Best Of 2022: Albums by Artist In Order Of Preference Through May 31st

1 – Truth Hurts – Regina Bonelli

2 – Chris – Ryan Adams

3 – The Line Is A Curve – Kae Tempest

4 – Alpha – Shenseea

 5 – Harold And Maude (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – Cat Stevens

6 – Born To Be – Tomas Doncker

7 – Everyday People Change Into Someone We Never Knew – Hodgy

8 – Super Champon – Otoboke Beaver

9 – Pier Pressure – Aardee

10 – Wish For You – Allison Moorer

11 – dawn fm – The Weeknd

12 – Dissolution Wave – Cloakroom

13 – The Boy Named If – Elvis Costello And The Imposters

14 – Caprisongs -fka twigs

15 – Sopranista – Samuel Mariño

16- Dharma – Sebastian Yatra

 17- The Temptations

18 – Kingman – Ras I

January: very quiet for albums, though not so much for singles where albums on the horizon make an early landing. I try to end up with no more than 20 and last year had 26 albums by the end of the year -which means some of these won’t make it. But The Weeknd should…

February: all top three albums are new to this month, Regina Bonelli is going to be difficult to better, but then again I said that about The Weeknd…

March: Three new albums in the top five, Arrdee is his debut mixtape and Shenseea is a new and wonderful dancehall performer from Jamaica

April: Kae Tempests best in years and Hodgy, the Odder Odd future, with an excellent EP

May: three more, the Venezuelan opera singer Samuel Marino, the new Tomas Doncker (but not the last, we are awaiting Endangered) and the sublimely badass Otoboke Beaver