NYT Times best albums of 2022

[Mjark]

Aside from Beyoncé and Bjork I've never heard of any of the other artists. Rosalia, Beth Orton, Sudan Archives, iLe, Sylvan Esso, black midi, Billy Woods and Porridge Radio. And that's as should be. I'm 71, I don't stream, I don't watch much TV. Does MTV still exist? None of the clips I listened too caught my ear. I think black midi was what sounded like Rock music.

My musical tastes are pretty broad but don't extend far into contemporary pop music. I guess it's good the but gulf has grown so large between me and popular culture I may not ever cross it again. I'm okay with that.

 

[frank a]

I didn’t see the list but you may like Beth Orton.

 

[Chuckster]

Beth Orton put out a great album in the mid-90s called Trailer Park, and it still gets regular play time here (Mrs Chuckster loves it on occasional Sunday mornings). Great voice, I didn't know she released new music this year.

Sylvan Esso gets a ton of airplay on Sirius XMU... fun, quirky electronic stuff but I can only take her voice in small doses.

 

[thunderbyrd]

the only things i heard i remember was Wetleg and Black Summer by RHCP. killer fuzz guitar solo.

 

[BigDaddyLH]

I think this is almost inevitable as you get older. If you look at the age of music discussed on TDPRI, it is usually from the 60s or 70s, so decades and decades old.

 

[AmpHandle]

Todays music is about video production produced into a commercial sterilized sound scape. You won't hear anything alive with minor mistakes or slight off tune instruments with edgy peaks unless it's on purpose, no I could just be making this up...lol

 

[Swirling Snow]

Younger folks tell me the old, "Classic Rock" is still the best. I think we're entering into an age like those days when every city had an orchestra and they all played classical music. Not popular music. That was looked down upon by people of taste.

 

[maxvintage]

Check out Samara Joy, singer (guitar players a beast too). Just wait for her voice




Or this, very traditional. What a voice though

 

[arlum]

Award shows are a vehicle to remind me I died a number of years back. Sometimes I forget. Emmy's, Oscars, Grammy's, Peoples Choice, etc., etc. Other that a super talent like Taylor Swift that you can't not know the other names could all be random selections from the phone book. Um .... woops. For the youngsters here a phone book is .........

 

[TheCheapGuitarist]

Lost me at NYT....

 

[Headless Axeman]

As others have said, Sylvan Esso is really worth checking out, even if you won't hear many telecasters on their songs. Check out "Die Young" and "Coffee." I haven't heard their latest though.

 

[boop]

What music were young people (your grandparents) listening to 50 years on the other side of when you were a kid. Would they have/did they like your music? You crazy kids

 

[uriah1]

Never heard either.

That said, my wife just asked me if vh1 was still on.

 

[BigDaddyLH]

Lost me at NYT....

It's short for New York Times. One of the major papers in the US.

 

[blowtorch]

It's short for New York Times. One of the major papers in the US.

He knows. And I'm with him

 

[Old Plank]

I made a playlist on spotify using the 3 critics' list suggestions and also the one jazz critic's best-of ... it comes out to nearly 5 hours long, and I've been browsing away thru it the last 3-4 days ... there's several I already listen to, eg, Particle Kid (Willie's son Micah), Sons of Kemet (jammin' horn jazz), FKA Twigs (pop), Cecile McLorin (vocal jazz) ... but am happily turned on now to, Soccer Mommy, Wet Dream (both of them pretty decent rock/pop), Circles Around the Sun (spacey instrumental), Sci-Fi Soldier (a phish alter-ego band that sounds a lot like WAR (?!), BluDeTiger (pop/bassist), Cherry Glazer (w/Delicate Steve who I like), black midi, Anteloper (trippy psyche-jazz), Sharon Van Etten. And then there's plenty of stuff, liking not so much. If nothing else, for fun check out these -

Particle Kid - Everything is Bullsh*t
Sci-Fi Soldier - Knuckle Bone Broth Avenue
Circles Around the Sun - Outer Boroughs

 

[gimmeatele]

I don't actively seek out pop music, which I assume many on. The list are, but I do guitar bands, usually from articles in guitar mags I subscribe to

 

[Kandinskyesque]

Lady Blackbird's album came out at the latter end of 2021, but I never heard about it until mid 2022.
I'm counting it as a 2022 album and one of my favourites.

 

[Kandinskyesque]

Also, Paolo Nutini had a new album 2022 which would have flown under the radar everywhere except Scotland.
It's been a grower on me this year.

 

[Tarkus60]

Best album of 2022 you made a funny.....