Our compiled charts for Spring 2022, with our overall Top 50 and Top 10s in our specialty genre charts!
CFBX Top 50 Albums for Spring 2022
Artist – Title (Label)
- David Gogo* – Silver Cup (Cordova Bay)
- Sean Luciw** – Under the Wire (Ulusulu)
- Julie Doiron* – I Thought of You (You’ve Changed)
- Said the Whale* – Dandelion (Everything Forever)
- Hot Garbage* – Rise (Mothland)
- Odonis Odonis* – Spectrums (Felte)
- Tanya Tagaq* – Tongues (Six Shooter)
- Izzo Blues Coalition* – Take it or Leave it (Independent)
- HuDost* – Anthems of Home (Independent)
- Strange Colours* – Future’s Almost Over (Slovenly)
- Gordie Tentrees* – Mean Old World (Independent)
- Basia Bulat* – The Garden (Secret City)
- L00ping* – Zero Point Energy (Independent)
- The Weather Station* – How is it That I Should Look at the Stars (Next Door)
- Broken Social Scene* – Old Dead Young: B-Sides and Rarities (Arts and Crafts)
- Softcult* – Year of the Snake (Independent)
- Church of Trees* – Pish Posh (Independent)
- Leeroy Stagger* – Dystopian Weekends (Tonic)
- Rob Heath* – Biggest Moments (Independent)
- Snotty Nose Rez Kids* – Life After (Independent)
- Angela Verbrugge* – Love for Connoisseurs (Gut String)
- The Night Bluemers* – Welcome Aboard the Midnight Train (Independent)
- Montgomery Street Band* – For the Time Begin (Independent)
- Dustbowl Daddies* – Boom and Bust Economies of Love (Independent)
- King Aurorus* – Sunset Design (Independent)
- M.M. Crone* – Ghost Crystal (Independent)
- Wine Lips* – Mushroom Death Sex Bummer Party (Stomp)
- Kingfisher* – Kingfisher EP (Independent)
- NOBRO* – Live Your Truth, Shred Some Gnar (Dine Alone)
- TRAITRS* – Horses in the Abattoir (Freakwave)
- Hollow Twin* – Soft Hearts (Independent)
- Fake Shark* – Time for the Future (Light Organ)
- Island Eyes* – Other Heaven (Independent)
- Men I Trust* – Untourable Album (Return to Analog)
- Brad Strang** – Instrumentals (Independent)
- Mike Nagoda* – Outside the Box (Independent)
- Geoffroy* – Live Slow Die Wise (Independent)
- Jaymz Bee* – Presents Music for Secret Agents (Vesuvius)
- Martha and the Muffins* – Marthology: In and Outtakes (Popguru)
- Tom Keenlyside* – A Night at the Espresso (Cellar)
- TV Moms* – Buzz Mallory (Independent)
- Cedric Noel* – Hang Time (Forward)
- Red Dirt Skinners* – Bear With Us (Independent)
- Gentle Party* – God Complex (Independent)
- Father Moon* – Father Moon EP (Independent)
- Waterstreet Blues Band* – Talkin About (Independent)
- FRVITS*- Stupid Era (Slovenly)
- Jon Cohen Experimental* – Indecisions (Huntsman)
- Various Artists* – It’s a Piquenique! (Hypo)
- Hounds** – Demo (Independent)
CFBX Top 10 Jazz Albums for Spring 2022
- Cory Weeds* – What Is There to Say? (Cellar)
- Greg Amirault* – News Blues (Independent)
- Angela Verbrugge* – Love for Connoisseurs (Gut String)
- Jami Templeton* – The Shape of My Heart (Independent)
- Montreal Jazz Trio* – Montreal Jazz Trio (Odd Sound)
- Maria Muldair and Tuba Skinny – Let’s Get Happy Together (Stony Plain)
- Tom Keenlyside* – A Night at the Espresso (Cellar)
- Wild Blue Herons* – You and I (Independent)
- Barbara Mantini* – Maybe Someday (Independent)
- Don MacDonald* – Shifting Sands (Independent)
CFBX Top 10 Worldbeat/International Albums for Spring 2022
1) Phonosonics* – New Again (Independent)
2) Sonia Aimy* – Reconnect (Independent)
3) The Human Rights* – Reggae Strong (Independent)
4) Andino Suns* – 9-11 (Independent)
5) Sultans of String* – Sanctuary (Independent)
6) Dubmatix* – System Shakedown 2010 (Independent)
7) PIQSIQ* – Live at Christ Church Cathedral (Independent)
8) Jaffa Road* – Until When (Independent)
9) Beny Esguerra* – A New Tradition Vol. 3: Northside Kuisi (Lulaworld)
10) G-Bolo* – Go Fi Mines (Independent)
CFBX Top 10 Loud/Metal Albums for Spring 2022
- The Hypnotics* – Static Fuzz Radio Singles EP (Independent)
- Hate it Too* – Gaslighting EP (Hell for Breakfast)
- Strange Colours* – Future’s Almost Over (Slovenly)
- Various Artists* – Zoo 666 (Slam/Hell for Breakfast)
- Wine Lips* – Mushroom Death Sex Bummer Party (Stomp)
- Powertron* – Neon Vice EP (Independent)
- Federal Dank* – Churro Dipper Shake (Independent)
- L00ping* – Zero Point Energy (Independent)
- Depleted Uranium* – Origin (Independent)
- Tymo* – The Art of a Maniac (Independent)
CFBX Top 10 Electronic Albums for Spring 2022
1) Odonis Odonis* – Spectrums (Felte)
2) Beatchild* – Unselfish Desires (BBE)
3) M.M. Crone* – Ghost Crystal (Independent)
4) Various Artists* – Emerge: A West Coast Dance Music Sampler (Surkeus)
5) King Aurorus* – Sunset Design (Independent)
6) Claude L’Anthrope* – Les Lumieres Sont Tue le Nuit (Independent)
7) DenMother* – Frantic Ram (Independent)
8) Psychic Pollution* – Psy-Ops (Eat Glass)
9) Love the Spirit* – Vivaldi Refreshed (Independent)
10) Organization* – Nothing is as it Seems (Independent)
CFBX Top 10 Rap/Urban Albums for Spring 2022
- Haviah Mighty* – Stock Exchange (Mighty Gang)
- Snotty Nose Rez Kids* – Life After (Independent)
- Sargeant x Comrade* – The Elephant in the Room (Independent)
- Swamp Thing* – World War Swamp (Urbnet)
- Shuana Seeteenak* – Therapy Sessions (Hitmakerz)
- Lexxicon* – Tropicon Islands (Independent)
- Sports and Music* – Sports and Music (Independent)
- Shad* – TAO (Secret City)
- Timbuktu* – It’s Alright in the Daylight (Independent)
- Anthony OKS* – In the Garden (LHM)
CFBX Top 10 Folk/Roots Albums for Spring 2022
1) Gordie Tentrees* – Mean Old World (Independent)
2) HuDost* – Anthems of Home (Independent)
3) Dustbowl Daddies* – Boom and Bust Economies of Love (Independent)
4) T. Buckley* – Frame by Frame (Fallen Tree)
5) Leeroy Stagger* – Dystopian Weekends (Tonic)
6) Ken Dunn* – Anthology Vol. 1 (Independent)
7) Rob Heath* – Biggest Moments (Independent)
8) Raine Hamilton* – Brave Land (Independent)
9) Jordana Talsky* – Zahava (Independent)
10) Red Dirt Skinners* – Bear with Us (Independent)
CFBX Top Ten Blues Albums for Spring 2022
- David Gogo* – Silver Cup (Cordova Bay)
- Mike Nagoda* – Outside the Box (Independent)
- The Night Bluemers* – Welcome Aboard the Midnight Train (Independent)
- Izzo Blues Coalition* – Take it or Leave it (Independent)
- Colin James* – Open Road (Stony Plain)
- Waterstreet Blues Band* – Talkin About (Independent)
- Dionne Bennett – Sugar Hip Ya Ya (Hunnica)
- Zoom with Shawn Kellerman* – Chocolate Cake (Independent)
- Scott Ellison – There’s Something About the Night (Swordfish)
- Lindsay Beaver and Brad Stivers* – Lindsay Beaver and Brad Stivers (Vizztone)
CFBX Top Five Classical Albums for Spring 2022
- Paul Cohen – Heard Again for the First Time (Ravello)
- City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra – Kieffer: The Ambassador’s Wife (Navona)
- Jan Jarvlepp* – High Voltage Chamber Music (Navona)
- Jenny Perron – Paccione: Music for Piano (Navona)
- Who Cares* – Who Cares Vol. 1 (Independent)