Best music of 2022
Howdy folks. Here we are again. Earlier than usual this year – I finished a final run-through of my 2022 playlist (at the time of starting writing, 284 albums, 240 hours, and 3,243 tracks) so I’m ready to ramble! This also means I can spend the rest of December listening to what I want to. Not that I don’t enjoy listening to all this new stuff, and there was a tonne of great music released in 2022, of course, but perhaps it’s a question of when . Sometimes you’re just in the mood for some 1980s Iron Maiden, y’know? Or Christmas music, given the time of year. This is mostly the only time when I forget I’m not supposed to like cheesy music, but then some records, like Vince Guaraldi’s soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas, are classics regardless. Plus, as I’ve written before, a December cannot go by without a ritual listen of Tool’s Lateralus and AFI’s The Art of Drowning (or Korn’s Issues at New Year’s). And Spotify Wrapped only goes up to the end of November – I had previously hope...