2022 I believe was a pretty great year for music. Plenty of wonderful albums were released but my favourite without not much doubt was the latest epic record from Big Thief. A band that basically has done nothing wrong produced a double album of great scope, emotion and creativity. And I finally got to see them live in late November, which was my favourite show of 2022. My much beloved Ty Segall produced another great record too. An album that was more mellow than usual but completely beautiful.  And I get to see him live next week, twice! It was a great year as well for veteran bands too. Spoon and Built to Spill made records of huge quality that I totally loved. And then Alex G returned to show he is one of the great talents of the world. My favourite discoveries were exciting as well. Chicago's Horsegirl rocked my world with their debut album, which included my favourite song of the year in 'Anti-Glory'. And MJ Lenderman gave us an album that recalled the glory days of 90s sound and yet still sounded fresh and new. You might have noticed that I like guitars. People say 'Rock is dead'. But it's really not. Mainstream music might reflect that, with nondescript pop dominating but trust me there is plenty of great music being made out there. It's just very marginalised.

1. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You-Big Thief
2. "Hello,Hi"-Ty Segall 

3. When The Wind Forgets Your Name-Built to Spill

4. Lucifer on the Sofa-Spoon

5. God Save the Animals-Alex G

6. Labyrinthitis-Destroyer

7. This is a Photograph-Kevin Morby

8. The Will to Live-Titus Andronicus

9. Ants From Up There-Black Country, New Road

10. Once Twice Melody-Beach House

11. Versions of Modern Performance-Horsegirl

12. Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky-Porridge Radio

13. You Belong There-Daniel Rossen

14. Big Time-Angel Olsen

15. Boat Songs-MJ Lenderman

16. Reset-Panda Bear & Sonic Boom

17. Twenty Twenty Twenty Twenty One-Spencer Krug

18. Cruel Country-Wilco

19. Time Skiffs-Animal Collective

20. Renaissance-Beyonce

21. YTILAER-Bill Callahan

22. We've Being Going About This All Wrong-Sharon Van Etten

23. Stumpwork-Dry Cleaning

24. Ugly Season-Perfume Genius

25. The Other Side of Make-Believe-Interpol

26. (watch my moves)-Kurt Vile

27. Mr Morale & The Big Steppers-Kendrick Lamar

28. Laurel Hell-Mitski

29. A Light for Attracting Attention-The Smile

30. Nothing Special-Will Sheff

31. Shepherd Head-Young Jesus

32. Reggae Film Star-Damien Jurado

33. I Walked With You a Ways-Plains

34. WE-Arcade Fire

35. Chloe and the Next 20th Century-Father John Misty

36. 11:11-Pinegrove

37. A Legacy of Rentals-Craig Finn

38. Radiator-Sadurn

39. Caroline-Caroline

40. The Bees-Frog Eyes

41. Life After Football-The Smith Street Band

42. Wet Leg-Wet Leg

43. The Sun Still Seems to Love-Shannen Moser

44. Magic Sign-Martin Courtney

45. Farm to Table-Bartees Strange

46. Running With the Hurricane-Camp Cope

47. Being Somewhere-Dan Mangan

48. Inside Problems-Andrew Bird

49. Personal Best-TRAAMS

50. Spark-Whitney