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+title: "My favourite albums of 2022"
+date: 2023-01-01T21:46:10Z
+slug: 2023-01-01-2022-albums
+author: Thomas Wilson
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+This is a list of my favourite albums of 2022.  They're not the _best_ records, they're my favourite.  
+
+In 2018 and 2019 I made a real effort to create some (nicely art-directed) lists like this.  Then I let them rot and for three years I didn't want to write another *favourite* post until the other ones were back online and beautiful.
+
+I don't have to resurrect those past pages to start at making another one.  
+
+So this is a brutalist, small list of albums I loved that were released in 2022.
+
+Some of them stayed on rotation for months.  Some of them I wanted to keep special, and only played them on the good speakers through my dad's vintage B&O hifi. Some of them are records that I found myself thinking about a lot.  Some of them are records I struggle to recommend to people, but think they're just _good_.  
+
+## The Albums
+
+- Underwater, Ludovico Einaudi.  January 21 2022 (Classical, [YouTube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj5stEte5zI)).
+- aubades, Jean-Michel Blais.  February 4, 2022 (Classical, [Bandcamp link](https://jeanmichelblais.bandcamp.com/album/aubades-2)).
+- Cognition, Wilkinson.  February 11, 2022 (Electronic, [YouTube Link](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSvU1a-6HYLOhxaoWuid9BGcQtF1Noq1H)).
+- The Line is a Curve, Kae Tempest.  April 8 2022 (Poetry?  Hip Hop?  [YouTube Link](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZqsyBiYZFQ0g8_BXA8XV6Ck5vre0nTuF)).
+- Exercise Your Demons, CLIFFDIVER.  May 6 2022 (Pop Punk, [Bandcamp link](https://cliffdiverok.bandcamp.com/album/exercise-your-demons)).
+- How To Be Alone, All Better.  May 6 2022 (Pop Punk, [Bandcamp Link](https://allbetter.bandcamp.com/album/how-to-be-alone)).
+- Blue Hours, Bears Den.  May 13 2022 (Folk/Rock, [YouTube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Cs9PynKrA)).
+- Kings of the New Age, State Champs.  May 13 2022 (Pop Punk, [Bandcamp link](https://statechamps.bandcamp.com/album/kings-of-the-new-age)).
+- Sondar, The Wrecks.  June 10 2022 (Rock, [YouTube Link](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjGa9Rt2jeSjrjSJAkRQ5O-Ql7V0S-4Mn)).
+- Leap, James Bay.  July 2022 (Singer Songwriter, [YouTube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFkuW2mN-jI&list=PLxA687tYuMWiw48ZFJAP14-RXLC2P5iYJ)).
+- End of an era, Loveless.  September 2022 (Pop Punk, [YouTube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGfWnluaTnQ&list=PLS4jAfE9d3aJePlld21jlZbB9qA2XCvC_)).
+- hugo, Loyle Carner.  October 21 2022 (Hip Hop, [Bandcamp link](https://loylecarnerband.bandcamp.com/album/hugo)). 
+- Midnights, Taylor Swift.  October 22 2022 ([Pop, YouTube link](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxA687tYuMWgXjGLvPvOWqXWgHEIA2JW6)).
+- Into the Past, Driveways.  October 28 2022 (Pop Punk, [Bandcamp link](https://driveways.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-past)).
+- King's Disease III, Nas.  November 11 2022 (Hip Hop, [YouTube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSs0HeTG9cA&list=PLxA687tYuMWgdtdodLiBISjifKS2qsDYJ)).
+- Tender, Lady Maisery.  November 11 2022 (Folk, [Bandcamp link](https://ladymaisery.bandcamp.com/album/tender-2)).
+- NO THANK YOU, Little Simz.  December 12 2022 (Hip Hop, [YouTube link](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nT7_vca0br-RmVk0vkc8yIp3iXtRROsmk)).
+
+## Albums I want to spend more time with
+
+There are some records that came out this year that I want to spend a little more time with.  I think I could really love them, but I've not given them the time yet.
+
+- five seconds flat, Lizzy McAlpine.  April 8, 2022 (Singer-Songwriter, [YouTube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFumHG4Wt1g&list=PL_u1w9wImcNCsAjqoxlQqwP3tBZZN7cYV)).
+- Incase We Crash, Incase we Crash.  July 15 2022 (Pop Punk, [Bandcamp link](https://incasewecrash1.bandcamp.com/album/incase-we-crash)).
+- Stick Season, Noah Kahan.  October 14 2022 (Folk, [YouTube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJAiOSN5bnQ&list=PLfiMjLyNWxeZZYD6q1cAni5MzWQCywfHl)).
+- Escape That, Sam Sweeney.  October 21 2022 (Folk, [Bandcamp link](https://samsweeney.bandcamp.com/album/escape-that)).
+- worm food, Cavetown.  November 4, 2022 (Singer-Songwriter, [YouTube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkd_pa3_DGg&list=PLxA687tYuMWhqR1I997DtR_OwnpPJisQX)).
+- Conditions of a Punk, half-alive.  December 2 2022 (Alt Rock?, [YouTube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TspJmMZH_Os&list=PLmrKws9W-mZMcpsQ4ZOAcAyv7u5nm_zQQ)).