Yeah, I know, it's March already. This post was sitting as a draft on my computer since December of last year or so, but rather than thinking "This is too late to be relevant!" I decided to post it anyway.
Just like in 2020 and 2021 I kept track of the songs that grabbed my attention. I found that 2022 was a great year for music (but is it ever not, honestly?), which led me to this larger-than-usual list of songs:
- Aldous Harding - Fever
- Alex Cameron - Oxy Music (feat. Jason Williamson)
- Alex Cameron - Prescription Refill
- Andrew Bird - Underlands
- Angel Olsen - Chasing The Sun
- Anika - Godstar
- Art d'Ecco - Erasure
- Audiobooks - Tryna Tryna Take Control
- Big Thief - Blurred View
- Billy Nomates - Blue Bones (Deathwish)
- Blossoms - Ribbon Around The Bomb
- Blunt Chunks - Wasted
- THE BOBBY LEES - Hollywood Junkyard
- Brittany Davis - Momma's Gotta Go
- Charlotte Adigéry - Ceci n'est pas un cliché
- Congotronics International - Mulume/Change
- Courting - Loaded
- Courting - Tennis
- Delicate Steve - Street Breeze
- Dolores Forever - Conversations With Strangers
- Ducks Ltd. - In Between Days (feat. Jane Inc.)
- Early James - Real Low Down Lonesome
- Elanor Moss - Cosmic Memory
- Emeka Ogboh - Verbal Drift
- Emily Lubitz - Foolish Kids
- Empress Of - Save Me
- Empress Of - Turn the Table
- FKA twigs - oh my love
- Floating Points - Vocoder
- Foals - 2am
- Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia
- FredAtlast - This Town
- Ganser - People Watching
- Georgia Harmer - Be Here
- Gretel Hänlyn - Drive
- Harry Styles - As It Was
- The Haunted Youth - I Feel Like Shit And I Wanna Die
- Jane Inc. - Contortionists
- Jane Inc. - Human Being
- Jessie Ware - Free Yourself
- Jon Hopkins - To Feel Again / Trois
- Julia Jacklin - Love, Try Not To Let Go
- Katy J Pearson - Howl
- Kevin Morby - This Is a Photograph
- Kiwi jr. - Night Vision
- Lynks - Perfect Human Specimen
- Men I Trust - Billie Toppy
- Metronomy - Hold me tonight (feat. Porridge Radio)
- My Idea - I Should Have Never Generated You
- Nuha Ruby Ra - Self Portraiture
- Opus Kink - St. Paul of the Tarantulas
- Panda Bear - Edge of the Edge
- Personal Trainer - Key of Ego
- Phoebe Bridgers - Sidelines
- Plains - Problem with It
- The Paranoyds - Lizzie
- Porridge Radio - Back To the Radio
- Rahill - Aht Uh Mi Hed
- Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Tidal River
- Say She She - Prism
- Sea Power - Fear Eats the Soul
- Shalom - DTAP
- Sharon Van Etten - Used To It
- Shilpa Ray - Lawsuits and Suicide
- Sinead O Brien - Like Culture
- The Smile - You Will Never Work In Television Again
- Spoon - Held
- Sprints - Delia Smith
- Stromae - L’enfer
- TOPS - Perfected Steps
- TRAAMS - Breathe (feat. Softlizard)
- Tomberlin - easy
- The Weeknd - Less Than Zero
- Wet Leg - Being in Love
- Whitney K - While Digging Through the Snow
- Wodan Boys - Slam It Like Djokovic
- Yard Act - 100% Endurance (Elton John Version)