2022 Wrap Up

Written By Stephen Kimball

To me, 2022 has been a pretty great year for music releases. I feel like there are just some years where there’s so much great stuff gets released and this is one of those years. I have also included some great books I read this year. And even a little, TV, but I don’t watch too much of that. This list isn’t in any particular order of ranking.

Music

  • John Coltrane: Live at the Village Vanguard

  • The Smile: A Light for Attracting Attention

  • Mavis Staples and Levon Helm: Carry Me Home

  • Prince and the Revolution: Live In Syracuse:

  • Big Thief: Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You:

  • Jeff Parker: Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Club

  • The Very Best of Chi-Sound Records

  • Beth Orton: Weather Alive

  • Bartees Strange: From Farm to Table

  • Special Interest: Endure

  • Plains: I Walked With You a Ways

  • The Interrupters: Into the Wild:

  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Cool It Down

  • Beach House: Once Twice Melody

  • Warpaint: Radiate Like This

  • Fontaines DC: Kitty Fia

  • Maggie Rogers: Surrender:

  • Spring Summer: T.E.A.R.S.

  • The Weather Station: How Is It That I Should Look At the Stars

  • Indigo Sparkle: Hysteria

  • Spiritualized: Everything Was Beautiful

Books

  • Peng Shepard: The Cartographers

  • NK Jemison: The City We Became

  • Sam Quionones: The Least of Us

  • Michelle Zaunner: Crying in the H Mart

  • Laura Lam: Goldilocks

  • Michael Connelly: Dark Sacred Night

  • Becky Chambers: Record of a Space Born Few

  • Kim Stanley Robinson: Ministry of the Future and Mars Trilogy (Re-read this)

  • Jarrett Krosoczka: Hey, Kiddo

  • Isaac Fitzgerald, Dirtbag, Massachusetts

TV

  • Andor

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