CFBX Top 50 Albums for Winter 2022
Artist Title Label
- Blue Moon Marquee* – Scream, Holler and Howl (Independent)
- Kiwi Jr.* – Chopper (Sub Pop)
- Metric* – Formentera (Thirty Tigers)
- Mariel Buckley* – Everywhere I Used to Be (Birthday Cake)
- Art d’Ecco* – After the Head Rush (Paper Bag)
- The Royal Foundry* – Little High, Little Low (Independent)
- Heaven for Real* – Energy Bar (Mint)
- Motherhood* – Winded (Forward)
- Summer Bruises* – Light to Waste (Independent)
- Bibi Club* – Le Soleil et la Mer (Secret City)
- The Sadies* – Colder Streams (Dine Alone)
- Ghost Woman* – Ghost Woman (Victory Pool)
- Durham County Poets* – Out of the Woods (Independent)
- The Burning Hell* – Garbage Island (Independent)
- Kalisway* – Hit ’em with the Funk (Independent)
- The Projectors* – The Projectors (Sakamano)
- Encephalon* – Echoes (Artoffact)
- Frog Eyes* – The Bees (Paper Bag)
- Teenage Art Scene* – Wrong Datum (Independent)
- Stars* – From Capleton Hill (Last Gang)
- Patrick Holland* – You’re the Boss (Next Door)
- JayWood* – Slingshot (Captured Tracks)
- Megamall* – Escape from Lizard City (Fanta)
- Shoulder Season* – Not the Time (Independent)
- TOVI* – I Keep Floating Away (Independent)
- Greenwing* – Late Bloomer (Independent)
- Kamikaze Nurse* – Stimuloso (Mint)
- Slowly Becoming* – Sun Room Sessions Vol. 1 (Independent)
- TOPS* – Empty Seats (Independent)
- South Island Rhythm Kings* – Still That Way Today (Independent)
- Joe Coughlin* – Dedicated to You (Cellar)
- Tanya Tagaq* – Tongues North Star Remixes (Six Shooter)
- Joy Lapps* – Girl in the Yard (Independent)
- Lunar Bloom* – Running Deep (Independent)
- Thanya Iyer* – Rest EP (Topshelf)
- Let’s Go** – Disposable Year (Independent)
- Quit It!* – Spilling Out (Wasted Wax)
- TDJ* – TDJ123 (Collection Disques Durs)
- B.A. Johnston* – Werewolves of London, ON (Transistor 66)
- Justin Saladino Band* – Honest Lies (Independent)
- Eliza Niemi* – Staying Mellow Blows (Vain Mina)
- The Dice Cubes* – Rockin’ on the Edge of Town (Independent)
- Doohickey Cubicle* – Don’t Fix Anything (Independent)
- Kristen Martell* – Every Season (Independent)
- So Long Seven* – Only Elephants Know Her Name (Independent)
- Shared Image* – Along the Way (Independent)
- Yes, Oh Yes – Yes, Oh Yes (Independent)
- Preoccupations* – Arrangements (Flemish Eye)
- The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer* – Live at the King Eddy (Independent)
- Nature Walk* – Dinner Music EP (Independent)
CFBX Top 10 Jazz Albums for Winter 2022
- Deb Rasmussen* – Unspoken (Independent)
- Caity Gyorgy* – Now Pronouncing (Independent)
- Ella Fitzgerald – Ella at the Hollywood Bowl (Verve)
- Roberta Brenza – It’s My Turn to Color Now (Origin)
- Joey Alexander – Origin (Mack Avenue)
- The Cookers Quintet* – The Path (Do Right!)
- Dave Slonaker Big Band – Convergency (Origin)
- Saxophone Legacy* – Saxophone Legacy (Chronograph)
- T.S. Monk – Live: Two Continents, One Groove (Storyville)
- Laura Crema/Bill Coon* – String Songs (Independent)
CFBX Top 10 Worldbeat/International Albums for Winter 2022
- So Long Seven* – Only Elephants Know Her Name (Independent)
- Lenka Lichtenberg* – Thieves of Dreams (Six Degrees)
- Plinio Fernandes – Saudade (Decca)
- Dubmatix/Future Dub Orchestra* – Frontline Dub (Echo Beach)
- Joy Lapps* – Girl in the Yard (Independent)
- Minyeshu – Netsa (ARC Music)
- Daniel Bellegarde* – Pastourelle (Quartier General)
- Okaidja Afroso – Jaku Mumor (Worldisc)
- Pierre Kwenders* – Jose Louis and the Paradox of Love (Arts and Crafts)
- Lodestar Trio – Bach to Folk (Naxos World)
CFBX Top 10 Loud/Metal Albums for Winter 2022
- Hemptress** – Fast Times (Independent)
- Trashed Ambulance* – Future Considerations (Thousand Island)
- Garden Dog* – Battle Zone! (Independent)
- Let’s Go** – Disposable Year (Independent)
- Shoulder Season* – Not the Time (Independent)
- Gush* – Gender Death (Independent)
- Homeless Gospel Choir – Fourth Dimension Intervention (Don Giovanni)
- Modern Terror* – Going Viral (Cursed Blessings)
- The Slime* – Living on Borrowed Slime (Cursed Blessings)
- Dez Dare – Ulysses (Trash Ch!mp)
CFBX Top 10 Electronic Albums for Winter 2022
- Various Artists* – Forest City Sessions, Vol. 5 (A Person Disguised as People)
- Encephalon* – Echoes (Artoffact)
- Tanya Tagaq* – Tongues North Star Remixes (Six Shooter)
- Lodgepole Kind* – Treehouse EP (Independent)
- All India Radio – The Generator of All Infinity (Independent)
- SPRLUA* – Magnum Dopus (Independent)
- TOVI* – I Keep Floating Away (Independent)
- Charl Cilders* – Bitch in Technicolour (Surkeus)
- Sodhivine* – Future Melodics (Independent)
- Habalyon* – Frozen Rainfall (A Person Disguised as People)
CFBX Top 10 Rap/Urban Albums for Winter 2022
- Missy D* – Case Depart (Birthday Cake)
- Elaquent* – Long Drives to Nowhere (Urbnet)
- Kalisway* – Hit ’em with the Funk (Independent)
- Chris Grey* – Together, But Barely (Independent)
- Aquakultre* – Don’t Trip (Forward)
- Pip Skid* – A Really Nice Day (Peanuts and Corn)
- Kyla Charter* – Edible Flowers (Independent)
- Magi Merlin* – Gone Girl EP (Bonsound)
- Mickey O’Brien* – Shift Change (Hand’Solo)
- Ol’ Gorilla Bones/Dirty Sample* – Revenge Vol. 1 (Hand’Solo)
CFBX Top 10 Folk/Roots Albums for Winter 2022
- The Sadies* – Colder Streams (Dine Alone)
- Mariel Buckley* – Everywhere I Used to Be (Birthday Cake)
- Madison Violet* – Eleven (Passenger)
- I Draw Slow – I Draw Slow (Compass)
- Pharis and Jason Romero** – Tell ’em You Were Gold (Smithsonian Folkways)
- The Fortunate Ones* – That Was You and Me (Sonic)
- Jocelyn Pettit* – Wind Rose (Independent)
- Tami Neilsen* – Kingmaker (Outside)
- Elliott Zimmerman* – In the Name of Love and More (Independent)
- Shannon O’Donovan* – Pockets of Time (Independent)
CFBX Top Ten Blues Albums for Winter 2022
- Blue Moon Marquee* – Scream, Holler and Howl (Independent)
- South Island Rhythm Kings* – Still That Way Today (Independent)
- Durham County Poets* – Out of the Woods (Independent)
- Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder – Get on Board (Nonesuch)
- The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer* – Live at the King Eddy (Independent)
- Jay Douglas* – Confession (Mega City)
- John Mayall – The Sun is Shining Down (Forty Below)
- John Primer – Hard Times (Blue Flame)
- Lyle Odjick* – Through the Rain (Independent)
- Laura Tate – Smokey Tango (Blue Heart)
CFBX Top Five Classical Albums for Winter 2022
- Tim Fallon – Crupuscolo: Songs by Ottorio Resphigi (Bis)
- Ferdinando deSena – Tocca Miami (Navona)
- Jill Haley* – The Forest and Shores of Acadia (Independent)
- Laura Sewell – Threescore (Innova)
- Fischer Duo – 2020 Visions (Navona)