20th Century
7. Molly Tuttle - Crooked Tree
8. Steve Earle & The Dukes - Jerry Jeff
9. Margo Cilker - Pohorylle
10. Midlake - For The Sake Of Bethel Woods


Jazz

1. Binker & Moses - Feeding The Machine
2. Tumi Mogorosi - Group Theory: Black Music
3. Robocobra Quartet - Living Isn't Easy
4. Sarathy Korwar - Kalak
5. Markaya Mccraven - In These Times
6. Shabaka Hutchings - Afrikan Culture
7. Lampen - Lampen
8. Cedric Hanriot - Time Is Color
9. Nduduzo Makhathini - In The Spirit Of Ntu
10. Alabaster Deplume - Gold


Folk

1. Stick In The Wheel - Perspectives On Tradition
2. Ye Vagabonds - Nine Waves
3. Oysterband - Read The Sky
4. Bird In The Belly - After The City
5. Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage - Ink Of The Rosy Morning
6. Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones - A Year Too Late And A Month Too Long
7. Eliza Carthy & The Restitution - Queen Of The Whirl
8. Damien O'kane & Ron Block - Banjophonics
9. Angeline Morrison - The Sorrow Songs
10. Nick Hart - Sings Ten English Folk Songs


Electronica

1. Hudson Mohawke - Cry Sugar
2. Sam Prekop/John McEntire - Sons Of
3. The Soft Pink Truth - Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This?
4. Loraine James - Building Something Beautiful For Me
5. Axel Boman - Luz/Quest For Life
6. Carman Villain - Only Love From Now On
7. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Let's Turn It Into Sound
8. Lamin Fofana - The Open Boat
9. Au Suisse - Au Suisse
10. Huerco S - Plonk


Soundtracks

1. Johnny Greenwood - Spencer
2. Richard Thompson - Music From Grizzly Bear
3. Eiko Ishibashi - Drive My Car
4. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - La Panthere Des Neiges
5. Daniel Blumberg - The World To Come
6. Jon Natchez - Luzzu
7. Philip Glass - Candyman
8. Alexis Grapsas & Philip Klein - Pig
9. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Blond
10. Disasterpeace - Bodies Bodies Bodies

That Rough Trade list is hilariously bad.

I hope everybody is working hard doing their prep for the big end of year reveal!! I've had a word with the higher ups and they've said that posting your list before December the 15th will result in DEATH BY AIDS, they aren't even bothering with HIV scare anymore.

least they included the porridge radio album.

and left off wilco.

Eddie Murphy! You been listening to new music? I thought you'd stopped since Audioslave! It is fantastic to see you flexing your muscles around here and await your end of year list.

Recordstore top 25: www.recordstore.co.uk/recordstore/AOTY-2022/

25. Mitski - Laurel Hell
24. Bonobo - Fragments
23. Bjork - Fossora
22. Jack White - Fear of the Dawn
21. The Weeknd - Dawn FM
20. Beyonce - Renaissance
19. Rina Sawayama - Hold The Girl
18. Loyle Carner - Hugo
17. The Mysterines - Reeling
16. Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future
15. Nilufer Yanya - Painless
14. Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork
13. Taylor Swift - Midnights
12. The Comet Is Coming - Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
11. Kae Tempest - The Line Is A Curve
10. Arctic Monkeys - The Car
9. Yard Act - The Overload
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down
7. Maggie Rogers - Surrender
6. Foals - Life Is Yours
5. Jamie T - The Theory Of Whatever
4. Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia
3. The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention
2. Wet Leg - Wet Leg
1. Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers

Paste Magazine top 50: www.pastemagazine.com/music/best-albums/best-albums-of-2022/

1. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
2. Alex G - God Save the Animals
3. Alvvays - Blue Rev
4. Wet Leg - Wet Leg
5. Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
6. Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems
7. Angel Olsen - Big Time
8. Beyoncé - RENAISSANCE
9. Spoon - Lucifer on the Sofa
10. MJ Lenderman - Boat Songs
11. Bartees Strange - Farm to Table
12. Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter
13. Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen
14. The Beths - Expert In A Dying Field
15. Cate Le Bon - Pompeii
16. Soccer Mommy - Sometimes, Forever
17. Porridge Radio - Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky
18. Julia Jacklin - PRE PLEASURE
19. Grace Ives - Janky Star
20. Wild Pink - ILYSM
21. Pusha T - It's Almost Dry
22. Aldous Harding - Warm Chris
23. Perfume Genius - Ugly Season
24. Weyes Blood - And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow
25. Tomberlin - i don’t know who needs to hear this...
26. ROSALÍA - MOTOMAMI
27. Horsegirl - Versions of Modern Performance
28. Momma - Household Name
29. The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention
30. Chat Pile - God’s Country

www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2022/bbc-radio-6-music-album-of-the-year-2022

6 Music’s Top 10 albums of 2022 are:

Kendrick Lamar - Mr Morale & The Big Steppers
Yard Act - The Overload
Kae Tempest - The Line Is A Curve
Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - Topical Dancer
Wet Leg - Wet Leg
Warmduscher - At The Hotspot
Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia
Danger Mouse & Black Thought - Cheat Codes
Arctic Monkeys - The Car
Gwenno - Tresor

After a relatively mediocre year and some frantic late listening, there are some serious contenders I'd not previously considered. Thank the lord for that 15th December deadline.

Rumour has it a famous soapbox member is going to jump the gun and begin revealing their list on the 1st

Exclaim! top 50: exclaim.ca/music/article/best_albums_of_2022

1. Alvvays - Blue Rev
2. Beyoncé - RENAISSANCE
3. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
4. Alex G - God Save the Animals
5. Wet Leg - Wet Leg
6. Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
7. The Sadies - Colder Streams
8. Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems
9. OMBIIGIZI - Sewn Back Together
10. Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen
11. Alexisonfire - Otherness
12. The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention
13. Chat Pile - God’s Country
14. Angel Olsen - Big Time
15. Aldous Harding - Warm Chris
16. Pusha T - It's Almost Dry
17. Destroyer - LABYRINTHITIS
18. Aquakultre - Don't Trip
19. Tomberlin - i don’t know who needs to hear this...
20. Pierre Kwenders - José Louis And The Paradox Of Love
21. Nilüfer Yanya - PAINLESS
22. Beth Orton - Weather Alive
23. Freddie Gibbs - $oul $old $eparately
24. Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
25. Status/Non-Status - Surely Travel
26. Backxwash - HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING
27. The Weeknd - Dawn FM
28. Björk - Fossora
29. Ravyn Lenae - Hypnos
30. Cate Le Bon - Pompeii

Thank you for including Exclaim. A pretty horrible list but I do like to go on the site to read an article very now again. 

They had Skinty Fia at number 32.

What a pile of cunts