2022: Best Listens

30 faves (new releases)

1. Mabe Fratti – Se Ve Desde Aquí
2. Fievel is Glauque – Flaming Swords
3. Rosalía – Motomami
4. Lucrecia Dalt – ¡Ay!
5. Marina Herlop – Pripyat 
6. Contour – Onwards!
7. Naima Bock – Giant Palm
8. Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek – Dost 2
9. Marion Rampal – Tissé
10. Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen
11. El Khat – Albat Alawi Op. 99
12. Marina Allen – Centrifics
13. Park Jiha – The Gleam
14. Hatis Noit – Aura
15. Sarah Davachi – Two Sisters
16. Sessa – Estrela Acesa
17. Star Feminine Band – In Paris
18. Alexander Deplume – GOLD
19. Voice Actor – Songs from My Telephone
20. Quelle Chris – Deathframe
21. Paavorharju & Joose Keskitalo – Happiness
22. Moor Mother – Jazz Codes
23. Tim Bernardes – Mil Coisas Inviseis
24. Cate Le Bon – Pompeii
25. Kristine Leschper – The Opening, Or Closing of a Door
26. billy woods – Aethiopes
27. Antonia Cytrynowicz + Sam Gendel – LIVE A LITTLE
28. Citron Citron – Chagrin Bleu
29. Jessca Hoop – Order of Romance
30. Olovson – Storytelling

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10 faves (reissues)

1. Maha – Orkos
2. V/A – Padang Moonrise: The Birth of the Modern Indonesian Recording Industry (1955-1969)
3. Luiza Brina – A Toada Vem é Pelo Vento
4. Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru – s/t
5. Tia Blake & Her Folk Group – Folksongs & Ballads
6. Iftin Band – Mogadishu’s Finest: The Al-Uruba Sessions
7. Ferkat Al Ard – Oghneya
8. Ernst Hood – Back to the Woodlands
9. Staples Jr. Singers – When Do We Get Paid
10. V/A – Down & Out (NTS)

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Others (most-spun)

The ruthless digital counters say these are the 2022 releases I listened to most beyond the top 40 above.

• Adelaida – Cántaro
• Aldous Harding – Warm Chris
• Alice Phoebe Lou – Child’s Play
• Anadol – Felicita
• Anteloper – Pink Dolphins
• Aoife Nessa Frances – Protector
• Arima Edera – An Orange Colored Day
• Ayanda Sikade – Umakhulu
• Balka Sound – s/t
• Bill Callahan – YTILAER
• Bill Fay – Still Some Light Part 1
• Bitchin Bajas – Bajascillators
• Branko Mataja – Over Fields and Mountains
• Broadcast – Mida Vale Sessions
• Carla dal Forno – Come Around
• Charles Lloyd – Trios: Chapel (Live)
• Chris Olsen – Human! Sound! …
• Daniel Villarreal – Panamá 77
• Dexter Story & Carlos Niño – Feel Recordings vol 1
• Diatom Deli – Time~Lapse Nature
• Duval Timothy – Meeting with a Judas Tree
• Etran de L’Aïr – Agadez
• Eyal Talmudi & Rejoicer – The Audience
• Group Listening – Clarinet & Piano, Selected Works vol 2
• Gwenno – Tresor
• Horse Lords – Comradely Objects
• Jana Horn – Optimism
• Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer – Recordings from the Åland Islands
• Jonathan Personne – s/t
• Karima Walker – demos
• Kadhja Bonet – JGS / For You / Dear Gina
• Läuten der Seele – s/t
• Leoni Leoni – s/t
• Linda Ayupuka – God Created Everything
• Loraine James – Build Something Beautiful for Me
• Lysandre – Sans oublier
• Maria Chira Argirò – Forest City
• Maxine Funke – Pieces of Driftwood
• Maya McCraven – In These Times
• Medicine Singers – s/t
• mim & Charlene Darling – L’amour aux mille parfums
• Modern Nature – Island of Noise
• Molly Lewis – Mirage
• OKI – Tonkori in the Moonlight
• Rachika Nayar – Heaven Come Crashing
• Robert Stillman – What Does It Mean to Be an American?
• Rude Skott Osborn Trio – The Virtue of Temperance
• Ryley Walker – So Certain
• Sam Gendel – blueblue
• SAULT – (5 LPs)
• Silvia Tarozzi – Canti di guerra, di lavoro e d’amore
• Sophie Birch & Antonia Nowacka – Languoria
• Steve Gunn – Nakama
• Surya Botofasina – Everyone’s Children
• Tegh & Adel Poursamadi – Ima (ایما)
• The Mauskovic Dance Band – Bukaroo Bank
• V.C.R. – The Chronicles of a Caterpillar: The Egg
• Vilhelm Bromander – Aurora
• Wau Wau Collectif – Mariage
• Weyes Blood – And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow
• Yaya Bey – Remember Your North Star