Countdown: The Top 10 Rock Albums of 2022
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🗓️ 6 December 2022
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Summary
Featured songs and artists:
10. Kevin Morby: "This Is a Photograph," from This Is a Photograph
9. Soul Glo: "Jump!! (Or Get Jumped!!!)((by the future))," from Diaspora Problems
8. Special Interest: "Foul," from Endure
7. caroline: "Dark blue," from caroline
6. Hurray for the Riff Raff: "PRECIOUS CARGO," from LIFE ON EARTH
5. Alvvays: "Pharmacist," from Blue Rev
4. Wet Leg: "Angelica," from Wet Leg
3. Nilüfer Yanya: "stabilise," from PAINLESS
2. Alex G: "No Bitterness," from God Save the Animals
1. Big Thief: "Spud Infinity," from Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
Read the ranked list the year's most essential rock music, along with a short list of personal favorites, by NPR Music staff and contributors.
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| 0:00.0 | For our music you're connected to all songs considered on Bob Boyland and we are going to do our top |
| 0:06.4 | 10 rock albums of 2022 and the we |
| 0:11.8 | Our NPR music Hazel Sills and Marissa Larusso |
| 0:16.4 | Good day everybody. Hey bye. Hey |
| 0:20.1 | So I'm Marissa you're in a closet |
| 0:22.8 | Hey I'm not in an NPR studio I wish |
| 0:28.2 | And I miss all of you and seeing all of you all the time and actually they may go to something that I want to think about first |
| 0:36.0 | Which is the amount of music that came out in 2022 and how we all felt about it. It's just a big picture |
| 0:43.1 | Hazel had it you digest was there too much too little hard to choose |
| 0:48.0 | There was honestly a lot that it was very hard to choose and I feel like I don't know in terms of rock music this year |
| 0:55.1 | I |
| 0:55.9 | I feel like there was a lot to love or I really felt connected to the genre in new ways. I felt like there were a lot of |
| 1:02.8 | bands that sort of came out of interesting spaces like wet leg like where where in the world did they come from and |
| 1:10.0 | And also like I don't know prolific singer songwriters like Alex G who I think turned out really interesting music |
| 1:15.7 | So for me it was like a very exciting year for rock. Yeah, I agree |
| 1:20.0 | There was a lot to love certainly more than we could fit on a list of 10 |
| 1:24.8 | In the conversations that we had amongst ourselves and with other people on the team about the best rock of this year |
| 1:30.0 | I feel like yeah, folks on the team got excited about rock coming from different corners of different universes this year |
| 1:35.3 | Which is maybe true every year, but it was fun to be part of that conversation this year |
| 1:39.6 | And I saw a lot more live music this year than I saw in the past few years and |
| 1:44.3 | I really reinvigorated me and made me remember how |
| 1:48.4 | Wonderful it can feel to go to a rock show and watch someone play a big guitar solo right in front of your face |
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