As 2022 comes to a close, the staff would like to share the music and gift items that made an impression on them this year. See what made your own list, and maybe find something new to check out.
Mandy
1. Cactus Blossoms - One Day
2. Animal Collective - Time Skiffs
3. Built To Spill - When The Wind Forgets Your Name
4. Tim Heidecker - High School
5. Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Reset
6. Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
7. Metric - Formentera
8. Kurt Vile - (Watch My Moves)
9. Sasami - Squeeze
10. Beach House - Once Twice Melody
Tom
1. Angel Olsen - Big Time
2. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - La Panthere Des Neiges O.S.T.
3. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
4. Brian Eno - FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE
5. Passaro - Antes De Existir O Mundo
6. Joseph Allred - Rambles & Rags Of Shiloh
7. Bonny Light Horseman - Rolling Golden Holy
8. Nils Frahm - Music For Animals
9. Elkhorn - Distances
10. Jake Xerxes Fussell - Good And Green Again
Re-issues
Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince
Mariee Sioux - Faces In The Rocks
John Berberian - Middle Eastern Rock
Lindsay
Music
1. Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
2. Sasami - Squeeze
3. The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention
4. Wet Leg - Wet Leg
5. Caroline Polacheck - Billions (7" Single)
6. Rosalia - Motomami
7. Perfume Genius - Ugly Season
8. Mitski - Laurel Hell
9. Angel Olsen - Big Time
10. Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loneliest Time
Gifts
1. Kate Bush poster
2. Electric Fetus black Tern crew neck sweatshirt
3. Lydia Silver Kate Bush sticker
4. Champa Flower incense
5. Pax 2
6. Electric Fetus blue and yellow pom knit hat
7. Tomas sterling silver hoop earrings
8. Electric Fetus blue and orange 45 sticker
9. Tri-color lava lamp
10. Poppy & Pout pomegranate lip balm
Chelsea
1. Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
2. Angel Olsen - Big Time
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down
4. Beach House - Once Twice Melody
5. Nilufer Yanya - PAINLESS
6. Wet Leg - Wet Leg
7. Taylor Swift - Midnights
8. Suki Waterhouse - I Can’t Let Go
9. Sharon Van Etten - We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
10. Calvin Harris - Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2
Gifts
1. Ginger & June Candles
2. Good Dye Young hair dye
3. Rare Romance jewelry
4. Bamboo record cutting board
5. Scout decorative wall hangings
6. Warmies stuffed animals
7. Poppy & Pout lip tint
8. Studio Oh! Air fresheners
9. The Moon Sign Guide Book
10. Camp Craft Cocktails
Pearson
1. dgoHn - Portus
2. Imarhan - Aboogi
3. Bogdan Raczynski - ADDLE
4. Vieux Farka Touré - Les Racines
5. Billy Woods - Aethiopes
6. Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia
7. Nilufer Yanya - Painless
8. Plaid - Feorm Falorx
9. Rough Dimension - VR SEX
10. Tinariwen - Kel Tinariwen
Ed
1. Daft Punk - Homework [Remixes]
2. Mutter / Williams / BSO - Williams: Violin Concerto No. 2; Selected Film Themes
3. John Williams / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - The Berlin Concert
4. Cecile McLorin Salvant - Ghost Song
5. Bjork - Fossora
6. Blondie - Against the Odds 1974-1982
7. Panic! At the Disco - Viva Las Vengeance
8. Harry Styles - Harry's House
9. Hank Williams, Jr. - Rich White Honky Blues
10. Beach House - Once Twice Melody
Brad
1. Warpaint - Radiate Like This
2. Sun’s Signature - Sun’s Signature
3. Aoife O’Donovan - Age Of Apathy
4. Imarhan - Aboogi
5. Hermanos Gutiérrez - El Bueno Y El Malo
6. Lily Henley - Oras Dezaoradas
7. Ezra Collective - Where I’m Meant To Be
8. Makaya McCraven - In These Times
9. Adrian Quesada - Boleros Psicodélicos
10. Kokoroko - Could We Be More
Grace
Gifts:
1. Electric Fetus Room Spray
2. Make Your Own Cross Stitch Clock
3. Paint By Sticker: Plants and Flowers
4. Good Dye Young Semi-Permanent Dye
5. Rare-Romance Jewelry
6. “I Think Your Cat Is High” Catnip Toy
7. Super Hit Incense
8. Electric Fetus Baseball Cap
9. Mini Mushrooms
10. Moon Lamp
Albums:
1. L.S. Dunes - Past Lives
2. Wet Leg - Wet Leg
3. Greet Death - New Low
4. Alvvays - Blue Rev
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down
6. The Mountain Goats - Bleed Out
7. Death Cab for Cutie - Asphalt Meadows
8. Horsegirl - Versions of Modern Performance
9. Willow - <COPINGMECHANISM>
10. Stray Kids - Oddinary
Orion
1. Cate Le Bon - Pompeii
2. Yard Act - Overload
3. System Exclusive - System Exclusive
4. Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia
5. Viagra Boys - Cave
6. Wet Leg - Wet Leg
7. Osees - A Foul Form
8. Special Interest - Endure
9. Preoccupations - Arrangements
10. Paranoyds - Talk Talk Talk
Jim
1. Hatchie - Giving the World Away (Secretly Canadian)
2. Sharon Van Etten - We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong (Jagjaguwar)
3. Warhaus - Ha Ha Heartbreak (PIAS)
4. Just Mustard - Heart Under (Partisan)
5. Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful (Fat Possum)
6. Hermanos Gutiérrez - El Bueno Y El Malo (Easy Eye Sound)
7. White Lies - As I Try Not to Fall Apart (PIAS)
8. Poliça - Madness (Memphis Industries)
9. Ethel Cain - Preacher’s Daughter (Daughters of Cain)
10. Caroline Loveglow - Strawberry (100% Electronica)
Jon Jon
1. The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention
2. Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
3. Bjork - Fossorra
4. Pusha -T - Almost Dry
5. FKA twigs - Caprisongs
6. Tom Skinner - Voices of Bishara
7. Santigold - Spirituals
8. Lonely Guest - Lonely Guest
9. Nilüfer Yanya - Painless
10. Black Thought & Danger Mouse - Cheat Codes
11. Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia
Max
1. Alvvays - Blue Rev
2. Black Midi - Hellfire
3. Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
4. Alex G - God Save The Animals
5. Death Cab For Cutie - Asphalt Meadows
6. Darkthrone - Astral Fortress
7. Rosalía - Motomami
8. Fred Again.. - Actual Life 3 (January 1 - September 9 2022)
9. Viagra Boys - Cave World
10. Chat Pile - God’s Country
Paul
1. Paranoyds - Talk Talk Talk
2. Yard Act - The Overload
3. Scrunchies - Feral Coast
4. The Murlocs - Rapscallion
5. Gilla Band - Most Normal
6. The Mountain Goats - Bleed Out
7. Jesca Hoop - Order of Romance
8. Punk 45: I’m a Mess! D-I-Y or Die! Art, Trash & Neon - Punk 45s in the UK 1977-78
9. House (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
10. Mouth Congress - Waiting for Henry (released December 2021, too late for last year’s list)
Sarah W.
1. Caterina Barbieri - Spirit Exit
2. Leland Whitty - Anyhow
3. James Righton - Jim, I’m Still Here
4. Daphni - Cherry
5. The Cool Greenhouse - Sod’s Toastie
6. Sinead O’Brien - The Bend and Break the Bower
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down
8. Lady Aicha & Pisko Cranes Original Fulu Mziki of Kinsasha - N’Djila Wa Mudjimu
9. Cate Le Bon - Pompeii
10. Working Men’s Club - Fear Fear
Bob
1. Charley Crockett – The Man from Waco
2. Sierra Ferrell – Long Time Coming (2021 Release)
3. Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia
4. Miranda Lambert – Palomino
5. Sarah Shook & the Disarmers – Nightroamer
6. S.G. Goodman – Teeth Marks
7. Vieux Farka Toure & Khruangbin – Ali
8. V.A – Live Forever – A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver
9. Wet Leg – Wet Leg
10. Plains – I Walked with You a Ways
Maria
1. Domi & JD Beck - NOT TiGHT
2. Sierra Ferrell - Long Time Coming (2021 release)
3. Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin - Ali
4. The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention
5. Santigold - Spirituals
6. Robert Glasper - Black Radio III
7. Makaya McCraven - In These Times
8. Beach House - Once Twice Melody
9. Nilüfer Yanya - Painless
10. Steve Lacy - Gemini Rights
Dawn
1. Wombats – Fix Yourself, Not the World
2. Tears for Fears – The Tipping Point
3. Last Bandoleros – Tex Flex
4. Cactus Blossoms – One Day
5. Jack White – Fear of the Dawn
6. Placebo – Never Let Me Go
7. Shaggy – Com Fly Wid Mi
8. Hatchie – Giving the World Away
9. V/A – Southeast of Saturn, Vol. 2
10. Wombats – Is This What It Feels Like to Feel Like This?
Sarah G.
1. Khruangbin & Vieux farka toure - Ali2. Twen - One Stop Shop3. Plains - I Walked With You A Ways 4. Hatchie - Giving The World Away5. The Beth’s - Expert In A Dying Field6. Alex g - God Save The Animals7. Wet leg - Wet leg8. Broken Bells - Into The Blue9. Delicate Steve - After Hours10. Rosalia - Motomami
Chad
1. Joan Shelley - The Spur
2. Plains - I Walked With You A Ways
3. Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin - Ali
4. Julian Lage - Room With A View
5. Beth Orton - Weather Alive
6. Charles Stepney - Step On Step
7. DOMi & JD Beck - Not Tight
8. Modern Nature - Island of Noise
9. Garcia Peoples - Dodging Dues
10.Makaya McCraven - In These Times
Reissues
1. Jackie McLean - Destination… Out!
2. Mary Lou Lord - She’d Be A Diamond
3. Art Pepper - Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section
4. Gerald Wilson Big Band - Moment Of Truth
5. Bill Evans - You Must Believe In The Spring
6. Sonny Clark - Dial “S” for Sonny
7. Wayne Shorter - Adam’s Apple
8. Joe Pass - For Django
9. Chet Baker / Art Pepper - Picture Of Heath
10.Faithless - Back to Mine
Phil
1. The Burning Hell - Garbage Island
2. Zannie - How Do I Get That Star
3. Marlon Williams - My Boy
4. Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
5. Thee Sacred Souls - Thee Sacred Souls
6. Cate LeBon - Pompei
7. Spoon - Lucifer On The Sofa
8. Aoife Nessa Frances - Protector
9. Belle & Sebastian - A Bit of Previous
10. Alyssa Gengos - Mechanical Sweetness
Re-Issues:
Kacy & Clayton - The Day Is Past And Gone
The Loud Family & Anton Barbeau - What If It Works?
April March - Cinerama
Charles Mingus - Presents Charles Mingus
Max Roach - We Insist!
Beatles - Revolver