Another six months, another bajillion albums, EPs, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, bootlegs and vinyl reissues. Here’s every title that found its way into my ears and onto the site in the first six months of 2022:
!!! | Let It Be Blue
Ace Of Spit | Ace Of Spit
Acid Coco | Camino Al Mar
Action Bronson | Cocodrillo Turbo
Adédèji | Yoruba Odyssey
Aerosmith | 1971: The Road Starts Hear
AHRF | Extracurricular
Alexisonfire | Otherness
Alt-J | The Dream
Amoeba Teen | Amoeba Teen
Matt Andersen | House To House
Angered Wrecks | Bennies, Booze & R&R 1981
Animal Collective | Time Skiffs
Anteloper | Pink Dolphins
Anvil | Impact Is Imminent
A Place to Bury Strangers | See Through You
Aptera | You Can’t Bury What Still Burns
Arcade Fire | We
Astral Magic | Magical Kingdom
Baabes | Baabes
Band of Horses | Things Are Great
Bastards Of Soul | Corners
The Beatles | Get Back (Rooftop Performance)
Andy Bell | Flicker
Belle and Sebastian | A Bit of Previous
Steven Bernstein’s MTO feat. Catherine Russell | Good Time Music (Community Music, Vol. 2)
Steven Bernstein & The Hot 9 | Manifesto Of Henryisms (Community Music, Vol. 3)
Besvärjelsen | Atlas
Big Thief | Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
Billy Talent | Crisis Of Faith
Andrew Bird | Inside Problems
Los Bitchos | Let The Festivities Begin
Black Country, New Road | Ants From Up There
The Black Crowes | 1972 EP
Black Holes Are Cannibals | Surfacer
The Black Keys | Dropout Boogie
Black Mekon | We’ve Learned Nothing: Free Range Hassle 1+2
The Blank Canvas [ ] | Dark Mirage
Bloc Party | Alpha Games
Blood Red Shoes | Ghosts On Tape
Christian Blunda | Funky Punks in Space
The Blue And Gold | The Blue And Gold
The Bobby Lees | Hollywood Junkyard EP
Bob Vylan | Bob Vylan Presents The Price Of Life
Bodega | Broken Equipment
Sarah Borges | Alone Together
Boris | W
David Bowie | Toy:Box
Pennan Brae | Picked
The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Fire Doesn’t Grow On Trees
Broken Social Scene | Old Dead Young: B-Sides & Rarities
Basia Bulat | The Garden
Burial | Antidawn
Bye Bye Tsunami | Bye Bye Tsunami
Bzdet | Nie Ma Nic
Cactus | The Birth Of Cactus 1970
The Cactus Blossoms | One Day
Calexico | El Mirador
Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs | External Combustion
John Carter | My World Fell Down: The John Carter Story
Cassels | A Gut Feeling
Catcher | The Fat Of A Broken Heart
Cave In | Heavy Pendulum
Ceramic Animal | Sweet Unknown
Chief Cleopatra | Luna
Julie Christensen | 11 From Kevin: Songs Of Kevin Gordon
The Clash | Combat Rock / The People’s Hall Special Edition
Closure In Moscow | Pink Lemonade Reissue
Kate Clover | Bleed Your Heart Out
CMAT | If My Wife New I’d Be Dead
Coheed And Cambria | Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind
Color Palette | Shooting Stars
Combo Chimbita | Iré
Come | Peel Sessions
Congotronics International | Where’s The One?
Elvis Costello & Allan Mayes | Rusty: The Resurrection Of Rust
Elvis Costello & The Imposters | The Boy Named If
Cowboy Junkies | Songs Of The Recollection
Crobot | Feel This
Cypress Hill | Back In Black
Dashboard Confessional | All The Truth That I Can Tell
Datadyr | Woolgathering
Dead Lord | Dystopia EP
The Dead South | Easy Listening For Jerks Pt. 1 & 2
Def Leppard | Diamond Star Halos
Dehd | Blue Skies
Alabaster DePlume | Gold
Destroyer | Labyrinthitis
Dirty Sound Magnet | DSM-III
The Districts | Great American Painting
John Doe | Fables In A Foreign Land
Peter Doherty & Frédéric Lo | The Fantasy Life of Poetry & Crime
Johnny Dowd | Homemade Pie
The Dream Syndicate | Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions
The Dream Syndicate | What Can I Say? No Regrets... Out Of The Grey + Live, Demos & Outtakes
Dream Widow | Dream Widow
Drive-By Truckers | Welcome 2 Club XIII
Drug Church | Hygiene
Eades | Delusion Spree
Steve Earle & The Dukes | Jerry Jeff
Ecko Bazz | Mmaso
Eels | Extreme Witchcraft
EinsEinsEins | Zwei
Eleganza | Water Valley High
El Khat | Albat Alawi Op.99
El Perro | Hair Of El Perro
El Ten Eleven | New Year’s Eve
Empath | Visitor
Emperor Penguin | Sunday Carvery
Envy Of None | Envy Of None
Fantastic Negrito | White Jesus Black Problems
Father John Misty | Chloe And The Next 20th Century
Jaimi Faulkner | Allen Keys & Broken Bits
Bill Fay | Still Some Light Part 1
Bryan Ferry | Love Letters EP
50 Foot Wave | Black Pearl
Craig Finn | Legacy Of Rentals
Firpo Chompeavy | Smoking 45
Ella Fitzgerald | Ella At The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook
Five Hundred Bucks | $500
FKA Twigs | Caprisongs
Florence + the Machine | Dance Fever
Foals | Life Is Yours
Fontaines D.C. | Skinty Fia
Miles Francis | Good Man
Franz Ferdinand | Hits To The Head
Robert Fripp | Washington Square Church
Frog Eyes | The Bees
Fuzztones | Encore
Liam Gallagher | C’mon You Know / Down By The River Thames
Garcia Peoples | Dodging Dues
Bob Gaulke | Enka
Get the Fuck Outta Dodge | It’s Not Our Fault That Your Boyfriend’s Stupid
Ghost | Impera
Ghostkeeper | Multidimensional Culture
Robert Glasper | Black Radio III
Goodbye June | See Where The Night Goes
Guerilla Toss | Famously Alive
Guided by Voices | Crystal Nuns Cathedral
The Gun Club | The Las Vegas Story Deluxe Edition
The Head and the Heart | Every Shade Of Blue
The Hellacopters | Eyes Of Oblivion
The Hold Steady | Live in Chicago 8-23-19
The Hold Steady | Live in London 3-7-20
The Hold Steady | Live in Nashville 9-6-19
The Hold Steady | Live In Seattle 8-16-19
Hollis Brown | In The Aftermath
Hollow Rogues | Hollow Rogues
Hoodoo Gurus | Chariots Of The Gods
Bruce Hornsby | ’Flicted
Horsegirl | Versions of Modern Performance
Son House | Forever On My Mind
Ray Wylie Hubbard | Co-Starring Too
The Human Tornado | Love Is Démodé
Hurray For The Riff Raff | Life On Earth
Shabaka Hutchings | Afrikan Culture
Ibeyi | Spell 31
Ibibio Sound Machine | Electricity
Jaewon | Magnus
Jane Lee Hooker | Rollin’
Yves Jarvis | The Zug
The Jazz Butcher | The Highest In The Land
Jazz Sabbath | Vol. 2
Jethro Tull | The Zealot Gene
JIRM | The Tunnel, The Well, Holy Bedlam
Elton John | Madman Across The Water 50th Anniversary Edition
Johnossi | Mad Gone Wild
Jack Johnson | Meet The Moonlight
Sass Jordan | Bitches Blues
Julie & Dany | Julie & Dany
Miles Kane | Change The Show
Kernal | Listen To The Blood
Khruangbin & Leon Bridges | Texas Moon
Kids On A Crime Spree | Fall In Love Not In Line
Killing Joke | Lord Of Chaos EP
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Butterfly 3001
King Hannah | I’m Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me
Klazo | ’Demik Dementia Knekklectric | Alt Blir Verre
Kojokona | When in Khartoum
Korn | Requiem
Kula Shaker | 1st Congregational Church Of Eternal Love And Free Hugs
Labasheeda | Old Traditions
Laddio Bolocko | ’97-’99
Lady Wray | Piece Of Me
Dany Laj and The Looks | RetroSpectacle
Kendrick Lamar | Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio | Cold As Weiss
Miranda Lambert | Palomino
Lavender Country | Blackberry Rose
Cate Le Bon | Pompeii
Jerry Leger | Nothing Pressing
Mickey Leigh’s Mutated Music | Variants Of Vibe
Lemonheads | It’s A Shame About Ray 30th Anniversary Edition
Lykke Li | Eyeye
Li’l Andy | The Complete Recordings Of Hezekiah Procter (1925-1930)
The Linda Lindas | Growing Up
Loop | Sonancy
Loose Fit | Social Graces
Los Calvos | ...Y Que Calvos!
Lyle Lovett | 12th of June
Lucius | Second Nature
Dion Lunadon | Beyond Everything
Corb Lund | Songs My Friends Wrote
Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder | Get On Board: The Songs Of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Mahogany Frog | Faust
Maldita | Maldita
Johnny Marr | Fever Dreams Pts 1-4
Mattiel | Georgia Gothic
Max Creeps | Nein
John Mayall | The Sun Is Shining Down
Eamon McGrath | Bells Of Hope
JD McPherson | The Warm Covers EP, Vol. 2
Dan Melchior | CB Odyssey
John Mellencamp | Strictly A One-Eyed Jack
Meshuggah | Immutable
Midlake | For The Sake Of Bethel Woods
Landon Lloyd Miller | Light Shines Through
Charles Mingus | The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott’s
Charles Mingus | Mingus Three (ft. Hampton Hawes & Danny Richmond)
MNNQNS | The Second Principle
T.S. Monk | Live: Two Continents One Groove
Michael Monroe | I Live Too Fast To Die Young
Kevin Morby | This Is A Photograph
Van Morrison | What’s It Gonna Take?
Charlie Musselwhite | Mississippi Son
µ-Ziq | Magic Pony Ride
The Mysterines | Reeling
Willie Nelson | A Beautiful Time
Neurotic Outsiders | Neurotic Outsiders Expanded
David Newbould | Power Up!
Night Court | Nervous Birds! Too
Night Crickets | A Free Society
Ellis Nodar | 12
North Mississippi Allstars | Set Sail
Nova Twins | Supernova
Angel Olsen | Big Time
Orgone | Lost Knights
Otoboke Beaver | Super Champon
Our Lady Peace | Spiritual Machines II
Painted Shield | Painted Shield 2
Pavement | Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal + Spit On A Stranger Expanded Edition
Petrol Girls | Baby
Pictures | It’s OK
Pike vs. The Automaton | Pike vs. The Automaton
Pink Mountaintops | Peacock Pools
Placebo | Never Let Me Go
The Police | Around The World: Restored & Expanded
Robert Pollard | Our Gaze
Chris Pope & The Chords UK | Big City Dreams
Cat Power | Covers
Primus | Conspiranoid EP
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets | Night Gnomes
Punch Brothers | Hell On Church Street
Pup | The Unraveling Of Puptheband
Suzi Quatro | The Rock Box 1973 – 1979 / Back To The… Spotlight
Bonnie Raitt | Just Like That…
Rammstein | Zeit
The Rave-Ups | Tomorrow
The Real Shade | String Of Lights
Red Hot Chili Peppers | Unlimited Love
Red Sun Atacama | Darwin
Eli Paperboy Reed | Down Every Road
Reef | Shoot Me Your Ace
Swami John Reis | Ride The Wild Night
Keith Richards | Main Offender 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever | Endless Rooms
The Rolling Stones | Live At The El Mocambo
Romero | Turn It On!
Rosalía | Motomami
Rot TV | Tales of Torment
Rush | Moving Pictures 40th Anniversary Edition
St. Paul & The Broken Bones | The Alien Coast
Salo | From Melmac With Hate
Sam Jr. | Sam Jr.
Sasami | Squeeze
Say Sue Me | The Last Thing Left
Sea Power | Everything Was Forever
Ty Segall | Whirlybird Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Sei Still | Fuzz Club Session
Service | Drag Me
Shearwater | The Great Awakening
The Sheepdogs | Outta Sight
Ian Siegal | Stone By Stone
Silverbacks | Archive Material
Silver Lake 66 | The Space Between Us
Pip Skid | A Really Nice Day
The Slambovian Circus Of Dreams | A Very Unusual Head
Slang | Cockroach In A Ghost Town
Slash Ft. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators | 4
Slingshot Miracle | Prey
The Slocan Ramblers | Up The Hill And Through The Fog
The Smile | A Light For Attracting Attention
Soft Cell | *Happiness Not Included
Sonic Youth | In/Out/In
Sonic Youth | Live In Kyiv, Ukraine 1989
Sons: Sweet Boy
Sparks | Balls / Lil’ Beethoven / Hello Young Lovers Deluxe Editions
Jon Spencer & the HITmakers | Spencer Gets It Lit!
Spiral Drive | Visions In Bloom
Spiritualized | Everything Was Beautiful
Spoon | Lucifer On The Sofa
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band | Arrowhead Pond Of Anaheim, Ca 05/22/00
Springtime | Night Raver
Staples Jr. Singers | When Do We Get Paid?
Mavis Staples & Levon Helm | Carry Me Home
Stars | From Capelton Hill
Stereophonics | Oochya!
Kelley Stoltz | The Stylist
Bartees Strange | Farm To Table
Superchunk | Wild Loneliness
Damo Suzuki & Spiritczualic Enhancement Center | Arkaoda
Swamp Dogg | I Need A Job...So I Can Buy More Auto-Tune
Tanya Tagaq | Tongues
Corey Taylor | CMFB…Sides
Tears For Fears | The Tipping Point
Tedeschi Trucks Band | I Am The Moon: I. Crescent
Tegan and Sara | Still Jealous
Deniz Tek | Long Before Day
The Temperance Movement | Caught on Stage Live & Acoustic (2022)
Kae Tempest | The Line Is A Curve
The Temptations | Temptations 60
Jimi Tenor | Multiversum
These Wild Plains | Thrilled To Beer Here
3rd Secret | 3rd Secret
Ticora | Rivers From Ogun
Tigers On Opium | 503.420.6669.Vol.two
Tijuana Panthers | Halfway To Eighty
Tin Woodman | Songs For Eternal Lovers
The Tragically Hip | Live At The Roxy
Trombone Shorty | Lifted
Trupa Trupa | B Flat A
Frank Turner | FTHC
TV Priest | My Other People
Twin Void | Free From Hardtimes
Tymo | The Art Of A Maniac
Urge Overkill | Oui
Valley Of The Sun | The Chariot
Sharon Van Etten | We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
Various Artists | Brown Acid: The Fourteenth Trip
Various Artists | Döminance & Submissiön | A Tribute To Blue Öyster Cult (2022)
Various Artists | The D-Vine Spirituals Story Volume 1+2
Various Artists | Ocean Child: Songs Of Yoko Ono
Various Artists | Saturno 2000 – La Rebajada de Los Sonideros 1962-1983
Various Artists | Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Soundtrack
Various Artists | Take Me To The River: New Orleans
Eddie Vedder | Earthling
Velvet Starlings | Technicolour Shakedown
Kurt Vile | (Watch My Moves)
Violent River | Violent River EP
Voivod | Synchro Anarchy
Walker Brigade | If Only
Wheeler Walker Jr. | Sex, Drugs & Country Music
Joel Tyler Wall | F.I.T.H.
Warpaint | Radiate Like This
The Waterboys | All Souls Hill
Dale Watson | Jukebox Fury
The Weeknd | Dawn FM
Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros | Live In Colorado
Wet Leg | Wet Leg
Jack White | Fear Of The Dawn
Widowspeak | The Jacket
Wilco | Cruel Country
The William Loveday Intention | The Baptiser
The William Loveday Intention | Cowboys Are SQ
The William Loveday Intention | Early Demos Vol. 1 & 2
The William Loveday Intention | New & Improved Bob Dylan Vol. 2
The William Loveday Intention | Paralysed By The Mountains
Hank Williams Jr. | Rich White Honky Blues
Ann Wilson | Fierce Bliss
Smoke Wilson | Volcano
Edgar Winter | Brother Johnny
Wire | Not About To Die
Witches Broom | Witches Broom Reissue
The Wombats | Fix Yourself, Not The World
Nilüfer Yanya | Painless
Yard Act | The Overload
Yelawolf & Shooter Jennings | Sometimes Y
Yoo Doo Right | A Murmur, Boundless To The East
Pete Yorn | Hawaii
The Youngers | Nashville Again
Frank Zappa | Zappa/Erie
Frank Zappa | The Mothers 1971
