Dave 3000's Top 25 (or so) New Releases of 2022

(Just my opinion!)

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1		black midi "Hellfire" (Rough Trade)
2		OFF! "Free LSD" (Fat Possum)
3   (tie)		King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard "Omnium Gatherum" (KGLW)    and "Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava" (KGLW)
4   (tie)		Dempagumi.inc "DEMPARK!!!" (Meme Tokyo/Toy's Factory)    and "Dempakashic Records" EP (Meme Tokyo/Toy's Factory)
5		The Gatekeepers "The Gatekeepers" (Think Like A Key)
6		Wand "Spiders In The Rain" (Drag City)
7		The Mars Volta "The Mars Volta" (Clouds Hill)
8		Kikagaku Moyo "Komoyo Island" (Guruguru Brain)
9		John Dwyer, Ryan Sawyer, Greg Coates, Wilder Zoby & Andres Renteria "Gong Splat" (Castle Face)
10   (tie)		King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard "Made In Timeland" (KGLW)    and "Laminated Denim" (KGLW)
11		Dungen "En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog" (Mexican Summer)   ("Once Is Too Much And A Thousand Is Never Enough")
12   (tie)		Matmos "Regards/Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer" (Thrill Jockey)    and The Soft Pink Truth "Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This?" (Thrill Jockey)
13		Haru Nemuri "Shunka-Ryougen" (TO3S)   ("Spring Fire Setting The Fields Ablaze")
14		Black Lips "Apocalypse Love" (Fire)
15		Jenny Hval "Classic Objects" (4AD)
16		Bitchin' Bajas "Bajascillators" (Drag City)
17		King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard "Changes" (KGLW)
18		Babe Rainbow "The Organic Band" (Eureka)
19		Alex G "God Save The Animals" (Domino)
20		Bronze "Absolute Compliance" (Castle Face)
21		Tricot "Fudeki" (8902/Cutting Edge)   ("Bungle" or "Failure")
22		Cheer-Accident "Here Comes The Sunset" (Skin Graft)
23		DISQ "Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet" (Saddle Creek)
24		Flaccid Mojo "FM" (Castle Face)
25		Jazz Sabbath "Vol. 2" (Black Lake)

Plus the Top Archival releases of the year:

   
Honorable Mentions:

(in alphabetical order)

All Them Witches "Live On The Internet" (New West)
Anteloper "Pink Dolphins" (International Anthem)
Atarashii Gakko! "Snacktime" EP (88rising)
Babe Rainbow "Levitation Sessions" (Reverberation Appreciation Society)
The Black Angels "Wilderness Of Mirrors" (Partisan)
Black Country, New Road "Ants From Up There" (Ninja Tune)
The Black Keys "Dropout Boogie" (Nonesuch)
Boris "W" (Sacred Bones) and "Heavy Rocks" (Relapse)
Built To Spill "When The Wind Forgets Your Name" (Sub Pop)
Can "Live In Cuxhaven 1976" (Mute) - previously unreleased concert recording
Capsule "Metro Pulse" (Warner Japan)
Cheekface "Too Much To Ask" (New Professor Music)   
Chelmico "Gokigen" (Warner Japan)
The Comet Is Coming "Hyperdimensional Expansion Beam" (Impulse!)
DAOKO with Yohji Igarashi "MAD" EP (teftef)
Richard Dawson "The Ruby Cord" (Domino)
Dr. Dog "Four Nights Live In San Francisco" (self released)
Dr. John "Things Happen That Way" (Concord) - posthumous album recorded 2019
EXEK "Advertise Here" (Castle Face)
50 Foot Wave "Black Pearl" (Fire)
The Flying Luttenbachers "Terror Iridescence" (ugEXPLODE)
Gnome "King" (Polderrecords)
Muriel Grossman "Universal Code" (Dreamland)
Guided By Voices "Crystal Nuns Cathedral" and "Tremblers And Goggles By Rank" (GBV Inc.)
Joyeria "FIM" EP (Speedy Wunderground)
King Buffalo "Regenerator" (self released)
KOKOROKO "Could We Be More" (Brownswood)    
The Murlocs "Rapscallion" (ATO)
The Natural Yogurt Band "Dance The Devil Away" (BMM)
Nagi Nemoto "Lume Di Spica" EP (Dearstage)
Osees "A Foul Form" (Castle Face)
Otoboke Beaver "Super Champon" (Damnably)
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom "Reset" (Domino)
Perfume "Plasma" (Universal)
Poppy "Stagger" EP (Republic/Lava)
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets "Night Gnomes" (What Reality)
Adrian Quesada "Jaguar Sound" (ATO)
Todd Rundgren "Space Force" (Cleopatra)
Ty Segall "Hello, Hi" (Drag City)
Snarky Puppy "Empire Central" (GroundUp)
Soaked Oats "Working Title" (Dot Dash/Remote Control)
Sonic Youth "In/Out/In" (Three Lobed) - previously unreleased material from the early 2000's
Spiritualized "Everything Was Beautiful" (Fat Possum)
Superorganism "World Wide Pop" (Domino)
Trash Panda Go Kart "Might As Well Sprouted The Third Eye" (self released)
Tricot "Jodeki" (8902/Cutting Edge)
Tropical Fuck Storm with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard "Satanic Slumber Party" EP (Joyful Noise)
Kurt Vile "(watch my moves)" (Verve)
Wednesday Campanella "Neon" (Warner Japan)
Wienners "Treasure" (Nippon Columbia)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse "Toast" (Reprise) - previously unreleased album from 2000
Neil Young & Crazy Horse "World Record" (Reprise)
Neil Young & Promise of the Real "Noise And Flowers" (Reprise)

   

Best Local Album (from Wisconsin):

The DISQ album at #23 on the best of the year list above!

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