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A Sunnyvale 2023

Here's my top 100 releases of 2022 (all formats together, whether LPs, EPs, live albums, etc). Pretty strong year for music in my book!

100

Gregory Alan Isakov
Appaloosa Bones

Indie folk/Americana

99

Waldgefluster
Unter Bronzenen Kronen

Atmospheric black metal

98

Charlie Hall
Invisible Ink

Chill dream pop/folk/indie

97

Darlingside
Everything is Alive

Indie folk

96

Foo Fighters
But Here We Are

Alt-rock

95

James Yorkston, Nina Persson and The Second Hand Orchestra
The Great White Sea Eagle

Folk

94

Art School Girlfriend
Soft Landing

Dream pop/electronic

93

Jude Brothers
render tender / blunder sunder

Indie folk

92

Wolves in the Throne Room
Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge

Symphonic black metal/ambient

91

The Paper Kites
At the Roadhouse

Indie folk/rock/Americana

90

Ossaert
Offerdier

Atmospheric black metal

89

Malokarpatan
Vertumnus Caesar

Blackened heavy metal

88

The Gaslight Anthem
History Books

Rock/Americana/folk

87

The National
Laugh Track

Indie rock

86

Blood Ceremony
The Old Ways Remain

Psych/hard rock/folk

85

Summer Salt
Campanita

Indie pop

84

Hotline TNT
Cartwheel

Shoegaze/alt-rock

83

Quality Used Cars
Quality of Life

Australiana

82

Esoctrilihum
Astraal Constellations of the Majickal Zodiac

Black metal/death metal

81

Mapache
Swinging Stars

Americana/rock/folk

80

Will Johnson
No Ordinary Crown

Alt-country/rock/folk

79

How to Care for Flowers
For a Brief Moment I Felt the Sun’s Warmth…

Emo

78

Josh Ritter
Spectral Lines

Indie folk/Americana

77

Fires in the Distance
Air Not Meant For Us

Doom metal

76

Pinegrove
Montclair (Live at the Wellmont Theater)

Indie/folk/alt-country

75

Tim Hecker
No Highs

Ambient

74

Kostnateni
Úpal

Black metal/death metal

73

Dozer
Drifting in the Endless Void

Stoner metal

72

Agriculture
Agriculture

Blackgaze with a healthy dose of plenty of other influences

71

Spaceships
Ruins

Shoegaze/post-rock/post-hardcore

70

Maruja
Knocknarea

Post-punk/post-rock

69

Fen
Monuments to Absence

Black metal/post-rock/folk

68

Adjy
June Songs Vol. 1

Emo/indie/folk

67

Motorpsycho
Yay!

Psych/prog/folk

66

Wisteria Lodge
Spoken Secrets

Unsettling dream pop/Lynchcore

65

BrokenTeeth
How to Sink Slowly

Shoegaze/indie rock

64

The Murder Capital
Gigi's Recovery

Post-punk

63

Strange Ranger
Pure Music

Weird and experimental indie rock/shoegaze

62

Wilco
Cousin

Indie rock/Americana

61

Woe
Legacies of Frailty

Black metal

60

Grian Chatten
Chaos For The Fly

Folk/singer-songwriter

59

Cory Hanson
Western Cum

Bluesy rock/alt-country

58

Mad Anthony (USA-CA)
The Lost Tapes

Old-school folk rock

57

Slowdive
Everything is Alive

Shoegaze/dream pop

56

Vyva Melinkolya
Unbecoming

Dark shoegaze/slowcore/indie

55

Parannoul
After The Magic

Shoegaze/fourth wave emo

54

Nicole Dollanganger
Married in Mount Airy

Creepy folk/indie

53

Tideless
Eye of Water

"Droom"-dreamy/gazey doom metal

52

The Veils
...And Out of the Void Came Love

Dramatic and stately indie rock

51

Yo La Tengo
This Stupid World

Noisy indie rock/shoegaze/dream pop

50

Full of Hell and Nothing
When No Birds Sang

Hardcore/shoegaze

49

The Golden Dregs
On Grace and Dignity

Indie folk/rock

48

Big|Brave
nature morte

Crushing doom folk

47

Dream Unending/Worm
Starpath

Atmospheric prog/doom metal

46

Strawberry Runners
Strawberry Runners

Indie folk/Americana

45

Blur
The Ballad of Darren

Alt rock/Britpop

44

The Bathers
Sirenesque

Nostalgic sophisti-pop

43

Blake Mills
Jelly Road

Bluesy folk/rock

42

Hammock
Love in the Void

Ambient/post-rock/shoegaze

41

The River
A Hollow Full of Hope

Slowcore/folk

40

Pile
All Fiction

Gloomy post-punk/rock

39

Beach Fossils
Bunny

Dream pop/shoegaze

38

Perfumed Saturnine Angels
Saccharine Curses Exhaled in the Wind

Blackened post-hardcore

37

Protomartyr
Formal Growth in the Desert

Gloomy post-punk

36

Vintersea
Woven Into Ashes

Blackened prog metal

35

Sangre de Muerdago
O Vento que Lambe as miñas Feridas

Galician dark folk

34

Enisum
Forgotten Mountains

Atmospheric black metal/folk

33

Sun June
Bad Dream Jaguar

Dream pop/indie/folk

32

Boygenius
the record

Indie folk

31

Ruby Haunt
Between Heavens

Dream pop with electronic touches

30

Youth Lagoon
Heaven Is a Junkyard

Indie rock/dream pop

29

Craven Faults
Standers

Electronic/techno

28

Iron And Wine
Who Can See Forever Soundtrack

Indie folk

27

Empty Country
Empty Country II

Indie rock/folk

26

Enslaved
Heimdal

Black metal/prog

25

Acopia
Acopia

Dream pop/electronic

24

Lankum
False Lankum

Irish folk/drone

23

Leaving Laurel
When the Quiet Comes

House/downtempo/electronic

22

Paul Simon
Seven Psalms

Spiritual folk

21

Downfall of Gaia
Silhouettes Of Disgust

Blackened post-metal

20

PJ Harvey
I Inside the Old Year Dying

Art pop

19

Jason Isbell
Weathervanes

Alt-country/Americana/rock

18

Maria BC
Spike Field

Indie folk/dream pop/experimental

17

Wayfarer
American Gothic

Blackened country/Western

16

Tiny Skulls
Songs From Some Depressing Movie

Scottish indie rock/post-rock/shoegaze

15

Ne Obliviscaris
Exul

Extreme prog metal

14

Sparklehorse
Bird Machine

Indie

13

Thy Catafalque
Alföld

Experimental/black metal/folk

12

Urne
A Feast On Sorrow

Sludge metal/prog/thrash

11

Complete Mountain Almanac
Complete Mountain Almanac

Art pop/indie folk

10

Ben Howard
Is It?

Folktronica

9

Tenhi
Valkama

Dark folk

8

Panopticon
The Rime of Memory

Atmospheric black metal/folk/post-rock

7

The Tallest Man on Earth
Henry St.

Indie folk

6

Emma Tricca
Aspirin Sun

Dreamy folk/slowcore/psychedelia

5

Dodheimsgard
Black Medium Current

Avant-garde black metal

4

The Clientele
I Am Not There Anymore

Chamber pop/indie rock

3

Tiny Ruins
Ceremony

Dreamy indie folk

2

Wednesday
Rat Saw God

Indie/shoegaze/alt-country

1

There Will Be Fireworks
Summer Moon

Scottish indie rock/folk/post-rock

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