Best for former No Depression magazine readers: Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You by Big Thief
Best for dudes that grew up listening to Sonic Youth or Pavement: Versions of Modern Performance by Horsegirl
Best lo-fi/DIY that's not Horsegirl: Music Box by post office winter
Best for the chill-out tent: Come Around by Carla dal Forno
Best up-tempo, feel-good instrumental: Let the Festivities Begin! by Los Bitchos
Best mid-tempo, introspective instrumental: Still, Here by Marisa Anderson
Best studio album by a jamband in the year 2022: Dripfield by Goose
Best folk/blues/traditional: Get on Board by Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder
Best in what you might call "free jazz": Symphonic Tone Poem for Brother Yusef by Bennie Maupin and Adam Rudolph
Best in what you might call "soul jazz": Scary Goldings IV by Scary Goldings
Best in what you might call "world music": Ali by Vieux Farka Toure with Khruangbin
A favorite not mentioned so far: Good and Green Again by Jake Xerxes Fussell
Best from 2021 that I didn't hear until 2022: Psalms by Nathan Salsburg
Favorite re-issue/archival release of the year: Door Harp by Michael Houser
Bonus: Best new Nugs.net live band discovery (non-studio album): Eggy
BEST OVERALL - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You by Big Thief
that just about covers it.
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