The Best Albums Of 2022

 Top 50

1. Dragon new warm mountain I believe in you - BIG THIEF
2. Stumpwork - DRY CLEANING
3. Skinty fia - FONTAINES D.C.
4. Versions of modern performance - HORSEGIRL
5. Once twice melody - BEACH HOUSE
6. Wilderness of mirrors - THE BLACK ANGELS
7. How do you burn? - THE AFGHAN WHIGS
8. Lucifer on the sofa - SPOON
9. Blue rev - ALVVAYS
10. Hellfire - BLACK MIDI
11. Wet Leg - WET LEG
12. The overload - YARD ACT
13. Loggerhead - WU-LU
14. Time bend and break the bower - SINEAD O' BRIEN
15. Cool it down - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
16. Endless rooms - ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER
17. Endure - SPECIAL INTEREST
18. A light for attracting attention - THE SMILE
19. Covers - CAT POWER
20. Fear of the dawn - JACK WHITE
21. Spencer gets it lit - JON SPENCER & THE HITMAKERS
22. When the wind forgets your name - BUILT TO SPILL
23. Tired of liberty - THE LOUNGE SOCIETY
24. Classic objects - JENNY HVAL
25. Anywhere but here - SORRY
26. Broken equipment - BODEGA
27. Reeling - THE MYSTERINES
28. Radiate like this - WARPAINT
29. Warm Chris - ALDOUS HARDING
30. Laurel hell - MITSKI
31. Waterslide, diving board, ladder to the sky - PORRIDGE RADIO
32. Everything was beautiful - SPIRITUALIZED
33. YTI⅃AƎЯ - BILL CALLAHAN
34. Pompeii - CATE LE BON
35. Labyrinthitis - DESTROYER
36. Mr. Morale & the big steppers - KENDRICK LAMAR
37. Fear fear - WORKING MEN'S CLUB
38. My other people - TV PRIEST
39. Big time - ANGEL OLSEN
40. We've been going about this all wrong - SHARON VAN ETTEN
41. Ants from up there - BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD
42. The car - ARCTIC MONKEYS
43. The boy named If - ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS
44. Doggerel - PIXIES
45. Wild loneliness - SUPERCHUNK
46. Growing up - THE LINDA LINDAS
47. Heart under - JUST MUSTARD
48. The other side of make-believe - INTERPOL
49. Life is yours - FOALS
50. Topical dancer - CHARLOTTE ADIGÉRY & BOLIS PUPUL

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We - ARCADE FIRE, Headful of sugar - SUNFLOWER BEAN, See through you - A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS, Black pearl - 50 FOOT WAVE, Ultraviolet battle hymns and true confessions - THE DREAM SYNDICATE, Fire doesn’t grow on trees - THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, "Hello, hi" - TY SEGALL, Entering heaven alive - JACK WHITE, Dance fever - FLORENCE + THE MACHINE, This is what we do - LEFTFIELD, No thank you - LITTLE SIMZ, Tableau - THE ORIELLES, Reason in decline - ARCHERS OF LOAF, The Mars Volta - THE MARS VOLTA, Cheat codes - DANGER MOUSE & BLACK THOUGHT, Inner world peace - FRANKIE COSMOS, Here is everything - THE BIG MOON, The line is a curve - KAE TEMPEST, Fossora - BJÖRK, Asphalt meadows - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, Everything was forever - SEA POWER, Pre pleasure - JULIA JACKLIN, XI: Bleed here now - AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, Angus tempus memoir - BLUE ORCHIDS, A foul form - OSEES, Success - ONEIDA, People helping people - NO AGE, The great awakening - SHEARWATER, I walked with you a ways - PLAINS, Autofiction - SUEDE, Fever dreams Pts. 1 - 4 - JOHNNY MARR, Big love blanket - PERSONAL TRAINER, Sod's toastie - THE COOL GREENHOUSE, Crystal nuns cathedral / Tremblers and goggles by rank - GUIDED BY VOICES, Apocalypse love - BLACK LIPS, Chopper - KIWI JR., It's almost dry - PUSHA T, SOS - SZA, The love that's ours - THE BIG PINK, Alpha Zulu - PHOENIX, Only the strong survive - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Premonition - WHITE LUNG, Land of Kali - ESSENTIAL LOGIC, Ice, death, planets, lungs, mushrooms and lava / Laminated denim / Changes / Omnium gatherum / Made in timeland - KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD, Back home - BIG JOANIE, Congregation - WITCH FEVER, Free LSD - OFF!, The will to live - TITUS ANDRONICUS, Exister - THE SOFT MOON, The bible - LAMBCHOP, I love you Jennifer B - JOCKSTRAP, Weather alive - BETH ORTON, Order of romance - JESCA HOOP, Typical music - TIM BURGESS, Hideous bastard - OLIVER SIM, Souvenirs - PALE BLUE EYES, Bleed out - THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, All of us flames - EZRA FURMAN, Flood - STELLA DONNELLY, Reset - PANDA BEAR & SONIC BOOM, Heartmind - CASS McCOMBS, Sound of the morning - KATY J PEARSON, Beatopia - BEABADOOBEE, Household name - MOMMA, Madness - POLIÇA, Arkhon - ZOLA JESUS, Up and away - ΣTELLA, And those who were seen dancing - TESS PARKS, Welcome 2 club XIII - DRIVE BY TRUCKERS, Dear Scott - MICHAEL HEAD AND THE RED ELASTIC BAND, Ugly season - PERFUME GENIUS, For all our days that tear the heart - JESSIE BUCKLEY AND BERNARD BUTLER, The stylist - KELLEY STOLTZ, Cruel country - WILCO, This is a photograph - KEVIN MORBY, A legacy of rentals - CRAIG FINN, Heart tax - JENNYLEE, For the sake of Bethel Woods - MIDLAKE, Things are great - BAND OF HORSES, The jacket - WIDOWSPEAK, How is it that I should look at the stars - THE WEATHER STATION, Silver sash - WOVENHAND, El mirador - CALEXICO, Life on earth - HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF, Chloë and the next 20th century - FATHER JOHN MISTY, When it comes - DANA GAVANSKI, Bronco - ORVILLE PECK, Dropout boogie - THE BLACK KEYS, Alpha games - BLOC PARTY, A bit of previous - BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, EYEYE - LYKKE LI, Emotional eternal - MELODY'S ECHO CHAMBER, Small world - METRONOMY, Ghosts on tape - BLOOD RED SHOES, Keep on with falling - THE BOO RADLEYS, Never let me go - PLACEBO, Extreme witchcraft - EELS, Inside problems - ANDREW BIRD, The sea drift - THE DELINES, The highest in the land - THE JAZZ BUTCHER, B flat A - TRUPA TRUPA, Tick tick tick - STEPHEN MALLINDER, Becoming undone - ADULT., PREY//IV - ALICE GLASS, Supernova - NOVA TWINS, Bob Vylan presents The price of life - BOB VYLAN, SOS - STRAW MAN ARMY, Plosivs - PLOSIVS, Ride the wild night - SWAMI JOHN REIS, Get fucked - THE CHATS, Talk talk talk - THE PARANOYDS, Shape / shifting - PLATTENBAU, Patina - TALLIES, Down tools - MUSH, Reggae film star - DAMIEN JURADO, Found light - LAURA VEIRS, Riderless horse - NINA NASTASIA, Tresor - GWENNO, Painless - NILÜFER YANYA, Twenty twenty twenty twenty one - SPENCER KRUG, Freewave Lucifer F<ck F^ck F>ck - OF MONTREAL, Unlimited love - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, Cave world - VIAGRA BOYS, C’mon you know - LIAM GALLAGHER, Raw data feel - EVERYTHING EVERYTHING, From Capelton Hill - STARS, Levity - THE STROPPIES, Blue skies - DEHD, World full of worry - PEANESS, Inner worlds - SOCCER96, Let it be blue - !!!, Precipice - DÄLEK, Disco 4 - Part two - HEALTH, Bucked up space - NIK COLK VOID, LP8 - KELLY LEE OWENS, Forgiveness - GIRLPOOL, Two ribbons - LET'S EAT GRANDMA, Squeeze - SASAMI, Gulp! - SPORTS TEAM, Tough baby - CRACK CLOUD, Guitar music - COURTING, EBM - EDITORS, Slight variations - FUJIYA & MIYAGI, Electricity - IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE, Natural brown prom queen - SUDAN ARCHIVES, Mata - M.I.A., Midnights - TAYLOR SWIFT, Hold the girl - RINA SAWAYAMA, Spirituals - SANTIGOLD, Hyper-dimensional expansion beam - THE COMET IS COMING, In out in - SONIC YOUTH, Not about to die (Studio demos 1977 - 1978) - WIRE, B-sides, demos & rarities - PJ HARVEY