I forgot I haven’t done a best albums of 2022 article yet. As I said last month, It’s been a great year music-wise so far and I can’t wait to see what else the year has in store. Keep in mind, I can’t discover every great record, so remember to leave a comment on some of your favs.

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

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

Caroline Polachek – Billions

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

FKA twigs – CAPRISONGS

Florence + the Machine – Dance Fever

Foxtails – fawn

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

Machine+ – Variations On…

MJ Lenderman – Boat Songs

Nilüfer Yanya – Painless

Oso Oso – Sore Thumb

Otoboke Beaver – Super Champon

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

Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems

Spiritualized – Everything Was Beautiful

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