2022s Most Anticipated Albums

At Hi Fi Way HQ we have been thinking long and hard about what will be some of the most highly anticipated albums in 2022. Looking at the clues in the Twitter-sphere, Instagram and fan forums so from what we know is coming here’s a little list to wet the appetite…

January

• The Wombats – Fix Yourself, Not The World (Jan 7)
• Cat Power – Covers (Jan 14)
• Earl Sweatshirt – Sick! (Jan 14)
• Elvis Costello & The Imposters – The Boy Named If (Jan 14)
• Blood Red Shoes – Ghosts On Tape (Jan 14)
• The Lumineers – Brightside (Jan 14)
• Sea Girls – Homesick (Jan 14)
• Underoath – Voyeurist (Jan 14)
• Billy Talent – Crisis Of Faith (Jan 21)
• Kiefer Sutherland – Bloor Street (Jan 21)
• JOhn Mellencamp – Strictly A One-Eyed Jack (Jan 21)
• King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Butterfly 3001 (Jan 21)
• Eels – Extreme Witchcraft (Jan 28)
• Band Of Horses – Things Are Great (Jan 28)
• Jethro Tull – The Zealot Gene (Jan 28)
• Pinegrove – 11:11 (Jan 28)

February

• Black Country, New Road – Ants from Up There (Feb 4)
• Bastille – Give Me The Future (Feb 4)
• The Districts – Great American Painting (Feb 4)
• Slash ft Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators (Feb 4)
• Cate Le Bon – Pompeii (Feb 4)
• Korn – Requiem (Feb 4)
• Hippo Campus – LP3 (Feb 4)
• Mitski – Laurel Hell (Feb 4)
• Animal Collective – Time Skiffs (Feb 4)
• Forenzics – Shades And Echoes (Feb 4)
• Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (Feb 11)
• Zeal & Ardor – Zeal & Ardor (Feb 11)
• alt-J – The Dream (Feb 11)
• Spoon – Lucifer On The Sofa (Feb 11)
• Eddie Vedder – Earthling (Feb 11)
• Frank Turner – FTNC (Feb 11)
• Sea Power – Everything Was Forever (Feb 11)
• Midnight Oil – Resist (Feb 18)
• Beach House – Once Twice Melody (Feb 18)
• White Lies – As I Try Not To Fall Apart (Feb 18)
• Broods – Space Island (Feb 18)
• Metronomy – Small World (Feb 18)
• Spiritualized – Everything Was Beautiful (Feb 25)
• Guns N’ Roses – Hard Skool (Feb 25)
• Short Stack – Maybe There’s No Heaven (Feb 25)
• Scorpions – Rock Believer (Feb 25)
• Soft Cell – Happiness Not Included (Feb 25)
• Tears For Fears – The Tipping Point (Feb 25)
• Gang of Youths – Angel in Realtime (Feb 25)
• Dashboard Confessional – Shades And Echoes (Feb 25)
• Superchunk – Wild Loneliness (Feb 25)

March

• Stereophonics – Oochya! (Mar 4)
• Dolly Parton – Run, Rose, Run (Mar 7)
• The Boo Radleys – Keep On With Falling (Mar 11)
• Bryan Adams – So Happy It Hurts (Mar 11)
• Franz Ferdinand – Hits To The Head (Mar 11)
• Ash Grunwald – Shout Into The Noise (Mar 11)
• The Wiggles – Rewriggled (Mar 11)
• Feeder – Torpedo (Mar 18)
• Midlake – For The Sake Of Bethel Woods (Mar 18)
• Charli XCX – Crash (Mar 18)
• Josh Pyke – To Find Happiness (Mar 18)
• Placebo – Never Let Me Go (Mar 25)

April

• Daniel Johns – FutureNever (Apr 1)
• Confidence Man – Tilt (Apr 1)
• Northlane – Obsdian (Apr 1)
• Jack White – Fear Of The Dawn – (Apr 8)
• Wet Leg – Wet Leg (Apr 8)
• Father John Misty – Chloe and the Next 20th Century (Apr 8)
• Fozzy – Boombox (Apr 15)
• Old Crow Medicine Show – Paint This Town (Ap 22)
• Bloc Party – Alpha Games (Apr 29)

May

• The Feeling – Loss. Hope. Love. (May 6)
• Craig David – 22 (May 13)
• Liam Gallagher – C’Mon You Know (May 27)

June

• Ben Lee – I’m Fun (Jun 17)
• Porcupine Tree – Closure/ Continuation (Jun 24)

July

• Jack White – Entering Heaven Alive (Jul 22)

Fingers crossed for a release date soon on these:

• Megadeth – The Sick, the Dying and the Dead
• Machine Gun Kelly – Born With Horns
• Devin Townsend – Lightwork
• The Weeknd – The Dawn
• Rosalía – Motomami
• Thomas Rhett – Where We Started & Country Again Side B
• Sinead O’Connor – No Veteran Dies Alone
• Grimes – Book 1

We’re keen to hear new music from:

• Brockhampton
• Cardi B
• Lizzo
• Schoolboy Q
• Phoenix
• The Cure
• MGMT
• Death Cab For Cutie
• M83
• Built To Spill
• The Beths
• PUP
• Rolling Blackouts CF
• Arctic Monkeys
• Kurt Vile
• Paramore
• Michael Stipe
• Destroyer
• Bjork
• The 1975
• The Wrens
• Rihanna
• Beyonce
• Arcade Fire
• My Bloody Valentine
• Kendrick Lamar