I’m currently on a beach writing and hope no one is judging me too hard. Either way, who cares. Regardless, it’s been a great year for music and I can’t wait to see what else the year has in store. Here are some of my favorites and what I feel are the best albums of 2022 so far. Check it out!

My Picks

Alabaster dePlume – Gold – Go Forward in the Courage of Your Love

Aldous Harding – Warm Chris

Alex Cameron – Oxy Music

Amber Mark – Three Dimensions Deep

Animal Collective – Time Skiffs

Artificial Brain – Self-Titled

Axel Boman – LUZ / Quest for Fire

Beach House – Once Twice Melody

Benny the Butcher – Tana Talk

Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You

Black Country, New Road – Ants from Up There

Boris – W

Charlotte Adigéry / Bolis Pupul – Topical Dancer

CLOAKROOM – Dissolution Wave

Conway The Machine – God Don’t Make No Mistakes

Daniel Rossen – You Belong There

Denzel Curry – Melt My Eyez See Your Future

Destroyer – Labyrinthitis

Duster – Together

Earl Sweatshirt – SICK!

EarthGang – Ghetto Gods

Ethel Cain – Preacher’s Daughter

FKA twigs – CAPRISONGS

Florence + the Machine – Dance Fever

Foxtails – fawn

Gospel – The Loser

Haru Nemuri – Shunka Ryougen

Hatchie – Giving the World Away

Huerco S. – Plonk

Iannis Xenakis – Electroacoustic Works

Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers

Kilo Kish – American Gurl

Krallice – Crystalline Exhaustion

Lobsterfight – Sun Soaking

Lupe Fiasco – Drill Music in Zion

Machine+ – Variations On…

MJ Lenderman – Boat Songs

Nilüfer Yanya – Painless

Oso Oso – Sore Thumb

Otoboke Beaver – Super Champon

Perfume Genius – Ugly Season

Petrol Girls – Baby

Pinegrove – 11:11

Porridge Radio – Back to the Radio

Pusha T – It’s Almost Dry

Quelle Chris – Deathfame

Ravyn Lenae – HYPNOS

Rex Orange County – Who Cares?

Rosalía – MOTOMAMI

Saba – Few Good Things

Sadness – Tortuga

SAULT – Air

Silvana Estrada – Marchita

Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever

Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems

Spiritualized – Everything Was Beautiful

Sports – Get A Good Look

Sweet Trip – Seen / Unseen

The Black Keys – Dropout Boogie

The Cool Kids – Before Sh!t Got Weird

The Smile – A Light for Attracting Attention

Toro y Moi – Mahal

Walter Smith III & Matthew Stevens – In Common III

Wet Leg – Wet Leg

Yard Act – The Overload

yeule – Glitch Princess