The Best Non-Connecticut Music of 2022

Other things I listened to from the year twenty-twenty-two.

The Best Long-Playing Albums

1. Cate Le Bon — Pompei
   2. The Orielles — Tableau
   3. Syd — Broken Hearts Club
   4. Beyonce — Renaissance
   5. Persher — The Man With the Magic Soap
   6. Backxwash — HIS HAPPINESS SHALL ALWAYS COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING
   7. Jenny Hval — Classical Objects
   8. Sobs — Air Guitar
   9. Tuluum Shimmering — Planet Caravan
   10. Loop — Sonacy
   11. Sam Gendel — Blueblue
   12. Earthgang — Ghetto Gods
   13. Destroyer — Labyrynthitis
   14. Colin Stetson — Chimaeria
   15. Rosalia — Motomania
   16. B. Rupp — Breeders
   17. Flore Laurentienne — Volume II
   18. My Idea — Cry Mfer
   19. Pale Sketcher — Golden Skin
   20. Dopplereffekt — Neurotelepathy
   21. Denzel Curry — Melt My Eyez See the Future
   22. Jeff Parker — Forfolks
   23. Lorraine James — Building Something Beautiful for Me
   24. Charli XCX — Crash
   25. Francesca Hart — Eurybia
   26. Burial Hex — Gauze
   27. Kuedo — Infinite Window
   28. Hatchie — Giving the World Away
   29. Yonatan Gat — American Quartet
   30. Actress — Dummy Corporation
   31. Stephen Mallinder — Tick Tick Tick
   32. Chat Pile — God’s Country
   33. Florist — Florist
   34. Fly Anakin — Frank
   35. Jennifer Vanilla — Castle in the Sky
   36. Blood Incantation — Timewave Zero
   37. The Smile — A Light for Attracting Attention
   38. Junior Boys — Waiting Game
   39. Dylan Moon — Option Explore
   40. Wet Leg — Wet Leg

The Best Shorties (EP Version)

1. Nia Archives- Forbidden Feelingz
   2. The Soft Pink Truth- Was It Ever Real
   3. Two Shell- Icons
   4. Izco- Big Summa ‘22
   5. LustsickPuppy- As Hard As You Can
   6. James Hoff- Inverted Birds and Other Sirens
   7. Marissa Nadler- The Wrath of the Clouds
   8. Julius Smack- Serenity
   9. Surgeon’s Girl- Sever
   10. Burial- Antidawn

The Best Shorties (Single Songs Version)

1. Cate Le Bon- “Remembering Me”
2. Daniel Avery feat Haii- “Wall of Sleep”
3. My Idea- “Cry Mfer”
4. Ezra Furman- “Forever in Sunset”
5. Persher- “The Man With the Magic Soap”
6. SRSQ- “Saved for Summer”
7. Soccer Mommy — “Unholy Afflcition”
8. Kae Tempest- “More Pressure”
9. The Weather Station- “Endless Time”
10. Caroline Polachek- “Billions”
11. Chat Pile — “Slaughterhouse”
12. Jenny Hval- “Year of Love”
13. Two Shell- “Home”
14. Denzel Curry feat Slowthai- “Zatoichi”
15. The Orielles- “Television”
16. Yeule- “Bites on My Neck”
17. Charli XCX — “Every Rule”
18. Latto feat Lil Wayne, Childish Gambino- “Sunshine”
19. The Growth Eternal- “Roden”
20. Lupe Fiasco- “Drill Music in Zion”
21. Destroyer- “June”
22. Montaigne feat David Byrne- “Always Be You”
23. Beyonce- “Break My Soul”
24. Sobs- “Friday Night”
25. E L U C I D- “Betamax”
26. Hatchie- “Giving the Word Away”
27. Doechii feat Rico Nasty- “Swamp Bitches”
28. Stephen Mallinder- “Hush”
29. Sussex Telecom- “Snek”
30. Channel Tres- “Acid in My Blood”
31. Overmono- “Gunk”
32. Pink Siifu and Real Bad Men feat Boldy James- “Looking for Water”
33. Wet Leg- “Ur Mum”
34. Luna Li feat beabadoobee- “Silver Into Rain”
35. Winter- “Lose You”
36. Sniffany and the Nits- “Chicken Lover”
37. Watch the Ride- “Mash Up the Dance”
38. KH — “Only Human”
39. Solomon Fesshaye- “Star City”
40. Softcult- “Drain”