Tony's Current Year (2022) in MUSIC

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List follows the same methodology as my yearly movie lists - colors indicate how strongly I like the album on a declining scale of red, orange, green, blue, purple. I've also added a "Graveyard" below, listing all the albums I've listened to from this release year thus far that I didn't like well enough to prescribe a color. (In other words, the Graveyard are my 5/10's and below, to put a number to it.) We'll see how long that idea lasts before it becomes too tiresome for me to update, thereby abandoning it henceforth.

Updated 14 Sept 2022

ANTS FROM UP THERE -- Black Country, New Road
HONEST COMEDY -- Infinity Land
2 -- Coconuts
UGLY SEASON -- Perfume Genius
AVEILUT -- Scarcity
"DAUMENBRUCH„ -- faust
FEEDING THE MACHINE -- Binker & Moses
PARALLEL WEAVING -- Sheng Jie & Shen Jing
DRAGON NEW WARM MOUNTAIN I BELIEVE IN YOU -- Big Thief
THE LIQUIFIED THRONE OF SIMPLICITY -- Širom
DISHES ARE NEVER DONE BUT GOOD LUCK -- Helvetia
THE WHOLE OF THE BODY I CALL ZOS -- ZOS
BELLADONNA -- Mary Halvorson
KATYUSHA -- Martín Escalante, Teté Leguía & Weasel Walter
GOD'S COUNTRY -- Chat Pile
CAROLINE -- caroline
POWIĘŹ -- Kurws
A MUTED REALITY -- Angles
PUNKT -- Faust
HEART UNDER -- Just Mustard
AETHIOPES -- Billy Woods
BACCHANALIA -- Spintria
PSYOP OF THE YEAR -- EUNOIA
DEVILS DAUGHTER SINGS HER HYBRID POEM -- crazy doberman
THIS IS NOT AN ISLAND ANYMORE -- Die! Die! Die!
YOU BELONG THERE -- Daniel Rossen
KILLING NOTHING -- Boldy James & Real Bad Man
SUMMER AT LAND'S END -- The Reds, Pinks and Purples
REGURGITORIUM -- Why Patterns
DISHARMONIUM - UNDREAMABLE ABYSSES -- Blut aus Nord
FLORIST -- Florist
DEATHFAME -- Quelle Chris
MOWING THE LEAVES INSTEAD OF PILING 'EM UP -- Wednesday
POOLS OF GREEN FIRE -- Urushiol
EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL -- Spiritualized
CONSECRATION OF THE SPIRITÜS FLESH -- Esoctrilihum
RETURN -- deathcrash
GOLD -- Rozwód
SPIRIT OF ECSTASY -- Imperial Triumphant
BLACK FELLFLOWER STREAM -- Sunrise Patriot Motion
HELLFIRE -- black midi
ASCETIC REFLECTION -- Altars
RAUM -- Tangerine Dream
HEXEN VALLEY -- Gnod
ECHT -- La Colonie de Vacances
TOGETHER -- Duster
THERE'S ALWAYS BLOOD AT THE END OF THE ROAD -- Wiegedood
A LIGHT FOR ATTRACTING ATTENTION -- The Smile
KOPTYCUS -- Olés Brothers & Dominik Strycharski
EVERY FLOWER IN MY GARDEN -- Lilien Rosarian
STALLED FLUTES, MEANS -- Asian Glow
MAGMA -- Black Flower
THE AILING FACADE -- Aeviterne
IN / OUT / IN -- Sonic Youth
I THOUGHT I LEFT YOU IN EDEN -- sun is poison
NOCTURNAL TRIUMPH -- Nocturnal Triumph
TANA TALK 4 -- Benny the Butcher
EYE ESCAPES -- Kraus
ZNÓJ -- Zguba
WEIRD NIGHTMARE -- Weird Nightmare
MARCH -- Tomas Fujiwara's Triple Double
GAUCHE GISTS -- Dumb Waiter
RITUAL DANCES -- Stefan Pasborg
REMEMBER RAINBOW BRIDGE -- Croatian Amor
UNFAMILIAR CEILINGS -- Lina Tullgren & Alec Toku Whiting
HYMN TO THE WOEFUL HEARTS -- Pure Wrath
SLICE OF LIFE -- Quetzal Tirado & Theo Hayes
ESMÉ -- J. Wiegold
TLAZCALTILZTLI -- Tzompantli
RITUALS -- Jim McNeely & Frankfurt Radio Big Band ft. Chris Potter
MEADOW FLOWER -- Star Party
SEREIAS -- Sereias
MONUMENTS TO IMPERMANENCE -- Pyrithe
WE'VE BEEN GOING ABOUT THIS ALL WRONG -- Sharon Van Etten
KILLERS LIKE US -- Buñuel
CRUEL COUNTRY -- Wilco
THE HALCYON -- Flower-Corsano Duo
ACTS OF GOD -- Immolation
CLASSIC OBJECTS -- Jenny Hval
FICTIONAL PORTRAYALS -- Filmmaker
ARTIFICIAL BRAIN -- Artificial Brain
TIME OUT -- Lonker See
SUN SOAKING -- Lobsterfight
CIUCIUBABKA -- Licho
FLOURISHING EXTREMITIES ON UNSPOILED MENTAL GROUNDS -- Pharmacist
TIME SKIFFS -- Animal Collective
04 -- Negativa
BOAT SONGS -- MJ Lenderman
CRYSTALLINE EXHAUSTION -- Krallice
GOD DON'T MAKE MISTAKES -- Conway the Machine
I'M NOT SORRY, I WAS JUST BEING ME -- King Hannah
HISS -- Wormrot
ALL THAT WAS PROMISED -- Hath
WATERSLIDE, DIVING BOARD, LADDER TO THE SKY -- Porridge Radio
FEAR FEAR -- Working Men's Club
BEYOND RATION -- Swampoborn
VADE MECUM -- Glenn Jones
TORTUGA -- Sadness
UNSPOKEN WORDS -- Max Cooper
HONEYGLAZE -- Honeyglaze
MEMORIA -- Trentmøller
LIMEN -- KMRU & Aho Ssan
LABYRINTHITIS -- Destroyer
INTERNET FOLK SONGS -- Monkey & The Permavirgins
KINNERY OF LUPERCALIA: UNDELIVERED LEGION -- Munly & The Lupercalians
MARCHITA -- Silvana Estrada
THE GREAT REGRESSION -- DITZ
VERSIONS OF MODERN PERFORMANCE -- Horsegirl
AMARYLLIS -- Mary Halvorson
BAHAMUT -- Don Bolo
ZASŁUGUJĘ NA ISTNIENIE -- Melisa
LIVING TORCH -- Kali Malone
THE SORROW OF SOUL THROUGH FLESH -- Suppression
OM SHANTI OM -- Schröttersburg
GET IN LOSERS, WE'RE GOING TO ETERNAL DAMNATION -- Forests
METATRON'S CUBE -- AJ Suede & Televangel
ZORZYSTA STAJE OĆMA -- Wędrujący Wiatr
CROWNED IN VENEFICUM -- Father Befouled
I DON'T KNOW WHO NEEDS TO HEAR THIS... -- Tomberlin
KOHANIC CHARMERS -- Grand Belial's Key
DISCARNATE AILS -- Haunter
FLOOD -- Stella Donnelly
IN THE SPIRIT OF NTU -- Nduduzo Makhathini
NIGHT PARADE OF ONE HUNDRED DEMONS -- Earthless
DAUGHTER -- Raum
POOL KIDS -- Pool Kids
CHEAT CODES -- Danger Mouse & Black Thought
VOID OF UNENDING DEPTHS -- Inanna
HOSTILE ARCHITECTURE -- Ashenspire
AGADEZ -- Etran de L'Aïr
αριθμóς τεσσερα -- Culprate
IT'S TIME...TO RISE FROM THE GRAVE -- Undeath
KONGESTION -- SHXCXCHCXSH
FIRES OF THE DYING WORLD -- Desolate Shrine
EVERYTHING WAS FOREVER -- Sea Power
ONE TRICK PONY -- Barn Sour
RESET -- Panda Bear & Sonic Boom
BOUCAN -- Boucan
PSYCHAGOGUE -- Krallice
BORE -- Bore
COUNT GORZIL'S LAST NIGHT -- Toad Blood
BEWARE BELIEVERS -- Crows
THE LAST THING LEFT -- Say Sue Me
A LEAF ADRIFT -- Derick Penrod
STRAWBERRY -- Caroline Loveglow
DOUCE FANGE -- Pensées nocturnes
"...ON REFLECTION" -- William Basinski & Janek Schaefer
SKINTY FIA -- Fontaines D.C.
DECEPTION FALLS -- exociety
YOU MUST HAVE BEEN DREAMING -- Puce Mary
ORKA -- Morze
THE LONG DEFEAT -- Deathspell Omega
COFFIN COLLECTION -- Medwegya
ONCE TWICE MELODY -- Beach House
THE SANCTITY OF DEATH -- Ultra Silvam
GOOD AND GREEN AGAIN -- Jake Xerxes Fussell
ROUGH AND BEAUTIFUL PLACE -- Mydreamfever
SICK! -- Earl Sweatshirt
ARTIFICIAL NIGHT -- Rain Recordings
GHOSTED -- Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin
THE LONG ROAD NORTH -- Cult of Luna
VISIONS OF A DISMAL FATE -- Rotten Tomb
RAW PSYCHEDELIC DUNGEON SYNTH BLACK METAL MANIFESTO -- Medwegya
40 OZ. TO FRESNO -- Joyce Manor
DER TURM -- Festung
BROKEN GARGOYLES -- Diamanda Galás
RIVER FOOLS & MOUNTAIN SAINTS -- Ian Noe
TIMEWAVE ZERO -- Blood Incantation
UNSUBSCRIBE -- Niechęć
PENNSYLVANIASUBURBANRITUALISTICSHIT -- Mista "DJ" Atari Jaguar
SYNESTIA -- The Bread Scientists
PAINLESS -- Nilufer Yanya

The Graveyard:

ABOOGI -- Imarhan
A.D. -- christtt
ALL OTHERS STRANGE -- Quiet Commotion
ALL THAT HAS NEVER BEEN TRUE -- Ultha
ALLUVION -- Emily Jane White
ANGEL IN REALTIME -- Gang of Youth
ANIMORPHS -- Honningbarna
ANTIMAI -- The Dear Hunter
ARKHON -- Zola Jesus
ASH IN REALMS OF STONE ICONS -- Tómarúm
ASSASSINE(S) -- Celeste
AUBADES -- Jean-Michel Blais
AVATARS OF LOVE -- Sondre Lerche
B FLAT A -- Trupa Trupa
BABY -- Petrol Girls
BAD MODE -- Hikaru Utada
BEATOPIA -- beabadoobee
BERDLYCORE CHAPTER ZERO -- schnozz
BIG TIME -- Angel Olsen
BOTHERED / UNBOTHERED -- JER
BRONCO -- Orville Peck
BUILDING SOMETHING SO HIGH YOU'VE LOST SIGHT OF IT COMPLETELY -- Thank You Lantern
THE BURIED STORM -- Darkher
CAGED IN GOLD -- Helpless
CALL DOWN THE SUN -- Konvent
CAN OPENER'S NOTEBOOK: FISH WHISPERER -- Vylet Pony
CAPRISONGS -- FKA Twigs
CAVE WORLD -- Viagra Boys
CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT -- Madrugada
CLOSE -- Messa
CLOSURE/CONTINUATION -- Porcuptine Tree
CONTINUANCE -- Curren$y x Alchemist
CORPOS TRANSPARENTES -- Bríi
CRASH -- Charli XCX
CREPUSCULAR DIRGE FOR THE BLESSED ONES -- Cosmic Putrefication
CREST -- Bladee & Ecco2K
THE CRONE -- MoE
DANCE FEVER -- Florence + The Machine
DAMNUM -- Allegaeon
DARK CLOUD UNHAND ME -- Sun Is Poison
DAWN FM -- The Weeknd
DEATH AND THE TWILIGHT HOURS -- Predatory Light
DEEP IN VIEW -- Cola
DIASPORA PROBLEMS -- Soul Glo
DIG -- Lilac Roadkill
DISCIPLES OF EXCREMENTAL LITURGIES -- Mnima
DISCO4 :: PART II -- HEALTH
DISSOLUTION WAVE -- Cloakroom
DOM, W KTÓRYM MIESZKAŁ WĄŻ (A HOUSE WHERE DWELLED A SNAKE) -- -S-
THE DOME COLLECTOR -- Truculency
DON'T THINK ABOUT DEATH -- Chalk Hands
DOPEMINE HELLDREAMS. -- Neupink
DREAM DESERT -- desert sand feels warm at night
DREAMS -- Elephant Gym
DRILL MUSIC IN ZION -- Lupe Fiasco
DUALITY -- Luna Li
ECSTASIES OF A NEVER ENDING NIGHT -- Devil Master
11:11 -- Pinegrove
EMOTIONAL CREATURE -- Beach Bunny
EMOTIONAL ETERNAL -- Melody's Echo Chamber
EMPTY HIDING WORLD -- Windows96
ENDLESS ROOMS -- Rolling Blackouts C.F.
ENEMY OF LOVE -- The Body & OAA
EVERYTHING PERFECT IS ALREADY HERE -- Claire Rousay
EXORCISM -- Sidewalks and Skeletons
FALSE LIGHT -- White Ward
FAMINE -- Baalsebub
FAMOUSLY ALIVE -- Guerilla Toss
FAWN -- Foxtails
F.B.I. -- Weeping Coffin
FEAR OF THE DAWN -- Jack White
FINAL LIGHT -- Final Light
A FLOURISHING FALL IN A GRAIN OF SAND -- Humanotone
FOREVER ASSOCIATION -- Integral
FORGET YOUR OWN FACE -- Black Dresses
A FORK OR MY FINGERS -- Bigger Boot
FORMENTERA -- Metric
FRANK -- Fly Anakin
FROM HERE TO THERE -- Watermelon Collie
FUNERAL NOISE EXITS -- Vacant Lights
THE FUNGOID GARDEN -- Goblin Priest
GAK MUSIC 3 -- Gak Music
GHOST SONG -- Cécile McLorin Salvant
GIVING THE WORLD AWAY -- Hatchie
THE GLEAM -- Park Jiha
GLITCH PRINCESS -- Yeule
A GUT FEELING -- Cassels
HEAVY PENDULUM -- Cave In
HEAVY ROCKS -- Boris
HEROINE -- Thornhill
HEX -- Toundra
HOME, BEFORE & AFTER -- Regina Spektor
HONESTLY, NEVERMIND -- Drake
HYGIENE -- Drug Church
I KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING LEFT FOR YOU -- dynastic
I TOLD BESSIE -- Elucid
I85MIXX21-22 -- Material Girl
IF A CITY IS SET UPON A HILL -- Current 93
IF MY WIFE NEW I'D BE DEAD -- CMAT
IKE GOLDMAN IS REAL IN -- Ike Goldman
IMAGINE WHAT WE COULD DESTROY/// IF ONLY GIVEN THE TIME -- Vexes
IMMUTABLE -- Meshuggah
INSIDE PROBLEMS -- Andrew Bird
INSURMOUNTABLE -- Primitive Man
IS THERE REALLY A MIND? -- Swans
ITHATE THNGTH OCEATE -- Encenathrakh
IT'S ALMOST DRY -- Pusha T
IT'S HARD TO SEE COLOR [WHEN YOU'RE SO IMPOSSIBLY FAR AWAY*] -- Jaron
JAZZ CODES -- Moor Mother
KEEP THIS BE THE WAY -- Helms Alee
KENOPSIA -- quannnic
KISSES OF LIFE -- mary sue
THE KNOCKING, OR THE STORY OF THE SOUND THAT PRECEDED THEIR DISAPPEARANCE -- Doldrum
KRÜLLER -- Author & Punisher
LADDER OF SHADOWS -- Haptic
A LANTERN SWATHED -- Erreth Akbe
LEARN 2 SWIM -- Redveil
LIFE CYCLES -- iANO
THE LINDEN TREES ARE STILL IN BLOSSOM -- Jens Lenkman
THE LINE IS A CURVE -- Kae Tempest
LITTLE GREEN HOUSE -- Anxious
LOGGERHEAD -- Wu-Lu
LONELY CITY EXIT WOUNDS -- Blaudzun
A LONER -- Hangman's Chair
LOOK! A RAINBOW! -- Kara's Walk Home
THE LOSER -- Gospel
LOVE SONGS -- gabby fluke-mogul
LUCIFER ON THE SOFA -- Spoon
MALADAPTIVE DAYDREAMING -- sonhos tomam conta
MAN PLAYS THE HORN -- Cities Aviv
MEDWEGYA ALBUM -- Medwegya
MEDWEGYA'S MADNESS -- Medwegya
MELT MY EYEZ SEE YOUR FUTURE -- Denzel Curry
METEMPIRIC -- Knoll
MISADVENTURES OF DOOMSCROLLER -- Dawes
MMXXII -- Yearning
MORE STRETCHED BY THE CURTAIN -- audry
MR. MORALE & THE BIG STEPPERS -- Kendrick Lamar
MVDM: THE MAGICAL VOLUMES VOL. 1: THE MAGICK VOLUME OF DARK MADDER OR THE MAGIC VOLUME OF DARK MATTER -- Gospel
MYOPIA -- Mizmor & Thou
NO PRESSURE -- No Pressure
NOVA -- Sylvaine
NUDE WITH DEMON -- The Web of Lies
ODE AND ELEGY -- Ode and Elegy
OF TOAD BLOOD AND FROG COFFINS -- Toad Blood
OLD TIME MUSIC -- Weston Olencki
OMNIUM GATHERUM -- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
ONRYO II: HER SPIRIT ETERNAL -- Saidan
ORDALIES -- Véhémence
OXY MUSIC -- Alex Cameron
THE PACT... -- Negative Plane
PAIN INTO POWER -- Terror
PARRHESIA -- Animals as Leaders
PARTY MIND -- Meet Cute
PÁTHOS -- Conjurer
PERFECT LIGHT -- 40 Watt Sun
PERSONAL HELL -- Déjà Vega
PHALARIS -- Dir en Grey
PIANO SONGS -- Farewell, Alaska
PINK DOLPHINS -- Anteloper
PLAGUE GOD -- Absent in Body
POEMAS -- dez mil ratazana
POMPEII -- Cate Le Bon
PRE PLEASURE -- Julia Jacklin
PREACHER'S DAUGHTER -- Ethel Cain
PRINCE DADDY & THE HYENA -- Prince Daddy & The Hyena
PRIPYAT -- Marina Herlop
PRISON JAR -- Stabscotch
PSYCHEDELIC DIGRESSION -- Medwegya
PSYCHOKINETIC LOVE SONGS -- Hey, ily!
QUIESCENCE -- Analepsy
THE QUIET EARTH -- Morrow
RAW DATA FEEL -- Everything Everything
RAW PSYCHEDELIC VAMPIRE II -- Medwegya
RECORDINGS FROM THE ALAND ISLANDS -- Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer
REPEATER -- Water Damage
RESIST -- Midnight Oil
RETURN TO THE VOID -- Shape of Despair
REVERENCE -- Det eviga leendet
ROUGE CARPET DISASTER -- Static Dress
THE SCARS OF A LOST REFLECTIVE SHADOW -- The Chasm
SECRETS -- Valeria Almeida
SEE THROUGH YOU -- A Place to Bury Strangers
SEE YOU IN CHEMISTRY -- Carly Cosgrove
SHIAWASE NI NARU KARA, NARO YO -- Jyocho
SOMETIMES, FOREVER -- Soccer Mommy
SONANCY -- Loop
SPECTRA. VOL. 1 -- ||ALA|MEDA||
SPIRIT EXIT -- Caterina Barbieri
STANDOFF AT A YELLOW LIGHT -- Swandive
STRIVING TOWARD OBLIVION -- Vorga
SUCCUMB TO ROT -- Corpsessed
SUGAR ROT -- p.s.you'redead
SUPER CHAMPON -- Otoboke Beaver
SUUZ -- Shaemless
SYNCHRO ANARCHY -- Voivod
TÁLCUNNANA DËHAJMA TUN DEJL [...] -- Trhä
THE TESTAMENT -- Seventh Wonder
THEIR MONEY IS YOUR MONEY -- 1 800 PAIN
THERE WILL BE NO SUPER-SLAVE -- Ghais Guevara
THESE SITUATIONS -- Astromeda
THIS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD -- Greyhaven
THIS IS A PHOTOGRAPH -- Kevin Morby
THIS SHAME SHOULD NOT BE MINE -- GGGOLDDD
THOUGHT FORM DESCENT -- Wake
THOUGHTLESS CRUELTY -- Thank
TISSUES -- Pan Daijing
TITANIC SEA MOON -- Titanic Sea Moon
TO LIVE & DIE IN SPACE & TIME -- Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice
TONGUES -- Tanya Tagaq
TOPICAL DANCER -- Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul
TWO RIBBONS -- Let's Eat Grandma
UGLY DEATH NO REDEMPTION ANGEL CURSE I LOVE YOU -- Ada Rock
THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND -- PUP
UNTIL THE BRICKS FALL DOWN -- Sterling Bidler
VARIATIONS ON... -- Machine+
VAXIS II: A WINDOW OF THE WAKING MIND -- Coheed and Cambria
VEXIER -- E-L-R
VICES -- Weiland
VINYL DAYS -- Logic
VITAMINS AND APPREHENSION -- Della Zyr
W -- Boris
WE -- Arcade Fire
WEBMAKER -- Murrumur
THE WEIGHT OF EVERYTHING -- Blind Girls
WHERE MYTH BECOMES MEMORY -- Rolo Tomassi
WHERE'S THE ONE? -- Congotronics International
WHICH STEMS FROM THE SAP -- Wydraddear
WILDS -- The Soundcarriers
WINDMILL TRAIL -- Suho Meso
WYRMHOLE -- Scrying Glass
YEARS OF LEAD -- Coffin Nail
YOD WAVE -- Your Old Droog
YOUR NEIGHBORS ARE FAILURES -- Bitter Branches
ZEAL AND ARDOR -- Zeal & Ardor