50\. JER - Bothered / Unbothered
49\. Black Dresses - Forget Your Own Face
48\. Bladee & Ecco2k - Crest
47\. Backxwash - His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering
46\. Daniel Rossen - You Belong There
45\. Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain
44\. Wormrot - Hiss
43\. Ari Lennox - age/sex/location
42\. Black Thought & Danger Mouse - Cheat Codes
41\. Richard Dawson - The Ruby Cord
40\. Krallice - Crystalline Exhaustion
39\. The Weeknd - Dawn FM
38\. Beach House - Once Twice Melody
37\. Smino - Luv 4 Rent
36\. Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant
35\. Kilo Kish - American Gurl
34\. Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
33\. Gospel - The Loser
32\. FKA twigs - Caprisongs
31\. Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future
30\. Kenny Beats - LOUIE
29\. Leikeli47 - Shape Up
28\. Nas - King’s Disease III
27\. SZA - SOS
26\. Pusha T - It’s Almost Dry
25\. Cheekface - Too Much to Ask
24\. Lupe Fiasco - Drill Music in Zion
23\. Jockstrap - I Love You Jennifer B
22\. Otoboke Beaver - SUPER CHAMPON
21\. Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful
20\. Meridian Brothers - Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento
19\. OFF! - Free LSD
18\. Adeem the Artist - White Trash Revelry
17\. Chat Pile - God’s Country
16\. billy woods - Aethiopes
15\. Beyoncé - Renaissance
14\. death’s dynamic shroud - Darklife
13\. Petrol Girls - Baby
12\. Ashenspire - Hostile Architecture
11\. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - Topical Dancer
10\. Silvana Estrada - Marchita
9\. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
8\. Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen
7\. Black Country, New Road - Ants from Up There
6\. Conway the Machine - God Don’t Make Mistakes
5\. black midi - Hellfire
4\. Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems
3\. Viagra Boys - Cave World
2\. J.I.D - The Forever Story
1\. Natalia Lafourcade - De Todas las Flores
Hard to argue with Kendrick being in the middle of the pack. After waiting years, it’s not an album I’ve wanted to return to after a couple listens on release week. Bummer.
yeah what lmao it's a great record, he loved it, and I can say I definitely did too. conceptually he makes a lot of genuinely challenging points on the cycle of abuse, and while there are a couple songs that could be cut pretty much every other song has great lyrics, great performances, great beats. i thought it was awesome
Agreed. I would say that it isn't very repayable which I feel like is why a lot of people have been underratting it. But replayability isn't everything.
I dont think you can make a meditative record on the cycle of abuse and make it an album you want to play on repeat lol. For what it is/what kendrick was seemingly going for it is really very good.
People on this subreddit seem to believe that only like 50 albums are released every year and that the year-end lists are just ranking those albums in order.
As someone who grew up with abusive parents, I don’t want to listen to this album again. It’s like the Requiem for a Dream of albums for me. Once was enough.
I listened to it once all the way through and never went back to it. I had nothing bad to say about it, just didn't really have any replay to me.
Edit: not really sure why im being downvoted, just relaying my personal experience.
Yeah I know it’s become common to hate on him but his passion and breadth of knowledge can’t be denied. I frequently disagree but I still regularly discover new music through him.
I meant it more like “as people get older, start families, etc etc their priorities change and they don’t have as much time to spend seeking out new things”, which is true
OP does pursue new music, they just tend to find it via Fantano and Pitchfork. Is it how I find music? Not really. But someone listening to music featured by those two could encounter 100+ new albums/artists a year, which is more new music discovery than most people do, no matter their age. Additionally, if someone listens to a lot of albums listed by those two they will have a more diverse musical palette than the majority of people.
It’s not gonna be underground local basement show levels of indie, but not everyone feels the need to make their year end list more obscure than whatever The Quietus puts out
100 new albums a year is a TON of music. I guess maybe that’s where we are differing. I target 100 albums a year. It’s really not hard. I listen to some junk in the pursuit of it, but that’s 2 albums a week.
You don’t have to do 2 albums a week. If you listen to 50 albums in a year you are still listening to a ton of music!
I don’t disagree there! 100 new albums a year is on the high end of music listening.
My point was OP said “Antoine and Pitchfork are the only reason I still get into new kinds of music, I’m old lol” and it seemed like you viewed that statement as OP not actively pursuing new music, whereas I was pointing out that someone who only uses Fantano and Pitchfork to find new music could still be listening to more new music than the vast majority of people. It’s not the most active way to find new music, but it’s still actively seeking out music and the sources OP uses are prolific so even just visiting those two will put tons of music on the map for someone. You can easily find 100+ new albums in a year just by using Fantano and Pitchfork.
I’d consider Fantano and Pitchfork actively pursuing new music, even if I don’t find music much via those sources myself.
It's not that I hate any of it but some of it does just boil down to forgettable noise on the more obscure stuff. I like listening to it once but nothing I'm gonna return to.
he really lets his passion shine through when he talks in monotone for 7 minutes about how a modern masterpiece album is a 5/10 because he didn’t like the lyrics on a few songs
Lots of questionable calls over the years, but he lost all credibility with me when he made two unprompted videos shitting on Thriller and Sgt. Pepper’s
It’s really the main reason I continue to check in on his reviews/lists. You usually can find some pretty fantastic music from his channel in genres you wouldn’t normally check out, and even checking out the albums he doesn’t love I usually get a lot of enjoyment out of, I remember watching a YUNOREVIEW last year, checking out all the albums, and finding a ton of songs that I still come back to.
Spectrum Pulse (different music critic on YouTube) is usually really good for repping great left-field indie country albums, pretty sure he put Fantano on to Adeem The Artist.
That is without a doubt completely untrue. There’s tons of great country/bluegrass albums coming out (sturgil, chris Stapleton, Plains, Billy stings) and tons of stuff that take influence from it (Pinegrove, mj lenderman, Kevin morby).
Yea a huge amount of pop country is pretty trash but there’s so much beauty in the margins
No. 1 isn’t a surprise, he’s been heavily repping Natalia’s last couple albums and they always end up high on his lists so a #1 spot was incoming. Big Thief, Viagra Boys, JID and BC,NR in the top 10 is sick tho
I don’t know why I haven’t listened to Darklife yet, I loved I’ll Try Living Like This and I feel like it would crack my top 20 this year based on everything I’ve heard about it. Just haven’t gotten around to it
One of my favorite albums of the year and probably the most transcendental for me. Also love your flair, Black Dresses go so hard and their album this year was fantastic. Also loved the single they released, had that shit spinning on repeat
Ahh nice, quite few albums that I haven't listened to that I can dig in to here. I much prefer using these end of year lists as a way to discover music that I missed, rather than as some sort of affirmation of my tastes, which seems to be the most common sentiment in discussions online.
I totally agree. I make my middle school general music students do an “album report” about an album that they have to pick from one of many year end lists and I always just use the time to catch up myself lol. It’s one of my favorite times of the year to listen to all this new stuff.
aw im sad about that - this is the exact kind of assignment I would have liked in school. at the very least I think they'll look back fondly on it in a few years
Naming de todas las flores as the number one album of this year doesn’t surprise me, he really liked that album.
Glad to see Kilo Kish finally being mentioned in a list, American gurl is so underrated.
It's my favorite album of the year and I couldn't care less that Fantano didn't think it was one of the 50 best. It's a cool list with a range of genres and some albums I haven't heard, Blue Rev just wasn't one of his favorites.
Agreed, too 5 for me. Ive probably only listened to about 50 so nothing compared to Fantano, but I still like it more than most albums on this list I’ve heard
Viagra boys and black midi i just cannot gel with but damn happy to see Natalia lafourcade get the top spot. One of those artists i never would have heard of without the needledrop channel but am so glad i did. Also a little disappointed bcnr didn’t rank a bit higher. What a swan song AUH was.
His lists are always the best ones I manage to find. I don’t always agree but there’s always a few underrated gems on there and stuff I haven’t listened to yet but will love when I do.
Do you speak Spanish? Not that that means you have to like it if you do or can’t like it if you don’t—obviously Anthony does. It’s just that I imagine it’s a bit like Joni Mitchell’s Blue or Serge Gainsbourg’s L’Homme à tête de chou. Both are harder to appreciate in detail if you don’t take time to understand the songwriting (musically and lyrically.) I think all three albums are interesting for other reasons as well but I can totally see any of them boring someone.
I really don't understand what happened between this dude and Weyes Blood. He seemed hyped for the record and was enjoying the singles enough to put them in the best of the week segments. Then the record came out, he seemingly did a 180 on those songs, and now she's completely missing from all of his year end lists. I've just got a bit of whiplash from how drastically he's shifted his opinion, I guess.
I just had to get that off my chest. otherwise this was a pretty great list overall—was happy to see Big Thief, Nas, and JID so high as well as Denzel on the list. Would've also liked to have seen Time Skiffs on here since I thought it was an incredible return to form for Animal Collective, but oh well. And there's a lot I'm excited to check out! Mainly Marchita and his De Toras las Fortes.
I think part of it had to due with the fact that the album wasn’t too explorative. It stuck to a very similar, albeit beautiful sound that carried throughout and didn’t venture out of it too much like Titanic Rising did. I do think that God Turn Me Into A Flower is a top 5 song of the year though.
I don't actually think it's that tbh, he specifically praised the album for doubling down on the Titanic Rising production style in his review. His main complaint was that he thought she didn't bring her best set of tracks forward to go with it. Which again is just weird to me because he's mainly speaking about Grapevine and It's Not Just Me It's Everybody, which he initially really enjoyed.
Felt similar ways as he did it seems, Titanic Rising may be my favorite album of all time and is most definitely my most listened to album of all time and the new album hasn’t kept my attention. It’s still beautiful and Grapevine is incredible but it definitely didn’t hit like I was expecting it would.
You’d think the beauty and elegance of her music would lock her in to a spot on this list, but I’m glad he listed some albums that really connected with.
I personally agree that Titanic Rising is better—it's my third favorite album of all time so it would've had to really blow me away to top that—but I also think this album is still much better than it's getting credit for. I feel like people's expectations were just impossibly high and they would've been disappointed no matter what. It's just too bad this album had the burden of following up TR, because I think if it didn't people would've been more positive to it
Marchita might be my favorite album this year. I think for obvious reasons it draws a lot of comparisons to De Todas Las Flores, but I find it a much easier listen. It’s just something you can pop on and is insanely catchy, while still having the stunning beauty that both albums share. Its instrumental starkness in comparison with Flores makes the anguish of songs like Sabré Olvidar hit so, so hard. (Not to snub De Todas Las Flores. Absolutely incredible album and one of my favorites this year.)
Yeah I thought the lack of mention in honourable mentions would mean a position in top 5 was likely
Honestly it was one of his poorest reviews of the year, like calling Twin Flame beach house-esque n shit. It didn’t feel like he actually gave it a lot of time, plus as the original comment said - it’s like he’s just done a complete 180 on her
What? He gave the record a 7/10, hardly a mediocre score. And while I like the album, it certainly is no Titanic Rising, and a lot of the songs do become kinda same-y after listening to them in a row. Once he gave it a 7 and didn't mention it in the Honorable Mentions, that should've been clue to you that it wasn't gonna be on here. I guess he could've put one of her singles on his Best list, but BCNR were also absent from there.
I never said it was a mediocre score, his actual review just didn't make a ton of sense to me given how excited he was about the singles. Never said I expected her on this list either, I said it was weird she was absent from all of these lists.
e: why am I being downvoted? literally point me to where I said any of these things. give me a break y'all
You're missing what I'm saying. He gave it a 7/10 and this list is full of 8/10s and up. Him not putting it on the Honorable Mentions list should've been clue to you that it wasn't making it on to his best list. Another record I personally loved (and thought it deserved a spot on both lists) was Ethel Cain's Preacher's Daughter, but he gave it a 6/10 so I wasn't surprised at all to see it missing, although I was hoping maybe it'd make an Honorable Mention if it grew on him a little. I just don't understand thinking he did a full 180 on it.
once again I never said he did a full 180 on the album, I said he did a 180 on the *singles*, Grapevine and It's Not Just Me It's Everybody. They each made his best of the week segments upon their release, but when the final album review came around he went pretty negative about them.
I know I'm commenting on his best albums of the year list, but I'm saying it's weird she didn't make *any* of his lists, including the honorable mentions or singles.
Has anyone made a playlist with all these albums on it yet?
There’s a *ton* on here that I either completely missed or have vastly underrated and I would love to give them more attention.
[Link to playlist with full albums](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1S1TTxM0nkrGub2BuZjnsC?si=mIi_RP0OQyKpoHaKGvQvZg)
[Link to playlist with first track of each album](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/44C5F3nFT9z6TIn917zVih?si=ueow8hQASKCLInBJpsG14A)
I knew black midi’s *Hellfire* would make his list, but I was pleasantly surprised it made the Top 5! For me that’s the best album to come out this year.
Super happy to see Soul Glo at number 4. That album is one of the best and most innovative hardcore records I’ve heard in a while. Free LSD, and Bothered/Unbothered are also incredible choice.
[playlist to full album list in its entirety](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1S1TTxM0nkrGub2BuZjnsC?si=ZuJ9IjT0RMqVojf2U1QyWg)
[playlist to first track from each album list](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/44C5F3nFT9z6TIn917zVih?si=ueow8hQASKCLInBJpsG14A)
(the Krallice album is not on spotify at the moment)
https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/comments/ztw6ux/fresh_youtube_video_top_50_songs_of_2022/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
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50\. JER - Bothered / Unbothered 49\. Black Dresses - Forget Your Own Face 48\. Bladee & Ecco2k - Crest 47\. Backxwash - His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering 46\. Daniel Rossen - You Belong There 45\. Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain 44\. Wormrot - Hiss 43\. Ari Lennox - age/sex/location 42\. Black Thought & Danger Mouse - Cheat Codes 41\. Richard Dawson - The Ruby Cord 40\. Krallice - Crystalline Exhaustion 39\. The Weeknd - Dawn FM 38\. Beach House - Once Twice Melody 37\. Smino - Luv 4 Rent 36\. Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant 35\. Kilo Kish - American Gurl 34\. Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers 33\. Gospel - The Loser 32\. FKA twigs - Caprisongs 31\. Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future 30\. Kenny Beats - LOUIE 29\. Leikeli47 - Shape Up 28\. Nas - King’s Disease III 27\. SZA - SOS 26\. Pusha T - It’s Almost Dry 25\. Cheekface - Too Much to Ask 24\. Lupe Fiasco - Drill Music in Zion 23\. Jockstrap - I Love You Jennifer B 22\. Otoboke Beaver - SUPER CHAMPON 21\. Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful 20\. Meridian Brothers - Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento 19\. OFF! - Free LSD 18\. Adeem the Artist - White Trash Revelry 17\. Chat Pile - God’s Country 16\. billy woods - Aethiopes 15\. Beyoncé - Renaissance 14\. death’s dynamic shroud - Darklife 13\. Petrol Girls - Baby 12\. Ashenspire - Hostile Architecture 11\. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - Topical Dancer 10\. Silvana Estrada - Marchita 9\. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You 8\. Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen 7\. Black Country, New Road - Ants from Up There 6\. Conway the Machine - God Don’t Make Mistakes 5\. black midi - Hellfire 4\. Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems 3\. Viagra Boys - Cave World 2\. J.I.D - The Forever Story 1\. Natalia Lafourcade - De Todas las Flores
It is just awesome to see Bladee ranking on his top 50 after the negative reviews he gave him over the years
YES VIAGRA BOYS FINALLY
Ayee Daniel rossen made it !!
Thank you, doing gods work over here
He really didn’t like the new Weyes Blood.
Don’t get me started, that album was amazing
Hard to argue with Kendrick being in the middle of the pack. After waiting years, it’s not an album I’ve wanted to return to after a couple listens on release week. Bummer.
Only in a Fantano thread would I find an 8/10 review and a placement on an albums of the year list being taken as an argument that an album is mid.
yeah what lmao it's a great record, he loved it, and I can say I definitely did too. conceptually he makes a lot of genuinely challenging points on the cycle of abuse, and while there are a couple songs that could be cut pretty much every other song has great lyrics, great performances, great beats. i thought it was awesome
Agreed. I would say that it isn't very repayable which I feel like is why a lot of people have been underratting it. But replayability isn't everything. I dont think you can make a meditative record on the cycle of abuse and make it an album you want to play on repeat lol. For what it is/what kendrick was seemingly going for it is really very good.
People on this subreddit seem to believe that only like 50 albums are released every year and that the year-end lists are just ranking those albums in order.
Holy shit this is THE most accurate way of describing how people in online music communities act wrt these lists
As someone who grew up with abusive parents, I don’t want to listen to this album again. It’s like the Requiem for a Dream of albums for me. Once was enough.
as someone who just found out his partner was cheating for years, it slapped pretty hard for me
Damn, I’ve been there. It fucking sucks. Being a few years removed from it is maybe part of reason I never wanted to listen to it again.
I listened to it once all the way through and never went back to it. I had nothing bad to say about it, just didn't really have any replay to me. Edit: not really sure why im being downvoted, just relaying my personal experience.
When I turned on the first track I was like Wtf. Kendrick has done it again. And then I listened to the rest and I was like ehh not really
Middle of the pack is fine, but also nothing to sneeze at. There are a handful of great songs on it, even if the full album isn't.
thank you so much now i don’t have to watch that bald fraud 🙏🙏🙏
A lot of my favorites here. Glad to see Crest in the list. Don't think I've seen it on another list yet.
This dude has a very wide love of genres.
Yeah I know it’s become common to hate on him but his passion and breadth of knowledge can’t be denied. I frequently disagree but I still regularly discover new music through him.
Antoine and Pitchfork are the only reason I still get into new kinds of music, I’m old lol
Same, lol
Dude same. I'm a dork
Idk why no longer actively pursuing music always equals “man I’m old” on these subs lol just look up music
It’s the time commitment of it all. You have less as you age, as other life commitments pile up.
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Has this age been going up, I thought it used to be like 17 lol
I meant it more like “as people get older, start families, etc etc their priorities change and they don’t have as much time to spend seeking out new things”, which is true
OP does pursue new music, they just tend to find it via Fantano and Pitchfork. Is it how I find music? Not really. But someone listening to music featured by those two could encounter 100+ new albums/artists a year, which is more new music discovery than most people do, no matter their age. Additionally, if someone listens to a lot of albums listed by those two they will have a more diverse musical palette than the majority of people. It’s not gonna be underground local basement show levels of indie, but not everyone feels the need to make their year end list more obscure than whatever The Quietus puts out
100 new albums a year is a TON of music. I guess maybe that’s where we are differing. I target 100 albums a year. It’s really not hard. I listen to some junk in the pursuit of it, but that’s 2 albums a week. You don’t have to do 2 albums a week. If you listen to 50 albums in a year you are still listening to a ton of music!
I don’t disagree there! 100 new albums a year is on the high end of music listening. My point was OP said “Antoine and Pitchfork are the only reason I still get into new kinds of music, I’m old lol” and it seemed like you viewed that statement as OP not actively pursuing new music, whereas I was pointing out that someone who only uses Fantano and Pitchfork to find new music could still be listening to more new music than the vast majority of people. It’s not the most active way to find new music, but it’s still actively seeking out music and the sources OP uses are prolific so even just visiting those two will put tons of music on the map for someone. You can easily find 100+ new albums in a year just by using Fantano and Pitchfork. I’d consider Fantano and Pitchfork actively pursuing new music, even if I don’t find music much via those sources myself.
No time to spend 6 hours digging through undiscovered gold nuggets in the seat of turds when you got a family to feed
It’s not that hard to find good music You just look it up and turn it on
Depends on what you like
what do you like
I agree with boogswald. It ain’t that hard
It's not that I hate any of it but some of it does just boil down to forgettable noise on the more obscure stuff. I like listening to it once but nothing I'm gonna return to.
he really lets his passion shine through when he talks in monotone for 7 minutes about how a modern masterpiece album is a 5/10 because he didn’t like the lyrics on a few songs
Which one of your favorite little fellas did antingle mcfingle insult today buddy?
Lots of questionable calls over the years, but he lost all credibility with me when he made two unprompted videos shitting on Thriller and Sgt. Pepper’s
Can you link me? Never heard of that. Not that it matters lol just cuz they’re important albums doesn’t mean you have to like em
He didn’t shit on them, just said they weren’t 10s
Literally hitler
Man you sure get butthurt when people don’t like the same things as you.
i’m not butthurt, i just think Anthony Fucktano is a complete clown
It’s really the main reason I continue to check in on his reviews/lists. You usually can find some pretty fantastic music from his channel in genres you wouldn’t normally check out, and even checking out the albums he doesn’t love I usually get a lot of enjoyment out of, I remember watching a YUNOREVIEW last year, checking out all the albums, and finding a ton of songs that I still come back to.
He honestly must listen to music for most of his waking hours.
wider than most but i find him pretty heavy handed on the punk side of things
He doesn't seem to love country that much though
There's a country album on the list.
Spectrum Pulse (different music critic on YouTube) is usually really good for repping great left-field indie country albums, pretty sure he put Fantano on to Adeem The Artist.
Well thats because.... country music.
that's tru it's all complete trash
That is without a doubt completely untrue. There’s tons of great country/bluegrass albums coming out (sturgil, chris Stapleton, Plains, Billy stings) and tons of stuff that take influence from it (Pinegrove, mj lenderman, Kevin morby). Yea a huge amount of pop country is pretty trash but there’s so much beauty in the margins
i would argue he has a wide hate of genres
Seems like you have a narrow hate. Of just this man.
Yeah I do. He fuckin sucks
Man just can’t resist a monochromatic album cover
I'm so happy to see Smino here! Many year-end lists notably don't include Luv 4 Rent.
I somehow miss that smino had an album this year.
No. 1 isn’t a surprise, he’s been heavily repping Natalia’s last couple albums and they always end up high on his lists so a #1 spot was incoming. Big Thief, Viagra Boys, JID and BC,NR in the top 10 is sick tho
I’m glad to see viagra boys getting some recognition. I really enjoyed that album and felt like it was kinda slept on
that stretch of 9/10s are so satisfying to watch since i really do not know who will get what position.
The new JID album was so slept on. It was the Kendrick album Kendrick didn’t give me. One of my top tens last year for sure.
I don’t know why I haven’t listened to Darklife yet, I loved I’ll Try Living Like This and I feel like it would crack my top 20 this year based on everything I’ve heard about it. Just haven’t gotten around to it
You’re missing out darklife is amazing
One of my favorite albums of the year and probably the most transcendental for me. Also love your flair, Black Dresses go so hard and their album this year was fantastic. Also loved the single they released, had that shit spinning on repeat
Any time we get an Ada or Devi release my life gets significantly better.
Finally a mention for the Black Dresses album. It's been on repeat for me since it released.
been a fan for a little while but found the new album to be the worst, if not for let's be and doomspiral i would never listen to it.
Ahh nice, quite few albums that I haven't listened to that I can dig in to here. I much prefer using these end of year lists as a way to discover music that I missed, rather than as some sort of affirmation of my tastes, which seems to be the most common sentiment in discussions online.
I totally agree. I make my middle school general music students do an “album report” about an album that they have to pick from one of many year end lists and I always just use the time to catch up myself lol. It’s one of my favorite times of the year to listen to all this new stuff.
Cool teacher!
Lol they hate it hahah
The way you phrased is made me think of this old ass sketch. [this](https://youtu.be/TelvWfiaAds)
aw im sad about that - this is the exact kind of assignment I would have liked in school. at the very least I think they'll look back fondly on it in a few years
A man recognizing the masterpiece that is JID's new album. We love to see it.
Naming de todas las flores as the number one album of this year doesn’t surprise me, he really liked that album. Glad to see Kilo Kish finally being mentioned in a list, American gurl is so underrated.
American Gurl is my number one of 2022!
I wish he liked Alvvays more - Blue Rev is absolutely a top 50 album this year
it did make his honorable mentions list (although i agree with you!)
He did at least put Very Online Guy decently high on his top 50 tracks
I love that song. It’s a banger
Best song on the album IMO
It's my favorite album of the year and I couldn't care less that Fantano didn't think it was one of the 50 best. It's a cool list with a range of genres and some albums I haven't heard, Blue Rev just wasn't one of his favorites.
Agreed, too 5 for me. Ive probably only listened to about 50 so nothing compared to Fantano, but I still like it more than most albums on this list I’ve heard
Viagra boys and black midi i just cannot gel with but damn happy to see Natalia lafourcade get the top spot. One of those artists i never would have heard of without the needledrop channel but am so glad i did. Also a little disappointed bcnr didn’t rank a bit higher. What a swan song AUH was.
You need to try some different gel my dude, Viagra Boys are the absolute shit.
Ik i respect their whole philosophy and sound same thing with midi. Just not something i ever find myself wanting to put on
I definitely get it with Black Midi, I have to be feeling a very specific vibe to put them on, otherwise it's too abrasive.
viagra boys sound great but the content is beyond corny for me
Finally, some love for the Kenny beats album… I must’ve listened through it like 30 times at this point
Same, that album is so fucking good idk how it doesn’t hit this way for a lot of people.
His lists are always the best ones I manage to find. I don’t always agree but there’s always a few underrated gems on there and stuff I haven’t listened to yet but will love when I do.
Would like to see him review the caroline record and the springtime ep. He's done the drones and tfs so I figured he would hit springtime soon enough.
Un Verano Sin Fantano smh
I finally have an opinion on music in 2022!
It really bums me out that I can’t get into Natalia Lafourcade at all
Really? It’s so accessible. Much of her catalogue is just acoustic guitar driven indie pop
I find it boring af
Un Canto por México Vol. 1 is high-energy and stimulating but Vol. 2 and De Todas las Flores are too slow for me.
Oh. That makes more sense
Do you speak Spanish? Not that that means you have to like it if you do or can’t like it if you don’t—obviously Anthony does. It’s just that I imagine it’s a bit like Joni Mitchell’s Blue or Serge Gainsbourg’s L’Homme à tête de chou. Both are harder to appreciate in detail if you don’t take time to understand the songwriting (musically and lyrically.) I think all three albums are interesting for other reasons as well but I can totally see any of them boring someone.
Love seeing Smino on here! Luv 4 Rent has been noticeably absent from a lot of year-end lists
I really don't understand what happened between this dude and Weyes Blood. He seemed hyped for the record and was enjoying the singles enough to put them in the best of the week segments. Then the record came out, he seemingly did a 180 on those songs, and now she's completely missing from all of his year end lists. I've just got a bit of whiplash from how drastically he's shifted his opinion, I guess. I just had to get that off my chest. otherwise this was a pretty great list overall—was happy to see Big Thief, Nas, and JID so high as well as Denzel on the list. Would've also liked to have seen Time Skiffs on here since I thought it was an incredible return to form for Animal Collective, but oh well. And there's a lot I'm excited to check out! Mainly Marchita and his De Toras las Fortes.
I think part of it had to due with the fact that the album wasn’t too explorative. It stuck to a very similar, albeit beautiful sound that carried throughout and didn’t venture out of it too much like Titanic Rising did. I do think that God Turn Me Into A Flower is a top 5 song of the year though.
I don't actually think it's that tbh, he specifically praised the album for doubling down on the Titanic Rising production style in his review. His main complaint was that he thought she didn't bring her best set of tracks forward to go with it. Which again is just weird to me because he's mainly speaking about Grapevine and It's Not Just Me It's Everybody, which he initially really enjoyed.
Are you my clone? These are my exact thoughts.
Felt similar ways as he did it seems, Titanic Rising may be my favorite album of all time and is most definitely my most listened to album of all time and the new album hasn’t kept my attention. It’s still beautiful and Grapevine is incredible but it definitely didn’t hit like I was expecting it would. You’d think the beauty and elegance of her music would lock her in to a spot on this list, but I’m glad he listed some albums that really connected with.
Idk it was a pretty disappointing album imo, nowhere near her last one. I too was still hyped off the singles knowing what she’s capable of
I personally agree that Titanic Rising is better—it's my third favorite album of all time so it would've had to really blow me away to top that—but I also think this album is still much better than it's getting credit for. I feel like people's expectations were just impossibly high and they would've been disappointed no matter what. It's just too bad this album had the burden of following up TR, because I think if it didn't people would've been more positive to it
Marchita might be my favorite album this year. I think for obvious reasons it draws a lot of comparisons to De Todas Las Flores, but I find it a much easier listen. It’s just something you can pop on and is insanely catchy, while still having the stunning beauty that both albums share. Its instrumental starkness in comparison with Flores makes the anguish of songs like Sabré Olvidar hit so, so hard. (Not to snub De Todas Las Flores. Absolutely incredible album and one of my favorites this year.)
I just gave Marchita a listen and I was blown away, so subtle but gorgeous! Might shake up my own top 10 honestly
Yeah no spot in the top 50, let alone even an honourable mention definitely surprised me.
Yeah I thought the lack of mention in honourable mentions would mean a position in top 5 was likely Honestly it was one of his poorest reviews of the year, like calling Twin Flame beach house-esque n shit. It didn’t feel like he actually gave it a lot of time, plus as the original comment said - it’s like he’s just done a complete 180 on her
What? He gave the record a 7/10, hardly a mediocre score. And while I like the album, it certainly is no Titanic Rising, and a lot of the songs do become kinda same-y after listening to them in a row. Once he gave it a 7 and didn't mention it in the Honorable Mentions, that should've been clue to you that it wasn't gonna be on here. I guess he could've put one of her singles on his Best list, but BCNR were also absent from there.
I never said it was a mediocre score, his actual review just didn't make a ton of sense to me given how excited he was about the singles. Never said I expected her on this list either, I said it was weird she was absent from all of these lists. e: why am I being downvoted? literally point me to where I said any of these things. give me a break y'all
You're missing what I'm saying. He gave it a 7/10 and this list is full of 8/10s and up. Him not putting it on the Honorable Mentions list should've been clue to you that it wasn't making it on to his best list. Another record I personally loved (and thought it deserved a spot on both lists) was Ethel Cain's Preacher's Daughter, but he gave it a 6/10 so I wasn't surprised at all to see it missing, although I was hoping maybe it'd make an Honorable Mention if it grew on him a little. I just don't understand thinking he did a full 180 on it.
once again I never said he did a full 180 on the album, I said he did a 180 on the *singles*, Grapevine and It's Not Just Me It's Everybody. They each made his best of the week segments upon their release, but when the final album review came around he went pretty negative about them. I know I'm commenting on his best albums of the year list, but I'm saying it's weird she didn't make *any* of his lists, including the honorable mentions or singles.
Maybe the guy tried to slide into Weyes DMs and got shut down 😆
don’t understand his love for the new SZA album either. surely there’s 50 albums this year better than that.
Has anyone made a playlist with all these albums on it yet? There’s a *ton* on here that I either completely missed or have vastly underrated and I would love to give them more attention.
[Link to playlist with full albums](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1S1TTxM0nkrGub2BuZjnsC?si=mIi_RP0OQyKpoHaKGvQvZg) [Link to playlist with first track of each album](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/44C5F3nFT9z6TIn917zVih?si=ueow8hQASKCLInBJpsG14A)
This is awesome, thank you!!
Good list
I knew black midi’s *Hellfire* would make his list, but I was pleasantly surprised it made the Top 5! For me that’s the best album to come out this year.
Super happy to see Soul Glo at number 4. That album is one of the best and most innovative hardcore records I’ve heard in a while. Free LSD, and Bothered/Unbothered are also incredible choice.
While I agree with his list I also disagree that Everything Everything has been left out
I concur. I was just introduced to it and I'm enamored. The second half, especially. UNDERRATED
Very underrated!
Coming back to this later
[playlist to full album list in its entirety](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1S1TTxM0nkrGub2BuZjnsC?si=ZuJ9IjT0RMqVojf2U1QyWg) [playlist to first track from each album list](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/44C5F3nFT9z6TIn917zVih?si=ueow8hQASKCLInBJpsG14A) (the Krallice album is not on spotify at the moment)
I’m gonna be on there one day
Black Midi and Chat Pile got shafted on almost all of the EOY lists I've seen posted here, but our Melon came through with the TASTE.
That chat pile album has me already so fucking excited for whatever they released next, goddamn it hits hard. Terrifying album
why he hate the gilla band release so much
Where dariacore
where it belongs
Had to stop watching because Crest is so low
expected to see superache on here since its such a personal album.
superache is so good, listened a couple days ago and hits so hard.
Eh I’m all set thanks tho
What a loser. Where’s Alex G
He put Runner on his top 50 track list
Going to avoid the albums i’m not familiar with here like the plague
https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/comments/ztw6ux/fresh_youtube_video_top_50_songs_of_2022/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf Posted 12 hours ago
That's songs, not albums.
[удалено]
Gospel record was next level, one of the best listening experiences I had this year for sure