gorilla vs bear’s EPs of 2022
It was a banner year for the EP — arguably the best format — and this year’s list features some of the best ambient, club, dream-pop, rap, inexplicably rejected Calm® app submissions, and more of 2022, + a rare unbreakable tie at the top between one of my favorite bands of all time and one of the most exciting new bands of the year. A sidenote: two releases that technically classified as EPs (June McDoom’s self-titled debut and Burial’s ANTIDAWN) felt more like albums to me, so they were included on that list. Presenting gorilla vs. bear's top 30 EPs of 2022, click the links to cop:
01 BAR ITALIA | cdr
01 TOPS | Empty Seats
03 TWO SHELL | Eternal Seed / Home / Icons
04 SEA LEMON | Close Up
05 MALIBU | Palaces of Pity
06 DJ PYTHON + ELA MINUS | ♡
07 LUIS (DJ PYTHON) | 057 (Schwyn)
08 BRAXE + FALCON | Step by Step
09 RUTH RADELET | The Other Side
10 PANDA BEAR | calm app (rejected)
11 NIA ARCHIVES | Forbidden Feelingz
12 BORN AT MIDNITE | Alternity
13 FAYE WEBSTER | Car Therapy Sessions
14 MR TWIN SISTER | Upright and Even
15 BURIAL | Streetlands
16 PINKPIRATE | i don’t want to grow up boring
17 COUCH PRINTS | Waterfall
18 ROMANCE | Once Upon a Time / In My Hour Of Weakness, I Found A Sweetness
19 BABEHOVEN | Sunk
20 YUNÉ PINKU | Bluff
21 FRIKO | Whenever Forever
22 JULIANA MADRID | Juliana Madrid
23 HARVEY DUG | TAKEOUT
24 UNA ROSE | Myth Between
25 SADIE | Nowhere
26 NISA | Exaggerate
27 JACQUES GREENE | Fantasy
28 DJ PYTHON | Club Sentimientos, Vol 2
29 DOECHII | she / her / black bitch
30 SALUTE | Ultra Pool