Our readers picked their favorite releases this year, so we decided to assemble another list. According to their picks, we are more than convinced that our readers have excellent taste in music. Make sure to check out all these outstanding albums and support hardworking bands and labels.
We wish you all the best and plenty of good music in 2022.
Thrice – Horizons / East
(Epitaph Records)
Knocked Loose – A Tear In The Fabric Of Life
(Pure Noise Records)
Descendents – 9th & Walnut
(Epitaph Records)
Face To Face – No Way Out But Through
(Fat Wreck Chords)
Steel Nation – The Big Sleep
(Knives Out Records)
Crazy Arm – Dark Hands, Thunderbolts
(Xtra Mile Recordings)
Ekulu – Unscrew My Head
(Cash Only Records)
Cluttered – Accidents
(Bloated Kat)
Destroy Boys – Open Mouth, Open Heart
(Hopeless Records)
Penny Rimbaud & Youth – Corpus Mei
(DIY)
Prince Of Lilies – Vent
(Grunge Pop Records)
King Woman – Celestial Blues
(Relapse)
Drip-Fed – Kill The Buzz
(Head2Wall Records / i.corrupt Records)
The Raging Nathans – Waste My Heart
(Rad Girlfriend Records)
Buck Gooter – Head In A Bird Cage
(Ramp Local)
Koyo – Drives Out East
(Triple-B Records)
Burning Tongue – Prisoner’s Cinema
(DIY)
Capra – In Transmission
(Metal Blade Records)
Year Of No Light – Consolamentum
(Pelagic Records)
NOFX – Single Album
(Fat Wreck Chords)
Quicksand – Distant Populations
(Epitaph Records)
Turnstile – Glow On
(Roadrunner Records)
Authority Zero – Ollie Ollie Oxen Free
(Thousand Islands Records
The Bronx – Bronx VI
(Cooking Vinyl / White Drugs)
Fake Names – Fake Names EP
(Epitaph Records)
Freewill – All This Time
(New Age Records / Revelation Records / CoreTex)
Rutterkin – A Portal For Spirits
(Euclid Place Records)
Talk Show Host – Mid-Century Modern
(Wiretap Records / Disconnect Disconnect Records)
Weezer – Van Weezer
(Atlantic)
Cult Of Luna – The Raging River
(Red Creek)
Totally Slow – Casual Drag
(Refresh Records)
Boston Manor – Desperate Times, Desperate Pleasures
(Sharp Tone Records)
Stand Still – A Practice In Patience
(New Mortality Zine)
Neckscars – Don’t Panic
(Engineer Records / Sell The Heart Records)
Dvne – Etemen Ænka
(Metal Blade Records)
Dare – Against The Odds
(Revelation Records)
One Step Closer – This Place You Know
(Run For Cover Records)
thirdface – Do It With A Smile
(Exploding In Sound Records)
Mastodon – Hush And Grim
(Reprise)
The Copyrights – Alone In A Dome
(Fat Wreck Chords)
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